Moonboot Utrecht in Netherlands by BYTR architecten

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The charming 100 year old ship has become too small for the owners. In the new design for the boat, we went looking for the qualities which make it special to live on the water and to face  ‘the Rijksmunt museum’.

Image Courtesy © StijnStijl + Liesbeth Sluiter

• Architects: BYTR architecten 
• Project: Moonboot Utrecht
• Location: Leidsekade, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Photography: StijnStijl, Liesbeth Sluiter, Richel Lubbers
• Client: Private
• Project team: Richel Lubbers, Eliot Meyer, Koen Pörtzgen
• Design: 2011
• Programme: Houseboat 110 m2
• Realisation: September 2012
• Entrepriser: Arkenbouw Post, Markenesse

Image Courtesy © StijnStijl + Liesbeth Sluiter

• Facade cladding: Platowood Fraké
• Roof cladding: Bitumendak
• Window frame: Wood
• Kitchen: Kvik Utrecht
• Fireplace: Het Stokertje
• Kitchen flooring: Linoneum, Armstrong DLW Uni Walton
• Living: Wood
• Building costs: € 190.000,- excl.  BTW // excl. VAT

Image Courtesy © StijnStijl + Liesbeth Sluiter

View from inside to outside, but also vice versa are determined in this situation. In the interior the fully height of the boat is experienced through a central core, the stairs are placed around this core. As a result, the rooms are sufficiently separated from each other, while proximity remains sensible.

Image Courtesy © StijnStijl + Liesbeth Sluiter

Image Courtesy © StijnStijl + Liesbeth Sluiter

Because of the voids, there is still mutual contact among the split-lever floor. The facade consists of slats in different width and depths, so that relief is created.

Image Courtesy © StijnStijl + Liesbeth Sluiter

Image Courtesy © StijnStijl + Liesbeth Sluiter

Image Courtesy © StijnStijl + Liesbeth Sluiter

Image Courtesy © StijnStijl + Liesbeth Sluiter

Image Courtesy © StijnStijl + Liesbeth Sluiter

Image Courtesy © StijnStijl + Liesbeth Sluiter

Image Courtesy © StijnStijl + Liesbeth Sluiter

Image Courtesy © StijnStijl + Liesbeth Sluiter

Image Courtesy © StijnStijl + Liesbeth Sluiter

Image Courtesy © StijnStijl + Liesbeth Sluiter

Image Courtesy © StijnStijl + Liesbeth Sluiter

Image Courtesy © StijnStijl + Liesbeth Sluiter

Image Courtesy © StijnStijl + Liesbeth Sluiter

Image Courtesy © BYTR architecten

Image Courtesy © BYTR architecten

Image Courtesy © BYTR architecten

Image Courtesy © BYTR architecten

About BYTR architect: 

BYTR architects is an award-winning architectural and urban design company with an national reputation for delivering innovative building. BYTR was founded in 2007 in the Netherlands.

Founding partners Richèl Lubbers and Tjerk van de Wetering lead the practice. Their commitment to deliver design solutions that resolve not only architectural concerns but also the wider planning, environmental and infrastructural issues is shared by a team of architects based in Rotterdam.

Both principals are active as architects from the beginning of this century and worked in several firms on large Dutch projects. In the current setting their focus is mainly set on smaller commissions with an personal approach towards their clients, which often lead to projects which brings more than only the answer to the initial question.

Tags: Leidsekade, Netherlands, Utrecht

Category: Boat House

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