Project 186 - Zwolle, The Netherlands
Kembang Baru Complex
This building, to improve facilities for former Dutch Indies-elderly, is square-shaped around a shared courtyard garden, but actually consists of four connected buildings, one which has been raised to accommodate a semi-sunken parking garage and storerooms. All 35 apartments, (social-rental, rental or purchase) have their own terrace/veranda facing the sun. An expressive roof overhang on a wooden colonnade creates extra space between the interior and the exterior to walk, sit and garden. The exterior of each of the four blocks is finished with different materials. Enlarged batik elements (such as the tile tableau and Trespa vectogram) evoke the former Dutch Indies. The showpiece is the huge, carved entrance door, made in Bali.



