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Co-Living Complex of the Year

NINE DWELLINGS IN OOSTERWOLD BY

BUREAU SLA AND ZAKENMAKER

Beyond sketching out the basics, the archi-

tects took a back seat: each family designed

its own interior and decided where to place

exterior doors and windows. ‘The build-

ing is a canvas,’ said Taffin, whose jury

mates Libby Sellers and Arianna Lelli Mami

respectively called the project ‘disruptive’

and ‘subversive’.

For Paola Navone, Nine Dwellings

in Oosterwold exemplifies a new kind of

architecture that represents ‘the end of the

ego of the architect, producing monuments

to himself. Instead, it’s addressing other

needs.’ In this case, affordability, customiza-

tion, biodegradability and energy-efficiency

were priorities, not the stylistic elements

close to the hearts of what Navone called

‘the dinosaurs of the aesthetic generation’.

Taffin believes it’s how buildings should be:

‘for people and by people’. – JS

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PEOPLE'S VOTE

Saint-Denis Apartment Complex

by ChartierDalix

ALMERE – ‘It’s an anarchist project –
that’s what’s so good about it.’ That’s how
Dominique Taffin of Yanfeng Automo-
tive Interiors explained the jury’s choice
of what some might regard as a surpris-
ing winner of a design award. The simple
100-x-12-m slab that houses nine families
in a field in Oosterwold – a developing
residential area in the Dutch province of
Flevoland – is an extremely low-budget
project based on inexpensive prefab ele-
ments. To save money, even the glass lacks
wooden frames.

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