What looks like a regular house in an ordinary street, is in reality a modest housing complex consisting of twenty group houses for inhabitants with a mental disability. In the smaller ‘barns’ situated on the back of the plot, the 8 ground bounded houses are located. The main house with 12 apartments is located in the street. The ‘back house’ hase an identical shape but is lifted up 1 story. On the ground floor the common spaces are situated directly in contact with the garden. The Passerel is an exeption in this part of the plan. A public route leading visitors through the whole development starts here. Inside the block, next to the barns, the vegetable garden of the Passerel is situated together with a playground for the smallest children.
Twenty care homes for Apeldoorn
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Status: 1st competition 2008, building completed July 2014
Team: Patricia Mata, Johan De Wachter, Marieke van Hensbergen, Tiago Pinto de Carvalho, Lourdes Carretero, Kim van de Hoven
Client: Housing corporation De Woonmensen, Care institution De Passerel
Location: Apeldoorn, NL
Photography: Milena Villalba
Team: Patricia Mata, Johan De Wachter, Marieke van Hensbergen, Tiago Pinto de Carvalho, Lourdes Carretero, Kim van de Hoven
Client: Housing corporation De Woonmensen, Care institution De Passerel
Location: Apeldoorn, NL
Photography: Milena Villalba
The Passerel
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Patricia Mata Mayrand
I have always been an aesthete, critical and curious person, which led me to the interest of how Architecture impacts on people’s daily lives.
The obsession with simplifying complex processes in order to achieve a recognizable solution that applies naturally across the different scales of a project, has come to define my practice. These solutions weave together efficiency, sustainability, comfort, and identity for the end user.
After completing my university studies, I moved to the Netherlands with a scholarship from Fundación Arquia to work at MVRDV. I later returned to Spain, where I worked as an independent architect and contributed to a project on the coast.
Back in the Netherlands, I worked on large-scale projects at EEA; and with a clearer vision of my professional goals, I decided to join Woonwerk Architecten, where I continue to develop my career.
In addition to my professional work, I participate in volunteer activities that allow me to experience firsthand life in residential care centres that offer rehabilitation services, cognitive stimulation, and medical care.
I am committed to sharing and promoting my experience at both a local and international level.
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