Bart van Damme
Rotterdam Overblaak
Overblaak, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands.
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Kubuswoningen, or cube houses, are a set of innovative houses built in Rotterdam and Helmond in The Netherlands, designed by architect Piet Blom and based on the concept of "living as an urban roof": high density housing with sufficient space on the ground level. Blom's basic idea to built on columns, in which case the space under the buildings could remain public, was inspired by Le Corbusier. The structuralist Blom tilted the cube of a conventional house 45 degrees, and rested it upon a hexagon-shaped pylon. His design represents a village within a city, where each house represents a tree, and all the houses together, a forest. Some call it the closest a building ever came to the works of Piet Mondrian.
Rotterdam Overblaak
Overblaak, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands.
website | maasvlakte book | portfolio book | getty images
Kubuswoningen, or cube houses, are a set of innovative houses built in Rotterdam and Helmond in The Netherlands, designed by architect Piet Blom and based on the concept of "living as an urban roof": high density housing with sufficient space on the ground level. Blom's basic idea to built on columns, in which case the space under the buildings could remain public, was inspired by Le Corbusier. The structuralist Blom tilted the cube of a conventional house 45 degrees, and rested it upon a hexagon-shaped pylon. His design represents a village within a city, where each house represents a tree, and all the houses together, a forest. Some call it the closest a building ever came to the works of Piet Mondrian.