“We like to listen first to the environment, both spatially and culturally we try to grasp the existing soul and history. We like to weave traces of this past into a new place or building, architecture that tells a story, as it were.”

Not your typical renovation of a traditional Dutch seaside home.Open plan, clean-lined and minimal with an emphasis on a warm homely feel and harmony in natural materials. Zeeverblijf by AIDarchitecten.

Photography by Thomas De Bruyne

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