Almost every society has its particular house type. In the Netherlands the most typical floor plan is rectangular in shape, 1:2 in proportion, with the short sides facing the street and the garden and the long sides forming the party walls. The unit is normally composed of two bays also with the proportion 1:2, 2 meters and 4 meters wide. The narrow bays contain front doors, staircases, toilets and kitchens. The wider bays contain living rooms and dining rooms with sliding doors in between. This arrangement is known as 'doorzonwoning'.

In the case of the O-House the program of requirements clearly requested an element which could disrupt the typicalness of the floor plan and would enforce inventiveness with the arrangement of the loose furniture.

The kitchen has been enlarged and has now direct access to the living room. A double high space has been introduced by removing the floor in one of the bedrooms. A study is in the remaining part of this room, which now appears as a mezzanine. The disrupting element comes in the form of a concrete table that floats over the existing teak floor. It has a 2.25 meter cantilever which is supported through a steel beam in the cellar.