Article source: reSET Architecture

Theo Mathijssen of the firm ‘reSET architecture’ designed the renovation and extension of a small decaying farmhouse with a beautiful apple orchard, located in an idyllic location in the Dutch Betuwe region. The simplicity and sobriety of the farmhouse is revealing much about life in the past in this area and how a peasant family and their livestock must have lived here under one roof. This narrative quality does not make the building a monument which must be preserved as it is. It’s the self-evident presence in its surroundings that make the farmhouse distinctive and worth preserving.

Image Courtesy Huub Smits

• Architects: reSET Architecture
• Project: Farm House
• Location: Betuwe, The Netherlands
• Design: reSET architecture, ‘s-Hertogenbosch NL
• Project team: Theo Mathijssen (architect), Pieter Bardoel
• Floor area (m2): 280 m2
• Start of design: November 2009
• Start of construction: January 2011
• Completion: September 2011
• Contractor: Rosmalenbouw, Rosmalen
• Photography: Huub Smits

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