Sustainable Housing Leonidas and Campus Erasmus University

Rotterdam has initiated a project on the former site of the Leonidas hockey club in the Esch, where private individuals can design and build their own sustainable home. As long as the homes meet the sustainability requiremens of the municipality, plenty of experimentation can be done. This has created a unique part of Rotterdam, with an enormous divisersity of stylers and eco friendly solutions; a real showcase of sustainable architecture.

Within walking distance of this sustainable housing experiment, Erasmus University is also busy ambitiously making its own campus more sustainable and revitalizing. In the past 10 years, an almost completely new, vibrant campus has been created, where the famous “Brutalist blocks” have been overhauld, new buildings have been added and, above all, a completely campus area has been constructed with new paving, level differences, planting and other facilities (supermarket, student housing, catering, sports facilities). It’s now really what a campus should be: everything in one place.