Eleventh House

South facade.

Words from the architect

In the middle of an area dominated by the usual porched houses, gallery flats and maisonettes from the seventies, three identical blocks with a total of 33 ground-bound houses have been designed. Identical however? The residents have the choice to expand their house with an extra room on top of their roof shaped like an eye that overlooks the area. Therefore, the three blocks will never be identical after all. Secret number one.

East facade.

These three blocks are literally newcomers to the Groenoord-Zuid neighbourhood. They do everything differently. As opposed to the anonymous, green public spaces that surround the flats, in this design was chosen for small, intimate outside spaces that serve as an extension of the houses. As opposed to the classic and strict division between the front facade and the back facade of the flats, these three blocks only have a front. As opposed to the ruthlessly hard roof edges of the flats, is the irregular ridge created by the optional attic rooms and the incisions of the terraces. As opposed to the clearly countable repetition of the houses in the flats, the three blocks have a facade from which it cannot be read whether there are two or twenty houses behind it. Secret number two.

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