Dutch architectural firm Personal Architecture has transformed Rotterdam’s Cube Houses complex—an iconic housing project created by architect Piet Blom in the 1970s—into a beautiful, design-conscious home for young convicts who are in the last stages of rehabilitation.
Based in just part of the complex, the newly re-designed space—named the “Super Cube”—consists of a reception, shop and archive on the ground floor, residential units on the second and third floors, and an open-plan public area on the top floor.
A glass-clad roof lets in plenty of sunlight, which is then filtered down to the lower floors via an open shaft at the heart of the space—the void also creates a “chimney effect” that serves to circulate air and push warmth upwards.
See more images of the Super Cube below or click here to learn more about it.
[via Wallpaper]