Groei
Amsterdam, NL | 2022 | 23.000m2
In collaboration with de Architecten Cie, Temp Architecture Urbanism and Flux Landscape Architects, Raumplan is working on the design of the most 'nature inclusive' residential plan in The Netherlands. Within its two plots and eight building blocks, the projects is home to 223 private, rental and social housing units. On ground level, an array of social and commercial functions will be realised. In order to achieve its environmental ambitions, the design team proposed two massive roof gardens, both on a one meter layer of top soil. This radical gesture enables a wide variety of critters and vegetation, with each species of plant carefully selected to suit specific conditions of light and shadow, desired speed of growth and even edibility.
Project Details
- Prefab Timber construction
- Nature Inclusive
- Strong biodiversity
- Climate adaptive design
- Social housing
The roof garden on top of the two blocks not only serves as natural cooling, avoiding the Urban Heat Island effect, but also connects the blocks and residents by forming the main access route to the individual housing units: A garden accessible for all human and non-human species.
The communal roof garden is a social meeting space designed for collective use. It will become an edible "forest" with many different fruit trees, thereby supplying both green as food production.
The green infrastructure is build upon local values and biodiversity ensuring a proper integration in the larger green corridor of Amsterdam and forming a network of urban connected parks.
Team Groei!
Developer
Architect
Landscape
Construction
Building code
Circularity
Building System
Plant Management
Water Management
Ecological Advisor
Renderings
VORM
de Architecten CIE, Raumplan, TEMP architecture urbanism
Flux landscape architecture
IMd Raadgevende Ingenieurs
DGMR, OMRT, Nieman
New Horizon
CD20
Donker Groep
Mijn Waterfabriek
Viridis
Parallel