Urban diva

V36K08/09 by pazel.künsel architects.
V36K08/09 by pazel.künsel architects.
V36K08/09 by pazel.künsel architects.
V36K08/09 by pazel.künsel architects.
V36K08/09 by pazel.künsel architects.
V36K08/09 by pazel.künsel architects.
V36K08/09 by pazel.künsel architects.
V36K08/09 by pazel.künsel architects.

On a former industrial site close to the historical heart of the renowned Dutch university city of Leiden, emerges one of the biggest urban developments of private-collective dwellings in the Netherlands. In a series of eleven town houses, Rotterdam based architects Pasel Künzel architects present an exceptional residence. V36K08/09 is the front end of a terrace that is built on a collective parking garage. The residence comprises two separate dwellings, including two spacious and hidden patios. The dark pre-patinated zinc façade with its subtle disposition of seams gives the building a calm but yet spectacular appearance. Looking from the outside, the house appears rather compact and closed - a fortress in the urban tissue. Only by entering the estate through the heavy wooden gate, one gets into an utterly different inner world, an oasis of tranquillity, with  generous and open living spaces where inside and outside merge into each other.

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