The SODAE-House by VMX Architects
Dutch architectural firm VMX Architects have designed the SODAE-House in Amstelveen.
Full description after the photos….
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SODAE-House by VMX Architects
In a nature area between Amsterdam, Amstelveen and Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, lies the Kostverlorenkade; an island measuring 1200m2. Here, VMX build a 500m2 house. The starting point for the concept was the perception of the landscape, the distant high buildings of the Zuid As and the Rembrandt Tower as well as the view of the aeroplanes travelling to and from Schiphol.
The living room and kitchen are arranged in a loft-like space on the first floor. The more intimate areas (bedrooms and bathrooms) are situated on the ground floor, orientated towards the garden on the backside. The basement contains an additional programme such as a fitness room and a home cinema. The house forms an object in the landscape; the island acts as the plinth.
Visit the website of VMX Architects – here.
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Vinh Doan on 10 Jun 2010 at 8:09 am #
The form of the house is like an UFO and spaces all are open like living with nature.
bb on 10 Jun 2010 at 11:38 am #
very cool !
oli on 10 Jun 2010 at 11:56 am #
So if you live in this house you can’t use curtains?
Cristina on 10 Jun 2010 at 12:46 pm #
Very interesting and cool. Love the light pouring in the house.
Oliver on 11 Jun 2010 at 2:07 am #
looks really strange for me … the bedroom is great!
spasmody on 11 Jun 2010 at 2:27 am #
great geometric work
TW on 11 Jun 2010 at 7:08 pm #
Great design.
It’s amazing how a slanted piece of glass instantly makes you feel part of the landscape.
oli – not everyone has an issue with privacy. I don’t have curtains or blinds in my suburban house. If anyone wants to waste their time watching me eat a meal, they are welcome to it. Anyway, they appear to be fairly isolated.
Filip Galiza on 11 Jun 2010 at 8:23 pm #
I totally respect the modern exercise here but… I guess I am gonna be the stick in the mud here. That house has a door to the bathroom but one of the walls is entirely made of glass?.. Its too damn sterile and clean and there are kids living there, and a dog. I feel the owners are going to become slaves to maintaining that particular style of a home. All toys for the kid(s), all personal items will be narrowed down and only purchased as long as they are compatible with the home?..
I think it has its beauty but for comfortable modern living, it requires too much of a human effort. Sorry but thats what I am seeing.
Kashif H on 11 Jun 2010 at 11:35 pm #
I think the shape evolved in viz a viz volumetric mass of the project has something to do with the shape of the lot or island and looks great contextually in plan.
However, this building may very well be museum for modern art / living in some chic area of any breathtaking city in the world. The problem with modern residential architecture, the way I feel is that its lost its homely touch! its too commercialized. The great designers in the world today are working hard to establish their style and signature but in most of the cases it always comes out to be exclusively boring to live.
Agree with Filip Galiza above, the house will dictate how the occupants must live in it.
TW on 12 Jun 2010 at 12:24 am #
But Filip, surely there is little need for privacy when the only neighbours are trees and the only inhabitants members of the same family?
And I am sure this house will be as messy as your average family home once the photographer leaves lol!
geoduck on 12 Jun 2010 at 8:23 am #
It looks like a minivan. A really big concrete minivan.
Ann on 14 Jun 2010 at 7:37 am #
Looks nice but i don’t know why, when i saw this house the first thing that came to my mind was “House of Music” in Porto , Portugal, by OMA.
Am i crazy or not?
Rudy on 15 Jun 2010 at 3:50 pm #
After an absence of two years I took the beautiful bike route along the Amstel river and ‘polders’ surrounding Amsterdam. I was unpleasantly surprised by the house since it takes such a prominent place in the unique but fragile landscape. I do not understand how the owners got approval from the otherwise strict building rules in the Netherlands. My advise is to give it a more appropiate dark color. The house has a stealth shape anyway.