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HOUSING BLOCK CRYSTAL COURT

TANGRAM, 2001-2009, Willem van Weldammelaan/De Kamp, Amsterdam

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Tangram Architekten

PROJECT ARCHITECT:
Charlotte ten Dijke
Bart Mispelblom Beijer

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT:
Karres en Brands

BUILDING TYPE:
Housing

This development of 36 freely stacked up-market residences is a Chinese puzzle of interlocking volumes with as much open space as mass. This semi-public unbuilt space is a key element of the design and has been scrupulously crafted and detailed. All building volumes, which are timber clad on all their external faces, have their entrances in a glazed courtyard with a sheltered transitional climate between outside and inside. The ground plane comprises a water garden that begins indoors and is shot through with timber walkways and terrace decks. The whole sits on an underground parking facility.