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Project • By Rapp+Rapp • Offices
De Schilden
Based on the Falconplein masterplan, Rapp+Rapp planned one of the two large buildings that divide the inner grounds of the building block into four inner courtyards; a C-shaped housing block with a mixed spatial programme and an underground car park. The residential units vary in building depth between 14 and 22 metres and thus display a great diversity of housing typologies. The elevated ground floor contains commercial space with an entresol, while office units are planned in the corners of the building. The façade is presented as a coherent structure and makes no distinction between the front and the back of the building. It is based on a grid in which the different programmatic elements are incorporated. Office spaces are charact... More
Project • By Rapp+Rapp • Community Centres
Merkem community centre and village centre renewal
Merkem is a village in West Flanders, counting 2,300 inhabitants. After having been completely destroyed in the First World War it was reconstructed in the 1920´s in a typical local building style, being a characteristic example of post-war reconstruction architecture. The village is situated along two main roads joining in a T-junction.
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The assignment consisted of two parts: The renovation of the village centre and the construction of a community centre. The redesign of the public space included three squares, whose simple but high quality design corresponds with the sober character of the village. The community centre is located on the ‘Stationsplein’, a square measuring 150 x 40 metres flanked by two-story... More
Project • By Rapp+Rapp • Offices
Chicago
A narrow spit of land between the eastern bank of the IJ, the railway embankment and the Piet Heinkade was part of the redevelopment of the eastern harbour area by the Amsterdam Department of Urban Planning (DRO) in the 1990s. The urban development concept included a series of interconnected building zones. In this so-called ‘train of buildings’, a part of the old warehouses was to be preserved and integrated into the planning.
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Rapp+Rapp created the urban design for one of these building zones, in which an extremely high building density had to be realised. Following New York’s zoning law, urban guidelines were formulated for the daylighting, the massing, and the intended robust character by which the... More
Project • By Rapp+Rapp • Shops
Ypenburg Centre
The district centre of Ypenburg, located next to The Hague, was established in the nineties as part of a large city extension for 30.000 inhabitants. According to the original masterplan the district centre was to be conceived as ‘superblock’. This masterplan requirement was transformed step by step. The park was moved from the inside of the block to the outside and situated between the crescent facade and the artificial lake. In addition, the superblock was divided into nine smaller blocks, fitting more into the adjacent surrounding area.
Kim Zwarts
Instead of the large-scale shopping plaza, the new block ensemble is queued alongside a street in east-westerly direction, opening up to all public services, supermarkets and... More
Project • By Rapp+Rapp • Offices
De Kroon
Situated between Central Station and the Spui, next to the new Ministries of Foreign Affairs, stands De Kroon, a 131m high rise residential tower including office- and commercial space. The area is bounded on three sides by busy traffic arteries. The basic principles of the building design are based on the plot settings of the early American skyscrapers. An important reference for the building was the early high-rise typology of the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century in Chicago.
Kim Zwarts
The office- and residential buildings are located next to each other on a commercial plinth. The 23m high office building is organized around an atrium hall. The adjacent residential tower covers 253 apartments. The setbacks o... More