Background information:
Heistraat 33 is a detached house built in the '90s of the twentieth century. The architect wants to refer to a traditional farmhouse. Thus, the house quickly became a rural character.
However, the sizes and surfaces of the house live up to the standard that we used in the '90s. Spacious compared to the real farm houses of the early twentieth century. The use of materials and color choice are also up to modern standards. Such homes are regularly found in the Netherlands in new housing areas on so-called free plots, but also in more traditional environments such as older villages, between houses that are sometimes 100 years older.
Architectural details:
Both the color of the bricks and the color of the rooftiles is brighter than we usually see in older homes. For the color of the tiles this is partly due to the use of materials. In the '50s ceramic rooftiles were the standard, but in the '90s concrete rooftiles were often used.
Furthermore, the house is characterized by a tighter way of building, less ornamental details in the brickwork, more straight lines and larger glass surfaces. Even the size of the house reveals a young age.
