This scheme converts the disused waste incinerator at Leiden into an apartment building. The former waste bunker and the incinerator building are primed to receive a number of residential blocks. Each block is oriented round one of the existing holes in the container, generating a vertically organized village. The dwelling units in the blocks are restricted to concrete floors that can be rented as a plot and on which the user can built his own 'hut'. All unit services are housed in cable ducts and ladder tracks attached to the 'plots'; occupants can plug in at any point they choose. The cable ducts may serve as a balcony, a gallery or bridge, or a landing. Individual 'facades' consist of little more than a standard building construction fence acting as a safety barrier. Users are expected to design their own facades.

The complex consists ultimately of three layers. The first is the existing container, the second the new building designed inside the container. The third layer comprises the huts built by the users. This layer, unlike the others, can not be accounted for in the design. How the users complete their homes is entirely up to them. Their input will give them a firm footing in their surroundings and generate houses of great individuality.

Intended as a profound reflection on domestic architecture, this graduation project declares war on the impoverished spatial quality of postwar housing in the Netherlands. It replaces the current stagnating housing programme, consisting as this does of a standard number of spaces of minimum dimensions, with an approach proceeding from the specific nature of the tenants. Houses for party freaks, flashers, maniacs, loners, DIY addicts and so on. Just as Le Corbusier's Unité was of seminal influence and served as a model for the postwar stacked housing, so it is hoped that this design will humbly contribute to the way we think about Dutch housing today.

Place of education: Rotterdam
Tutors: Menno Homan, Liesbeth van der Pol, Paul Bosse & Harm Tilman
Specialization: architecture.