Kubuswoning: Living in a bucket

The ideas seem not to lack them the architects when is entrusted them the construction of a new building. In the case of the complexes of dwellings is sought above all to take advantage of the best way them reduced spaces and a good communication of the different environments of the complex. If to this it adds him itself an original idea, the architect there will be obtained that its name figure in many magazines and as in this case in the network.



Piet Blom is a born Dutch architect in 1934 and that studied studies in the Academy of Architects of Ámsterdam. He had as to one of their main professors to Aldo they Go Eyck, famous Dutch architect.



To Piet Blom him is known for being the architect of the curious houses buckets or “Kubuswoning” as is known him in the Dutch language. The project of the houses bucket was born approximately at the beginning of the decade of the 70. For the year 73, Blom already had the first sketches and two years later decides to build them in the locality of Helmond. They were three on the whole and the start of many more, but in other regions of Holland. For 1977, the number was elevated to 21 when built 18 houses buckets in the surrounding area of a shopping center. In spite of its achievements, Blom desired to build its more massive houses of way and in 1978 had the opportunity to build them in a neighborhood of the city of Rotterdam. To the start of the project was found established that 78 buckets would be built and besides an arts center. Finally were alone 32 buckets and without the arts center. All remained ready for the start of the actions in the year 1982, nevertheless due to financial problems not the project to two years was concluded later.



As it was very obvious, the houses were sold in their totality still before the finalización of the project. The curious did not they delay in arriving and the residents removed benefit to this: they began to charge entrances. Each one of the houses bucket possesses three levels. The first plant harbors to the kitchen, the parlor and the foyer. In the second plants is found the dormitories and a bath. The last plant is used usually as a small garden. By its originality, the Academy of Architecture of Rotterdam occupied two buckets during the years 1985 and 1998. In spite of its originality one fourth of the space of each bucket is uninhabitable by its form.