Almost all their buildings are outdoors: The Villa 1 is hiding in the forest, the Spiral House is in a park-like gardens in the vicinity of a vineyard, and the gabled roof ensemble of Village House is being built on the meadow in the Danish resort Vejby. "Overture" Nanne de Ru and Charles Bessard have called the first monograph of its offices Powerhouse Company. Six years ago, Charles Bessard (* 1970 in Paris) and Nanne de Ru (* 1976 in Wageningen, The Netherlands), the Powerhouse Company for architecture, design, and has offices in Rotterdam and Copenhagen - now the architects look to 140,000 man-hours and 128 projects back. 14 selected works, they present in their book, including built and planned projects.
With this selection of projects showing the publication of the special, so-called integrated approach of the architects. Explain the basis of key words such as "context", "collaboration", "design" or "detail" Bessard de Ru and their understanding of contemporary architecture that can satisfy the life in the urban environment both aesthetically and functionally. Does not always have the bandwidth for architectural possibilities are exhausted, sometimes it is necessary to prefer simple solutions of the highest quality. This objective is materialized in the built results of the Powerhouse Company and is visible in the photographs by Bas Princen and in the visualization of the agency MIR.
"God is in the details" Mies van der Rohe once said. "We do not believe in God, but in details," said Nanne de Ru and Charles Bessard.
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