Summer must have been on the minds of Cecilia and Martijn, the owners of the condo we collaborated on. They approached the architects of Urban Echoes to design an open and dynamic patio house for a family with four children, with a colourful facade made of recycled material.
The house is located on the roof of a CPO residential building named ‘Pondok’ in Amsterdam. For the interior, Urban Echoes designed a dynamic floor plan that uses curtains to provide the flexibility to separate and merge spaces.
Both the architect as well as the client believed strongly in the use of sustainable materials for this project. Together with our R&D department, they selected a unique pattern of ten different ‘flavours’ of WasteBasedBricks®.
Some of the colours we used for this project were still in research at our laboratory, but the client and architect motivated us to develop the products further and create a colourful and flamboyant wall cladding. Vink Bouw then took over and did the construction of the facade.
Two types of finishes have been used on the bricks:
We believe that this colourful condo in Amsterdam truly shows what waste can do when applied in new ways, don’t you agree?
A soft yellow tone with a hint of warm pink. Nougat is the 21st-century answer to London Stock Bricks.
Due to a unique firing process, the Mushroom is made up of multiple shades of grey.
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