Barn Living Aalten in Gelderland, The Netherlands by Bureau Fraai

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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.

Barn Living Aalten in Gelderland, The Netherlands by Bureau Fraai

April 3rd, 2016 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: Bureau Fraai

Bureau Fraai has completely renovated a 50’s farmhouse and extended the existing old barn next to the house with a contemporary extension. With the design of this extension the architects realized a harmonic relation between the existing and the new.

Image Courtesy © Wim Hanenberg

Architects: Bureau Fraai
Project: Barn Living Aalten
Location: Aalten, Gelderland, The Netherlands
Photography: Wim Hanenberg
Architects: Rikjan Scholten, Daniel Aw
Client: Private
Material extension: Black pre-weathered titanium zinc
Floor area extension: 42M²
Floor area total: 195M²
Project year: 2015

Image Courtesy © Wim Hanenberg

The young family living in this farmhouse in the east of Holland had the wish to completely renovate the out-dated interior while also opening up the house to it’s beautiful surroundings.

Image Courtesy © Wim Hanenberg

Bureau Fraai realized this by opening up the whole ground floor plan of the existing house and by adding a spacious extension creating a strong visual connection to the big garden.

For the extension the architects decided to extent the current old barn next to the farmhouse.

Image Courtesy © Wim Hanenberg

While the existing barn was built from bricks and ceramic roof tiles, the façade and roof of the extension are made of black pre-weathered titanium zinc with hidden aluminum window frames giving it a bold and modern feel.

Image Courtesy © Wim Hanenberg

The contrasting light interior with the wooden scissor frames, on the other hand refers to historical Dutch farm structures. By using this same wooden scissor frame as the window frame for the front windows all borders between the interior and exterior seem to disappear.

Image Courtesy © Wim Hanenberg

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Tags: Gelderland, The Netherlands

Category: House

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