This Indigo, a spacious family home with a minimal environmental impact, is the result of a design process in which the residents themselves enthusiastically sketched along with us. Or should we say, we with them? When this distinction fades and customers get the feel they are designing their own home, this for us is an honor, and proofs that Indigo, as a flexible framework, really functions well.


 

The house has a cleverl spatial lay-out: the living area and "the sleeping house" in the back are separated by a spacious hall where the residents can organize cozy events: lectures and room concerts, for example. This zoning also yields smart, separated climate zones.


 

You can't see it, but the foundation of this house consists of prefab concrete beams and pier blocks that are placed on the underlying sandy soil. In this way, the house, which stands on lease land, does not leave any traces should it ever be removed. On top of that the floor below is insulated around the edges only, so that the thermal mass of the ground under the house is utilized. This provides extra cooling capacity in the summer and flattens out the heat curve in the winter, due to the buffering capacity of the sand. This is a good example of how Indigo as a design concept and an intelligent "energy architecture" coincide.


 

This Indigo runs fully on electricity, a clean choice, provided that the required electricity is generated sustainably. Because the surrounding trees give a lot of shade, in this case the energy is generated within a collective project nearby. The underfloor heating, which can also cool, is powered by an air-to-water heat pump.


 

This project was delivered by our construction partners up to and including wall finishes, interior walls and interior doors. The clients themselves took care of the kitchen and bathroom.