Student Residence, Enschede
Claus en Kaan- Typologies Residence Education Campus
- City Enschede
- Country Netherlands
- Photographer Christian Richters
The renovation project of the Calslaan residences, a complex of four buildings constructed in 1965, has modified the arrangement and the size of the rooms and has also altered the composition of the facades.
The white plasterwork, as much as the openings, now high, narrow and deep, contrast with the carpet of green which surrounds the buildings, making the intervention more abstract in nature.
The open space in the centre of each residential unit is used to house the staircase. The original structure of two staggered levels is maintained in the new groups of six, extended bedrooms...[+]