Sluisbuurt Kavel 5A1, Amsterdam →

Mixed-use development in Sluisbuurt, Amsterdam

Summer stay on Makom

Summer stay on Makom island, Amsterdam

Dreve des Libellules

Eco villa for a family in the south of Brussels.

Hembrug bunkers →

Transformation into private housing of the Hembrug bunkers, in Amsterdam.

Hof van Holland →

Design for affordable, adaptive and demountable sustainable housing

Dutch Mountain

Drawing attention since it has finished construction in 2010, it has been nominated for multiple awards and widely published internationally.

The layout of the house is a simple open plan, an empty space in which the individual rooms are placed.

The main idea was to bury a house in an artificial mountain in the midst of an open space in the forest.

In the choice of materials, we have pushed for sustainable, local and/or reusable materials: wood from the surrounding forest, bio-based insulation, second hand plate steel.

By closing it on the north side and opening up largely on the south side, the passive use of energy has been maximized.

A semi-enterred hypersustainable villa.

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 .

Mass timber residential highrise in Westerpark area.

Blok 3H, Westerpark West

For the smallest kid on the block, we proposed a simple stack of 6 + 6 town houses, focusing on the lack of urban family housing in the city.

The top 6 houses are collected around a raised courtyard, creating a small scale shared semi-public space.

The block itself is kept intact as a simple brick mass with regular perforations. Slits in the top volume create views to the outside and inside of the block.

The tilted volume raises an interesting set of window details, referring to the Amsterdam School building on the opposite side of the park.

Stacked family housing block in Westerpark area

Dense Individuality

Research project on dense self-built housing typologies