Hofwijck

Hofwijck is a rustic estate placed in Voorburg, at the Vliet or Rijn-Schiekanaal, the canal from Delft to Leiden. As quickly as the Zuid Vliet canal changed into in operation, Constantijn Huygens made plans to construct a house where he regularly withdrew. Such plans for country houses on canals among Dordrecht and Amsterdam were then very not unusual, and as may be seen within the old map of Voorburg, Hofwijck become one in every of many. The residence and the accompanying lawn have been designed by using Huygens and Jacob van Campen. The ratios between the scale had been chosen very deliberately.

The lawn turned into based totally on the human body, the residence being the head. This was primarily based on the concord version of Vitruvius, a Roman architect of classical antiquity. The creation from 1639 become led by Pieter Post. Hofwijck become festively initiated in 1642. In 1653, Huygens defined his united states of america estate in the court poem Hofwijck and in 1692 his son Christiaan Huygens defined how he skilled the earthquake at Verviers at Hofwijck The stone floor on which I stood changed into barely lifted, and collapsed again and again for numerous about ten or twelve seconds.