Zuidwijk De Burgen Housing
This project restructures a neighbourhood in Zuidwijk, in the south of Rotterdam. The neighbourhood was originally developed as part of an extension in the 1950s-60s based on an urban plan by Willem van Tijen. Nearly all the mid-rise blocks were demolished to make way for single family low-rise residences. Over the course of this revitalization, 1000 dwellings on roughly sixty plots were replaced by 600 dwellings of double the size.
With a realistic parking ratio of two cars per dwelling, the resulting neighbourhood has an increased building density and a 50% reduction in the number of inhabitants. The design focuses on retaining and reinforcing the abundant natural green spaces and original structures characteristic of post-war districts. This was achieved by maintaining the footprints of the old buildings but inserting a different typology: single family dwellings with collective gardens.
Info
- Location
- Rotterdam, NL
- Date
- 2000–2010
- Size
- 1,200,000 sqm
- Client
- Vestia Zuid, Estrade Projectontwikkeling
- Team
- Dikkie Scipio, Eric van Noord, Jan Teunis ten Kate, Katrien van Dijk, Kees Kaan, Kim Sneyders, Vincent Panhuysen, Yaron Tam
- Photography
- Jannes Linders
- Landscape
- IngenieursBureau
- General contractor
- Bouwbedrijf De Lange Van der Plas, Ten Brinke Bouw
- Structural engineer
- Goudstikker-de Vries, CAE
- Construction advisor
- Wolf Dikken
- Building physics engineer
- Nieman
- Fire safety engineer
- Nieman
