Emerging Groenewoud

TEAM PORTRAIT

VIDEO (by the team)

INTERVIEW
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1. How do you define the main issue of your project in relation with the theme “Living Cities Imagining architecture taking care of the milieus”? And in which way do you think your project can contribute to an ecological and/or social evolution?
The Groenewoud project works with the typical post-war cauliflower neighborhood. Such urban typology is facing common challenge of social issues, deteriorating facility and public space, climate change, and housing pressure. We offer a universal and flexible solution that allows for transformation rooted in the existing community. All scale and subject – social and spatial, building and landscape, living and non-living – work as integrated components of a whole.

2. How did the issues of your design and the questions raised by the site mutation meet?
The area is built for large families, while current residents are usually a small household. This requires different housing typology. We transform the existing houses into smaller apartments. The transformation comes with densification, which improves critical mass for facilities and public space. Various target groups, especially the elderly and students, can therefore find a better living environment here.

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