Plans have been announced for “The Erven”, a 519-home timber neighbourhood in Hoofddorp, 20km south west of Amsterdam in the Lincolnpark development area.
The cross-laminated timber-frame buildings will be insulated with bio-based materials such as straw and wood fibre, and will be clad with natural and reused materials including wood, reed, hemp fibre, lime and recycled aluminium sheeting.
Roofs will be covered with reed or timber shingles, many combined with greenery and solar panelling.
Foundations will use recycled concrete and gravel, with flexible modular structures able to adapt to future uses.
Attic spaces will provide homes for birds and bats.
‘Living ecosystem’
The development will have four themed courtyards (“Erven” in Dutch) inspired by traditional Dutch farmyards.
The project is designed to become carbon neutral over time and will contain green features such as heat and cooling recovery systems, bike parking, parcel delivery areas and shared electric vehicles.
The design team includes White Arkitekter, SeARCH, Space&Matter, Atlas Architects, DS Landschapsarchitecten. The Erven is being developed by Timpaan and Blauwhoed.
Oskar Norelius, White Arkitekter’s lead architect, said: “The Erven demonstrates how the neighbourhoods of the future can be built with nature as a starting point – in timber, bio-based materials and with community at its heart.
“The design concept for this phase of Lincolnpark was inspired by local traditions, but reinterprets them in a contemporary way, where buildings, nature and people form a living ecosystem.”
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