Dutch architect Paul de Ruiter designed Villa Röling, a waterfront home in the town of Kudelstaart, Netherlands.

“The clients of villa Röling are passionate art collectors. They love to be surrounded by works of art.

Therefore their main wish regarding their new dwelling was that it would do greatest justice to their collection of paintings and sculptures”

“However, the location of their house, at the edge of the lake Westeinderplas, is so spendid that it was no option to make a closed volume which would have large wall surfaces for hanging on the paintings but would limit the view of the surroundings.

The view of the lake and the garden should be maximal.

Therefore we decided to design two contrasting volumes, a transparent glass volume overlooking the lake and the garden, and a floating´ wooden box on top of it for the works of art.”