Description of the attraction
When planning a walk in the Dutch city of Rotterdam, you should definitely include Cubic Houses in your itinerary - the famous residential complex, which is located next to the Old Port on Overblaak Street right above the Blaak metro station and is rightfully considered one of the most impressive local attractions.
Cubic houses were built in 1984 by the famous Dutch architect-innovator Pete Blom and are an original complex consisting of 38 standard cubic houses and two so-called super-cubes interconnected. According to the author's idea, Cubic houses were supposed to become a “village in a big city” with cozy courtyards and their own infrastructure (school, shops, offices, etc.), where a separate house symbolizes a tree, and the whole complex symbolizes a forest, so the Dutch The Cubic Houses of Rotterdam are often called “Blaakse Bos” (“Blaaks Forest”).
A feature of a separate structure is that such a house looks like a cube leaning at a certain angle on one of its peaks on a high hexagonal pylon (inside it is hollow and there is a staircase in it, along which you can climb into a cube). At the same time, a standard cube is a separate three-story apartment, where a living room and a kitchen are located on the first floor, as a rule, two bedrooms and a bathroom on the second floor, but the third floor is usually used as an office, recreation area or winter garden. The area of such an apartment is about 100 sq. m, but due to the specific slope of the walls, part of the space is unusable and visually it seems much smaller. However, you yourself can see this by visiting the museum located in one of the cubic houses - "Kijk-kubus". You can also look into one of the super cubes, where the StayOkey hostel has been opened since 2009.
