A 3 metre high, all-embracing wooden filter merges the interior and exterior spaces encouraging new relationships between them.

‘This remarkable urban villa, designed by Dutch architects Ralf Pasel and Frederik Künzel, is located on the site of a former industrial area, in the heart of the Dutch city of Leiden.
The spatial idea of this urban residence is based on a 3 metre high, all-embracing wooden screen that surrounds the whole site enclosing as well the building volumes as the building voids of the patio and garden.
The composition of this wooden filter, made out of ‚dancing’ timber fins, refers directly to the musical oeuvre of the concert violist and the pianist living in the house. It manifests a crescendo of multifaceted visual relationships and allows for an exceptional syncopal relation between public and private life; between inside and outside the house.
While the merging interior and exterior spaces on the ground floor are taken up by the living and music areas, the upper floor comprises various private rooms with individual roof terraces.’

ARCHITECT: pasel kuenzel architects, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. LOCATION: Leiden, The Netherlands. DESCRIPTION: residential. STATUS: completed. PROJECT TEAM: R. Pasel, F. Künzel, S. Wolff. DATE: 2012. No part of this web site may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of Morfae and the copyright owner.