Kleiburg is one of the biggest apartment buildings in the Netherlands: a bend slab with 500 apartments, 400 meter long, 10 + 1 stories high.

© Stijn Poelstra

Architects: NL Architects, XVW architectuur

Location: Kleiburg, 1104 Amsterdam-Zuidoost, The Netherlands

Architects In Charge: Kamiel Klaasse, Pieter Bannenberg, Walter van Dijk, Xander Vermeulen Windsant

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Stijn Poelstra , Marcel van der Burg

Other Participants: HendriksCPO (co-initiator and part of Consortium DeFlat), Vireo Vastgoed (co-initiator and part of Consortium DeFlat) , Hollands Licht (co-initiator and part of Consortium DeFlat), Van Rossum Raadgevende Ingenieurs Amsterdam bv, Schreuder Groep, HOMIJ Technische installaties bv, Installations, KondorWessels Amsterdam bv, Contractor, De Wijde Blik, Communication and Marketing
© Stijn Poelstra

From the architect. Kleiburg is one of the biggest apartment buildings in the Netherlands: a bend slab with 500 apartments, 400 meter long, 10 + 1 stories high.

Site Plan

Kleiburg is located in the Bijlmermeer, a CIAM inspired residential expansion of Amsterdam designed in the sixties by Siegfried Nassuth of the city planning department. De Bijlmer was intended as a green, light and spacious alternative for the -at that time- disintegrating inner city. 

© Marcel van der Burg

The Bijlmer was designed as a single pr...