28 dwellings Park Blankenborch

Rijsenborch, Vianen, Netherlands

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28 dwellings Park Blankenborch

Rijsenborch, Vianen, Netherlands

YEAR

2011

The characteristic bended streets of Blankenborch
(Municipality of Vianen, The Netherlands) are being terminated by four specific
strips of buildings that merge into the adjacent park. With the maintenance of
both profile and building height a relation with the existing buildings as well
as the park has been achieved. By making the strips more airy in the direction
of the park by means of overhangs and tranparancies in the facades, the
buildings slowly dissolve into the park which make the buildings a part of the
park and vice versa.

The plan consists of 28 dwellings with a variety of housing
types of apartments and single-family houses. The various dwellings, organized
in four strips as an extension piece of the existing fabric that terminate in
the adjacent park look out over the canal.

The housing plans are designed in such a manner that the
living area can be organized both at the front and rear side or in other words
on the side of the park or the canal . The houses have large window openings
with a focus on park and canal. The houses at the end of the strips are
particularized through the application of extra glass. This provides a direct
relation with the park and at the same time takes care of social control within
the public space. The story high folding-sliding doors take care of a
significant openness causing the house to interact with its environment.

Through the difference in masonry and varying facade
openings subtle differences per strip derive. The distinct folding-sliding doors and the robust detailling of the
specific tilted bricks and lattice work lead to great plasticity in the facade.
In combination with a subtle detailling in which the window frames are flush
with the brickwork. The mitered bricks go around the corner resulting in a
composition of robust brickwork blocks with a minimalistic architecture.

For the organization of private gardens and parking areas
that border the park a green solution with Hedera and grass zones has been
planned causing the park to merge into the buildings through the private
gardens. All this leads to an optimal integration of public and private.