Location: Flexible
Design: 2022
Status: Ongoing
Net Floor Area: 49 m2 netto
Program: Modular Housing
Client: BuurtBoost / VORM
Contractor: DAT Bouwsystemen / VORM
Installations: SDO Zwijndrecht
Landscape: The Urban Jungle Project
PV Panel Supplier: Solarix
Associates: DAT Bouwsystemen
Photography: Roos Aldershoff,
Michel Kievits, Marijke Krekels

Why build new communities when you can sustainably build on top of them? The ‘Optopper’ is a circular, prefab, “all wood” - biobased, modular, fully equipped residential apartment that can be placed on top of almost any (post-war) flat. It is an innovative solution for the densification of our city centres and a concrete step towards a better more social neighbourhood. Developed as a residential product, for application in large numbers and according to a standard methodology, the aim is design the balance between maximum of 20 percent customization and 80 percent standard. That standardization ensures for a significant acceleration in the development and realization.

Designed with high standards and industrial precision, this high-speed project was developed from first sketch to fully functioning 1:1 prototype within just 3 months. This standardization ensures efficiency with which a considerable acceleration in development and realization is achieved. The Optopper is available in different variants.

The prefab residential units are available as studios and apartments with two to four rooms. A perfect home for starters, students, one and two-person households and small families, but also seniors, who need a different home but want to stay in their familiar neighbourhood and even in their own flat.

Less customization,serial construction and a compact onesize ensure an affordableresidential product that works very quicklycan be realised. Thanks to the installation of an Optopper and an elevator, they get a new, comfortable home that suits their stage of life. With the additional advantage of the flow in existing apartment buildings.“The Optopper is more than a house, it is a sustainable and future-oriented living product.” Current projects are earmarked for a number of post war and late modern building flats for the purposes of sustainable upgraden and urban densification. An industrialised building process will ensure that the Optopper becomes an affordable and quality based living solution.