Residential Tower in Antwerp, Belgium Skyscraper Development, Belgian Architecture
Residential Tower in Antwerp
Belgium Housing Project ? design by C.F. Møller Architects + Brut Architecture and Urban Design
page updated 25 + 16 Nov 2016 with new images ; 30 Jul 2014
Antwerp Vertical Social Community
Design: C.F. Møller Architects + Brut Architecture and Urban Design
Location: Antwerp, Belgium
Half of the flats are already sold, and now C.F. Møller’s multi-storey building, conceived as an elevated village, is appearing in Antwerp.

C.F. Møller has designed a 24-storey residential tower block in Antwerp’s Nieuw Zuid area on the river Schelde, with the aim of redefining the multi-storey block as a social, vertical community. The tower block breaks with the traditional multi-storey building trends, which isolate residents, since it is designed as a sustainable, collectively-oriented community in which social encounters are created using a wide range of architectural features.
 

“In classical multi-storey buildings it’s often a challenge to any sense of community that you only meet your neighbours in the lift or lobby. We wish to overturn this by renewing how we design residential tower blocks. This means that we have considered the building from within and outwards, with the social qualities driving the design,” says Lone Wiggers, partner and architect at C.F. Møller.

 

This seems to have been well-received by the Belgians, and half ...