Eldenaer Tor

This build­ing forms the gate­way to the new in­ner-city res­i­den­tial de­vel­op­ment tak­ing shape in the for­mer stock­yard, whose his­toric build­ings pro­vide the ba­sis for ex­ten­sive mod­ern­iza­tion and trans­for­ma­tion. Al­though the new build­ing re­flects the his­tor­i­cal ar­chi­tec­ture of its sur­round­ings, its shape and func­tion are thor­oughly con­tem­po­rary. Fol­low­ing an un­con­ven­tional con­cept, the build­ing will house four res­i­den­tial units on the up­per floors and a day care cen­tre oc­cu­py­ing c. 760 square me­tres on the ground floor. Two of the flats have pa­tio gar­dens, and all four have ac­cess to ex­ten­sive roof gar­dens. The day care cen­tre’s play­rooms are sit­u­ated be­hind the build­ing’s long ex­te­rior fa­cade. Large win­dows with low sills at just the right height for a tod­dler to sit on link the in­side to the out­side all the year round, as well as pro­vid­ing easy ac­cess from play­room to play­ground in sum­mer.