A House in The Netherlands

A Walk through the House

“The outside under the spall of the inside.”

inscription by Dom Hans van der Laan, in the fountain at the entrance.

'In this house all the living spaces are dispositioned around a court. As a result, a large unity arises between the space, as the court does not constitute itself through its own enclosure, but through the enclosure of the surrounding spaces.'
(VDL, letter to Jos Naalden, 19 April 1979)

“The inner space of the house arises between the forms of the walls, which are in each other's nearness. That space adopts its own form from that forms. So everywhere in the designed house, the forms of the walls are brought forward by showing their thickness. ”

'The court is exactly that size, so that it can not borough size nor form from the surrounding galleries, as is the case with the hall. Therefor this court becomes a real outside and a start for the urban disposition.'
(VDL, letter to Jos Naalden, 19 April 1979)