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Valckensteyn Housing in Pendrecht
12 Feb 2021
Valckensteyn Housing
Design: Powerhouse Company
Location: Pendrecht, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

At 40 meters high, Powerhouse Company has designed the largest timber-built affordable housing complex in the Netherlands.

A circular and sustainable design, Valckensteyn is an efficient yet elegant beacon in timber that makes nature-inclusive living in wood accessible to all. The building has been designed for housing corporation Woonstad Rotterdam.
New over Old

Rising to 12 stories with 82 homes, the building is situated in Pendrecht, a post-war neighborhood in Rotterdam. It sits on the site of a residential flat bearing the same name, demolished a decade ago. The relative lightness of the timber design, compared to one in steel and concrete, presented the unique opportunity to build on top of the old building?s foundations ? a sustainable decision, removing the need for new foundations and significantly reducing materials and waste. ?The ambition of Woonstad to realize a residential building in wood has been answered with an elegant, circular and integrated sustainable design. The lightweight wooden structure makes it possible to reuse the foundations of the building that stood there before?

Stefan Prins, Partner Architect

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