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HOUSING ZUIDERPOLDER

DIVERSE ARCHITECTEN, 1986-1992, Solidarnoscstraat e.o., Haarlem

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Diverse architecten

URBAN DESIGN:
Bakker & Bleeker

BUILDING TYPE:
Housing


RELATED BUILDINGS:
Housing Zuiderpolder (Van Sambeek & Van Veen)
Housing Zuiderpolder (Van Aalderen)
Housing Block Zuiderpolder (Van Velsen)
Housing Block Zuiderpolder (Van Herk & De Kleijn)

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. Van Herk & De Kleijn's extremely long, gently curving pink rendered block visually terminates the development. Van Aalderen & Jonges' housing takes a more restrained line. 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.