schiemann weyers

architects

IJburg, Block 14, Amsterdam, NL

Interpretation of a closed housing block as a compilation of corresponding objects. The brief required the programme to occupy the inner courtyard. However taking into account the scant depth and the exceptionally positive conditions along the edges - the river IJ and a city canal – it became evident that it would be preferable to concentrate the programme on the edges and to allocate maximum openness to the inner area. This was made possible by re-interpreting the definition of a single family house - no neighbour above or beyond - quite radically: introducing the ‘elevated floating single family house’.

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