HOUSE & B & B
Light and space in Oude Westen area in Rotterdam
HOUSE & B & B
A young couple with child wanted to have their own house and bed & breakfast in a characteristic house in Oude Westen (Old West area) in Rotterdam.
To provide the living spaces with as much daylight as possible, the living room was placed on the top floor, with a open connection to the kitchen on the floor below.
Since the B & B was placed on the ground floor, a direct connection between a living space and backyard was lost. By deconstructing a part of the existing roof we found the solution: a south-west oriented roof terrace. This roof terrace gains more sunlight than the former town garden. Besides that, it gives excellent views on the Rotterdam skyline. To enhance the indoor-outdoor relationship, the yellow terrace is extended into the interior.
In the interior the design was in need of a connecting feature: the staircase proved just to be the solution. With the inconvenient shape of the staircase (two quarters and a straight part) it made a cluttered appearance. Therefore, we chose to clad the sides with birch plywood panels which continue in the balustrades. The staircase now formed a unity and recognizable element on each floor level.
PROJECT INFORMATION
| PLACE | Rotterdam |
| ADDRESS | Sint-Mariastraat 130-B |
| TYPE | Renovation |
| STATUS | Completed |
| YEAR | 2014 – 2016 |
| CLIENT | Private person |
| CONTRACTOR | Qualitech |
| PHOTOGRAPHY | Stijn Poelstra |
