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Blok 3A, Westerpark West

 Westerpark West is a 70.000m2 mix-use development, consisting of mutiple plots with different character. Plot 3 consists of smaller scale urban blocks, set up on a shared park space, designed by  Gustafson Porter Bowman .
 The tallest of Plot 3 is 12 story wooden tower, consisting of a simple wooden spaceframe, which can we filled with a diverse selection of typologies.
 These typologies are visible in the facade, creating a lively stack of individual houses.
 All typologies are identifiable as individual houses, like a stacked village. This is an expression of our ideas in our research  Dense Individuality .

─ Housing, mass timber

─ 4400 m2

─ Design phase

─ Urban masterplan by MVRDV

Westerpark West is a large inner city redevelopment of a strip of office buildings along the Westerpark. In an urban plan by MVRDV, a selection of architects have designed different typological proposals. In the western part of the area, the Eco Village consists of a series of housing towers of different orientation and size.

In this ensemble, plot 3A is at the western end of the development, on the edge of the park. Here, krft proposed a 12 story mass timber highrise, consisting of a wooden frame structure, that could incorporate 8 different housing typologies at all positions. This allowed for a user-centered development in which residents could position their typology of choice in any position in the tower. The facade, a combination of deep wooden clad outdoor spaces with lush green would be an expression of the specific typology, making the facade a user generated design.

categories: Housing, Mass Timber
Wednesday 07.11.18
Posted by krft
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