Summer scene with children playing basketball in the foreground. The urban environment with apartment buildings is visible in the background.

Jonas

Orange Architects

Shared entrance area of ​​a large apartment building. A large glass facade with a view outside and modern wooden architecture.
People walk in a corridor that most resembles a canyon because of the irregular shape of the wooden interior finish.
Shared entrance hall of a large apartment building. Modern interior with wooden architecture.
Shared entrance hall of a large apartment building. Modern interior with wooden architecture. Mensen zitten op een ronde bank, anderen lopen rond.
A woman sits in a courtyard with trees and shade, reading a book. All the facades are made of wood.
A woman sits in a shaded courtyard reading a book. In the background, you can see someone walking, and the woman's dog is roaming around.
A woman exercises in a yoga room. This space is a shared facility for residents of the apartment building.
Woman sits on the edge of the bed in a shared room that can be rented out to guests.
People watch a movie in a small cinema that is a shared facility of the apartment building.

Images

Shared entrance area of ​​a large apartment building. A large glass facade with a view outside and modern wooden architecture.
People walk in a corridor that most resembles a canyon because of the irregular shape of the wooden interior finish.
Shared entrance hall of a large apartment building. Modern interior with wooden architecture.
Shared entrance hall of a large apartment building. Modern interior with wooden architecture. Mensen zitten op een ronde bank, anderen lopen rond.
A woman sits in a courtyard with trees and shade, reading a book. All the facades are made of wood.
A woman sits in a shaded courtyard reading a book. In the background, you can see someone walking, and the woman's dog is roaming around.
A woman exercises in a yoga room. This space is a shared facility for residents of the apartment building.
A corridor in an apartment building with a special wooden outdoor world where tension builds as you look between the wooden slats.
Woman sits on the edge of the bed in a shared room that can be rented out to guests.
People watch a movie in a small cinema that is a shared facility of the apartment building.

The Jonas apartment building on IJburg in Amsterdam is conceived as a contemporary residential project in which community is central. The striking waterfront volume combines housing with a wide range of shared and public spaces, including collective living rooms, workspaces and a roof terrace.

Open sight lines and fluid transitions between private and collective areas encourage interaction and use, allowing the building to function as a vibrant residential environment. In documenting this project, the focus was not only on architecture, but on daily life within it.

By combining photography and moving image, a narrative series emerges in which dynamics, interaction and atmosphere become tangible, making the building readable as a social structure.

Category

Housing

Architect

Orange Architects

Year

2024

Location

Amsterdam, NL

Jonas Orange Architects