At Home With Nature

At Home With Nature This home is a place where you can stay in connection with the nature. The client wants to live nearby the city of Amsterdam but in a surrounding with trees and nature. The home of the future is the home where we can stay in close contact with nature, with healthy building materials for human and the environment. At Home With Nature is an integral part of the architecture and the nature. The home are perched on an elevation above the forest floor, the forest landscape continuing uninterrupted beneath and around the house. The exterior walls on the ground floor are made out of local ivy and local wood, making the plinth of the home de-materialise, as it were. It seems not to exist at all, giving the upper floors an appearance of ‘floating’ in between the trees and the ground. The variety of trees separating the homes and on the terraces amplifies the image that everything becomes one with the surroundings. The upper floor consists of timber frames with panoramic offering grand views. It is an omni-faceted building where, on the first floor, the spacious roof terraces provide ample opportunity for quality, diverse outdoor living. Such also planting herbs, fruit and vegetables. The plot of land selected already has a number of trees on it. Other trees will be planted as well, to compensate for the CO2 created by building work and also attain a bigger positive reduction of CO2 in our living environment and the atmosphere. The trees situated between and near the home will form part of the support structure for exterior decking. In this way, the trees become one with the architecture and both support each other. By lifting and cantilevering the floors, a building is created that allows the outdoor area to be extended. Voids and recesses inside the building provide open views and the trees between the built areas offer a continuance of the forest landscape.