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T: Yes, it has been an incredibly good feeling, that you know every detail
in here. (Theo 04 86-87)
When I visited Theo for the first time in the spring of 2004, the house had
been liveable for a very short time, after half a year of construction work. Much
of the work was still in progress both inside and outside the house. Of course,
it always takes effort – investments of time and money – to build a house, but
Theo’s clear vision of how the house should look and feel added to the building
project’s twists and turns and required extra effort.
The strongest principle guiding his design decisions was that Theo wanted
the house to feel and look like it had been built and lived in for a hundred
years:
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T: There wasn’t that thing, like I said, when we began to build this in
January, of thinking how will this look when it’s ready, except that
it should look as if people have been living here for a hundred years.
(Theo 04 280-282)
Nonetheless, the house also needed to have all the modern conveniences, such
as a highly functional kitchen and wireless or invisible AV and Wi-Fi networks
accessible throughout the house.
T: there’s been a particular emphasis on making it so that this doesn’t
look like it has been done, like, now we’re building a model home.
Rather, let’s do a kitchen, which looks like, and is, like that first and
foremost, that it is meant for cooking.
HP: yeah. I was just about to ask, do you cook a lot?
T: yes. So it definitely does not matter at all what it looks like, provided
it is somewhere you can cook. So, if again we think about usage, since
we’re living in the countryside and the electricity is always going
down, so you have to have gas. And then a wood stove, to burn wood,
you can do bread et cetera and also you can reserve and use up all the
heat produced. Plus, gas is best for cooking. (Theo 04 122-134)
T: well of course this whole house is networked, like a computer-tocomputer
network, plus we have speakers in every room. So these are
also going to have an output (pause). For example in the bathroom
there are speakers in the ceiling, in case you noticed. (Theo 04 249-
252)