Modern Residential Design

Paul de Ruiter Villa Deys Photo: Rien van Rijthoven After seeing an article in the German magazine Haeuser, I've always wanted to know more about this house in English. The team at Paul de Ruiter have provided some great insight into this house and its design. I hope you all enjoy. Images courtesy of Alessio Guarino and Rien van Rijthoven as indicated. Paul de Ruiter tells that he had always wanted to build a villa in what he still considers one of the most attractive locations in the Netherlands , on the outskirts of Rhenen, in the Rhine water meadows. So in 1994, as an architect at the start of his career, he made a brave move and took out an option on a plot of land, which was in use at that time for market gardening, and became the developer of this site himself. Henk and Jeanne Deys (65 years old) took the first of the four building plots along with a sketch design for the villa by Paul. Along with the green roof, top of the list were a pool and accessibility as the coupl...