green livingThe idea
behind the Herzberg development is to create a built structure which combines a
variety of residential offerings into one neighborhood that facilitates
different ways of living.
This
objective was pursued on both an urban-planning and on an architectural level.
For one
thing, the estate comprises several widely different urban-design typologies:
There is
the lawn with several point block buildings scattered on it; the residential
courtyard building with access balconies, or the street and plaza with a
multi-family townhouse.
This
collage structure makes the estate mediate in the urban fabric between the colony
of small-scale single-family houses on the West side and a shopping mall to the
East.
For another
thing, the buildings are terraced on the upper storeys, which creates different
living and outdoor situations from floor to floor.
The range
of apartment types thus created spans from the single-person rooftop apartment
with a large terrace to flexible (blended) family apartments with living rooms
from which one or two temporary bedrooms may easily be partitioned off if needed,
and to assisted-living homes for children without families.
The color
design re-unifies the resultant diversity into one coherent neighborhood and
provides it with an urban identity of its own.
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