Polder Salad
Elena Chevtchenko (UA / NL)
Andrew Kitching (GB)
Ken Thompson (GB)
Dave Morison (AU)
architects
Europan 11 Capelle aan den IJssel
winner
The historical landscape of the area, the polder, provides a model for environmentally sustainable water management. The tabula-rasa development of the 1960s ignored this characteristic landscape and established an environment of monotypological, socially and ecologically unsustainable development.
Polder Salad reinstates the polder structure, bringing water into a network of intimate streets defining human-scale urban blocks which accommodate a vaeriety of adaptable dwelling typologies.
Site informations
Capelle aan den IJssel
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This project is connected to the following themes
Housing - Typology
A variety of adaptable typologies are anchored to the reinterpretation of a polder structure that brings water to a network of intimate streets. Different lifestyles are possible thanks to apartments buildings, row houses, courtyard houses and deck types.