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Birdview North East
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Alley
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Interior / Patio
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Birdview East
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Roofterrace
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Facade North West
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Ground Floorplan
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South Facade
Verdana Blok K
NL Architects. Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Name of work in English
Verdana Blok K
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Name of work in original language
Verdana Blok K
Prize year
EUmies Awards 2011
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Work Location
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Studio
NL Architects
EUmies Awards 2011 Shortlisted
Collaborators
Project architect: Gerbrand van Oostveen; Collaborator (office): Gert Jan Machiels, Jung Hwa Cho, Chris Collaris, Florent Le Core, Caro Bauman, Jennifer Petersen, Niels Petersen, Holger Schurk, Misa Shibukawa, Rolf Touzimsky, Gen Yamamoto, Kirsten H, Sarah M
Program
Collective housing
Completion
2009
Blok K or Verdana, is part of a master plan by the Architecten Cie, called Het Funen, Hidden Delights , which calls for a total of 500 dwellings and a park. The block contains ten houses and the point of departure for the project was that the urban envelop should be distributed evenly over all of them. Having been organised according to the 'backtoback' typology, the entries to the apartments are via an aisle in the middle of the block, which rids the facades of the obligatory storage spaces and technical installations that must be publically accessible. By slightly rotating the aisle and orienting it onto two open spaces between the blocks instead of onto two 'blind' walls, a public shortcut has been provided and within the orthogonal grid a diagonal vista opens up. Although each of the houses are unique & with apartments ranging from two to four stories, and from 140 to 180 m² & together they are one.