Team Paul de Vroom + Sputnik

05/10/2024

Tour and drinks at Wenckebach, designed for , built with love by , , ,

12/12/2023

In het Westland is de door ons ontworpen villa opgeleverd. Het ontwerp is gebaseerd op de Californian Mid-Century stijl, die wordt gekenmerkt door de rijke combinatie van natuurlijke materialen, een open plattegrond en veel daglicht.
De aangename verlichting, zowel buiten als binnen, is ontworpen door Beersnielsen lichtontwerpers.
Wij zijn trots op het resultaat, mede dankzij de zorgvuldige uitvoering van Verbakel Bouwbedrijf B.V.

We danken de opdrachtgevers voor de goede samenwerking en wensen ze veel woonplezier.

In het Westland, tussen de grootste kassen van Nederland, staat een modern woonhuis. Het ontwerp van de woning is gebaseerd op de Californian mid-century style, waarbij de combinatie van natuurlijke materialen en veel daglicht voor een comfortabel en prettige woonomgeving zorgen. Het huis is op de.....

21/11/2022

Competition entry, Gisse Staopel Huuse,

During the Covid-19-lockdown period, some work got postponed, so we suddenly had some spare time. We were physically separated as well, setting up workplaces at home. As an experiment, we entered another open design competition, while communicating as a team solely through Slack and Zoom. We enjoyed the experiment and the resulting design, but we even more liked it when after 2 months, we could join each other in the office again.

13/11/2022

Last chance!

This is how it was almost a month ago at the opening of the exhibition of Ministerie van Maak.( at )

Today you have the last chance to visit and take a look at 101 solutions yourself.

How would you build 1.000.000 homes in the Netherlands?

11/11/2022

How to live in a forest?

In our research preceding the design for MvM, we have searched for attractive forms of living in the woods. We have drawn great inspiration from polish examples of garden cities (Milanówek, Podkowa Leśna), Osiedle Jazdów – a small neighborhood of wooden Finnish houses lying in a park-like setting in central Warsaw or modern examples from architects like Bjarke Ingels Group.

Turns out, the forest gives a lot of spatial opportunities. The popularity of one hundred years of garden cities, which now are forests – towns gives evidence of their attractive qualities to live in.



Credits:
(1) mikrowyprawyzwarszawy.pl/osiedle-jazdow/, 16 September 2020

10/11/2022

Designing the forestscape.

Taking our initial calculations to the diagram, we have dived the previous agricultural land in to differently sized forests. Living Forest (would take approx. 40ha), we need around 70 ha to produce wood for the houses. Moving on, considering current infrastructure network and ownership division, we propose around 120 ha to be a natural forest, a strong buffer along the river between nature-protected areas and housing/farming zone. Rest 90% can function as buffering forest from the new neighborhood and extensive, sustainable farming zone.

In the middle lies a production forest for 500 new houses, and the slowed-down Vleddersa Aaa river with its natural forest wraps it from the north. South of the production zone, we have designated an area for extensive farming. Imagine a landscape with windbreaks (rows of trees between fields), orchards, food forests, and silvopasture. In the corner of our test site, as an extension of the existing village of Wapse, we have designed a living forest. Small number of houses stay along the existing road in the opposite corner.

09/11/2022

500 hundred houses on 400 ha.

The construction of one timber house emits 70 tons of CO2 less than a house made of concrete or brick. If one million houses would be timber we would avoid megatons of emissions.

If we want to use half of the current animal farming land in the Netherlands to compensate for CO2 emissions from the housing construction industry, at least 80% of it should be a forest.

Wood needed to construct one timber house can be acquired from around 1420 m2 of the forest. In our prototype, the production forest takes up 71ha. The rest of the needed compensation forest can be part of extensive farming or all-natural.

08/11/2022

What if?

What if we could change the land use of the areas from the maligned nitrogen map (Ministry of Agriculture) to solve the ?

More than half of the Netherlands is agriculture-related land. The enormous part of it is animal farming. If we want to cut its emissions by half, can we do it by releasing half of current animal farming land? Can we deal with housing and the at the same time? Roughly, 1.000.000 houses built on 800.000 ha is just 1.25 h/ha.

Some of the search areas from the Ministry of Make lie within agriculture transition zones. If the MvM test site has an area of 400 ha we can think of a prototype neighborhood of 500 houses.

Our site – T26/ lies between three nature-protected areas – the National Parks of Drents-Friese Wold and Dwingelerveld and the Nature Reserve of Holtingerveld. 90% of the area is now agricultural land. What is more realistic there: 10.000 houses or 500 houses?

07/11/2022

For only a week you can visit the Ministerie van Maak exhibition next to the Ferro Dome in Rotterdam during this year International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam. Starting today, we will explain to you the foundations of our proposal.
Facing the climate and housing crisis, the Ministerie van Maak have asked a question about much-needed one million houses in the Netherlands. We have particularly approached the issue by asking questions about nitrogen and carbon emissions, mainly caused by intensive farming.

High nitrogen emission from agriculture, transport and industry in the Netherlands threaten its nature and biodiversity. Dutch nitrogen surplus doubles the European average. To anticipate the crisis, Dutch government plans to cut emissions by half until 2030. To tackle the problem within agriculture, the cabinet wants to relocate or buy out the farmers close to nature protected zones. That's the opportunity to do something else with that land

Advancing on Paris agreements and ambitious EU policy, Dutch government draw up its own climate agreement (Klimaatakkoord). One of the goals is the reduction of carbon emission by 49% till 2030 in relation to emissions from 1990. At this point, agriculture only reduced its carbon pollution by 17%. We still need 38% less.

Lastly, due to growing population (expected 18.8 million people in 2030), privatization and administrative regulations, Netherlands urgently needs home for its inhabitants. Can we solve housing crisis and simultaneously reduce nitrogen and carbon emission?
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Photo credits:
(1) NOS. 2 october 2019.
(3) Van Zetten, Jos. SP. 17 March 2015

24/10/2022

Amsterdam, Houthaven - competition entry.

The apartments are designed on a grid of 3.5 meters. In this way a house always consists of one or more bays. With this grid it is possible to construct the building using timber. Moreover, it does not matter which configuration and mix of apartment types is chosen, the wave façade always fits.

02/10/2022

Berlin