Description
The row houses are linked with each other as a line only on the ground floor (basic area: 10 × 10 m). Mounted on top of this structure are towers that face each other at an angle of 15 °; each has two floors (5.6 × 5.6 m in area).
Only the positions of the dividing crosswalls, the entrance (with the projecting garage box), the spiral staircase, and the supports of the towers (and thus also their positions) are fixed. Everything else – the articulation of the outer walls, the allocation of space, the size and placement of the windows, the colors of the houses, etc. – can be freely determined by the owner. Basically the ground floor is used as a residential level, the towers as bedroom towers.
The residents design their homes themselves or hire architects as consultants; the costs are checked against a built model house. The experimental housing development is part of the Almere Architectural Exposition, which is sponsored by the National Association of Community Housing Corporations.
Drawings
Floor plan diagram, scale 1:500
Site plan
Ground floor with living area, scale 1:200
Upper floor with private rooms, scale 1:500
Floor plan variations of lower and upper floors
Cross section
Elevation
Photos
Exterior view
Originally published in: Oliver Heckmann, Friederike Schneider (eds.), Floor Plan Manual Housing, fourth revised and expanded edition, Birkhäuser, 2011.