Lieven 6 and 8

• 538 rental units for students and first-time buyers up to age 27
• New West

The LIEVEN Block 6 and 8 housing complex by Lieven De Key) has 538 housing units for students and first-time home buyers up to age 27. It is a large-scale but highly varied hybrid building block with multifunctional collective spaces and a communal courtyard garden.

With Lieven, housing foundation De Key gives many young people a chance to build on their future with independent housing in Amsterdam. Through a rich palette of sustainable materials with a warm appearance, the complex has a human scale.

Community building
The inviting project is also carefully designed in social terms, so that residents can meet each other in casual ways and build a social network in their new living environment, despite the enormous scale. In keeping with this goal of "community building," De Key makes room for (neighborhood) residents' own initiatives and self-management of the large communal city garden, among other things. The building is nominated for the architecture award 'Best Building of the Year 2023' in the category Livability and Social Cohesion.

Architecture
The Lieven plan consists of an ensemble of two "cut open" closed building blocks, one to the east and one to the west of Rodenrijsstraat. The housing complexes are composed of different building sections with various housing types and access structures Building sections 6 A/B/C and 8 A/B/C/D, together with the blocks designed earlier by the same architects, form the eastern housing complex.

Within both the eastern and western residential complex are large semi public courtyard gardens. Here there is a plaza with grand café and covered terrace and a multipurpose hall. All building parts have their own entrance and their own architectural elaboration.

Due to high noise levels from the ring road, many of the homes on the east and south sides of the housing complex have well-ventilated "double" facades.