Samenvatting

Meeting new social and cultural demands in future housing and inspired by a family background in the Moluccan kampongs, this project makes a plea for multigenerational living. Situated in an inner-city district destined for high rise developments, a stacked tall building contains semidetached three floor house-apartments, alternated with floors for office space and communal facilities. The house-apartments are semidetached, or rather paired, because their u-forms are shaped around a shared inner hall with a set of landings and stairways, reaching up the three floors. Every home also has its own inner vertical and horizontal circulation. The autonomy of the basic design, flexible to a certain degree, stands in contrast to the soft values brought forward by the project, resulting from family- and co-living arrangements.