De Overloop
Residential care home De Overloop is built of grey concrete brick with white window frames divided into squares and rectangles, set in long straw...
Residential care centre De Overloop is built of grey concrete brick with white window frames divided into squares and rectangles, which ago the façades in long strips. Greenhouses are attached to the road garden sides, hanging from the facades like boxes over two floors. The building has several wings that fold around an inner garden with a pond. On three sides, this is bordered by low lean-to houses. The four-storey entrance combines round and straight forms, deep communal balconies and, on the ground floor, a small bay window. On the first floor above the entrance is a restaurant. Here, the second and third floors have entresols, from which you can see into the restaurant. Herman Hertzberger is known as an architect of structuralism. A movement in which buildings are designed as structures whose task is to promote encounters. In De Overloop, there were therefore many benches in the corridors. The top half of the front doors could be opened separately, allowing residents to have contact with each other. These typical elements disappeared when the building was renovated in 2019. The window overlooking the corridor from the units remained, as did the many balconies and seating areas near the stairwells.
