Urban Architecture

The office of BurtonHamfelt is an urban and architectural design practice rooted in the believe that a new synergy between architecture, urban design and landscape has the power to transcend the quality and experience of the everyday built environment.

Using urban design, architecture and landscape as a combined medium, all our projects aim to enhance the particularities of a site to produce an elegant and transformational experience even in the most challenging of locations.

Through arranging the position of the housing in a ‘regular irregularity’ organization of sub plots, the desired atmosphere of cosy village-like density with a remarkable contemporary openness was created. The spaces between the houses become varied, resolving the desire/conflict for privacy and openness through the explorative use of diagonal views from inside to outside.

Bloembollenhof, Vijfhuizen, NL

Schots 1 + 2, CiBoGa terrein, Groningen, NL

In this award winning project we designed the transformation of

innercity site for housing through designing both an intimate and busy

inner street of supermarkets and smaller shops in both Schots 1 & 2.

This created maximum retail frontage whilst allowing the two building

blocks to evolve independently with Schots 1 clad entirely in glass and

Schots 2 entirely in wood. Schots 1 is a robust multi-storey urban block

centred around a variety of open and semi-open collective spaces,

complimented by a spacious form of arrival to the apartments. In Schots 2,

the housing above is accessed by a sloped ground surface that makes a seamless and landscaped transition

from ground to the first level. Private gardens are wrapped over the

housing to create with ivy, grass roofs and patios, a three-dimensional

green roofscape for the city.

Schots 1 + 2, CiBoGa terrein, Groningen, NL

Our award winning design proposed to reconnect the city to the water by extending Bergen’s existing cultural axis of galleries and museums to Store Lungegardsvann and around the water’s edge to Møllendal. The cultural axis is animated with a series of new recreational islands, a collection of pavilions, cafés and parks. For this project we developed special, interactive ‘working models’ that could clearly communicate massing options and different development scenarios.

Coast-Wise, Bergen, Norway

Block 7 + 9, Almere Town Center, NL

The unique site demands an architectural and urban response that defines the borders of the centre; mediating between opposing urban conditions: old versus new city fabric, fast versus slow city movement, the lower parking level versusthe raised shopping deck In our design for a new town center building in Almere we were able to balance the demands between parking, shopping and living while resolving the noise of a busy traffic artery from the quite urban plaza for terraces.

Our proposal is inspired by the linear farming patterns of the Dutch polder landscape as both the ‘genus loci’ of Almere Buiten and the functional zoning strips of parking strips on the roof. The parking is orientated along the side of the train tracks while the housing is orien-tated to the south and the public square. A unity of soft to hard materials express the stripping pattern that continues from the roof further down along the side elevations.

Block 13 + 14, Almere Buiten NL

Eschmarke Town Center, Enschede NL

Like the motion of opening a jar top we positioned the

private parking above the shops through a broad ramp

seamlessly connecting the ground and first floor

level for direct access to the houses for the

inhabitants. The spiraling ramp continues to form a spectacular profile to

the building and provides access to private gardens

and roof terraces. The ground floor shops are

oriented to the two main street frontages.

Hyperion Lyceum, Amsterdam NL

Hyperion Lyceum, Amsterdam NL

We were able to design and deliver a

new school from scratch in just only 6 months through

an innovative modular building system. Hyperion Lyceum became so popular that the school building

had to expand every year and eventually change it’s location

in order to keep up with the demand.

This development is a benchmark project for Auckland seeking to introduce medium density urban housing to attract people back to the city. The challenge was to create qualities normally associated with suburban living in such a development and on a very restricted topographical location that thankfully enough provided stunning views across the bay, with sun, privacy and outdoor space. The composition of units is a play between the traditional notions of villa and terrace typologies.

Beaumont Quarter, Auckland, NZ

Tarling East Development, London, UK

A key challenge to dense urban living in a city like London is how one can provide the necessary

amenity spaces for large families within a secure

domestic setting. Our design proposal for Block 3 is based on a fresh re-interpretation of

the terrace house typology. Our proposal pulls in all the

traditional forms of amenity, public space, car parking,

and private gardens into one building envelope, in a form that covers the extent of the site boundaries. By locating

the car, garden, stairs, and bathrooms in strategic

locations, the house can be reorganized to accommodate

different uses and families.

The driving objective for planning one-north is to shape an environment for decision-making and development that will promote the construction of a lively and distinctive next-generation science park based on a vibrant mix of live, work, play and learning environments. A spatial understanding of the realities of this strategy are defined through a set of rules and guidelines for execution by other parties that protect both the strictly defined streets and expressive roofscape as a powerful image.

One-North, Singapore

La Ville Foret, Grenoble, France

The ‘Urban Forest’ is an attempt to grow a city as

an ‘urban ecology’ that can produce a critical urban

density. The ‘Urban Forest’ takes advantage of the two-

fold potential of ‘vertical housing’ and a smaller scale

colonization of the ground as a transformation and growth

strategy. A new fresh look at tall structures provides

the best solution to the diversification of the housing market. The ‘colonization’ of the ground into a lively street with both dense and diverse public/private programs and

gardens, will generate the right conditions for urban life.

Amsterdam is a great learning environment. Today young ambitious people and innovative companies are flocking to the cities in search of higher quality living and working spaces that either do not exist or are too large or expensive for graduates and start ups. Why not come up with a new living/work housing concept targeting forward thinking students and start ups who want to share spaces and cross breed ideas together? And why not turn this concept into an amazing urban community that can grow, change and eventually moved? Living and working together is the answer to new and affordable ways and is the way forward for any ambitious city in search of talent. That’s why we created the ‘new macro-loft,’ custom made living for the young enterprising and creative class.

Macro-loft concept, Amsterdam NL

MBO College North and Bredero College, Amsterdam NL

Unique to MBO College North and the Bredero College (MAVO) is the

combination of ‘two schools in one’ building. The

architectural concept is a spatial circulation model

where each school is both connected and separated

through a double helix stair concept. What results is an

‘Escher-like’ space where the students from each

school can see each other but cannot touch each

other. While each school has it’s own separate entrance, the teachers share facilities

such as a canteen, library, and support functions.

ROC van Flevoland Campus, Almere Poort, NL

Design: 2012-Site: 10.3 haProgram: 6500 m2 education, 3500 m2 commercial/ social, 67 parking spacesClient: ROC van Amsterdam and ROC FlevolandCo-Architect:OeverZaaijer Architectuur en Stedebouw

Hyperion Lyceum, Amsterdam, NL

Design: 2012Completion: 2015Site: .6 haProgram: 5.000 m2 education, 1.254 m2 outdoor space, 845 bicycle parkingClient: ROC and Voorgezet Onderwijs van AmsterdamBuilder: De Meeuw, Oirschot

MBO College North, Amsterdam, NL

Design: 2008Completion: 2012 Program: Multi-functional educa- tional complex, 13.500 m2 education, 3.000 m2 commercial spaceClient: ROC van Amsterdam en MJ De Nijs Projectontwik keling BV Co-Architect:OeverZaaijer Architectuur en Stedebouw

Block 7 + 9, Almere, NL

Design: 2003Completion: 2007Site: 0.3 haProgram: 54 housing units, 3.900m2 commercial spaceClient: Almere Hart CV: Bouwfonds MAB, Euro WoningenEngineers: Pieters BouwtechniekModel: Made by Mistake, Delft

La Ville Foret, Grenoble F

Design: 1998Completion: 2003Site: 1.2 haProgram: 22 dwellings, 90-100m2, 20 dwellings,125 m2 Client: Municipality of Haarlemmer meer, Dura Bouw Amsterdam BVAssociates: Bureau BouwkundeEngineers: Steens BV, ZoetemeerModel: Made by Mistake, Delft

Blok 13+14, Almere Buiten, NL

Design: 2006Completion: 2010Site: 1.6 haProgram: ca 30.000 m2: 6,500 m2 commercial space, 53 dwellings, 660 parking placesClient: Multi Vastgoed BVAssociates: BD Architectuur, ArnhemEngineers: Steens BV, Zoetemeer

La Ville Foret, Grenoble, F Design: 2000Site: 14 haProgram: 1,700 housing units, 50,000 m2 mixed use 2500 parking placesClient: City of Grenoble and EuropanLandscape: Studio Engleback, TunbridgeWellsEngineers: Battle McCarthy, Consult- ing Engineers, LondonModel: Made by Mistake, Delft

Tarling East Development, London, UK

Design: 2003Completion: 2008 Site: 0.2 haProgram: 21 apartments and 10 houses in mixed tenure, 150 m2Client: One Housing GroupAssociates: Stock Woolstencroft, LondonStructural: Paul Owen Associates

Coast-Wise, Bergen, NO

Design: 2003Framework: 2004 – June 2005Site: 17 haProgram: Business and cultural facilities, university campus, park and residential accommoda- tionClient: City of BergenAssociates: 3RW Arkitekter, Bergen

Beaumont Quarter, Auckland, NZ

Design: 2001Completion: 2005Site: 0.4 haProgram: Inner city housing: 19 row houses, 32 ‘cliff’ housesClient: Melview Developments Associates: Studio of Pacific Architecture, WellingtonEngineer: Holmes Consulting Group

Schots 1 & 2, CiBoGa-Terrein Groningen, NL

Design: 2000Completion: 2005Site: 1.3 haProgram: 145 apartments, 4,500 m2 commercial, 300 parking placesClient: Development consortium Associates: DAAD Architecten BVEngineers: Battle McCarthy, Consult ing Engineers, LondonModel: Made by Mistake, Delft

Eschmarke, Entschede, NL

Design: 2003Completion: 2007Site: 0.5 haProgram: 2,200 m2 shops, 27 dwellings, 93 parking placesClient: ING Vastgoed BV, Den HaagAssociates: DAAD Architecten, BeilenEngineers: Royal Haskoning, Nijmegen Service

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The work of BurtonHamfelt innovates at all scales in the design process through incorporating technology, sustainability, adaptable building systems, urbanization, livability, project directed research and economy into everything we do.

We are convinced that these types of projects can have large scale impact through new solutions. What we call urban architecture.

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