Location: Klaprozenbuurt, Amsterdam, NL
Design: 2020
Completion: 2024
Site Footprint: 2.377 m2
FSI Netto: 5.5
Gross Floor Area: 15.500 m2 (incl. underground parking)
Total Number of Apartments: 245
ranging in sizes from 30 m2, 50 m2 and 70-90 m2
Program: Residential, Commercial, Short stay Hotel
Client: BLOOOM Ontwikkeling / Garbe
Sustainability: Cauberg Huygen
Structural Engineer: Van Rossum
Installations: Huygen
Building Contractor: Kondor Wessels Amsterdam
Landscape: Hollandsgroen & Van der Tol
Renderings: VividVision

The goal of the Klaprozenbuurt project is the transformation of an extensively used business park into a new mixed urban neighborhood with space for living, working and facilities. Klaprozenweg will change from an exclusively busy arterial road to a city street with a more attractive residential climate with shops and business premises in the plinth. Plot A1 where Urban Ivy is located is composed of variety of buildings, in order to both, create both a more human scale to the high density projected on the site and for future disassembly and function change. Each building has its own customised width for diversity of use. Each building has its own entrance to the street and its own internal vertical access. This access is linked to the collective inner area.

The design is an exponent of the new Amsterdam living experience, where connection, social cohesion, sustainability, diversity, inclusivity, proximity, meeting, health and affordability are leading principles in the design ambitions. As a community in a building, the design is composed of different buildings with different widths.

Each building has its own entrance to the street and its own internal vertical access. This access is linked to the green collective inner courtyard. The design concept is an urban ensemble of different building heights, tailored to adjust to the immediate surroundings. The building massing has a variety building heights with high accents, low accents and setbacks ensure an appropriate volume relationship to the surroundings. Row houses (small), gallery- and corridor houses (medium) and a tower with apartments (large) are cleverly combined in the block concept for the right mix.

Setbacks and roof terraces offer extensive outdoor space, wind protection and allow for maximizing daylight to the surrounding public space. Roofs include nature and function as an extension of the living environment, rainwater collectors as well as energy producers. The aim of the green concept is to create a pleasant living environment, to combat heat stress and to provide for water collection and CO2 absorption. The starting points in the green concept are the connection to the ground level, the Superspace and inner garden and the setbacks.