Nieuw Crooswijk, Rotterdam

Nieuw Crooswijk, Rotterdam
JSA / www.jsa-rotterdam.nl
Nieuw Crooswijk, Rotterdam
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Rotterdam’s Crooswijk district has been largely
demolished to make room for 1.750 new apartments
and houses. This redevelopment project aims to
create a contemporary urban district with a diverse,
appealing range of residents, homes and types of
housing, called Nieuw Crooswijk.
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The urban master plan for Nieuw Crooswijk,
developed by West 8, envisages a network of green
lanes connected by cross-streets. The lanes and
streets enclose perimeter blocks, in which individual
buildings have distinctive characters. Each perimeter
block has a covered car park underneath the private
patios and the shared courtyard. At the architectural
level, the master plan emphasizes richly detailed
masonry facades reminiscent of the ‘Crooswijk
detailing’ formerly found in many places in the
district.
Within the Wandeloordgebied sub-plan, which
includes about 660 residences, the apartment blocks
and the ground-level homes are being designed by
six different architects. JSA is responsible for five
apartment buildings of various sizes and 30 groundlevel homes.
The most striking element of the buildings designed
by JSA are the bay windows; almost all the homes
and apartments feature a contemporary version of
the bay windows found in many sizes and varieties
in the area. These windows add dimension and
detail to the facades, merging craftsmanship with a
contemporary feel.
In the apartment buildings, the bay windows are
placed between courses of brickwork that project
out from the wall slightly. The ground-level homes
will have large, projecting window frames facing the
street on the upper floor. The brickwork around the
frames will be arranged in block bond, with the tops
of the bricks facing forward. This produces richly
detailed masonry and a subtly distinctive surface
pattern.
JSA / www.jsa-rotterdam.nl
Location:
Rotterdam
Client:
OCNC
JSA
Urban design:
West 8
Blekerstraat 10
Rotterdam
Design & Realisation:
2007 - 2012
t +31 (0)10 2010400
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Surface:
14.750 sq m
info@jsa-rotterdam.nl
Postbus 1064
3000 BB Rotterdam
Nieuw Crooswijk, Rotterdam
The new buildings on
the Boezemlaan.
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Nieuw Crooswijk, Rotterdam
The windows are part of
horizontal layers in the
facade with white stucco.
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Nieuw Crooswijk, Rotterdam
Street facade Reserveboezemstraat
and cross section Block C
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Nieuw Crooswijk, Rotterdam
JSA’s town houses
with large white bay
windows, located at
the Catharina van
Zoelenstraat
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Nieuw Crooswijk, Rotterdam
The inner courtyard
of Block C is situated
on top of the parking
garage
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Nieuw Crooswijk, Rotterdam
First floor Block C
(level of the courtyard)
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The entrance-hall of
the apartment blocks
has an oak wall
panelling, combined
with white stucco and
a nfloor of natural
stone.
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Nieuw Crooswijk, Rotterdam
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