Belgian studios Archipelago and NU Architectuuratelier have created Broydenborg, a cluster of brick and concrete housing blocks for assisted residing in Antwerp.
Comprising three colonnaded blocks and a glazed neighborhood constructing, Broydenborg gives 60 residences rather than a former sawmill within the southwestern district of Hoboken.
Archipelago and NU Architectuuratelier reworked the positioning not solely by offering houses but in addition by growing its usable open inexperienced area, introducing a sequence of pathways and squares.
“The open area between the brand new buildings is conceived as a ‘park backyard’ for the challenge – collective assembly areas for the residents and a public passage for the neighbourhood,” defined Archipelago.
“The challenge introduces on this method a public route that runs by the constructing block and connects to numerous outside areas; from a restaurant terrace underneath the brand new colonnade to the central little sq. and varied inexperienced areas,” it added.
Every of the blocks is designed by Archipelago and NU Architectuuratelier to have “a rational construction and sturdy supplies”.
They’re restricted to a most of 4 storeys, remaining underneath the peak of the encircling buildings, with rectilinear types completed in yellow brick.
Trying to maximise connections to the outside and between the blocks, every incorporates a facade with an uncovered concrete-framed frontage, sheltering a walkway at floor degree and accessible deck entry to the upper-level residences.
The decrease quantity of the neighborhood centre mirrors these types, with its glazed partitions lined by built-in benches and sheltered by a big overhanging timber cover perched on slender concrete columns.
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Along with this central neighborhood area, built-in into the blocks are a hair and nail salon, a laundry room and a shared multipurpose area for the residents.
“When stepping exterior, even when it is only for a second, residents ought to be capable to join with their residing atmosphere and a shared sense of neighborhood,” defined Archipelago.
“With its coated outside areas alongside the colonnade, the facade benches and an all-glass facade on the bottom ground, [the community centre] is an simply accessible and welcoming constructing,” it continued. “The general public route that passes alongside the constructing results in spontaneous conferences and the easy pleasure of watching passers-by.”
Brussels-based Archipelago and Ghent-based NU Architectuuratelier lately additionally collaborated on one other challenge in Belgium, including a shingle-clad roof to a customer centre on the Meise Botanic Backyard.
Different housing tasks for assisted residing featured on Dezeen embrace an “extension” of a forest within the suburbs of Paris by Vallet de Martinis Architectes and Andreasgärten in Erfurt that incorporates a trio of three-storey rectangular buildings.
The pictures is by Stijn Bollaert.
