Cool Cube
Cool Cube is a sturdy, cube-shaped family house in the centre of Rotterdam. With its spatial three-dimensional layout the building responds to the opportunities of urban life, providing community as well as privacy to its inhabitants – both connected to and sheltered from the street and the surrounding city.
The house forms the sculptural end piece of a new brick terrace within an existing urban block. Its plain white brick façade marks a deliberate presence in the streetscape, the raw materiality at once rooting the building in its context and setting it apart. Seen from the street, the house reads as an urban monolith, albeit one glowing with interior life.
The house forms the sculptural end piece of a new brick terrace within an existing urban block. Its plain white brick façade marks a deliberate presence in the streetscape, the raw materiality at once rooting the building in its context and setting it apart. Seen from the street, the house reads as an urban monolith, albeit one glowing with interior life.
Location
Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
Type
Architecture, Interior design
Site
200 m²
Program
200 m²
Status
Built (2016)
© Ossip van Duivenbode
© Ossip van Duivenbode
© Ossip van Duivenbode
© Ossip van Duivenbode
© Ossip van Duivenbode
Following Loos's Raumplan, the programme is playfully intertwined around the central staircase, generating a three-dimensional sequence of spaces rather than a conventional stacking of floors. Split-level sections create a spatial diversity that calibrates between openness and enclosure, between the shared life of the family and the need for retreat. Large corner windows catch light from various angles throughout the day, drawing the city in and reinforcing the spatial richness of the interior.
© Ossip van Duivenbode
© Ossip van Duivenbode
© Ossip van Duivenbode
© Ossip van Duivenbode
© Ossip van Duivenbode
