Cubic Houses is a housing designed on top of a pedestrian bridge. The main idea behind this is to create a forest of cubes (abstract trees) as each cube represents an abstract tree.
The cubes are tilted and sit on hexagon-shaped pole structures. The cubes contain the living areas, which are split into three levels. The triangle-shaped lower level contains the living area.The cube houses are situated next to the Rotterdam Blaak subway and train station, an area still going through a lot of changes, where new buildings are still being constructed. The whole cube house site is in fact constructed as part of a pedestrian bridge, crossing a highly trafficked road. In fact, the original inspiration to the idea was coming from the famous Ponte Vecchio in Florence, Italy. The first version of the plan included 78 small cubes, but the final version at the end consists of 38 block houses and two so-called “super-cubes”. All pieces are attached to each other, creating a unison structure.
