GRONDGEBONDEN HOUSES
HEERENWOUD SKOATTERWALD, HEERENVEEN

Town plannning: Kuiper Compagnons, Rotterdam

Architect: Min2 bouw-kunst, Bergen
Design: Jetty en Maarten Min,
Project architect: Jesse van der Veen,
Building expert: Ernst Nijdam
Commissioner: Heijmans Vastgoedrealisatie Assen / Almere
Contractor: Heijmans Bouw Assen
Photographer: Sjaak Henselmans


Description:

The plan consists of 46 houses shaped into two half-circles, facing each other in a country estate. Both complexes are partly on struts in order to give parking space to 92 cars.


Location:

Skoatterwald is a newly built housing project in Heerenveen, { town planning by Ashok Bhalotra}. In this district lies a second new country seat Heerenwoud. The plan is situated in a sloping landscape in English style, in opposite of the first country estate “Het Zwanenwoud” in a tight / firm French style. A notable element is the water running through the midst of the park.

The architecture:

In the commission was stated that the board was charmed by Jugenstil. An opportunity for Maarten Min to study an old love again. At the start of the designing process he thought of aspects of swans, so remarkable for this style.
The whole of the facade looks like swan feathers with long dark lines, as waves in a white facade.
It has a female grace, elegant round forms and a wavy roof. The bridges and metal additions to the houses have expressive forms and remind us of the Paris subway, both in material and in atmosphere.
The inner side of the circle develops the theme of waving reed. Another source of inspiration is the battle against the water. By giving the complex an artificial rising, it seems as if the complex has dug itself on a dwelling mound.


Materialisation:

The front facade is made of brick: a white stone of Raab-Karcher with a free-flowing purple line of Danish Petersen brickwork {Kolomba}.Because of their notable dimensions, these bricks are quite contrasting to the more common bricks. In the inner facade the waving reed is formed by less contrasting yellow bricks.

2005

2008