Project Hietland
Laren, Netherlands
Project Hietland is a house with a barn beside it in Laren, in the Achterhoek in the east of the Netherlands, designed in 2014 and 2015 by la-di-da, the first job Laura van Santen and Diederik de Koning did together, and built for de Koning's parents. In the architects' words: "The house with barn in the east of the Netherlands was built for a couple returning to their roots after having lived abroad." The two volumes share a central core of services and entrances and can be divided with sliding doors. The house is spruce and pine through and through, a visible glulam structure, radiata pine sheets, untreated Accoya window frames and a Platowood trellis on the facade for plants to climb, while the barn, with OSB walls and a concrete floor, is made to look a little rougher. It won the jury prize of the Architectuur Prijs Achterhoek 2017.
The card is the photograph that opens Peter Tijhuis's own gallery of the house, taken in August 2015: the plywood-lined main room under its steep roof with a long strip of glazing running down the slope, galvanised tie rods across the space, the kitchen bench with its sink and a vase of dried seed heads, tall plywood shelving, and the long room beyond with someone reading by the fire. Tijhuis on the brief: "I learned that the house was designed with an outdoorsy lifestyle of the owners in mind."
la-di-da
la-di-da is the architecture practice of Laura van Santen and Diederik de Koning, founded in The Hague in 2015; the pair won the Abe Bonnema Prijs for young architects in 2022 with a later house, the Dijkhuis in Strijensas.
Architecture @ladida_design_architecture. Photography Peter Tijhuis (@peter_tijhuis). Seen via @cerno_group.
The picture comes from this post on Instagram.
Researched September 2026. I credit each piece as carefully as I can; if you know more about this one, message me on Instagram.