The Tropic Point

The address of Erick van Egeraata has not received much praise on ArchiWeb's pages. The validity of our doubts was recently confirmed by his complex in Prague's Bubenč. Without any external impulse, I would like to highlight the building and ideas that I value. His apartments are spacious and generous. The Czech trend of exclusively building studio apartments and small apartments will come back to haunt society as a whole in the future. The Gaussian curve should work everywhere. So far, the profile of the apartment offer resembles more of a pyramid of a food chain.
Egeraat's "iron" intriguingly filled a difficult-to-stop plot with twelve above-standard equipped apartments. The building stands in the Amsterdam neighborhood of Dapperbuurt opposite the anthropology museum and across the canal from Het Oosten by Steven Holl in the historic block of residential buildings from the 19th century. The ground floor is occupied by rental commercial space and an elevator to the basement garages of the tenants. According to the architect, the mix of horizontal and vertical divisions of the facades is a response to the existing surrounding buildings from the 19th century. By combining wood, stone cladding, and aluminum, he achieved the breaking of the long facade and made it more plastic. The clearest evidence of playfulness is the prominent corner, which constantly changes throughout the day and weather. The apartments are accessed from several lobbies to eliminate long corridors and allow for maximum illumination of the interior layouts of the apartments.