MVRDV

Parkrand

Parkrand

PARKRAND

Mvrdv

ARCHITECTS
Mvrdv

PROJECT YEAR
2006

AREA
35000.0 m²

LOCATION
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

PHOTOGRAPHS
Rob ‘t Hart

CATEGORY
Housing

MANUFACTURERS
Koninklijke Tichelaar

BUILDING PHYSICS
Cauberg Huygen

SERVICES
Cauberg Huygen

STRUCTURE
Pieters Bouwtechniek

PARTNERS IN CHARGE
Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs, Nathalie de Vries

PROYECT TEAM
Sandor Naus, Marc Joubert, Anet Schurink, Jeroen Zuidgeest, Marin Kulas, Sven Thorissen, Joanna Gasparski, Jaap van Dijk, Gabriella Bojalil, Arjan Harbers

FACILITARY OFFICE
W.M.B.

DELFT NL
Jan Versteegen

FACE BRICK STONE COLLABORATOR
Royal Tichelaar Makkum NL

OUTDOOR DESIGN
Richard Hutten, Rotterdam NL

INTERIOR DESIGN
Richard Hutten, Rotterdam NL

GRAPHIC DESIGN SIGNAGE
Thonik

BUDGET
EUR 28.5 Million

“Buurt 9” (Neighbourhood 9) forms part of the garden cities west of Amsterdam. It consists of 174 standard small housing units, located in three L-shaped buildings and positioned next to a small park.

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Parkrand

The new design relocates the housing into one compact but impressive volume thereby conserving more space for the park. The proportions of the outline for the block, 135 m long by 34 m high and 34 m deep, could be considered as mansion-like in relation to the even more spacious park. A new ‘country estate’ arises that adds character to the park.

The programme includes five towers that are sandwiched between a large, raised communal patio and a series of rooftop penthouses. This creates an open and airy block, and offers different views from all directions. The semi-public patios is raised so that its overlooks the park.

Parkrand
Parkrand

The garden offers protection from rain and wind, secured access, and more intimate spaces and playgrounds. It will be used more frequently and by different people than the park.

This area becomes a central space for the inhabitants, an outdoor ‘living room’. This idea is accentuated by the use of soft furniture, decorative walls, ceiling and floor finishes, plants, and ‘chandeliers’.

The towers are positioned in such a way that they do not block views from the neighbourhood to the park. They also allow all of the apartments a view to the park and an orientation to the sun. This is achieved by perforating the roof plate in three places.

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Parkrand

The perforations are repeated at the ground floor, forming two courtyards that offer light, view and access to the apartments on the first level.With these techniques, the Parkrand building adds both more ‘garden’ and more ‘city’ to the developing Western Garden Cities of Amsterdam. It continues in the optimistic architectural tradition that characterizes the history of these neighborhood


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