ARCHITECTURE AND IDIOM
With brick facades rendered with pale yellow mortar, the houses appear almost luminous in the green meadows and woods around them. The double-flanged zinc sheeting of the roofs reflects the sky. All the windows and doors have dark frames to contrast with the light walls.
"We often work with the building's simplicity, the precise form," says architect Egon Brink. "For that reason, there are no eaves and all windows lie completely flush with the facade."
The drawing office's basic attitude to the architectural idiom is clearly reflected in the project, where the houses stand as though cut from the same block – windows, facades and roofs follow each other without sudden jumps or distinctive transitions. That means that movement is primarily created through the landscape – the soft, scenic curves and the uncultivated, freely growing natural flora.
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