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V36K08/09 Urban Diva

This is a project by Pasel.Künzel Architects and it is located at EWR/Slachthuisterrein, Leiden, Netherlands. Project's program: Private residence comprising of two separate dwellings. There are sixteen images for V36K08/09 Urban Diva.

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Project details

Project name: V36K08/09 Urban Diva
Location: EWR/Slachthuisterrein, Leiden, Netherlands
Program: Private residence comprising of two separate dwellings
Area: Project Area: 285 m2 + 81 m2 roof terrace
Year: Project Start: 2006 • Completion: 2010
Project by: Pasel.Künzel Architects
Team: Project Team: R. Pasel, F. Künzel, F. Sack
Others: Structural engineer: IMD • Contractor: Bouwbedrijf Nieuwe Maten

Project images

Designer's statement

V36K08/09 is the front end of a terrace that is built on a collective parking garage.

The residence comprises two separate dwellings for mother and son, including two spacious and hidden patios. The dark pre-patinated zinc façade with its subtle disposition of seams gives the building a calm but yet spectacular appearance.

Looking from the outside, the house appears rather compact and closed - a fortress in the urban tissue. Only by entering the estate through the heavy wooden gate, one gets into an utterly different inner world - an oasis of tranquillity, a living space that is generous and open, where inside and outside merge into each other.