{"id":832,"date":"2016-02-29T05:20:02","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T05:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/designtel.co\/?p=832"},"modified":"2018-01-04T13:42:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T13:42:12","slug":"bolwoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design.tel\/bolwoning\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolwoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dries Kreijkamp\u2019s fascination with future living formally began a decade prior to the\u00a0<em>Bolwoning\u00a0<\/em>design, recalling digressions whilst producing crystal spheres for the\u00a0<em>Royal Dutch Glassworks<\/em>: \u2018We live on a sphere, we are born out of a sphere\u2026why not live in a sphere?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately a municipality in the southern Netherlands had just received a governmental subsidy directed towards experimental living in 1980\u200a\u2014\u200aand so Kreijkamp seized the moment to actualise his infatuations. Like <a href=\"http:\/\/203.98.95.105\/~designtel\/?s=suuronen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Suuronen<\/a> before him, he displayed a radicalism that was equal parts eccentric and poetic\u200a\u2014\u200aunderwritten with a stark rationalism aimed at offering a real form to accommodate a new reality. Much like the schemes presented by the\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/203.98.95.105\/~designtel\/monsanto-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House of the Future<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/203.98.95.105\/~designtel\/futuro-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Futuro<\/em><\/a>, this was simplistic. A cylindrical element to the base served as a structural plinth akin to the pedestal in MIT\u2019s design, but also accommodated utility and storage spaces. This structure\u2019s open-ended circular top perimeter also operates as a mechanism to interlock the base and the upper volume\u200a\u2014\u200aa three-storey fibreglass sphere with a 5.5m diameter. A staircase provides the only internal verticality and connects, both physically and visually, the cylindrical and spherical forms. As one spirals from the ground upwards a bedroom occupies a level, followed by a bathroom on a mezzanine space and finally a top living room section with a kitchen\u200a\u2014\u200aoffering a panoramic, naturally lit quality through a band of six circular pivot-style windows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dries Kreijkamp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}