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Rotterdam-Ghent, xx 2021 – KCAP in cooperation with evr-architecten have accomplished the residential tower Zuiderzicht in Antwerp, Belgium. It is likely one of the new buildings of the Antwerp Nieuw Zuid improvement, a brand new residential space alongside the River Scheldt within the South of Antwerp. The 80 meters tower with built-in lodge stands out for its iconic double façade and dialogue with its environment.
DeveloperTriple Dwelling commissioned the Dutch-Belgian workforce after their design had been awarded first prize in a global competitors in 2014.Bureau Bouwtechniek supported the architects with the technical elaboration and website supervision. Zuiderzicht is likely one of the eight high-rise volumes positioned at various spots throughout the masterplan by Studio Associates Secchi-Vigan for Antwerp Nieuw Zuid.
The venture’s place is strategic: whereas near the river and inside inexperienced public areas designed by Bas Smets, you’re solely 3 minutes away from Antwerp’s middle. With its vibrant color and open look, the Zuiderzicht tower matches withAntwerp’s custom of white, layered, tectonic high-rises such because the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwe Cathedral, the artwork deco model KBC-tower and the Police tower and others.
The 21.082 m constructing consists of 5 layers at its base, together with a lodge with 108 rooms, on high a 25-storey tower with 134 dwellings and under parking on two underground ranges.
Plinth and tower kind one coherent constructing quantity. The architectural idea for Zuiderzicht is characterised by all kinds of housing varieties for various person teams: younger households, seniors, co-housers, singles, and dealing {couples}. The residences are compact and effectively organised round a central core, designed with versatile ground plan layouts and constructed with a
load bearing facade.
This flexibility permits for combining items to create bigger residences and for adapting to altering wants sooner or later. ‘Our idea interprets the qualities of the standard Belgian home,’ says Han van den Born, architect and former associate of KCAP. ‘All residences are surrounded by a white concrete construction designed as a double-height grid.
Every proprietor has the chance to select from a spread of design choices to individually use this added out of doors area that evolves between the remoted fa ade and the concrete grid. Consider balconies, glazed terraces and roof terraces.’ On floor degree, duplex items contribute to accommodate the number of residents and housing varieties.
‘The duplex items all have a entrance door and out of doors area on floor degree, making a energetic transition and connection to the general public area. That is an distinctive high quality inside a high-rise idea,’ explains Han van den Born. These totally different out of doors areas are a up to date reinterpretation of the Belgian ‘veranda’ and had been designed as nice extensions of the dwelling areas to get pleasure from further floor, mild, and the gorgeous views of Antwerp, the River Scheldt, and the encompassing countryside.The mixture of differing ground plans with the person infills of the surroundinggrid ends in a flexible vary of residences and a layered and impactfulimage to the skin.
The staggered form of the tower helps the quantity’s rising slenderness to the highest, and on the identical time offers spacious elevated terraces on the higher
ranges. A double-height passage within the plinth, crossing via the constructing, permits residents of the neighbourhood and guests to walk via the constructing. It connects the sq. in entrance of the constructing with the trail with a playground on the opposite facet.
The passage with the adjoining widespread area affords a spot for encounter for residents, permits to host small occasions and turns into a catalyst for group constructing within the new district. By combining the venture’s integral accessibility, the typological number of the dwellings, and the energetic plinth along with the lodge, the idea of Zuiderzicht enhances social sustainability, variety, and togetherness.
Zuiderzicht is a compact quantity respecting the ‘Passive Home customary’.
The double pores and skin is conceived based mostly on the will to supply the inhabitants with the perfect dwelling consolation by way of wind, noise, daylight and overheating. The technical sustainability idea options components equivalent to inexperienced roofs, photo voltaic panels, and an built-in system for water restoration. ‘However we are able to perceive sustainability additionally actually as ‘enduring over time’.
Zuiderzicht’s long-term potential
is principally based mostly on peoples’ appreciation and the added worth it could possibly present for as many customers as potential for the longest potential time,’ says Niels Baeck, architect and associate of evr-architecten. With Zuiderzicht, the agenda is ready for a brand new and progressive method of versatile city
dwelling in a strategic place to town centre of Antwerp and with direct contact with its environment..
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