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For this block, with relatively narrow streets, densifying by almost 40 per cent is quite a gain. Adding a programme of flats and family homes in the city, with an elevated collective outdoor route and greening the neighbourhood is a huge win for this area of Amsterdam.
Titel The Reyeroord district is located in Rotterdam South and was designed as a garden village in the reconstruction period. With the low-rise flats in the greenery characteristic of that period and with anonymous plinths containing storerooms. With its sober and purposeful architecture, the neighbourhood appears well organised, although its appearance is relatively business-like. Neighbours are pessimistic about the future outlook of the neighbourhood; improving and densifying could be a way to change this image.
A communal courtyard will be the new access to the dwellings. There will be a lift per two flats, connected via the new access, the roofs on the two-layer extension will become communal gardens and terraces and will have solar panels. Densification, with more greenery, togetherness and connectivity.
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The solid construction and foundation serve as the basis for a two-storey extension to the existing reconstruction flats. The green inner garden now serves mainly as a viewing green, but has potential to become a meeting place and communal garden for the residents of the four surrounding apartment buildings. Bringing part of the access on this side and inserting the semi-underground cycle shed as a landscape element is likely to make use of this potential. The addition of rooftop axes and roof gardens on the new residential floors, together with the new access provide an opportunity to increase social safety and enhance the neighbourhood’s communality.
