ABSTRACT
Kleiburg is one of the 31 almost identical housing blocks in Bijlmermeer, a modernist city in the south-east of Amsterdam built between 1966 and 1975 and designed to house 100,000 inhabitants. The enormous buildings were laid out in a honeycomb pattern with large grass fields and water ponds between the buildings. The selected proposal by De Flat intended to renovate the basic structure and common facilities of the building and to sell off the individual apartments unfinished and unfurnished, as ‘do-it-yourself dwellings’. Kleiburg is part of a protected urban landscape, named the BijlmerMuseum, which includes six original Bijlmermeer building blocks, a part of the elevated metro line, and the open areas between the buildings. To restore the verticality of the original block, the elevator shafts that were added in the 1980s at the outside of the building were removed and instead new elevators were installed in the original shafts.
