31/44 Architects has completed Wenslauer House, a new spacious self-build family home on a constrained site in central Amsterdam. 

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Architects: 31/44 Architects

Location: Wenslauerstraat, 1053 Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Architect In Charge: James Jeffries?

Area: 145.0 m2

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Kasia Gatkowska

Structural Engineer: DUYTS Bouwconstructies and Houtbouw ?t Zand

Services Engineer: Van Breukelen & Rozendaal Elektrotechniek?

Building Contractor: Van Baaren Aannemers?

© Kasia Gatkowska

31/44 Architects has completed Wenslauer House, a new spacious self-build family home on a constrained site in central Amsterdam. Replacing a dilapidated early 20th century workers cottage, Wenslauer forms an infill house on an unexpectedly irregular street within the conventional homogeneous streetscape more typical of Amsterdam. 
© Kasia Gatkowska

This eclectic quality of the street stems from its colourful past when the area was in use as the city?s builders yard. A wide canal at the end of the street was used to bring materials into the city on large barges from the surrounding countryside and seaports, which were then offloaded and stored in large warehouses. Plots of land were divided up along the polder where the tradesmen gradually built workshop...