De Zwaan residential building

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De Zwaan residential building

Architecture

Housing

Architecture

Housing

De Zwaan residential building, Voorburg

Residential building of 149 houses on the Trekvliet

At right angles to the ancient connecting road between the village centers of Rijswijk and Voorburg, De Zwaan residential building lies at the level of the bridge over the Trekvliet (behind the street wall) as an elongated, low and light building volume that turns into a nine-story tower. Due to the elegant curvature of the low-rise building, the tower appears free-standing when viewed from the Geest Bridge. The vertical, slightly plastered accent thus acts as a counterpoint to the picturesque old brick villa that lies in the foreground on the waterfront.

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Client

Woningbouwvereniging Patrimoniums Woningen

Location

Corbulokade, Voorburg

Size

11.350 m²

Period

1982

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present

1985

Completion

1985

Project status

Opgeleverd

In contrast to the closed building blocks, which, according to speculative street plans, were placed along the connecting road at the beginning of the last century, De Zwaan is a detached complex whose gardens of the ground floor houses border the public green area along the Trekvliet. A slight kink in the street pattern is absorbed in the building itself: the high head and the lowered tail bend away from the hull. The cross section has also been stepped.

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An almost separate front building of balconies and a recessed roof layer fold the building between the waterfront and the sky. It is amazing that you can park practically in front of the door, apart from eight front doors that are just on the waterfront. A magnificent walking route through and around the building, along the waterfront of Trekvliet and Broeksloot, echoes the Cromvliet country estate on the other side of the Vliet, on Rijswijk soil.

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