A Unique Villa With A Glass Bottom And A Cottage-Style Top

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Past Simona Ganea | Published on Mar 29, 2021

This is Rag Doll, a private residence situated in Knokke-Heist, Belgium. The fact that in has a name is really very common for this region which is filled with various detached villas, most of them 2-stories high and all with a special name. Yet, at that place'due south more to information technology than that. This proper noun is an expression of the fact that this business firm has a very unusual design which is a alloy of old and new and 2 very different styles and palettes of materials.

There's a very big contrast between the ground floor and the rest of the house which can be seen from all angles — There's a very large contrast between the ground floor and the rest of the house which can be seen from all angles

The fully transparent ground floor allows the house to enjoy a very strong connection to the its surroundings and the outdoors — The fully transparent ground floor allows the house to enjoy a very strong connection to its environs and the outdoors

The owners were unsure what style they preferred for their new home and didn't actually take a articulate idea of what they wanted information technology to wait like, They did however know that they wanted information technology to have a large basement. They settled on a site that had an former cottage-manner house on it. However, the original house was protected and couldn't be taken down so they had to work around this limitation. They collaborated with Delmulle Delmulle Architecten to come up with a really cool and audacious program.

The interior design of the ground floor is modern and minimalistic — The interior blueprint of the ground floor is modern and minimalistic

Everything on top of the ground floor retains the original design and style of the house — Everything on top of the ground floor retains the original blueprint and fashion of the firm

The contrast between the top and bottom sections materialized into a unique mix between the old and the new — The contrast between the top and bottom sections materialized into a unique mix betwixt the erstwhile and the new

The ground floor has a square-shaped floor plan and is entirely encased in transparent glass — The footing floor has a square-shaped floor programme and is entirely encased in transparent glass

All around the square base of the house there's a circular terrace made out of natural stone — All around the square base of the house in that location's a circular terrace made out of natural stone

The plan was to dissever the house in one-half horizontally. The top part would retain the original cottage design only the bottom part would be completely redesigned and transformed into a fully transparent glass box. It's this unusual combination of styles, parts and materials that ultimately inspired the owners to call their new home Rag Doll, a proper noun which also captures their indecisiveness and appreciation for multiple different styles.