The question
Why does a row of houses that never repeat itself still read as one street?
Gables, window heights and colours change from one canal house to the next. What stays constant is the narrow width of each front and the line along the water. The variety sits inside a strict rule.
Seen twice
Still water doubles the row. At dusk the reflection repeats every gable upside down, so the facade is really composed for two views at once.
What we kept
When a place is made by many hands, fix the width and the edge, and let everything else vary. This is a reference study of a photograph; the houses are not our work.