Timur Shabaev

Europan 11 . Almere

Europan 11

Three village types are proposed on the site, with three different housing typologies.

The aim is that each village has a different relationship with the water and the forest. The village in the woods is situated around a clearing, the stilt village has housing elevated over a pond, and the colonnade village in the woods has housing “quaintly” hidden amongst the trees. A square, donut-shaped building in a vertical position functions as a cultural/visitors’ centre and landmark in the early stages: the same form reconstructed horizontally is an elevated courtyard house.