Eklund Terbeek creates loft-style house inside a former faculty gymnasium

Dutch structure apply Eklund Terbeek has developed a spacious loft-style house for a household of 4 inside a faculty gymnasium in Rotterdam, which is over 100 years outdated.

The house, which is aptly named The Gymnasium Loft, has been designed by Eklund Terbeek to have a “minimalistic ambiance the place the expertise of area, mild and motion are the important thing qualities”.

It’s certainly one of two loft-style flats that the locally-based apply has created inside the previous gymnasium of a faculty that dates again to 1908. An adjoining classroom block has additionally been was 5 flats.

This specific intervention known as for the apply to develop sizeable dwelling areas for the mom of the household – a choreographer and dance trainer who wished the room to rehearse at dwelling.

Nonetheless, the apply was restricted in opening up any partitions as three of the constructing’s elevations have been street-facing. A big mural on an exterior wall additionally needed to be preserved.

As an alternative, an extension added to constructing within the 1970s was knocked via to permit for an enormous eating and dwelling space that appears via to a small backyard. In the direction of the entrance of the area is the sitting room, which is illuminated by 4 authentic arched home windows.

Beneath runs a brief platform the place the inhabitants can sit and chill out all through the day.

Eklund Terbeek rework 20th-century schoolhouse into light-filled loft house

On the rear of the open-plan area is the kitchen, which is anchored by a chunky Carrara marble breakfast island. Touches of heat are offered by an oakwood panelled partition wall that has built-in cabinetry.

Straight above perches a boxy quantity that accommodates two kids’s bedrooms, which flank a central playroom and shared lavatory. Simply behind lies the main bedroom suite that has its personal ensuite.

This primary ground degree of the house is accessed through a flight of steps that cantilever out of the house’s peripheral wall. Inhabitants can alternatively use a staircase that is hidden behind the partition within the kitchen.

Protecting ornament to a minimal, the apply has as a substitute exaggerated current options of the gymnasium, just like the ceiling beams. Along with the mezzanine balustrade, it is meant to look as a “dynamic composition of horizontal components that tie the completely different components of the house collectively”.

“The distinctive dimensions of the area required just a few massive gestures,” the apply added.

Perforated plasterboard utilized to the ceiling additionally provides texture to the in any other case white-rendered rooms.

Headed up by architects Jenny Eklund and Dominique ter Beek, Eklund Terbeek is not any stranger to adaptive reuse initiatives – final 12 months the apply turned one other 20th-century schoolhouse into six light-filled flats that boast a mixture of modern and historic options.

Images is by René de Wit.

Venture credit:

Design: Eklund Terbeek
Venture architects: Jenny Eklund, Dominique ter Beek
Development: IMD, Rotterdam
Contractor: BDS, Oud Oublas
Mounted furnishings: Vink Betimmeringen, Ridderkerk