Unicorn Blocks

The Eenhoorn blocks in Amsterdam East consist of 149 social housing units. The design aims to entice residents to use the communal facilities. Read more below.

Project description
The Eenhoorn blocks in Amsterdam East consist of 149 social housing units. The design aims to entice residents to use the communal facilities. Both buildings have a lobby with a communal living room for residents, neighborhood kitchen, laundry. The Eenhoorn site with previously low obsolete row houses in low density has been transformed into a car-free landscaped neighborhood with building blocks.

In order to provide housing for many people, Ymere has chosen compact homes at this location, ranging in size from 32 to 80 square meters. The homes are bundled into two building blocks. The first floor of the robust facade is covered with tiles designed by an artist especially for this project. Above that, the facade consists of bricks. The homes have large glass facades that open onto spacious balconies on the interior sides of the building blocks that overlook green courtyards.

There are PV panels on the roofs of the residential buildings. Naturally, the apartments no longer have a gas connection.