Mixed-use Gelderlandplein Amsterdam

  • Design: 2002
  • Realisation: 2005
  • Client: Municipality of Amsterdam, Community Zuideramstel (until definitive design), Hillen & Roosen Amsterdam (up from definitive design)
  • Gross Floor Area: 32,900m2
Mixed-use Gelderlandplein Amsterdam

Gelderlandplein-Noord is located within Buitenveldert, an area around green public spaces and structured by water. The program consists of a multifunctional centre (MFC), housing, outside space and parking. The design offers a wide range of housing typologies in three differentiated buildings. They react to the existing orthogonal structure and frame the entrance to the square in front of the MFC, the new heart of Buitenveldert. The housing volumes have external façades of natural stone and glass forming a ‘face’ to the surrounding urban fabric. The softer wooden internal elevation faces onto an enclosed volume, which takes the form of a horizontally oriented landscape with curving grass rooflines.