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APARTMENTS FOR THE ELDERLY EELDE

ONIX, 1996-2000, Hortensiaweg 14-62, Eelde

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Onix

PROJECT ARCHITECT:
Haico Meijer
Alex van de Beld
Allart Vogelzang

BUILDING TYPE:
Special accommodation

This complex is a contemporary variant on the typology of the country estate, where the buildings lie beyond a green prefatory space. Twenty-five apartments for the elderly are accommodated in four units in the north-eastern corner of the site. A shared carport marks out a semi-public internal courtyard. The facades consist of brick planes with a pattern of projecting bricks, wood panelling and zinc. The angular forms, natural materials and deliberately untidy layout of the courtyard draw the residential units into the landscape.