Client: Estrade projecten, Rotterdam
Renter: Stichting Pameijer
Project: 37 care houses and appartments for young people with a collective program and a covered veranda, overlooking collective gardens
Location: Barbeelsingel Hoogvliet
Planning: design 2005-2007, construction 2007-2009
Buildingcosts: 2.000.000 euro
Construction engineer: CAE Nederland
Building physics: LBP Raadgevende Ingenieurs
Building management: van Reisen bouwmanagment & advies
Contractor: Dura Vermeer Bouw Rotterdam BV
Project Tuinkamers forms, as a part of the garden town of Hoogvliet, an urban ensemble together with the urban modules (stamps) of the Nabuurschappen. The hedges and collective outside spaces are, as in the Nabuurschappen project, binding elements in this project.
The building mass embraces the collective outside spaces, which are designed as functional ‘garden rooms’, by means of a covered veranda.
The occupants are disabled and young people. Together they share a ‘bicycle-room’, a ‘sports room’, and a ‘hang-out room’. These functions are framed by a hedge, which swings around all garden rooms.
The extraordinary wide stairwell at the main entrance is the hinge connecting all functions; the collective kitchen and the living room inside the building, the hangout room outside and the overhanging balcony overlooking the gardens and the canal across the street.