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Cite II
Laan op Zuid
Building
Completed
2011
Residential
All-Concrete
75 m / 246 ft
22
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Usually involved in the front end design, with a "typical" condition being that of a leadership role through either Schematic Design or Design Development, and then a monitoring role through the CD and CA phases.
Cité was designed to have the character of a residential building while also achieving architectural unity with the adjacent office buildings. An emphasis on community spirit and interaction were important considerations in the design. Thus the heart of Cité is its large-scale atrium. This space rises several stories and is a semi-public intermediary space between the residences and the city itself, bringing the street indoors. It serves as a meeting space for the building users, thus stimulating interaction. It houses “floating” office spaces on five levels and has multiple spatial perspectives and monumental staircases. The commercial spaces are placed around the atrium on the ground floor.
Housing a low income group, the rents and building costs had to be the lowest level, according to Dutch Housing Standards. Key to the solution was the layout of the apartments within the building envelope, which brought a 20% densification compared to the original building program that the financial calculations had been based on: almost 500 instead of the originally required 400 apartments.
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