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introduction

On 01.01.’01 Boris Zeisser and Maartje Lammers founded 24H>architecture in

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Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Maartje Lammers was born in 1963 and graduated from Technical University of Delft
in 1988. Boris Zeisser was born 1968 and graduated from Technical University of Delft
with honourable mention in 1995.
Before starting their own office Boris Zeisser and Maartje Lammers worked in several
well-known architectural offices like (EEA) Erick van Egeraat associated architects,
Mecanoo and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (Rem Koolhaas) .

Since its inception 24H>architecture has been involved in various sized projects.
Recently a number of projects have been realized, among which are the Ichthus
Academy in Rotterdam, the hotel lobby for Ashlee House in London, the Dragspelhuset
at Övre Gla, Sweden, several exhibitions and various housing projects in Nieuw Vennep
and Hoofddorp along with the refurbishments of a former spinning mill into offices in
Enschede.

The 15 people strong international team of 24H currently work on a broad scope
of design tasks: several urban design and housing projects in Nijmegen, Hoogvliet,
Hoofddorp, Amsterdam and Besançon - France, several Waldorf schools in Rotterdam,
Leiden and Norrköping, Sweden, a hotel in London, an eco holiday resort on the island
of Koh Kut in Thailand, a large wellness complex in the Netherlands and the restoration
and renovation of an old water tower in Domburg into apartments.

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design statement

24H goal is to find the hidden layers of each commission. Next to program and site, these undiscovered layers
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make the answer to each design. By working with various themes guiding the design process, a broad spectrum of
non-architectural solutions is found.

evolution
adaptable structures in time providing multi program use in a single space

natrufied
abstract interpretations of nature petrified into building materials

organism
growing additions transform existing buildings into new compositions

art d’eco
supporting environment as well as beauty makes the art of ecology

sensibility
to arouse the senses, a building should age beautifully by using materials
with a natural ability to transform during its lifetime
architecture
urban

Multifunctional building, Boblingen, Germany Les-Hauts-Du-Chazal, Besancon, France Kop van West, Purmerend, The Netherlands Baankwartier, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Housing for Musicians, Hoogvliet, The Netherlands Mare college, Leiden, The Netherlands Spinning Mill, Enschede, The Netherlands Rudolf Steiner college, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Icecastle, Honefoss, Norway
commercial

Thermen Holiday, Sluis, The Netherlands Multifunctional use, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands Kids Den, Koh Kood, Thailand Thermen SPA, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands Parc Pavilion, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
residential

Villa development, Haarlem, The Netherlands Social Housing, Nieuw Vennep, The Netherlands Social Housing, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands Duplex houses, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands Housing Sciencepark, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Housing Hatert, Nijmegen
The Netherlands
interior

Clink Hostel, London, UK House & studio 24H, Rotterdam puzzle SIT, product developed by 24H - products Ashlee House, London, UK Ichthus Academy, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Exhibition Dinosaurs Kunsthal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
The Netherlands
Eiland 7
Hoofddorp, The Netherlands

PROJECT
Housing Floriande, Hoofddorp
CLIENT
Ymere, Amsterdam
Betty Oderkerk
LOCATION
De Slufter, Hoofddorp

PHASE
Realized
DESIGN
2003-2004
COMPLETION
2006
PROGRAM
35 individual houses &
34 apartements
24H built 35 apartments and 34 family houses
for social housing on the 7th of the Floriande
islands, a ‘Vinex’ housing development within the
Haarlemmermeer polder.

The two apartment blocks are located on the north

and south side, almost facing each other, on the main
public square the ‘Brink’. Next to the apartment blocks
two storey family houses are build with a small private
space in front and private gardens at the back.

Hidden behind the northern buildings is a residential

area called ‘Living-Park’, with single family housing
with large private gardens along the narrow streets.

The facades of the houses are made from Basalt

natural stone combined with aluminum plating. The
façade cladding is giving a horizontal or vertical
accent, dependent of its location. The Basalt blocks
are used in a rough or smooth relief. The gold colored
anodized aluminum plates are depending on the
function they fulfill, either perforated or bubbled in a ground floor upper floorplan
Plane-tree leaf pattern.

north elevation south elevation

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Housing Getsewoud
Nieuw-Vennep, The Netherlands

PROJECT
Housing Getsewoud,
Nieuw-Vennep
CLIENT
Ymere, Amsterdam
Mrs. Betty Oderkerk
LOCATION
IJweg, Nieuw-Vennep

PHASE
Realized
DESIGN
2001-2002
COMPLETION
December 2003
COSTS
€ 3.300.000,-
PROGRAM
4500 m2
In 24H’s contributory plan within the plan 12-14 of
‘vinex’ location of Getsewoud, Nieuw-Vennep, the site
forms the entrance to this specific part of the newly
built housing area. From an urban point of view, 24H
accentuated the opening, using the sound wave as
metaphor. The assignment consists of two blocks of
residential buildings with 18 social houses each.

To give a new meaning to the sensibility of architecture,

inspired by the ‘Amsterdam school’ social housing
architecture of the beginning of the last century,
sensual facades were developed for this project using
modern techniques.

Originally stacked apartments were foreseen on

this location with access galleries on each floor. By
converting the housing program into an back-to-back
typology, individual houses were made with ground
floor access and a balcony with south orientation.

The façade of the social housing blocks consists of

horizontal strips of glass and purple concrete panels
with a corrugated structure. The structure was
designed using three-dimensional CAD and directly
sending then to the CNC-spindles, which produced
the templates for the concrete panels. By using this
method, it was possible to realize high detail with a
minimum of technical efforts.
AM wonen Floriande
Hoofddorp, The Netherlands

PROJECT
Housing Floriande, Hoofddorp
CLIENT

AM Wonen, Hoofddorp
Mr. Albert Groothuizen
LOCATION
De Slufter
Hoofddorp

PHASE
Realised in 2006
DESIGN
2003-2004
PROGRAM
35 individual houses
Within the urban plan of the Floriande new housing
area on the islands in Hoofddorp, 24H realised 36
semidetached houses on the 7th island.

The houses are set up to offer maximum living quality

based on typical qualities of the surroundings. Aiming
for different groups, young families with children or
senior couples, different layouts are possible.

Various options are available to be decided by the

future inhabitants – such as carports, garage or
extra living space on the ground floor. But also a
green urban space of the ‘Brink’. The semidetached
houses are provided with a paved plateau, to form an
intermediate between private and public.

2-onder-1-kap houses
south side Brink ground and first floor
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Schoterburcht
Haarlem, The Netherlands

PROJECT
Housing Schoterburcht, Haarlem
CLIENT
Municipality of Haarlem
Matser projectontwikkeling,
Hilversum
Mr. J. Posner

PHASE
limited competition 2004
BUILDING COSTS
€ 1.200.000
PROGRAM
3 villas
In the philosophy developed by the landscape
architect of Haarlem for the Schotersingel-park it was
essntial that the park would be transformed again into
a ctypark. Providing a green oasis for the inhabitants
of Haarlem, easy accesible and visible. A tue public
space.

The proposal by 24H is based on two basic principles;

to meet fully the ambition of the municipality and to
develop a typology of housing that is characteristic
for this location. This location being so special and
very rare.

Based on the principle of a treehouse, with a small

footprint and an usable space in the crown of the tree,
three ontemporary sculptures were developed. The
sculptures are placed at the strategic positions of the
location, thus optimising the historical axis and the
existing sightlines.
Further designing the sculptures resulted in sturdy
characters; the rhinoceros, the buffalo and the
heron. In their roofscapes they react to the existing
monumental complex making the 21ste century
addition, a monument for the future.

siteplan

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Housing Sciencepark
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

PROJECT
Housing Sciencepark, Amsterdam
CLIENT
Heddes Vastgoed, Hoorn
Mr. Paul Nijhout
LOCATION
Caroline Mc Gillavrylaan,
Amsterdam

PHASE
Construction
DESIGN
2005-2007
COMPLETION
2009
PROGRAM
14.000 m2
87 apartments & parking garage

Visualisaties DPI animationhouse

Within the urban scheme of KCAP (Kees
Christiaanse) for the Science Park in Amsterdam,
24H was commissioned to make a proposal for one
of the five housing projects, called ‘the Twins’. The
location is situated between the Oosterdingdike and
the Caroline Mac Gillavrylaan.

24H’s proposal for the two apartment blocks, 18

and 15 storeys high, house a total of 87 dwellings.
Two L shaped volumes slide over each other and
are connected through a plinth containing housing
and parking. The smaller west tower sits flush upon
the east tower, opening up views to and creating
the entrance from the dike and the street, as well
as providing access to the parking. The east tower
is standing on the ground and allows direct access
to the houses on street level. Its main entrance and
lobby establish a visual connection between the
dike and the Caroline Mac Gillavrylaan, with vertical
circulation located in the middle.

The facade is made up of a fine grid of slate and glass.

Variations in colour from brown to grey as the towers
rise connect the building to the elements: brown at the
bottom, where the towers root up from the ground;
and grey towards the top giving the impression of
fading away into the air.

The skin tapers outwards at specific parts of the

towers to create a noise barrier due to the nearby
railway.

conceptual sketch

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Centrale Hart
Nijmegen, Hatert, The Netherlands

PROJECT
Housing Hatert, Nijmegen
CLIENT
Portaal, Veenendaal
Mr. Olof Olthoff
LOCATION
Cort van der Lindenstraat
Nijmegen

PHASE
Final Design
DESIGN
2007
CONSTRUCTION
2007-2008
PROGRAM
Combination building with
72 apartements, covered park-
ing and 500m2 local healthcare
centre
In the area Hatert, on the edge of the city of Nijmegen,
the housing corporations Portaal and Talis organize a
great renewal operation. Most of the current housing
does not comply with contemporary standards or
needs a substantial make over.
For this operation the city of Nijmegen worked in
cooperation with the office of Khandekar towards a
masterplan in which most of the present houses are
renovated or renewed. Besides this upgrading, the
open areas in the neighbourhood will be filled with
several new housing projects.

A twelve storey apartment tower is planned in the

very centre of Hatert, which is presently empty.
The building is meant to become the new ‘crown’ of
Hatert.

24H>architecture designed a sturdy tower with free

formed balconies around, which make a recognizable
sculpture from all directions. The parking for the
apartments is organized underneath a raised deck that
will function as a new public space for the citizens of
Hatert. Underneath the housing program the ground
floor will be used as a community health centre.

perforation facade detail

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Veld van Klanken
Hoogvliet, The Netherlands

PROJECT
Musician’s Housing, Hoogvliet
CLIENT
Vestia/Estrade projecten,
Rotterdam
Mr. Joost Lobée

PHASE
Construction
DESIGN
2006-2007
CONSTRUCTION
2008
BUILDING COSTS
€ 3.6 million
PROGRAM
38 houses with music rooms
To make a neighbourhood at Hoogvliet more
attractive, a new kind of living will be realized.

For the Co-housing project that was developed

by ‘WHIMBY!’ as part of the International Building
Exhibition Hoogvliet an urban concept was developed
that gives not only expression to the thought that a
musician is an individual with a communal passion,
but also expresses a form for new collective space
with the contemporary city.

Especially for musicians 38 houses will be built which

all have in their garden or on the house itself a special
music room.
The music rooms are placed in a collective mountain.
The individual music rooms all have their own
lightpyramid that protube through de grass mountain.
The lightpyramids are placed as a modern Stonehenge
and create their own ‘African fireplace’ which express
the collective soul of the musician’s.

The houses are arranged in various “stempels”

which are repeated various times. On the edge of the
“stempels” individual music-rooms are added like
parasites to trees. These parasites accentuate the
main urban routes through the plan.

elevations

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PROJECT
Office and private house
24H architecture
CLIENT
24H Estate
LOCATION
Rotterdam, Netherlands

PHASE
Realized in 2007
DESIGN
2006-2007
This 1875 building in the neighbourhood of historical
Kralingen has been renovated by 24H>architecture.
Originally built as a boys’ school and later transformed
into a community centre, it is transformed by 24H
into their own office and residence.

From the outside the building looks like a rare,

decorated white wedding cake that has been carefully
renovated. The interior however, -in a deplorable state
through various transformations over the years- was
stripped and entirely rebuilt. The office and residence
are split vertically from each other. The office,
occupying 2/3 of the volume consists of three large
spaces. All floors have their own individual quality,
the ground floor and first floor have high ceilings ground floor
with the historical ornaments whereas the attic has
an informal intimacy underneath the original wooden
roof construction.

The house, occupying the other third of the building,

is also arranged over different floors with an extra
split-level from earlier interventions. In this area the
kitchen, dining and living are located. The sleeping
area for the family is placed on the upper floors.

The interior of the house is built up with various

natural ingredients. At the lowest level 24H designed
a kitchen with a black concrete countertop in two
different heights. All kitchen cabinets have handmade first floor
zebrawood doors with handles from old French vine
stems.

In the living room extra light is brought in by organic

shaped openings in the load bearing wall. At the
boundary wall a 24H designed wallpaper with leaf
patterns and round family pictures, forming a leaf
shape, provides another natural touch to the house.
The green colour supports the cooking and dining done
in these areas. This wallpaper continues through the
house changing into autumn tones in the bedrooms.

The bathroom brings the theme of water to life; a

translucent curved wall defining the spaces for shower second floor
and toilet, contains a collage of swimmers and fish.
Various pieces of Zebrawood create the ‘Zebrawood
forest’ holding the panels for the washbasin and office 24H
shelves. The ‘Heatwave’, an organically shaped
private house
heating element, designed by Joris Laarman, provides
together with the floor heating, the heating for the
bathroom.

The new stairs run from the bottom to the top and are
made from crude steel with massive wenge treads.
Hand railings are made from birch branches and steel
wires.

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cross section house longitudinal section house

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Les Hauts Du Chazal
Besançon, France

in collaboration with Atelier Seraji

PROJECT
Zac Les Hauts Du Chazal,
Besançon, France
CIENT
ING Real Estate France
Mr. Paul Koch

STAGE
Masterplan proposal
DESIGN
2007-2008
CONSTRUCTION
2009
PROGRAM
22.0 ha
The area set for the development is an area of 29ha
that reaches from the main existing access roads
(west to east) and from the top of the landscape to the
bottom of the valley (south to north) at the outskirts
of Beçanson.
This area is split in two by the newly planned ‘Voie 8’
access route proposed by the development company
of the city. The V8 at present disecting the area east
to west. A mail developed from south to north stops
against this V8. This initially aimless mail is in need of
definition and splits the southern area in to east and
west.
By making the V8 into a US type parkway along
the new master plan, the V8 becomes part of the
development slowing traffic down in a housing area
but also creating new access routes for the housing
estates. The parkway creates easier crossing for
people to meander from their homes to the commercial
developments along the mail.
The commercial development proposed in the central
sector is now displaced along the mail on both sides
to define the mail and its public areas and it creates
a divide between the housing areas and the mail.
Making the mail a functional public realm accessible
for pedestrians and public transport.

The basis for the urban design is the secondary roads

that follow the existing landscape. These roads are
one-way or two-way systems that access the housing
parcels. The areas around the mail and on the south
side of the development are denser in accordance
with the guide-lines set up by the SEM. These areas
are mostly two-way systems. The north area, along
the V8, consists mostly of one-way dirt roads as the
density of the housing blocks decreases.

The roads and parking are then (part-) covered with

a concrete table construction. These constructions
can be small canopies or parking garages, this is in
correspondance with the type of housing that is
located on top of the parking plinth and the density of
housing required in that area.
The concrete construction is a separate construction
to the wood prefab housing construction placed
on top. This creates a freedom for the design of
the apartments and for the necessary density and
program.

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Housing Karlshamn
Karlshamn, Sweden

PROJECT
Housing Karlshamn
LOCATION
Karlshamn, Sweden

CLIENT
Scanparks AB holding
PHASE
Development, Sketch design
PROGRAM
15 detached houses
DESIGN
2007-2008
COMPLETION
2010
Art d’ Eco is the work title of our competition-
winning project in Karlshamn, Tegelbruksviken.
Located in the southern area of Sweden, facing the
beautiful panorama of the Baltic bay, fifteen villas
on an ecological concept, are being developed in
collaboration with Scanparks.

Using mostly local material, the ambition is to realize

dwellings completely adapted to the eco-system.
ground floor
Energy, for heating in winter and cooling in summer
is, for example, mostly taken from the ocean.

On a granite base, partly coming out of the steep

slope, an open wooden structure is placed on top,
supporting two shells as a cover. This wooden-panel
roof system, providing an extraordinary view towards
the bay, carries a natural grass cover.

Inside the villa, most dark functions are situated in its

base. Consisting out of a wooden interior with external
walls of local granite, it has a rocky image but feels
warm and comfortable on the inside. first floor

Kitchen and living room are located on the first floor

where the living room is being extended into a huge
terrace, which can be used for outdoor living.

All Art d’Eco villas are facing the bay, overlooking a

huge garden in front of the house. Settled in a radiated
grid, pockets have been created in the existing forest.
These pockets have the quality that every house
is naturally separated from its neighbour, with its
own entrance and driveway, as they strengthen the
longitude of the plots as well. This gives uniqueness
to every single plot. roof

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Housing Kristinehamn
Kristinehamn, Sweden

PROJECT
Housing Kristinehamn
LOCATION
Kristinehamn, Sweden

CLIENT
Scanparks AB holding
PHASE
Development, Sketch design
PROGRAM
24 detached houses
DESIGN
2007-2008
COMPLETION
2010
For the location Vålösundet in Kristinehamn,
Sweden, a strategy is developed for 24 villas in a
wooded area overlooking the beautiful Vänern Lake,
in close collaboration with Scanparks.

At this 5 ha area 24 independent pockets have been

created in the existing forest. These pockets have the
quality that every house is naturally separated from
its neighbor, with its own entrance and driveway. This
gives uniqueness to every single plot. Four different
types will be available to choose from, all related to
each other as family members, but different in size
and lay out. In this way a coherent villa lay out will
occur with individual expression of each villa.

Using mostly local material, the ambition is to realize

dwellings completely adapted to the eco-system. location
Energy, for heating in winter and cooling in summer
is, for example, mostly taken from the ocean.

The eco based villa design is made from a wooden cross-section location
structure, covered by two metal roof shells providing
an extraordinary view towards the lake and providing
maximum sunlight in the living areas.

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