2. Assignment Renovation and Rehabilitation of Helmond’s water tower Two proposed programs: - Luxurious apartments with a public viewing platform - Artist residences with workshops and an exhibition space
3. General Information Helmond, a city in Southeast-Brabant, is a pleasant city with historical ties and has 86.000 inhabitants. After a stormy and energetic development, Helmond has recently evolved into modern city with large aspirations regarding architecture for instance. Being the fifth largest city of Brabant, Helmond is a centre which seems to keep growing in its appeal. Famous nationally and internationally, are the cities Dierdonk and Brandevoort area, where housing has been based on historical architecture. The water tower it self has also had a stormy history. It had to be rebuilt three times before it would stay upright and WWII made it that much harder to finish the design. But through it all the tower was finished in 1948 and has been in use up and until the 1990’s.