Ash Quay Housing
Rotterdam, Netherlands
212 homes on a former coal quay, every ground floor raised one storey above the 2100 flood line.
- Climate
- Cfb · Oceanic
- Floor area
- 18 400 m²
Atlas of built work · 2019–2027
Nine sites.
Nine climates.
One drawing table.
We are a twelve-person studio in Lisbon. Every building starts the same way — a year of weather data pinned to the wall — and ends somewhere the weather is nothing like ours.
Live field · Lisboa —:—
Drag to steer
How a Lisbon studio builds in the Arctic
37 420m²
built or building since 2019 — from a 260 m² chapel to 212 homes on a coal quay.
8 760h
of local weather modelled for every site before the first sketch: one full year, hour by hour.
14 200km
from our table to the furthest site in Hobart. We spend the first month there, not here.
i. Read the year
Sun path, rain, snow load and wind rose go on one sheet. The plan is drawn on top of it, never beside it.
ii. Build with what is there
Earth in Marrakesh, lava stone in Reykjavík, cedar in Nagano. Imported material is a last resort we have to justify.
iii. Partner, then stay
Each site has a local architect of record and a builder we visit after handover — twice a year, for ten years.