Long may we live!
Apartments in Pendrecht (1950) Lotte Stam-Beese
Multi-faceted relationships in the community
In the immediate post-war years, Lotte Stam-Beese designed a block of flats for independent pensioners in Pendrecht, a suburb of Rotterdam. The neighbourhood is a convincing implementation of the idea of community advocated by the publication The City of the Future, The Future of the City (1946) by A. Bos. In Pendrecht, Stam-Beese designed a two-storey block of flats with gardens on the ground floor and balconies on the first floor. All the apartments have a living room, kitchen, bedroom and storage. The block is fully integrated within the neighbourhood so that the residents are part of the community, a position that Stam-Beese found important: 'The elderly create conditions for the many-faceted relationships that occur in the larger space of the community.'