18 WATER DWELLINGS
new development in Den Ilp
location
Den Ilp originally is an agrarian village and a typical example of ribbon development. The perpendicular ditches to the road separate the parcels and shape a sequence of plots that can be accessed from the road and will end in the water.
new development in Den Ilp
| client: | Van Rijn Beheer BV |
| design: | Gert Jan Knevel, Benjamin Robichon |
| project team: | Loran Kampen, Phillip Rutten, Thijs van der Heijden, Sofia Oliveira |
| location: | Den Ilp 55, Den Ilp |
| plot size: | 11.000 m² |
| floor area: | 250 m² (8 enbankment residences) 200 m² (4 landscape dwellings) 700 m² (appartment blocks) |
| start design: | September 2007 |
location
Den Ilp originally is an agrarian village and a typical example of ribbon development. The perpendicular ditches to the road separate the parcels and shape a sequence of plots that can be accessed from the road and will end in the water.
assignment
The assignment concerns 18 new dwellings in the ribbon village Den Ilp, in the north of Amsterdam.
design
The urban plan for 18 new dwellings breaks with the tradition to build along the road by hiding the volumes behind the front housing row. At the same time it partly colonizes one of the parcels in the back. In this way the houses can be integrated in the landscape. The plan starts from the road with 3 ribbon dwellings, which shape the head of the three rows. The three rows exists of 4 landscape dwellings and 8 water villas. Because the three rows are halfway reduced to a single row, the green character of the location will be preserved. Also the head of the parcel remains unaffected and shapes a smooth transition between the intervention area and the surrounding nature.
According to the current zoning plan all individual dwellings are subject to a set of conditions regarded to height, roof pitch and volume. Adjusting the initial volumes to the requirements results in a building volume with an own character that also connects to the morphological aspects of the surrounding buildings. Residents of the water villas are able to moor their boats at their house by adding a small storage annex volume to the villa.
