The design of the Belvedere residential building is defined by numerous site restrictions. It is located at a busy intersection, and therefore the building there, clearly visible from all sides, had to receive a sculptural form and original architecture: this is what the municipality wanted. The established minimum distance to the border of the site and a dense network of communications required to minimize the building area (no more than 450 m2, 15% of the site); there was also a height limit of 11 floors. A traditional tower with such indicators could accommodate only 44 apartments, but the project became financially profitable only with 55 apartments.
Rene van Zyuk and his bureau responded with a cruciform plan and floor space that increased from floor to floor. As a result, with a building area of 440 m2 and a total area of 6,500 m2, 55 apartments were placed in the building. The stability of the structure with cantilever stems is given by its symmetrical structure.
The Belvedere completes a series of six 1980s towers that emerged in the four-story post-war area. The name, reminiscent of the "beautiful view", corresponds to reality: the apartments of the L-shaped plan are inscribed in the inner corners of the cross and face two sides, and also received large balconies. Their windows face the center of Hilversum and the surrounding forests.
