Description
Entrance hall on ground floor; parking on bottom six floors; vertical point access, five units per floor; interior stairwell; lobby on seventh floor with additional functions.
The apartments are divided into day and night areas. The generous living/dining room is—except in the middle apartment—located at the corner of the building and faces two sides. This maximizing of living space contrasts with the minimizing of the floor area of the inner rooms that serve it. Access to the apartments is via a combination of corridors and halls. The loggia areas line the day and night areas.
Loggia, adjacent to the living room, kitchen, and bedroom lobby floor with communal outdoor space.
This pair of high-rises, sharing a continuous base on the lower six floors, is situated as a landmark on the edge of the water in the center of Rotterdam. The massiveness of the slightly terraced, stone volumes of the black-stained concrete elements is countered by the glass based on the ground floor. An alternation of single-wing windows and bandlike openings of the panorama windows and loggias lend rhythm to the vertically stacked floors.
Drawings
Site plan, scale 1:5000
Apartment access diagram
Ground floor with garage and entrance lobbies, scale 1:500
6th floor with outdoor terrace, scale 1:500
Standard floor of apartment towers, scale 1:500
Typical apartment, scale 1:200
Cross section, scale 1:500
Photos
Riverside exterior view
Interior view of swimming pool
Originally published in: Peter Ebner, Eva Herrmann, Roman Höllbacher, Markus Kuntscher, Ulrike Wietzorrek, Typology +: Innovative Residential Architecture, Birkhäuser, 2009.