OODA and OOIOO Architecture’s Leeuwarden Housing Plan is Inspired by Water Lilies
Posted By Joaquin Millan On December 22, 2011 @ 5:30 pm In Architecture,Reader Submitted Content | No Comments
Water, rurality, urbanity, cultural habits and traditions were all key considerations in the design of OODA [4] and OOIOO Architecture’s [5] Leeuwarden Housing Plan. Inspired by the water lilly, the team of architects set out to mimic the living organism and its ability to naturally make a “bridge” between the water and the land world [6]. With a need to combine and establish environmental relationships within the study area, and between the city of Leeuwarden in the Netherlands, the architects chose to create a masterplan based on an abstraction of a set of water lilies. The plan of the project fuses water, green spaces and agricultural areas to create a sustainable residential system that is harmony with both the urban and natural environments.
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