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Ferskûle

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Innovation
Functionality
Creativity
Eco-Social Impact
Total
JURY VOTES
House
6.44
6.48
6.20
6.20
6.33
Emma Maxwell
Emma Maxwell Founder at Emma Maxwell Design
6.11
5.57
5.77
5.8
5.81
Eunice Wu
Eunice Wu Property Director at China Merchants Shekou
excellent space design and atmosphe...
8
9
7
9
8.25
Niels Kramer
Niels Kramer Creative Director EMEA at Tétris Design & Build
Very nice hide-away on the island o...
7
8
8
6
7.25
Samar Younes
Samar Younes Founder and Chief Imagination Officer at Samaritual
Interesting dynamic composition and...
6.29
5
7.02
6.04
6.09
Chantal Vos
Chantal Vos Associate Partner at Kraaijvanger Architects
6
6
5
5
5.5
Hongdi Li
Hongdi Li Founder and Creative Director at Studio Lux
6.5
7.8
7
7
7.08
Hihope Zhu
Hihope Zhu Founder and Chief Architect at Archihope
6
6
5
6
5.75
Corey Martin
Corey Martin Principal Designer at Hacker Architects
7.2
8.15
6.64
5.95
6.99
Philipp Schlauch
Philipp Schlauch Senior Workplace Consultant at Drees & Sommer
Overall great architectural design...
5.25
4
5
5
4.81
Collin Burry
Collin Burry Design Principal at Gensler
5.58
5.43
5.35
5.58
5.49
Vincent Zhang
Vincent Zhang Cofounder at Domani Group Limited
6.92
6.3
6.4
6.81
6.61
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Innovation
Functionality
Creativity
Eco-Social Impact
Total
JURY VOTES
Material
5.59
6.33
5.65
5.81
5.85
Chantal Vos
Chantal Vos Associate Partner at Kraaijvanger Architects
5
5
5
5
5
Hongdi Li
Hongdi Li Founder and Creative Director at Studio Lux
6
7.5
6
6
6.38
Corey Martin
Corey Martin Principal Designer at Hacker Architects
The spatial relationships and detai...
7.14
7.02
7.08
7.14
7.1
Niels Kramer
Niels Kramer Creative Director EMEA at Tétris Design & Build
Material use is simple but efficien...
7
7
7
7
7
Philipp Schlauch
Philipp Schlauch Senior Workplace Consultant at Drees & Sommer
4
6
4.5
5.5
5
Collin Burry
Collin Burry Design Principal at Gensler
5
5
5
5
5
Vincent Zhang
Vincent Zhang Cofounder at Domani Group Limited
5
6.81
5
5
5.45
Designer
Floor area
110 ㎡
Completion
2021
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On one of the most beautiful places of a small holiday park on the most eastern inhabited Dutch Wadden island of Schiermonnikoog an existing holiday home with the Frisian name 'Ferskûle' has been replaced for a new, delicately designed retreat. 

The residence for an active family is designed as a place to relax and unwind. The Frisian 'Ferskûle' which means 'hidden' has been leading in the design process. We have expressed this by creating a multitude of places where you can nestle yourself, lie down and muse or gaze outside, find new perspectives or total relaxation. Regulations on the island dictate a maximum gross building envelope of 110 m2 within a clearly defined building area. 

Within this compact site, a diverse pallet of places and moments so to say has been created, each with its own character and quality of stay during the day and throughout the seasons. A bay window in which you can lie down, a living kitchen with a central cooking table in the heart, the sunken sitting room with wood fireplace and lowered perspective on the surroundings, study with a panoramic view as from a birdwatcher's hut, bedrooms with a view of the starry sky, a recessed alcove in the outer facade as a kind of wicker beach chair and an intimate outdoor seating pit sunken in the basement of the house. 

The new holiday home is full of special and surprising places. We have chosen to keep the usually underground foundation of the house visible. A sturdy basement on which the house stands and in which spaces are also sunk. This ensures that the house is anchored on the island and, together with the masonry, protects the light timber-frame structure. The mass derives its expression from the prescribed gently sloping roof and openings in the façade at the corners, which are conceived as holes and cuts in the mass. The large corner windows in the kitchen and lounge in the southeast corners ensure that these spaces connect diagonally with the outside. The horizontal cut in the facade with the raised seats and workplace within makes panoramic contact with the vistas. 

The materials chosen, their texture and tactility are inspired by the materiality of the island and the feeling of the Wadden Sea. Consistently implemented from the weighty basement and the yellow brick with diagonal joint brushing to the soft gray floor finishes and the strongly dampened acoustic indoor climate. The exterior is characterized by stone-like solid materials. 

In the interior, materials with a velvety touch surface, wooden walls and ceilings, woven fabrics with natural tones and a combination of indirect and limited but very precisely chosen warm light have been chosen. Solid on the outside and resistant to the salty and raw sea climate, the inside just like a fine sweater, soft and warm.