Why buy everything new, if you can find many building materials for less than half and sometimes even for free? Palais Récup has been designed the other way around; first the materials, then the design. With a maximum of freedom for functionality and experiment; a DIY laboratory.
Selfbuilder Frank Alsema first collected what he thought was beautiful and useful. With this ‘database’ of materials he asked architect John Zondag to design a house around it.
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