Cooltoren Tower / V8 Architects
Textual content material description supplied by the architects. Rising above Rotterdam’s iconic skyline with its distinctive design, De Cooltoren is a daring redevelopment of a post-second world battle web page that started V8 Construction’s expertise in sensible, aesthetic highrises with well-performing outdoor space in tall buildings. Positioned in Throughout the Baan Quarter, merely adjunct the city center and surrounding tall buildings. This house was prolonged missed and allowed the world to develop proper right into a vigorous residential house with many consuming locations, bars, and galleries on and throughout the “well-known” Witte de Withstraat.
The endeavor involved the demolition of 4 buildings from the Nineteen Fifties and integrating their volumes and their façade id right into a model new residential tower. The 154-meter new tower comprises a flooring flooring for industrial use, 5 flooring of rental and residential flats in the marketplace. The tower’s sort articulates the utterly completely different metropolis qualities that the scheme brings collectively.
The first 5 flooring are a illustration of the sooner buildings on web page; the lower part of the tower is targeting the connection to the neighborhood, whereas the “mid-crown” accentuates the fireside code of the Netherlands, which results in most towers inside the Netherlands topping off at 70 meters. The very best half mirrors the lower part of the tower nonetheless connects the residents with the skyline attraction of residing in a high-rise tower.
What items the Cooltoren apart is its distinctive mixture of indoor-outdoor residing. The plan helps a 1770 sq. meter shared yard and a variety of home types with distinctive preparations. Its versatile flooring plans are made potential by an “outrigger” system: A system with eight sturdy columns near the façade provides stability whereas supporting most of the flooring. This ends in a formidable sort problem of 0.8 for high-rise buildings and permits residents to customize their residing areas. In distinction, the tower’s centerpiece, a “middle crown” that features 4 flooring, each with 4 nook flats, showcases an elegant equal to luxurious penthouses with a coated outdoor space of 75 m2 per dwelling and a harmonious mixture of balcony and privateness
