Architect: MVRDV | The Netherlands
Colour Makes The Difference
The ‘hedge island’ Hageneiland is part of a master plan created by Fritz Palmboom and Els Bet. The proximity to water – as is often the case in the Netherlands – determines the urban planning concept.
Site and Location
In the VINEX area in Ypenburg there is an urban extension of approximately 15,000 accommodation units based on the ‘countryside’ theme. The master planners, Fritz Palmboom and Els Bet, divided the site, which was previously a military airport, into themed areas such as moor, wood or water.
Hageneiland, which can be translated as ‘the hedge island’, is part of the ‘water district’ planned by MVRDV. The name stems from the high hedges behind which the inhabitants’ private gardens will disappear. The area is only accessible by foot, the only parking spaces being along the ring road. The interior estate is completely free from cars. The rows are each composed of a maximum of six individual houses and are interspersed with many smaller spaces, which give Hageneiland the appearance of a village.
Housing development within two decades
Since the beginning of the 1990s, housing in the Netherlands has undergone a radical change. With the withdrawal of the State from domestic construction, prices doubled within a few years. At the same time, thematic residential areas were being developed which were sometimes constructed as parallel worlds, for example as mediaeval forts or castles from the Renaissance period.
Architect: MVRDV | The Netherlands
Colour Makes The Difference
The ‘hedge island’ Hageneiland is part of a master plan created by Fritz Palmboom and Els Bet. The proximity to water – as is often the case in the Netherlands – determines the urban planning concept.
Site and Location
In the VINEX area in Ypenburg there is an urban extension of approximately 15,000 accommodation units based on the ‘countryside’ theme. The master planners, Fritz Palmboom and Els Bet, divided the site, which was previously a military airport, into themed areas such as moor, wood or water.
Hageneiland, which can be translated as ‘the hedge island’, is part of the ‘water district’ planned by MVRDV. The name stems from the high hedges behind which the inhabitants’ private gardens will disappear. The area is only accessible by foot, the only parking spaces being along the ring road. The interior estate is completely free from cars. The rows are each composed of a maximum of six individual houses and are interspersed with many smaller spaces, which give Hageneiland the appearance of a village.
Housing development within two decades
Since the beginning of the 1990s, housing in the Netherlands has undergone a radical change. With the withdrawal of the State from domestic construction, prices doubled within a few years. At the same time, thematic residential areas were being developed which were sometimes constructed as parallel worlds, for example as mediaeval forts or castles from the Renaissance period.
The interior estate is completely free of cars. The rows are each composed of a maximum of six individual houses and are interspersed with many smaller spaces, which give Hageneiland the appearance of a village.
Concept
In planning the 119 privately owned and rented dwellings, MVRDV were confronted with another peculiarity of the private housing market: the risk of poverty. The floor plans of the dwellings are largely standardised; typological experimentation is not desired and the architect usually designs the façade only.
He provides the residential area with its own identity through outward appearances, such as roof shape, window arrangement and choice of materials.
MVRDV decided to play the architect’s game and reduced the houses externally to their original prototypes: Two storeys with gabled roofs, with no apparent gutters, porches or other accessories. MVRDV intentionally dispensed with any kind of extravagance. Only the different facade materials differentiate the buildings.
Materials and construction
MVRDV fulfil the inhabitants’ subliminal wish to have their ‘own’ house with brand recognition factor through their calculations regarding the choice of materials. The houses are clad in a uniform way from the foundation to the roof ridging.
Therefore, no two neighbouring rows of houses ever receive the same façade material. The green houses will become overgrown with ivy in the coming years. Only skylights occasionally interrupt the homogenous roofing casting some daylight inside.
The interior estate is completely free of cars. The rows are each composed of a maximum of six individual houses and are interspersed with many smaller spaces, which give Hageneiland the appearance of a village.
Concept
In planning the 119 privately owned and rented dwellings, MVRDV were confronted with another peculiarity of the private housing market: the risk of poverty. The floor plans of the dwellings are largely standardised; typological experimentation is not desired and the architect usually designs the façade only.
He provides the residential area with its own identity through outward appearances, such as roof shape, window arrangement and choice of materials.
MVRDV decided to play the architect’s game and reduced the houses externally to their original prototypes: Two storeys with gabled roofs, with no apparent gutters, porches or other accessories. MVRDV intentionally dispensed with any kind of extravagance. Only the different facade materials differentiate the buildings.
Materials and construction
MVRDV fulfil the inhabitants’ subliminal wish to have their ‘own’ house with brand recognition factor through their calculations regarding the choice of materials. The houses are clad in a uniform way from the foundation to the roof ridging.
Therefore, no two neighbouring rows of houses ever receive the same façade material. The green houses will become overgrown with ivy in the coming years. Only skylights occasionally interrupt the homogenous roofing casting some daylight inside.
The interior estate is completely free of cars. The rows are each composed of a maximum of six individual houses and are interspersed with many smaller spaces, which give Hageneiland the appearance of a village.
Concept
In planning the 119 privately owned and rented dwellings, MVRDV were confronted with another peculiarity of the private housing market: the risk of poverty. The floor plans of the dwellings are largely standardised; typological experimentation is not desired and the architect usually designs the façade only.
He provides the residential area with its own identity through outward appearances, such as roof shape, window arrangement and choice of materials.
MVRDV decided to play the architect’s game and reduced the houses externally to their original prototypes: Two storeys with gabled roofs, with no apparent gutters, porches or other accessories. MVRDV intentionally dispensed with any kind of extravagance. Only the different facade materials differentiate the buildings.
Materials and construction
MVRDV fulfil the inhabitants’ subliminal wish to have their ‘own’ house with brand recognition factor through their calculations regarding the choice of materials. The houses are clad in a uniform way from the foundation to the roof ridging.
Therefore, no two neighbouring rows of houses ever receive the same façade material. The green houses will become overgrown with ivy in the coming years. Only skylights occasionally interrupt the homogenous roofing casting some daylight inside.
Architect: MVRDV | The Netherlands
Colour Makes The Difference
The ‘hedge island’ Hageneiland is part of a master plan created by Fritz Palmboom and Els Bet. The proximity to water – as is often the case in the Netherlands – determines the urban planning concept.
Site and Location
In the VINEX area in Ypenburg there is an urban extension of approximately 15,000 accommodation units based on the ‘countryside’ theme. The master planners, Fritz Palmboom and Els Bet, divided the site, which was previously a military airport, into themed areas such as moor, wood or water.
Hageneiland, which can be translated as ‘the hedge island’, is part of the ‘water district’ planned by MVRDV. The name stems from the high hedges behind which the inhabitants’ private gardens will disappear. The area is only accessible by foot, the only parking spaces being along the ring road. The interior estate is completely free from cars. The rows are each composed of a maximum of six individual houses and are interspersed with many smaller spaces, which give Hageneiland the appearance of a village.
Housing development within two decades
Since the beginning of the 1990s, housing in the Netherlands has undergone a radical change. With the withdrawal of the State from domestic construction, prices doubled within a few years. At the same time, thematic residential areas were being developed which were sometimes constructed as parallel worlds, for example as mediaeval forts or castles from the Renaissance period.
Architect: MVRDV | The Netherlands
Colour Makes The Difference
The ‘hedge island’ Hageneiland is part of a master plan created by Fritz Palmboom and Els Bet. The proximity to water – as is often the case in the Netherlands – determines the urban planning concept.
Site and Location
In the VINEX area in Ypenburg there is an urban extension of approximately 15,000 accommodation units based on the ‘countryside’ theme. The master planners, Fritz Palmboom and Els Bet, divided the site, which was previously a military airport, into themed areas such as moor, wood or water.
Hageneiland, which can be translated as ‘the hedge island’, is part of the ‘water district’ planned by MVRDV. The name stems from the high hedges behind which the inhabitants’ private gardens will disappear. The area is only accessible by foot, the only parking spaces being along the ring road. The interior estate is completely free from cars. The rows are each composed of a maximum of six individual houses and are interspersed with many smaller spaces, which give Hageneiland the appearance of a village.
Housing development within two decades
Since the beginning of the 1990s, housing in the Netherlands has undergone a radical change. With the withdrawal of the State from domestic construction, prices doubled within a few years. At the same time, thematic residential areas were being developed which were sometimes constructed as parallel worlds, for example as mediaeval forts or castles from the Renaissance period.
The following materials are used (from the top): wood shingle, corrugated fibre cement boards, aluminium sheets, blue and green polyurethane panels and clay roof tiles.
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