Enhancing Circularity, Sustainability, and Innovation
ontmOeTTO me halverwege *meet me halfway
Transforming postmodernist buildings into vibrant, evolving and social housing thresholds
As part of Europan18, the Otto Scheltus building in Amersfoort (NL) reflects challenges common to many postmodern structures: introverted architecture, limited housing diversity, lack of greenery, car dominance and oversized volumes disconnected from their surroundings. Our concept consists in reinterpreting these buildings for contemporary uses, shaping timeless urban places that bring together diverse residents, housing types and urban scales into a cohesive, adaptable and lasting architecture
Netherlands
Local
Amersfoort, the Netherlands
Mainly urban
It involves a physical transformation of the built environment (hard investment)
Early concept
No
Yes
Europan18
Yes
Organisation
For the New European Bauhaus, we want to present our Europan18 proposal for the Otto Scheltus site in Amersfoort as a case study of our concept and architectural vision. We believe this approach has the potential to be replicated in similar buildings in the future.
As part of Europan18, the city of Amersfoort in the Netherlands in collaboration with Europan.NL invited young architects to develop a critical perspective on several sites across the city. Many of these are existing buildings that have been repeatedly questioned over the past years. Our proposal stems from an urban and architectural project developed for one of the six selected sites: the Otto Scheltus site for which our project was awarded first prize.
Amersfoort lies between the central station and a historic city center; the Otto Scheltus building also embodies this in-between position, bridging different urban fabrics and topographies. Our proposal transforms this postmodernist condition into an opportunity for connection based on the daily routes of residents, workers, and visitors.
Our approach and concept demonstrates how thoughtful, strategic interventions, combined with community co-design, can transform postmodernist buildings, which are found across many European cities. These structures can be reshaped in a more sustainable way: densified to provide additional housing on already built land while also improving outdoor spaces, increasing greenery and strengthening connections to the streetscape.
Winning the competition has already led to a series of workshop sessions with the municipality of Amersfoort, the Europan.NL organizers and the site’s owner, who has long been seeking ways to adapt this postmodernist landmark to contemporary uses without resorting to repeated and costly renovations. We hope this marks the beginning of a long-term collaboration with the city and will lead to further projects of a similar scale, addressing buildings with significant heritage value.
As part of Europan18, the city of Amersfoort in the Netherlands in collaboration with Europan.NL invited young architects to develop a critical perspective on several sites across the city. Many of these are existing buildings that have been repeatedly questioned over the past years. Our proposal stems from an urban and architectural project developed for one of the six selected sites: the Otto Scheltus site for which our project was awarded first prize.
Amersfoort lies between the central station and a historic city center; the Otto Scheltus building also embodies this in-between position, bridging different urban fabrics and topographies. Our proposal transforms this postmodernist condition into an opportunity for connection based on the daily routes of residents, workers, and visitors.
Our approach and concept demonstrates how thoughtful, strategic interventions, combined with community co-design, can transform postmodernist buildings, which are found across many European cities. These structures can be reshaped in a more sustainable way: densified to provide additional housing on already built land while also improving outdoor spaces, increasing greenery and strengthening connections to the streetscape.
Winning the competition has already led to a series of workshop sessions with the municipality of Amersfoort, the Europan.NL organizers and the site’s owner, who has long been seeking ways to adapt this postmodernist landmark to contemporary uses without resorting to repeated and costly renovations. We hope this marks the beginning of a long-term collaboration with the city and will lead to further projects of a similar scale, addressing buildings with significant heritage value.
The design for this project was developed from a user-centered perspective, addressing both urban and architectural scales. The process began with an intensive site exploration. Our team visited the surrounding neighborhood by foot, bike, and public transport, gaining insight into how different users experience and move through the area. This allowed us to understand the city and the site from multiple viewpoints: residents, passersby, and the wider community.
On the urban scale, we conducted interviews with residents and engaged with passersby near the Otto Scheltus building to understand their relationship to the place, their daily routines, attachments and daily needs. These insights informed the conceptual framework, ensuring that the project responds directly to lived experience.
Simultaneously, we mapped urban scenarios for different user groups, distinguishing between residents of the building and inhabitants of the city. This step highlighted opportunities in accessibility, social interactions and connectivity, guiding our design decisions with precision.
Our architectural strategy focuses on transforming the monolithic postmodernist structure into a human-scaled and socially oriented building. Key steps included assessing what to preserve, remove, or add and carefully reusing existing elements to maintain the building’s postmodern heritage while adapting it to contemporary uses. Spatial interventions, such as the redesign of circulation areas into vertical shared social spaces, were applied to enhance interactions and strengthen community life among the residents.
Throughout the design phase, the concept evolved iteratively, combining observational research, urban analysis and architectural modeling.
This transdisciplinary methodology enabled the team to balance heritage conservation, social innovation, and urban integration, resulting in a building that is both contextually responsive and future-proof.
On the urban scale, we conducted interviews with residents and engaged with passersby near the Otto Scheltus building to understand their relationship to the place, their daily routines, attachments and daily needs. These insights informed the conceptual framework, ensuring that the project responds directly to lived experience.
Simultaneously, we mapped urban scenarios for different user groups, distinguishing between residents of the building and inhabitants of the city. This step highlighted opportunities in accessibility, social interactions and connectivity, guiding our design decisions with precision.
Our architectural strategy focuses on transforming the monolithic postmodernist structure into a human-scaled and socially oriented building. Key steps included assessing what to preserve, remove, or add and carefully reusing existing elements to maintain the building’s postmodern heritage while adapting it to contemporary uses. Spatial interventions, such as the redesign of circulation areas into vertical shared social spaces, were applied to enhance interactions and strengthen community life among the residents.
Throughout the design phase, the concept evolved iteratively, combining observational research, urban analysis and architectural modeling.
This transdisciplinary methodology enabled the team to balance heritage conservation, social innovation, and urban integration, resulting in a building that is both contextually responsive and future-proof.
renovation & reconfiguration of the existing
community co-design for social inclusion
green urban thresholds
inclusive & adaptable living
revitalizing the street life
The project “ontmOeTTO me Halverwege” proposes a vision of sustainable architecture that starts from the existing building rather than demolition, addressing both climate and social urgencies. It is structured around several key objectives: renovation of the building, reduction of emissions and energy poverty, reinvention of ways of living and improved urban and climatic integration of the building.The project is also part of the House Europe movement, which promotes sustainable and inclusive architectural practices across Europe.
Renovate Rather Than Demolish
The project rejects systematic demolition in favor of reusing existing structures. The construction sector accounts for around 38% of global CO₂ emissions, and in Europe one building is demolished every minute. By transforming rather than replacing, the project adopts a strategy of resource conservation, considering the existing building as a valuable asset rather than waste.
Reduce Emissions and Energy Poverty
Buildings consume 40% of energy and produce 36% of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe, while most of today’s stock will still exist in 2050. At the same time, nearly 10% of European households struggle to heat their homes. The project focuses on the thermal renovation of the Otto Scheltus building, improving insulation to reduce energy consumption, emissions, and costs, while enhancing comfort for residents.
Reconnecting the Building to the City and Climate
Originally conceived as a closed slab, the building is opened at ground level to improve permeability and reconnect with the urban fabric. A new inner park creates a cooling island, supports water absorption, and offers shared green space. This intervention enhances climate resilience, biodiversity, and quality of life, while limiting urban sprawl through densification.
Renovate Rather Than Demolish
The project rejects systematic demolition in favor of reusing existing structures. The construction sector accounts for around 38% of global CO₂ emissions, and in Europe one building is demolished every minute. By transforming rather than replacing, the project adopts a strategy of resource conservation, considering the existing building as a valuable asset rather than waste.
Reduce Emissions and Energy Poverty
Buildings consume 40% of energy and produce 36% of greenhouse gas emissions in Europe, while most of today’s stock will still exist in 2050. At the same time, nearly 10% of European households struggle to heat their homes. The project focuses on the thermal renovation of the Otto Scheltus building, improving insulation to reduce energy consumption, emissions, and costs, while enhancing comfort for residents.
Reconnecting the Building to the City and Climate
Originally conceived as a closed slab, the building is opened at ground level to improve permeability and reconnect with the urban fabric. A new inner park creates a cooling island, supports water absorption, and offers shared green space. This intervention enhances climate resilience, biodiversity, and quality of life, while limiting urban sprawl through densification.
At the heart of our concept is the integration of the buildings within their urban and aesthetic context. The design for Otto Scheltus introduces a modulation of height, stepping from seven floors near adjacent office towers, to six in the center, and five towards the smaller scale of the city. This gradient softens transitions between urban scales, breaking uniformity and creating a cohesive yet diverse ensemble.
The façades, consistent in material yet varied in form, generate a dynamic streetscape.
Currently dominated by a single housing typology (studios), the building lacks diversity and its ground floor is largely inactive, occupied by parking and storage. The project transforms this level into commercial, cultural, and social spaces, activating the street and strengthening connections with the neighbourhood.
Along the park edge, duplex urban villas create a direct relationship between housing and green space, adding a human-scaled layer and enhancing everyday outdoor use.
The design preserves the postmodern identity and aesthetic of the building while introducing subtle variations. Each block gains its own architectural expression, reflecting orientation and housing typology, while maintaining a coherent overall language. This differentiation fosters a sense of belonging among residents.
South-facing façades retain extended slabs, providing passive solar shading and generous outdoor spaces. Circulation areas are reimagined as shared social spaces, echoing the existing vibrant colours throughout the building, and encouraging interaction and collective life.
By combining adaptive reuse, diverse housing and context-sensitive design, the project creates an inclusive, architecturally pleasing, socially vibrant and resilient environment.
The façades, consistent in material yet varied in form, generate a dynamic streetscape.
Currently dominated by a single housing typology (studios), the building lacks diversity and its ground floor is largely inactive, occupied by parking and storage. The project transforms this level into commercial, cultural, and social spaces, activating the street and strengthening connections with the neighbourhood.
Along the park edge, duplex urban villas create a direct relationship between housing and green space, adding a human-scaled layer and enhancing everyday outdoor use.
The design preserves the postmodern identity and aesthetic of the building while introducing subtle variations. Each block gains its own architectural expression, reflecting orientation and housing typology, while maintaining a coherent overall language. This differentiation fosters a sense of belonging among residents.
South-facing façades retain extended slabs, providing passive solar shading and generous outdoor spaces. Circulation areas are reimagined as shared social spaces, echoing the existing vibrant colours throughout the building, and encouraging interaction and collective life.
By combining adaptive reuse, diverse housing and context-sensitive design, the project creates an inclusive, architecturally pleasing, socially vibrant and resilient environment.
Our project addresses accessibility and affordability by transforming the Otto Scheltus building into a diverse and socially inclusive living environment. Rather than relying on demolition, the strategy builds upon the existing structure, allowing for cost-efficient reuse while preserving this heritage. This approach reduces construction costs and environmental impact, contributing to long-term housing affordability.
The 1970s architecture is characterized by limited typological diversity, car dominance, minimal greenery and oversized volumes disconnected from the surroundings. These challenges are reinterpreted as opportunities for transformation. Our project introduces a wide range of housing typologies to accommodate diverse residents: families, students, young professionals & elderly people. This diversity supports a more inclusive residential community and enables different life stages and income levels to coexist.
New co-living arrangements further enhance both affordability and social inclusion. Residents can participate in a co-living model where younger and older generations live together, fostering mutual support and daily social interaction. This approach creates flexible housing solutions that adapt to evolving household structures while actively promoting intergenerational exchange and a stronger sense of community within the building.
Accessibility and social interaction are reinforced through the redesign of circulation spaces. Spacious vertical cores, bright corridors and shared areas are conceived not only as functional passageways but as collective spaces that encourage encounters, shared activities and a sense of community. These spaces act as social infrastructure within the building.
By combining adaptive reuse, diverse housing typologies and shared spaces, the project proposes an exemplary model for inclusive urban living that promotes affordability, social interaction and long-term adaptability within the existing built environment.
The 1970s architecture is characterized by limited typological diversity, car dominance, minimal greenery and oversized volumes disconnected from the surroundings. These challenges are reinterpreted as opportunities for transformation. Our project introduces a wide range of housing typologies to accommodate diverse residents: families, students, young professionals & elderly people. This diversity supports a more inclusive residential community and enables different life stages and income levels to coexist.
New co-living arrangements further enhance both affordability and social inclusion. Residents can participate in a co-living model where younger and older generations live together, fostering mutual support and daily social interaction. This approach creates flexible housing solutions that adapt to evolving household structures while actively promoting intergenerational exchange and a stronger sense of community within the building.
Accessibility and social interaction are reinforced through the redesign of circulation spaces. Spacious vertical cores, bright corridors and shared areas are conceived not only as functional passageways but as collective spaces that encourage encounters, shared activities and a sense of community. These spaces act as social infrastructure within the building.
By combining adaptive reuse, diverse housing typologies and shared spaces, the project proposes an exemplary model for inclusive urban living that promotes affordability, social interaction and long-term adaptability within the existing built environment.
Our project is a participatory approach that engages stakeholders at multiple scales, from institutional actors to local residents.
From the beginning, the city of Amersfoort and the site’s owner have been key actors. As initiators of the Europan18 competition, they actively contributed to defining the project framework. Following the competition, our team presented the proposal to these stakeholders to explore future developments, not only for this site but also for similar renovation challenges within their building portfolio. This ongoing dialogue ensures the project responds to both strategic housing objectives and long-term urban visions.
At the local scale, citizen participation has already been initiated through a public presentation organized by Europan and the city. This moment of exchange allowed us to present the project, answer questions and understand broader urban expectations. While residents of the building are primarily concerned with living conditions and everyday uses, the wider community expressed concerns related to urban integration, public spaces, pedestrian connections, and the project’s identity within the neighborhood. These complementary perspectives have enriched the project’s ambitions.
Looking ahead, we aim to deepen this participatory process through workshops with residents and on-site engagement formats. Our team has already made a physical model of the project to give to the client as a mediation tool to facilitate dialogue with the inhabitants. We also proposed organising regular on-site meetings with the residents at different stages of the project, creating opportunities for informal exchanges and co-construction.
This inclusive approach, based on consultation, dialogue, pedagogy, and presence, allows us to integrate diverse insights into the design process. It strengthens collective ownership and ensures that the project is not only technically and programmatically relevant, but also socially grounded and widely supported.
From the beginning, the city of Amersfoort and the site’s owner have been key actors. As initiators of the Europan18 competition, they actively contributed to defining the project framework. Following the competition, our team presented the proposal to these stakeholders to explore future developments, not only for this site but also for similar renovation challenges within their building portfolio. This ongoing dialogue ensures the project responds to both strategic housing objectives and long-term urban visions.
At the local scale, citizen participation has already been initiated through a public presentation organized by Europan and the city. This moment of exchange allowed us to present the project, answer questions and understand broader urban expectations. While residents of the building are primarily concerned with living conditions and everyday uses, the wider community expressed concerns related to urban integration, public spaces, pedestrian connections, and the project’s identity within the neighborhood. These complementary perspectives have enriched the project’s ambitions.
Looking ahead, we aim to deepen this participatory process through workshops with residents and on-site engagement formats. Our team has already made a physical model of the project to give to the client as a mediation tool to facilitate dialogue with the inhabitants. We also proposed organising regular on-site meetings with the residents at different stages of the project, creating opportunities for informal exchanges and co-construction.
This inclusive approach, based on consultation, dialogue, pedagogy, and presence, allows us to integrate diverse insights into the design process. It strengthens collective ownership and ensures that the project is not only technically and programmatically relevant, but also socially grounded and widely supported.
The project is developed through a multi-level governance approach, engaging stakeholders from the local scale to the European scale. It ensures both contextual relevance and broader replicability.
At the local level, the Municipality of Amersfoort and the site’s owner are central actors in both the design and the future implementation phases. Their involvement ensures that the project directly addresses local housing needs, urban integration, and operational feasibility. Residents, both from the building and the surrounding neighbourhood, are also key stakeholders. Their input helps refine everyday uses, public space quality, and the project’s social acceptance.
At the regional and national levels, the project aligns with Dutch policies on housing renovation, densification and sustainable land use. We aim to work closely with institutional partners, so that the proposal contributes to ongoing strategies addressing housing shortages and the transformation of post-war building stock.
At the European level, the project is embedded in the framework of Europan, which fosters innovation, knowledge exchange, in the fields of architecture, urbanism and landscape. Through this platform, the project gains visibility and becomes part of a broader network of experimental sites tackling similar challenges. The ambition is to position the project as a replicable model for the transformation of existing housing estates across Europe, even at this early stage.
The added value of this multi-level engagement lies in its ability to connect strategic vision with local realities. It enables a cross-scalar dialogue where policies, design innovation, and lived experience inform one another. This approach not only strengthens the project’s feasibility and impact but also enhances its capacity to contribute to systemic change beyond its immediate context.
At the local level, the Municipality of Amersfoort and the site’s owner are central actors in both the design and the future implementation phases. Their involvement ensures that the project directly addresses local housing needs, urban integration, and operational feasibility. Residents, both from the building and the surrounding neighbourhood, are also key stakeholders. Their input helps refine everyday uses, public space quality, and the project’s social acceptance.
At the regional and national levels, the project aligns with Dutch policies on housing renovation, densification and sustainable land use. We aim to work closely with institutional partners, so that the proposal contributes to ongoing strategies addressing housing shortages and the transformation of post-war building stock.
At the European level, the project is embedded in the framework of Europan, which fosters innovation, knowledge exchange, in the fields of architecture, urbanism and landscape. Through this platform, the project gains visibility and becomes part of a broader network of experimental sites tackling similar challenges. The ambition is to position the project as a replicable model for the transformation of existing housing estates across Europe, even at this early stage.
The added value of this multi-level engagement lies in its ability to connect strategic vision with local realities. It enables a cross-scalar dialogue where policies, design innovation, and lived experience inform one another. This approach not only strengthens the project’s feasibility and impact but also enhances its capacity to contribute to systemic change beyond its immediate context.
Our In-Between collective is composed of five architects with complementary expertise spanning urban design, architecture, interior design and participatory community practice. This diversity enables the team to approach the project across multiple scales, from the broader urban context to the intimate details of individual dwellings.
The project integrates knowledge from several disciplines: urban design informed the relationship between the building and its surrounding neighborhood, ensuring connectivity and activation at street level; interior architecture guided the spatial reconfiguration of apartments and shared areas to support diverse household types and social interaction; and landscape design was critical for the design of the adjacent sponge park, creating accessible green space that enhances environmental resilience and community well-being.
Beyond architectural and landscape considerations, insights from social sciences played a key role. Interviews with residents and participatory workshops allowed the team to understand social dynamics, evolving household needs, and intergenerational interactions. These findings directly informed the design of co-living spaces, shared circulation areas, and outdoor communal spaces, ensuring that the project responds to both everyday life and long-term social sustainability.
By integrating these multiple disciplines the project exemplifies a transdisciplinary approach that balances formal, social, and ecological considerations, resulting in a resilient, inclusive, and contextually sensitive living environment.
The project integrates knowledge from several disciplines: urban design informed the relationship between the building and its surrounding neighborhood, ensuring connectivity and activation at street level; interior architecture guided the spatial reconfiguration of apartments and shared areas to support diverse household types and social interaction; and landscape design was critical for the design of the adjacent sponge park, creating accessible green space that enhances environmental resilience and community well-being.
Beyond architectural and landscape considerations, insights from social sciences played a key role. Interviews with residents and participatory workshops allowed the team to understand social dynamics, evolving household needs, and intergenerational interactions. These findings directly informed the design of co-living spaces, shared circulation areas, and outdoor communal spaces, ensuring that the project responds to both everyday life and long-term social sustainability.
By integrating these multiple disciplines the project exemplifies a transdisciplinary approach that balances formal, social, and ecological considerations, resulting in a resilient, inclusive, and contextually sensitive living environment.
Our concept targets private owners and social housing corporations managing buildings in need of renovation. Underused or energy-inefficient buildings represent a financial burden through maintenance costs, high energy bills and vacancy. Our approach transforms this challenge into a socially and economically valuable opportunity, aligned with the specific needs of each municipality. We propose several complementary strategies:
Valorization and densification: renovating the existing structure immediately increases its value. Adding floors and densifying the building creates new units that can be sold or rented, generating direct revenue to help finance the renovation and improve the overall return on investment.
Typology optimization and social mix: a diversity of housing types (duplexes, double-oriented units, co-living, etc.) attracts a wide range of households and maximizes the use of space per square meter. Shared spaces further enhance the building’s attractiveness and support long-term tenant retention.
Energy efficiency and sustainability: energy renovation significantly reduces costs for both owners and residents, lowering the risk of energy poverty while increasing the building’s economic and environmental performance.
Additional revenue streams: converting ground floors into commercial, cultural or coworking spaces generates additional income while activating the neighborhood. These active ground floors contribute to both the project’s financial viability and the quality of life for residents.
By combining renovation, densification, diversified housing typologies, and improved energy performance, our concept delivers a robust and replicable economic model. It demonstrates that renovating rather than demolishing can create lasting social, urban, architectural, and financial value.
Valorization and densification: renovating the existing structure immediately increases its value. Adding floors and densifying the building creates new units that can be sold or rented, generating direct revenue to help finance the renovation and improve the overall return on investment.
Typology optimization and social mix: a diversity of housing types (duplexes, double-oriented units, co-living, etc.) attracts a wide range of households and maximizes the use of space per square meter. Shared spaces further enhance the building’s attractiveness and support long-term tenant retention.
Energy efficiency and sustainability: energy renovation significantly reduces costs for both owners and residents, lowering the risk of energy poverty while increasing the building’s economic and environmental performance.
Additional revenue streams: converting ground floors into commercial, cultural or coworking spaces generates additional income while activating the neighborhood. These active ground floors contribute to both the project’s financial viability and the quality of life for residents.
By combining renovation, densification, diversified housing typologies, and improved energy performance, our concept delivers a robust and replicable economic model. It demonstrates that renovating rather than demolishing can create lasting social, urban, architectural, and financial value.
This project demonstrates approaches that can be replicated in other contexts, particularly in the renewal of large post-war housing blocks. By combining respect for modernist heritage with a socially oriented design strategy, the concept shows how existing buildings can be transformed rather than replaced, reducing environmental impact while addressing contemporary urban and social needs.
One transferable element is the humanization of large-scale residential blocks. Horizontal and vertical circulation areas are redesigned as shared social spaces, encouraging everyday encounters and intergenerational interaction. This intervention demonstrates how circulation can serve dual functions, movement and social connection, an approach applicable to similar high-rise or large-volume housing elsewhere.
At the urban scale, strategic openings and new communal spaces strengthen connections between the building and its surroundings while height accents enhance urban legibility & identity. These principles can guide interventions in other urban contexts seeking both activation and visual integration.
The introduction of diverse housing typologies, including double-oriented houses and duplex units, shows how flexibility and programmatic variety can improve liveability and respond to multiple target groups. This strategy can be applied in contexts where social diversity and densification are priorities, ensuring inclusive communities.
Finally, the project’s participatory process, involving residents in shaping spatial and programmatic decisions, is a methodology that can be transferred to other projects to foster social engagement and a sense of ownership.
Together, these strategies show how renewal of large post-war housing blocks can be done by adding humanized circulation, urban activation, housing diversity, and participatory design, and offer replicable methods for creating socially, spatially and environmentally resilient residential environments in diverse contexts.
One transferable element is the humanization of large-scale residential blocks. Horizontal and vertical circulation areas are redesigned as shared social spaces, encouraging everyday encounters and intergenerational interaction. This intervention demonstrates how circulation can serve dual functions, movement and social connection, an approach applicable to similar high-rise or large-volume housing elsewhere.
At the urban scale, strategic openings and new communal spaces strengthen connections between the building and its surroundings while height accents enhance urban legibility & identity. These principles can guide interventions in other urban contexts seeking both activation and visual integration.
The introduction of diverse housing typologies, including double-oriented houses and duplex units, shows how flexibility and programmatic variety can improve liveability and respond to multiple target groups. This strategy can be applied in contexts where social diversity and densification are priorities, ensuring inclusive communities.
Finally, the project’s participatory process, involving residents in shaping spatial and programmatic decisions, is a methodology that can be transferred to other projects to foster social engagement and a sense of ownership.
Together, these strategies show how renewal of large post-war housing blocks can be done by adding humanized circulation, urban activation, housing diversity, and participatory design, and offer replicable methods for creating socially, spatially and environmentally resilient residential environments in diverse contexts.
In the year following this application, we plan to advance the concept through collaborative design workshops with the client, building on the initial meeting in which the concept was positively received. These workshops will allow us to refine the project in detail, aligning spatial and programmatic interventions with the client’s operational goals, social objectives and the needs of residents.
Beyond the Otto Scheltus building, we foresee applying this strategy to other postmodern housing blocks facing similar challenges; particularly buildings that currently lack social cohesion, strong connections to their surroundings or diverse housing typologies. By leveraging the methodology developed in this project, we aim to support housing cooperatives in evaluating and adapting their existing portfolio, creating interventions that enhance social inclusivity, community engagement, and urban integration.
Our next steps include documenting the concept, translating the design strategies into replicable frameworks, and identifying pilot projects within other housing corporations in the Netherlands and beyond.
Beyond the Otto Scheltus building, we foresee applying this strategy to other postmodern housing blocks facing similar challenges; particularly buildings that currently lack social cohesion, strong connections to their surroundings or diverse housing typologies. By leveraging the methodology developed in this project, we aim to support housing cooperatives in evaluating and adapting their existing portfolio, creating interventions that enhance social inclusivity, community engagement, and urban integration.
Our next steps include documenting the concept, translating the design strategies into replicable frameworks, and identifying pilot projects within other housing corporations in the Netherlands and beyond.
