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Florijn Noord. An example <strong>of</strong> <strong>renovation</strong>, Bijlmermeer. Chapter 6<br />

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6.1.1 OUTLINES OF THE<br />

RESTRUCTURING PLAN<br />

The F neighbourhood is located on<br />

the Southeast area <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Bijlmermeer. Its borders are clearly<br />

defined by a vehicular gird<br />

(Dolingadreef, Bijlmerdreef and<br />

Gooiseweg).<br />

As mentioned, the <strong>renovation</strong><br />

project was driven by the<br />

restructuring urban plan. This was<br />

designed in 1997 by the Delft<br />

urban planner Rein Geurtsen.<br />

Zeger Woudenberg is the designer<br />

<strong>of</strong> the landscape project (de Haan<br />

& Keesom, 2004).<br />

At the end <strong>of</strong> 2007, the <strong>renovation</strong><br />

and most <strong>of</strong> the new low-rises in<br />

the ‘F’ neighbourhood were already<br />

realized. However, the works will<br />

be completely finished in 2009.<br />

The F neighborhood during the works (be<strong>for</strong>e spring 2005)<br />

The key words <strong>of</strong> the plan are ‘densification’ and ‘differentiation’. They were implemented by<br />

means <strong>of</strong> selective demolition <strong>of</strong> existing high-rise and construction <strong>of</strong> low-rises in the home<br />

ownership sector. The objective was to increase the residential incidence with 10% (at least<br />

65 people per hectare) in order to decrease uncontrolled public spaces and increase <strong>social</strong><br />

safety. Free parking places close to the high-rise and surrounded by green areas will have<br />

substituted the collective garages.<br />

On the basis <strong>of</strong> those assumptions, the plan reorganizes the demolished lots into a new<br />

urban layout. Higher recognizability <strong>of</strong> buildings is obtained by means <strong>of</strong> different volumes<br />

(shapes) and more types (high, middle and low-rise) and use <strong>of</strong> different materials.<br />

This concept is based on a resident survey. It emerged that residents would have accepted<br />

partial demolition and that they had a large interested in af<strong>for</strong>dable home ownership. Also<br />

technical investigations <strong>for</strong> possible physical configurations <strong>of</strong> the high-rise supported the<br />

entire design.<br />

In its original urban configuration, the F neighbourhood had five high-rise blocks. The blocks<br />

followed the building layout presented in Chapter 5 when describing the Bijlmermeer. All<br />

dwellings were in the <strong>social</strong> <strong>housing</strong> rental sector.<br />

According to the urban restructuring (Action plan 1996), one block was completely<br />

demolished while the remaining blocks– Klein Frissenstein, Klein Fleerde and Florijn – were<br />

partially demolished. The first two blocks are now comprised in the so-called Florena and are<br />

integrated into a clear urban structure with a more compact residential pattern. They play<br />

the role <strong>of</strong> recognizable vertical signs in the landscape (see especially the distinctive colors <strong>of</strong><br />

the parapets. See also Chapter 4, Tab 3).<br />

As shown in the table below, after the completion <strong>of</strong> the demolition and <strong>renovation</strong> works,<br />

the total number <strong>of</strong> <strong>housing</strong> units decreased from 1395 dwellings in the <strong>social</strong> rental sector<br />

to 333 dwellings, and to 108 in the owner-occupied sector.<br />

NUMBER OF DWELLINGS IN F NEIGHBORHOOD BEFORE AND AFTER RENOVATION 3<br />

HIGH-RISE BLOCK BEFORE RENOVATION AFTER RENOVATION<br />

Frissenstein 439 <strong>social</strong> rented sector 40 homeownership<br />

7(dwellings on the ground floor–homeowner ship)<br />

Flereede 425 <strong>social</strong> rented sector 40 homeownership<br />

10 maisonette<br />

Florijn 531 <strong>social</strong> rented sector 333 <strong>social</strong> sector (90 flat in Zuid, 216 flat + 27 atelier in Noord)<br />

11 homeownership<br />

Total 1395 <strong>social</strong> rented sector 333 <strong>social</strong> sector, 108 homeownership<br />

3 de Haan, H., Keesom, J. (2004)<br />

2. F<br />

KEY WORDS OF URBAN<br />

PLAN<br />

INITIAL CONFIGURATION<br />

OF THE AREA

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