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HOUSING SCHUTTERSTRAAT
DIVERSE ARCHITECTEN, 1991-1994, Schutterstraat, Delft
Woningbouw Schutterstraat / Housing Schutterstraat ( Diverse architecten )
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These 17 town houses were designed by 15 architects to certain rules of play fixed by the project's supervisor, Fons Verheijen. The different players interpreted these rules freely, resulting in a gratifyingly varied urban elevation or a vision of chaos, according to taste. The major attention-grabber is the house at number 9 with its convex facade plane of Delftware tiles and glazing and a rippling eaves line. In stark contrast are the high-tech house of steel, aluminium and glass (no.3) and the back-to-basics studio house with partly loamed walls cladding a timber frame at number 1. The twin houses (nos.35/37 and 25/27) were designed by one architect per pair as single units; two other lots (nos.31/33 and 15/17) have two houses per plot. In Verheijen's own apartment block the base contains a restaurant and a cinema, with housing above accessed from a glazed buffer zone extending the full height and breadth of the block and seguing into the recast public gardens (Doelentuinen).

Projects: E. Israels (BOOM) (nr.1), cepezed (nr.3), De Jong Hoogveld De Kat (nr.5), T. Siemerink (nr.7), Molenaar & Van Winden (nr.9), Van Roosmalen Van Gessel (nr.11/13), P.J.A. van Slobbe (nr.15/17), Hoenders Dekkers Zinsmeister (nr.19), J.A.M. de Witte (nr.21), E.F. Böhtlingk (nr.23), B. Gremmen (nr.25/27), Chr. de Weijer (Mecanoo) (nr.29), T. van Bergen (nr.31/33), W.A. Nieuwpoort (nr.35/37), P.M.J. van Swieten (nr.39), A.P.J.M. Verheijen (cinema and housing)