The TUIN (garden) building

Rotterdam designer Reinier de Jong says that housing in big city centres seems to consist of small apartments. Highrise equals apartments. Or so it seems. However many cities economically really need well-to-do middle class dwellers. They flee to suburbia as soon as salaries go up and kids arrive. So we will diminish the suburban sprawl that is swallowing up our precious land.
The project TUIN (garden) combines high-rise with a typical suburban housing typology: a two storey dwelling with garden. A height of seven metres and a depth of one metre of soil guarantees a true garden. Enough for sunlight, rain and wind to enter and nourish trees, shrubs, flowers and grass.