Location: Purmerend, NL
Year: 2022
Site Footprint: 15.200 m2
FSI Netto: 4.1
Gross Floor Area: 61.767 m2
Total Number of Apartments: 450
Program: residential, working and commercial,
above ground parking
Client: Rochdale & RK Vastgoed
Sustainability: -
Structural Engineer: -
Installations: -
Landscape: -

The municipality of Purmerend, a satellite city just outside of Amsterdam has designated the existing De Koog business park, to be transformed into a lively, mixed urban living/working area. Purmerend has an image of a commuter city where a large number of existing and future Purmerend residents are looking for their own place in the city. In the meantime new opportunities for innovative jobs, advanced learning places and forward thinking companies want to rethink the future of the city of Purmerend. Various trends and developments play an important role in this, including: responsibility, sustainability and reuse; the sharing economy, new forms of mobility, synergy in functions and densification. Therefore transformation of De Koog will add a new urban structure to Purmerend where living, working, producing, studying, recreating and shopping are combined in a high density humans scale living.

Our vision for the transformation of the the Koog begins with preserving the original industrial character; the buildings with large halls and robust appearance. We divide the Koog into 4 quadrants with a fine urban structure where each quadrant has its own multifunctional character. This will allow for thriving, sustainable and human scale neighbourhoods to emerge.

To build on this ambition, a flexible super plinth for each of the buildings first two levels connect with both the immediate environment and larger context in order to create a neighbourhood that opens itself up to its environment. Keeping housing in the middle and office on the outside avoids conflict of competing interests in functions. A variety of height accents create a community of buildings that do not get in the way of each other.

By providing light and landscape between the buildings through a roof landscape on top of the buildings can form collective outdoor spaces, playgrounds or meeting places whilst ensuring water storage, biodiversity and nature inclusivity. Our economy is increasingly becoming a car sharing economy, while walking and the e-bike are on the rise. The basic principle is that the existing car parking solutions are made flexible and can be phased. The cars and e-bikes are spread across the construction fields and in semi-sunken parking basements hidden from view. That also means no cars in the inner area. storing and loading e-bikes. Fewer cars means fewer emissions and ultimately better quality of life and a pleasant living environment.