gross floor area: 8000 m2
location: Almere
function: retail, housingcomplex, park
performance: energy-autonome and CO2 free shopping centre and adaptable housing: self supporting in climate control and energy supply
2008: Initiated by the Dutch Municipality of Almere, a sustainable community complex comprising a supermarket, shops and adaptable housing for senior-citizens is currently being developed in the ‘Columbuskwartier’ (Columbus Quarter) neighbourhood. Columbus Quarter is part of the city’s evolving ‘Almere Poort’ district.
Almere was established in 1975 and is the largest city in the Dutch Province of Flevoland, a province entirely reclaimed from the sea during the 1950s and 1960s. This young city is Europe’s fastest growing urban area and currently has 185.000 inhabitants.....more
