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Proyecto Roble
Proyecto Roble
8A, Oisterwijksebaan, Berkel-Enschot, The Netherlands
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Proyecto Roble
8A, Oisterwijksebaan, Berkel-Enschot, The Netherlands
Project Featured on Aug 22, 2015
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2012
SIZE
25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft
“Proyecto Roble” by young office Équipe is a
grass roots project, a building embedded in the local context in the rural
south of the Netherlands. The client, owner of landscaping firm Van Helvoirt
Groenprojecten, had a vision for his headquarters to be a flagship model of
sustainability. This was to be a key project where sustainable innovations
replace money-issues as the bottom line.
The building is a custom designed
environment with no standard details. The project was undertaken as a research
into the potentials for creating a positive workplace. Key themes were broken
down into components and expressed in the design. “Feel Good!” was the
catchphrase coined that encompassed the different themes as renewable energy,
passive climate control, abundance of natural light and the relationship to the external landscape, which
was to be a showpiece of healing environment garden.
Sustainability was thus been payed attention
to in all stages and all scales. From a period of studying what
‘sustainability’ actually means to making sure everyone on the building site
understands and embraces these principals.
A.o. a new way of tendering was used, called
the Building-team Plus and a new formula was invented to document decisions on
materiality and techniques.
The new extension immediately catches the
passing motorist’s eye, a sleek red form in the agrarian landscape, replete
with a fully integrated photo-voltaic-panel roof and a green roof. The green
roof transcends its cosmetic role, and is a testing ground for emerging water
filtration technology. In the beginning of the 20th century Tilburg was
re-known for its textile industry, collecting the workers pee in pitchers for
using it as a bleach. Now this project goes back to this tradition inventing
worlds first sloped constructed wetlands.
Urine is separated from the black water
using it a as a nutrition ingredient for making fertiliser in the clients
landscaping activities. Further the grey water runs through the grass roof
leaving it as clean water that can be used in the building again. This is only
one of the multiple innovations in this project that has been designed to the
smallest detail: from building to garden, from the bicycle shed to the bespoke
interior and signposting.
The building consists of two parts,
connected by the clay stove. Heated with prune wasted from the greenery’s own
business, this element brings together the office-employees and the outdoor
workers. Thus connecting the new extension to the traditions of the family
business. Besides the pleasant indoor atmosphere the clay stove also brings
technical advantages. The air heating pump could have less capacity and in
addition the heater is used as a hot water boiler.
The north part of the building consists of
offices. The linearity of the building is emphasised by the interior elements,
that are placed on the coloured pathways. By using red linoleum on different
areas of the floor and furniture the interior keeps a coherency to the exterior
looks of the building.
The southern part of the building is a
oversized foyer that connects all spaces. This multipurpose lobby, used for
bigger and smaller, organised and spontaneous meetings, provides a green and
transparent link to the outdoor world. The play of lines has been made
expressive by folded raw aluminium lighting trays that float the length of the
building.
The facades are made of open detailed,
wooden slats painted red with water based ‘nature paint’ thus creating
different transparencies between inside and outside. The structure of
prefabricated cross laminated timber elements is left unfinished, the
imperfections of the timber adding to the natural serenity of the interior. The
timber imbues the internal spaces with a positive connection to nature,
something which contributes to the landscaping firms green image. All interior
elements, apart from second-hand chairs and desk LED lamps, were custom
designed. They are specifically designed in consultation with the personnel.
Chairs and table carriages are second hand, like all kinds of smaller parts in
the interior design: the door handle of the employees entrance (a re-used
banister), the magazine stand (heating pipe) and the fruit boxes in the sample
cabinet. Also in the furniture low environmental impact products were used.
Special research was done to investigate what material could be best used in
what elements and how should these materials be connected. Just like for the exterior
the ‘decision document’ was used to explore the considerations in the building
team plus and to be able to document conclusions. This proved to be a very
useful tool that helps making choices that exceed standards or norms. During the whole process norms were never
leading anyhow. Choosing consciously prevailed following scores. (Nevertheless
all calculated scores are excellent) F.e. were passive house theories and Dutch
energy performance norms may lead to small windows in the north facade, this building
has high windows from floor to ceiling that provide the employees with a view
to the landscape and lots of northern light.
grass roots project, a building embedded in the local context in the rural
south of the Netherlands. The client, owner of landscaping firm Van Helvoirt
Groenprojecten, had a vision for his headquarters to be a flagship model of
sustainability. This was to be a key project where sustainable innovations
replace money-issues as the bottom line.
The building is a custom designed
environment with no standard details. The project was undertaken as a research
into the potentials for creating a positive workplace. Key themes were broken
down into components and expressed in the design. “Feel Good!” was the
catchphrase coined that encompassed the different themes as renewable energy,
passive climate control, abundance of natural light and the relationship to the external landscape, which
was to be a showpiece of healing environment garden.
Sustainability was thus been payed attention
to in all stages and all scales. From a period of studying what
‘sustainability’ actually means to making sure everyone on the building site
understands and embraces these principals.
A.o. a new way of tendering was used, called
the Building-team Plus and a new formula was invented to document decisions on
materiality and techniques.
The new extension immediately catches the
passing motorist’s eye, a sleek red form in the agrarian landscape, replete
with a fully integrated photo-voltaic-panel roof and a green roof. The green
roof transcends its cosmetic role, and is a testing ground for emerging water
filtration technology. In the beginning of the 20th century Tilburg was
re-known for its textile industry, collecting the workers pee in pitchers for
using it as a bleach. Now this project goes back to this tradition inventing
worlds first sloped constructed wetlands.
Urine is separated from the black water
using it a as a nutrition ingredient for making fertiliser in the clients
landscaping activities. Further the grey water runs through the grass roof
leaving it as clean water that can be used in the building again. This is only
one of the multiple innovations in this project that has been designed to the
smallest detail: from building to garden, from the bicycle shed to the bespoke
interior and signposting.
The building consists of two parts,
connected by the clay stove. Heated with prune wasted from the greenery’s own
business, this element brings together the office-employees and the outdoor
workers. Thus connecting the new extension to the traditions of the family
business. Besides the pleasant indoor atmosphere the clay stove also brings
technical advantages. The air heating pump could have less capacity and in
addition the heater is used as a hot water boiler.
The north part of the building consists of
offices. The linearity of the building is emphasised by the interior elements,
that are placed on the coloured pathways. By using red linoleum on different
areas of the floor and furniture the interior keeps a coherency to the exterior
looks of the building.
The southern part of the building is a
oversized foyer that connects all spaces. This multipurpose lobby, used for
bigger and smaller, organised and spontaneous meetings, provides a green and
transparent link to the outdoor world. The play of lines has been made
expressive by folded raw aluminium lighting trays that float the length of the
building.
The facades are made of open detailed,
wooden slats painted red with water based ‘nature paint’ thus creating
different transparencies between inside and outside. The structure of
prefabricated cross laminated timber elements is left unfinished, the
imperfections of the timber adding to the natural serenity of the interior. The
timber imbues the internal spaces with a positive connection to nature,
something which contributes to the landscaping firms green image. All interior
elements, apart from second-hand chairs and desk LED lamps, were custom
designed. They are specifically designed in consultation with the personnel.
Chairs and table carriages are second hand, like all kinds of smaller parts in
the interior design: the door handle of the employees entrance (a re-used
banister), the magazine stand (heating pipe) and the fruit boxes in the sample
cabinet. Also in the furniture low environmental impact products were used.
Special research was done to investigate what material could be best used in
what elements and how should these materials be connected. Just like for the exterior
the ‘decision document’ was used to explore the considerations in the building
team plus and to be able to document conclusions. This proved to be a very
useful tool that helps making choices that exceed standards or norms. During the whole process norms were never
leading anyhow. Choosing consciously prevailed following scores. (Nevertheless
all calculated scores are excellent) F.e. were passive house theories and Dutch
energy performance norms may lead to small windows in the north facade, this building
has high windows from floor to ceiling that provide the employees with a view
to the landscape and lots of northern light.
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