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Zorro
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| location | Amsterdam |
| function | housing |
| contributed by | dirkverwoerd |
The residential tower 'Zorro' has 18 storeys and a car park and power station below ground level. The figure of Zorro was used as a symbol: straight-backed, yet cloaked in a dashing cape. The imagery of Zorro's cape has been literally applied. The idea was to truly let the building's 'cloak' hang: there is only one apartment on the ground floor, so the elevation immediately above ground level remains open and the 'cloaked façade' hangs above the ground. The 54 metres of the tower seem to hover above the surroundings. This was achieved by collecting the forces of the floors and walls in a metre-thick first-floor slab of concrete which then redistributes the forces to conical columns that are flared beneath the 'cloak'. In order to achieve abstractness, the window frames spiral up the building to the 17th storey. The façade was constructed with a wooden structure, making Zorro the first high-rise building of its kind in the Netherlands to employ this technique.
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