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Holland is full of post war housing, built using prefabricated systems and designed with efficiency in mind. Most of these buildings do not meet contemporary housing needs, units are too small and efficient access to the flats in the form of stairwells and narrow galleries limits the possibilities for social exchange. Two architectonic elements, klingons and hybrids are developed in an attempt to reverse these negative aspects of this housing typology, with a minimal investment.

Klingons are imagined in two forms, either as broad galleries, 2m in width or as steel framed portal structures that kling to the facade like birds nests. The local broadening of the gallery provides outdoor space for social exchange and the new staircases make shortcuts between the newly introduced split levels possible.

The hybrid space functions as an interface between the broadened gallery and flat interior.

The hybrid consists of two layers, a glass outer layer and a wooden inner layer. A multitude of configurations allow users to regulate the relationship between their private interior space and the communal gallery in the form of a veranda, a winter garden, an entrance hall, or in the most open configuration, a kitchen in open relation to the gallery.

The project strives to generate affordable collective housing for different groups ranging from single mothers, to young processionals, to the elderly to artist collectives.

CLIENT: WiMBY / Woonbron Maasoevers
ADVISOR: Machiel van Dorst [RUIM]
PROGRAM: 4 postwar maaisonette flats
STATUS: study 2005, pilot 2007
DESIGN: Duzan Doepel [RAL2005] / Harmen van de Wal [Krill]

LINK:
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