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House M has been built in Almere Overgooi in 2005, a suburb of Almere, itself a suburban satellite town of Amsterdam. House M is a contemporary response to a changing cultural environment in the Netherlands which is characterized by a growing demand for monumentality, solidity and enclosure as dominant aesthetic values to be expressed in the architecture of the private house. In response to this, we positioned the house as it were a wall between front and back garden, separating a very introverted street façade from a very extroverted garden façade (on the back of the house).

We positioned the house as if it were a wall between front and back garden, separating a very introverted street façade from a very extroverted garden façade (on the back of the house). The kitchen, dining room, living room and office space are located on the ground floor in a continuos space which opens-up towards the sunny back garden. On the second floor, three intimate bedrooms, storage-space and bathroom are located. In terms of sustainable measures, the design of the house takes passive solar energy into consideration, which maintains interior thermal comfort throughout the sun's daily and annual cycles whilst reducing the requirement for active heating and cooling systems. Mechanical heat recovery ventilation systems are employed as well in order to maintain air quality, and to recover sufficient heat to dispense with a conventional central heating system.

In 2005, the house was rewarded a nomination for the Almere Architecture Award.

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