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COMMUNE STERREBOS

C.J.M. VAN DE VEN, 1980-1989, Onyxdijk 159-193, Roosendaal

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Cornelis van de Ven

BUILDING TYPE:
Special accommodation
Health service buildings

Here, mentally handicapped and psychiatric patients are not shut away from society but have their own ‘neighbourhood’, to be integrated in a forthcoming residential area. Communal facilities including buildings for administration, therapy, leisure and medical services stand around a central square. The patients live together in groups of eight in two dwelling types, bungalow and semi-detached. Like the symmetrical basic layout the architecture too is basic, geometrical and well-groomed.