The argument beneath the building.
The rest of this site shows what we build. This is where we explain why. Essays, explainers and positions on housing as Living Infrastructure, from factory-built homes to the ground floor.
In every illustration, orange marks the place where people meet.
As fast as the weakest link.
The Dutch Taskforce for Accelerating Housing Construction calls homebuilding a relay race. We read its action plan as a design brief: build so that fewer batons change hands, and the neighbourhood arrives together with the homes.
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Half from the factory. And the street?
The Dutch government wants half of all new homes to be factory-built within four years. We support that fully. With one addition.
Building while the foundation cures.
How a modular tower goes up in roughly 42 weeks where a conventional one needs roughly 84. And where that gain stops.
811 spaces to give the ground floor back.
Parking takes exactly the layer where the plinth should have been. Why we are moving the cars in Almere into a hub.
Nothing in this topic yet.
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The why behind the building, on LinkedIn.
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