CVS portfolio 2017a

Ontwikkelaar Groep Sleuyter
After working at Robbrecht en Daem architecten
on the competition of Udarnik I had the chance to
work on a challenging project for the realisation of
800 apartments, called the white. The white was
a challenging project. How do you deal with such
a massive programme without breaking with the
scale and aeriness of a coastal resort like Ostend?
The solution was in breaking with the rigidy of mass
produced housing thus creating a more organic
building that somehow can relate itself to the
natural shape of coastal cliff.
TBM ontwerpteam WITTE MARITIEME STAD
Robbrecht en Daem architecten in samenwerking met A1Planning
spatial planning of apartments in the white, taking
in consideration the programmatic requirements,
complex building structure, the per apartment
quality of views, light admittance, effect of the wind
organisation of vertical elevator shafts and piping.
If you’re building so high every decision made
per apartment may affect the appearance of the
complex the internal organisation of the whole both
vertically and horizontally and this made the design
of the white a challenging task.
From the translation of a dream to realisation, in a
team of six people I was involved in the proces of
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