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HOUSING ZUIDERPOLDER (VAN SAMBEEK & VAN VEEN)

VAN SAMBEEK & VAN VEEN, 1986-1991, Solidarnoscstraat, Haarlem

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Van Sambeek & Van Veen

PROJECT ARCHITECT:
Erna van Sambeek

ASSISTING ARCHITECT:
René van Veen
Paul van der Erve

BUILDING TYPE:
Housing


RELATED BUILDINGS:
Housing Zuiderpolder

It was Wiek Röling, City Architect to Haarlem, who set aside part of the Zuiderpolder development for experimental housing. Though the most experimental projects, cepezed's freestanding industrialized units and Hertzberger's https://www.architectureguide.nl/project/item/prj_id/1777" class="inline_link">floating homes, were never built, the results are rewarding all the same. The principal attention-grabber is Koen van Velsen's block of terrace flats whose oblique lines threaten to send it toppling. Other projects offer interesting variations on the traditional terraced housing. That of Van Sambeek & Van Veen consists of broad units (7.2 metres), maisonettes and penthouses with a large roof garden marching across three maisonettes. The houses are accessed by straight stairs hugging the brick frontage within a zone defined by steel columns and wind shields.