Future proof SKAR ateliers
September 2025
How do you keep artist spaces affordable in a time of rising energy costs? By making affordable workspaces more sustainable! Superuse has been asked by SKAR ateliers to help make its more than thirty buildings future-proof. The goal: to make them more sustainable without increasing the rent.
Instead of expensive standard solutions, we look at what each property really needs and what tenants can do themselves. The energy requirements of the buildings are reduced through various interventions, thereby lowering monthly costs. For example, we harvest used sandwich panels for insulation, and an old beach pavilion now serves as a window frame.
Construction costs are also kept low by undertaking this learning project together with the artists (who do odd jobs in exchange for rent) and in-house suppliers Jaap Verheul and Peter Paauwe. In this way, we are exchanging ever-increasing energy bills for a fixed investment in the SKAR buildings.
The result? Affordable and sustainable workspaces for artists, now and in the future. The first pilots are already underway in Ruilstraat and Drievriendenstraat.
Participatory climate concept in collaboration with Superuse on Site.
