Eye Candy: MVRDV’s WOZOCO
[Image: MVRDV's WOZOCO Housing, Amsterdam]
To still provide adequate sunlight into the surrounding only 87 of the 100 units could be realised within the block. Where could the remaining 13 dwellings be positioned? If they were put elsewhere on the site, the open space would be further reduced.
By ‘cantilevering’ the remaining 13 units from the north façade, they are literally suspended in the air. The hanging East-West orientated types complete the North-South dwellings in the block with a view over the adjacent polder. By hanging the extra units on the north façade, the ground plane is kept as open and green as possible. A prototypic increase in density for the garden cities is achieved [MVRDV via].
[Image: MVRDV's WOZOCO Housing, Amsterdam]
::Eye Candy is a weekly post on exactly what it sounds like – something cool to look at, whether because the project is ill or simply because it warrants a ‘my ninjas, please‘. Find it here on AMNP every Wednesday along with the Ninja Arithmetic feature – because hump-day is a bitch for ninjas, too::
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Posted: April 2nd, 2008
at 8:07am by orangemenace
Categories: architecture, eye candy, featured ninjas, housing
Comments: 5 comments
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this is an old project no? Still a sweet cantilever. I wonder if it breaks the 1/3 unsupported – 2/3 thirds supported convention?
joshua
2 Apr 08 at 1:36 pm
Yeah, well it is an ‘old’ project – but it’s pretty kick-ass, so I’m alright with putting it up here anyways. I mean, I wouldn’t do a write-up on a project that’s been around for a long time [unless there was new news or something], but I see no reason why cool images of older projects can’t get tossed up as ‘Eye Candy’.
About breaking the 1/3 2/3 rule – I think this thing breaks the rules of gravity itself, forget about cantilever proportions…
orangemenace
2 Apr 08 at 1:59 pm
Looks interesting but massive waste of space on the projecting units.
steve jenings
3 Apr 08 at 7:32 am
Waste of space? They created the projecting units to utilize more space? Is this an attempt at sarcasm?
joshua
3 Apr 08 at 9:42 pm
I mean, one would think that projecting additional volumes that increase floorspace wouldn’t be a ‘waste of space’. I suppose it might somehow affect the overall efficiency of the units, although that seems ridiculous too.
orangemenace
3 Apr 08 at 10:34 pm