Schiekade towers: A high rise in Rotterdam

A 230 meter high and 370.000 square meter tall building. with a mix use of functions, including office, housing, hotel, casino, conference centre, retail, clubs, parking and parks. This project is a link between architecture and urbanism and includes a 3 phase developmentplan. The main concept serves the phasing and devides the building into...

Flexibility as foundation of Sustainability: Lifecycle focus as a process approach towards 'Evolving Buildings' in our 'City of Tomorrow

Our society and economy are constantly changing. In spite of this the demands and wishes of users also changes. Most of the current building stock is developed as mono-functional buildings to fulfil the demand at a particular moment. They are not designed for the lifespan in which they are functional. Because of their shortcomings in...