The Intense City is a compact housing in Groningen, The Netherlands, designed by Architectenbureau Marlies Rohmer as a living space for young people as well as starters. The compact housing is specially designed for the urban area in order to load more inhabitants in a smaller space of land. Therefore, the Intense City compact housing becomes an intimate place for meeting in the crucial location.

The intense City is not only as a compact housing, but also has designed as a space for commercial on the ground floor, working, and recreation with universal floor plan. The architecture of the public living space was well designed as a sustainable and durable building. It can be seen that the compact housing has a generic shells that can hold the building well. Besides, the shells also give special character for the building so that the compact housing looks amazing with the architecture design. via

Photographs by: Rob de Jong, Marcel van der Burg, René de Wit

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