Project detailsx

Client: Real Estate owners
Location: Netherlands
Year: 2016
Surface: 4,00 x 1,60m = 6,4 m2 / Balcony
Material: Composite
Specifics: A lightweight composite balcony for new construction, or in case of renovation slides over the old concrete version. This also ensures an enlargement of the balcony, more living enjoyment, a more beautiful appearance and an increase in the value of the house.

Composite Balcony – We developed lightweight composite balconies for a housing corporation. These are partially placed on an existing terrace, but also protrude 1.5 meters, creating more outdoor space for the residents.

Instead of a small seating area, the residents in Hengelo-Noord now have a spacious terrace where they can eat and be healthy. To make this possible, the composite balconies are not only light, but also extremely strong and rigid. The attachment of this new, much larger balcony consists of no more than four bolts.

The housing corporation invested in its real estate and refurbished the entire outer shell of the flats in typical reconstruction architecture. In this, the improvement of the living enjoyment and living climate against a barely present rent increase were leading.

The Kleine Driene district in Hengelo, built in the 1950s, is considered one of the finest examples of reconstruction architecture by Van den Broek and Bakema. Although the district is still fairly popular, restructuring is necessary, especially at the housing level. The existing portion houses no longer meet today’s requirements.

Major maintenance was therefore carried out on 148 flats. The work mainly concerned the removal of asbestos, the improvement of the outer skin, the interior, the technical installations and the enlargement of the shower and kitchen area and the balcony.

The new balconies, measuring 400 x 160 cm, will be freely anchored to the existing poured balconies. Due to the insulating capacity of the new balconies, the poured balconies are fully thermally packed. Thanks to this solution, the existing indoor balcony could be closed and thus the shower and kitchen could be enlarged.

Development, production, transport and assembly of the composite balconies by Holland Composites.