Urban Hybrid, Emmen

Urban hybrid, Emmen

Pernille Schanche Feragen

130 MVRDV created a permeable courtyard block with 131 small apartment buildings at the corners, townhouses along the streets and garden and patio houses inside the block. The 16 different housing types, which vary in size from 30 to 130 m2 and from one to four floors, provide a diverse variety of accommodation for different types of inhabitants. Their urban hybrid development proposal combines characteristics of city dwelling; central location, privacy, underground parking - with the characteristics of suburban life; gardens, multilevel living and a neighbourhood community. The exterior of the block is a varied urban street front, whilst the interior offers the quality of a green and intimate village. The interior of the block is divided into both private and public spaces. 132 133

Site plan © MVRDV 134 135

General Master plan © MVRDV 136 137

Aerial © MVRDV, 2013, http://archinect.com 138 139

Perspective street view © MVRDV, http://archinect.com Perspective balcony © MVRDV, http://archinect.com Concepts The courtyard is divided into both private and public spaces, with dividing walls used to hang tables or benches and parts of the walls which can be rotated and used for table tennis. A cohesive landscaping plan foresees a wide variety of fruit trees in the courtyard, in both the private and public areas. The landscaping attempts to blur the lines between the interior and exterior of the block into a widely applied park-like format. The garden and patio houses in the centre of the courtyard have their own entrance doors at the outer perimeter of the block. Roofs of the buildings will be used for additional outdoor space. The houses are all coloured individually in a pastel pallet which references historic buildings in the area (MVRDV, 2013).

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Perspective courtyard © MVRDV, http://archinect.com Concepts_Private and public spaces © MVRDV 142 143

Concepts_Storyline © MVRDV 144 145

Concepts_Wall principles © MVRDV 146 147

Concepts_Planting principles © MVRDV Intentions An important aspect of the project is high quality of construction, in combination with relatively low prices. Clients will be able to buy a more or less finished house – comparable to the basic model of a new car – with options leading up to almost full fit and finish possible. Home owners with little money can therefore delay investment, or do the work themselves, and still live in a high quality, new build home. Each house or apartment will have its own façade colour, emphasizing its individual ownership and individual floor plans. A pastel range of colour was chosen based on the specific colours traditionally found in historic Swiss town centres in the Lucerne area, such as in Beromünster (MVRDV, 2013).

148 Urban Hybrid Feldbreite 149 Plan: MVRDV Credits Location: Emmen, Switzerland MVRDV won the developer’s competition together with Year: 2013- two firms as partners on the project.

FAR 80-160% MVRDV Footprint: 4,000 m2 Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries with Floors: 2-4 Gijs Rikken, Jonas Klock and Jonathan Schuster Total floor area: 8,000-16,000 2m Partners: Landscape Architect : Fontana Landschaftsarchitektur, Basel, CH Real Estate Consultant : Wüest & Partner, Geneva, CH 150 151

Site plan © MVRDV, 2013, http://archinect.com 152 153

Plan ground floor © MVRDV, 2013, http://archinect.com 154 155

Facade © MVRDV, 2013, http://archinect.com Multi family house This house is an urban villa in a block context. It is designed so that multiple families or groups of people can live there, sharing the roof area and garden. This makes for a bit cheaper apartments than the singe family row house buildings, and also provides space for larger families. This is the building type with the highest density in this block, with very high efficiency. There are two of this type of buildings in this urban hybrid block, each placed in a corner.

158 Multi family house 159 Architect: MVRDV Year: 2013-

GFA: 741 m2 Depth: 12,5 m Length: 15 m Height: 12 m Floors: 4 160 161

Plan ground floor - Multi family house © MVRDV Plan first floor- Multi family house © MVRDV Single family house This house is a row house building in a hybrid block context. It is designed so that one family or a small group of people can live there together, with a private garden in the courtyard and their own private entrance from the street.. This is a family friendly building and context, giving clear boundaries to what is private space and what is public space around. The building can be built separately from the neighbouring buildings, making this a very flexible structure that can be built and changed over time. This type of building is also easily recognizable by colour and size, creating a clear identity for the building, as well as the whole block, from the street. There are several of these buildings in this urban hybrid block.

162 Single family house 163 Architect: MVRDV Year: 2013-

GFA: 90 m2 Depth: 4 m Length: 7,5 m Height: 9 m Floors: 3 164 165