Studio Squeeze - Case Study

Jiawei Wang

Urban Hybrid HousingMVRDV

@ Emmen, Switzerland,2013

Studio Squeeze - Case Study

Jiawei Wang

Urban Hybrid Housing/MVRDV@ Emmen, Switzerland

Studio Squeeze - Case Study

Jiawei Wang

Urban Hybrid Housing/MVRDV@ Emmen, Switzerland

The exterior of the block is a varied urban street front whilst the interior offers the quality of a green and intimate village.

Studio Squeeze - Case Study

Jiawei Wang

Urban Hybrid Housing/MVRDV@ Emmen, Switzerland

Studio Squeeze - Case Study

Jiawei Wang

Urban Hybrid Housing/MVRDV@ Emmen, Switzerland

Each house or apartment will have its own façade color, emphasizing its individual ownership. A pastel range of color was chosen based on the specific colors traditionally found in historic Swiss town centers in the Lucerne area, such as Beromünster.

Studio Squeeze - Case Study

Jiawei Wang

Urban Hybrid Housing/MVRDV@ Emmen, Switzerland

Instead of the housing block asked for by the brief, MVRDV created a mixed urban block with small apartment buildings at the corners, townhouses along the streets and garden and patio houses inside the block.

Studio Squeeze - Case Study

Jiawei Wang

Urban Hybrid Housing/MVRDV@ Emmen, Switzerland

The 16 different housing types, which vary in size from 30 to 130 m2 and from one to four floors, will natural-ly attract a mixed group of inhabitants, an important factor in creating a vivid urban environment. The pro-ject consists of 9000 m2 of housing, 2034 m2 services and 2925 m2 underground parking.