ABSTRACT
A medium-high density project with 120 units per hectare (40 units per acre), De Zilvervloot is located in Wielwijk, a neighborhood of the city of Dordrecht. The Wielwijk neighborhood was built in the 1960s by the housing corporation Woondrecht as social housing, a practice typical of the time. The Open Building approach is ecological (in the sense that it accommodates change with less investment of materials and energy) and human-centered (facilitating adjustment over time to changing building occupancy). The inclusion of commercial space at the lowest level of De Zilvervloot was an essential part of the neighborhood transformation, as was including sports facilities and community space in adjacent structures. De Genua is the apartment building on the northeast corner, also on top of the grocery store. At De Gaffel all sixteen social housing south-facing flats are stacked four to a level, and at De Serre five such units are stacked two to a level with one at the top.
