Cubic House ~ Rotterdam, Netherland - (Dutch: Kubuswoningen) are a set of innovative houses built in Rotterdam and Helmond in the Netherlands, designed by architect Piet Blom and based on the concept of "living as an urban roof": high density housing with sufficient space on the ground level. Blom tilted the cube of a conventional house 45 degrees, and rested it upon a hexagon-shaped pylon. His design represents a village within a city, where each house represents a tree, and all the houses together, a forest.
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The original idea of cubic houses (cubic house or can also be called kubuswoningen) appeared on 1970s. Piet Blom is one of many developers this unique style house, has developed several cubic houses built in Helmond. The city of Rotterdam asking him to design housing on top of a bridge for pedestrians and he decided to use the idea of cubic houses.
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The concept behind these houses is that he tried to make ' the forest ' by each cube represents an abstract tree, so the entire city into woodland, forest home of a cube. Cubic houses Rotterdam, located on Overblaak Street, beside the Blaak subway station. There are 38 small cubes and two so called ' super-cube ', and all are attached to each other.
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Many people are curious when passing through the area this cubic houses. Finally one of the owners decided to open a "cube show", which are equipped gear as well as ordinary houses, and offers tours to visitors who are curious. The walls and Windows of the houses it has cubic 54.7 degrees slope. The total area is about 100 square meters, but about a quarter of the space cannot be used because the wall is under sloping ceilings.
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As residents are disturbed so often by curious passers-by, one owner decided to open a "show cube", which is furnished as a normal house, and is making a living out of offering tours to visitors.
The living room of the "show cube" in Rotterdam.
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The houses contain three floors:
- ground floor entrance
- first floor with living room and open kitchen
- second floor with two bedrooms and bathroom
- top floor which is sometimes used as a small garden
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In 2009, the larger cubes were converted by Personal Architecture into a hostel run by Dutch hostel chain Stayokay.
Address : Overblaak 70, 3011 MH Rotterdam, Netherlands
Opened : 1977
Provinces : South Holland
Architect : Piet Blom
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