Cubic houses

Back for a day in the Netherlands again, this time in Rotterdam. Spent the day shopping and sightseeing with my parents.

We also visited the famous Cubic houses in Rotterdam. Thses houses were designed by architect Piet Blom in 1984. He was asked by the city of Rotterdam to design housing on top of a bridge. Blom designed these cubic houses, with each cube representing an abstract tree. The collection of houses therfore becomes a "forest".

The cubes are tilted and sit on hexagon-shaped pole structures. We also visited the show-cube, to see what the houses look like on the inside. The cubes' living areas are split into three levels. The total area of the house/apartment is around 100 square meters, but around a quarter of the space is unusable because the walls are angled!