Petrus Hotton-serre 21

3823DG Amersfoort, Wintertuinen

Watch it! Only suitable for 55+ and households that are alone or with two people and without children.

Quiet living in the Kattenbroek district
Kattenbroek is a district in the city of Amersfoort, in the province of Utrecht. The district, built in the early 1990s, contains approximately 4600 dwellings. The district is built in the outskirts of the former municipality of Hoogland and named after the farm located just outside the district. The starting point for the design was to build a non-standard residential area.

Designer Ashok Bhalotra wanted a healthy, safe and cheerful environment, where people feel at home and get jitters to dream. He used themes and metaphors for this, something that was more often used in urban planning from that moment on.

For example, the main structure of the district is characterized by certain geometric shapes, consisting of five elements: The Ring, De Laan der Hoven, The Hidden Zone, The Mask and The Creek. The Ring is the centrally located circular neighborhood, the size of amersfoort's historic city center. Here various themes come together, as well as De Laan der Hoven and De Verborgen Zone. The Laan der Hoven is a road that runs from the northwest to the southeast through the district. The Hidden Zone runs from north to south right through the district, where there are 12 works of art. The Mask forms the eastern border of the district with a long curved line. The Creek, located in the north of the district, connects the scattered original farms.

In addition to the 5 elements, there are also 5 residential themes: The Closed City, The Fort, The Farms Room, The Bridge Houses and Living at Winter Gardens, 5 landscapes: Water, Pond, Forest, Field and Swamp and 5 urban morphologists: Laan, Singel, Plein, Steeg en Straat.

Petrus Hotton Conservatory
In the Kattenbroek district is this small-scale residential complex. The complex consists of 24 rental apartments, 2 of which fall into the free sector. The remaining 22 houses are social rental properties.

The houses
The complex consists of 24 houses. Each house has a living room with open kitchen, at least 2 bedrooms, a bathroom with toilet, and a storage room. The ground floor apartments have a garden. The apartments/maisonettes on the floors have a large balcony. In addition, you have a private storage room on the ground floor. Not all apartments are threshold free. There is an elevator in the conservatory/atrium. Each property has an intercom, so you know who you are letting in.