Arenawijk

Connecting these types of transitional spots to the entire neighborhood is crucial to the success of the project. Again, we are looking for connections and hierarchy here. The means we use to make the space legible are; proper proportion and scale and precise architectural expression.

Living around the neighborhood square has similar living qualities to those found in the surrounding streets; cozy living in a fine mix between row houses and apartments, with ample opportunities for contact with neighbors.
The fringe development constitutes the rather classic part of the project. The dwellings complete the figure of the building block. Thus, they blend seamlessly with the surrounding residential fabric of the neighborhood. These typologies contain many obvious qualities; you have contact both with a private quiet garden, and with the more lively public side of the home. We love the ambiguity of it all. On the one hand, it is one continuous edge of constant height, just as the fort was one continuous brick volume. On the other hand, it is a living entity by making explicit the variety of residential typologies incorporated in this volume.

Living in the suburbs can be great. You live in the city but also in the middle of greenery. It is different here than in the cozy neighborhood square. Coziness is exchanged for light, air and greenery.

We aspire to create beautiful and generous architecture. An architecture that exudes solidity and durability, but that you can also keep looking at to discover connections. One lives there not one day but decades. We look for subtle nuances, connections and shifts.
Our language consists of the use of beautiful materials (brick textures), beautiful proportions and expressive but balanced detailing. On top of that, all these resources are never used gratuitously. They are additional layers of meaning, feeding the experience and reading of the project; showing the variety in types, embracing the small detail, showing the big movements,…
Above all, we strive for a certain peace and serenity in the facade composition. A necessary condition where emphasis is placed on the all-important in-between space. It is this fantastic shared public space, from neighborhood square to park, that makes living together in the Arena neighborhood a joy.