Office Building, Spijkenisse

View of the office building in Spijkenisse.

Project Details

• Project Name: Office Building
• Client: Van Klaveren Stigter
• Project Type: Architectural design
• Principal Designer: E.A.J. Boost, J.J.H. van Veldhoven
• Contractor: Dickhoff-Spindler
• Date of commencement of project: March 2006
• Date of completion of project: November 2006
• Location of site: Spijkenisse, Netherlands

The openings are arranged within a rigid array.

The Building

The office building was designed on a rather small plot for an insurance company. The brief thus required the creation of a work environment that projected a progressive mindset as well as unwavering reliability.

The openings are set deep into the facade so as to not interrupt the overall massing.

The building is realized as a pure solid in order to project reliability.

The windows were also set back deep in the facade to this effect and were set in a rigid array barring a few minor exceptions.

The large span on the front side of the building was created to span the existing waterline.

The volume was lifted up on the rear side so as to make space for extra parking.

Detail view of the facade.

The building is built of prefabricated concrete elements which allowed the span at both ends of the volume to be realized and reduced the construction period to 9 months.

Credits

• Text: Courtesy of the architect
• Photographs: Courtesy of the architect
• Compiled and edited by Manish Mehta