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Playroom is a multipurpose garden pavilion used as guest house, artist-studio, carport and storage space. The building is incorporated in the landscape by sinking it into the ground, by a huge roof-cantilever and by connecting its only wall – in form and color scheme – to the natural hedge on the gardens perimeter. During the project, we got inspired by materials and details found in the so-called `case study houses’ in Los Angeles built in the 1950s. Due to this construction elements have been used in a non-conventional manner. By making the roof extra thick, the space underneath appears extra transparent. The zig-zagging columns are also over-dimensioned creating a robust image appropriate in the open, windy landscape of the polder.