Nemetschek Engineering User Contest 2009 • Category 2: CAE Housing & Buildings 49 2 on top, made in a complex steel structure with wooden beams. Furniture The furniture has been placed on the two levels, except for the kitchen, off course. The garage is placed underneath the kitchen, so we couldn’t stack the structure there. All the studies led to a design, that embodied al the wishes of the architect and the client. The structure is almost absent on the ground floor, only a few columns can be seen. All the rest is put in the furniture. There was one daring area. The facade of the study-wing. The architect didn’t want to put any structure there, but Newtons laws could be bend, but not ignored. The outcome was as ingenious as it was clear to the design team, we had to put a piece of structural furniture there. Where all the other structure was hidden in the furniture, this structure would be in plain sight. But the structure was not allowed to present itself as ‘structure’. A structural bookshelf was introduced, made entirely of steel plates. A big Vierendeel frame stabilizing the structure of the roof and carrying it. The result is alienating, the bookshelf is sturdy, but doesn’t look like structure as we know it. Miesian Gimp The other big trick, that was pulled by the design team, was introducing a huge sliding wall, made in marble. The door is as high as the ground floor and 4 meters wide. One column is put inside the sliding door, so it never can be seen. The sliding wall wraps around a cross-shaped column clad with black rubber skin. The architects baptized it the ‘Miesian Gimp’. A crossover between the “Gimp”, the cynical and mysterious character in tight-fitting black leather in the film Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino and a homage to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Cross-shaped columns were also used in the Barcelona Pavilion. Now we could introduce two columns, but more importantly, we could introduce a very important feature in the house. It’s the only big opening and lets nature inside the house. The result is a building like we want them to be build. Everything is integrated, nothing stands alone. The structure really ‘carries’ the architecture and is totally absolved in the architecture. They become one. Villa in Ede Photo: Jeroen Musch
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