Collective private commissioning initiatives by elderly facilitated by the municipality: A research on how urban municipalities can better facilitate CPC projects in order to meet the increasing demand by elderly.

Due to the limited quantitative and qualitative supply of elderly housing and an increasing demand for alternative housing forms, more and more resident initiatives arise in the Netherlands. However, it is evident from these resident initiatives that municipal processes lack focus, cooperation and experience with resident initiatives such as...

CPC and affordable private rental housing: An explorative study of collaboration between parties

The middle-income households in the Netherlands are currently disadvantaged in finding affordable housing, as they are pushed towards the private rental market in which affordable private rental housing is scarce. Together with participation trends, this gives opportunities for collective private commissioning (CPC) to add to the supply and make...

Private commissioning in Amsterdam (Het zelfbouwproces in Amsterdam)

“How can the actors that are involved in the process of private commissioning facilitate the target groups, which are active with private commissioning in Amsterdam, in a better way by removing the most important barriers, and increasing incentives for private commissioning?” // "Hoe kunnen de actoren, die bij het zelfbouwproces betrokken zijn,...

Collective Private Commissioned dwellings for the 21st century

Due to the crisis, developers and housing associations are no longer willing to invest money in large scale dwelling projects. Collective Private Commissioning can be an answer to this problem. This concept is based on private investors, getting together in building groups which can finance a residential building that they will occupy when it’s...

Schoolvoorbeeld: Living together

This graduationproject is a transformation of the Burgemeester de Vlugtschool in Amsterdam Nieuw-West. This school was built according to the guidelines of the postwar ideas of Publieke Werken Amsterdam. It is a school with the plan in the form of a H, that's why it is called a H-School, with the principles of light, space and air. In my design...

Skip the Developer - Collective Private Commissioning as a model for the sustainable redevelopment of Canadian suburbs.