Портфолио Николеты Станкович

SCHUTTERSKWARTIER
2016
new social housing within an old block
Info: TU Delft, Housing&Dwelling
Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands
Program: social housing / 14 800 m 2
URBAN BLOCK BEFORE INTERVENTION
This project was designed within the studio ‘Dutch
Housing’ (Dwelling chair). The objective was to
renovate the old housing blocks of Schutterskwartier
in the Crooswijk area of Rotterdam, by proposing a
new urban strategy and dwelling units in place of
declining social housing buildings.
The first part of the proposal is a new urban
framework developed in a group of four.It was
decided to suggest the demolition of the most critical
and plain buildings on the inside of the blocks,thus
merging the blocks into single big one,leaving the
‘façade’ of the area intact.
On the inside of the proposed living block instead
of two parallel disconnected streets, the new public
space that would act as ‘connector’ emerges.
In the second part of the proposal, the concept
I proposed was to create rows of houses with tiny
streets that connect all the dwellings to the main
public square of the area. My intention was to create
the ‘cozy’ atmosphere of streets broken up with
small unexpected semi-public courtyards, acting
as filters from private to public space, as well as
providing daylight.
DEMOLISHING THE ROWS IN THE MIDDLE
PROVIDING OLD HOUSES WITH GARDENS
NEW DENSE URBAN BLOCK
View on the central public space
SCHUTTTERSKWARTIER | ROTTERDAM
15 16
TU DELFT | 2015