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Other Projects by Powerhouse Company
Jakoba Mulderhuis
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Firm
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2022
SIZE
25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft
Perfectly Engineered
Forming a welcoming gateway to the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences campus, our new Conradhuis building bridges the academic world and the city. It gracefully embraces the past through a dynamic relationship with its surroundings, while its flexible interior leaves space to accommodate future educational requirements. Advancing the notion of furthering knowledge through personal exchanges, a high degree of transparency and fluidity places meetings and accidental encounters at the heart of the building, in our soaring, light-filled atrium.
‘The open environment promotes the communication of knowledge in a natural way.’
– Stefan Prins, Partner Architect
Scientific encounters
Designed by Powerhouse Company together with Architekten Cie and Marc Koehler Architects, the new university center houses facilities for disciplines from building engineering to aviation. These are revealed to each other – and encouraged to mix – by the soft edges of our atrium. Each department has its own floor, with a showcase terrace forming its lively public face. Through this intervention, the building embodies the concept of further knowledge through human interaction. The atrium’s soft edges also ensure a balance with the existing buildings next door, while the off-center landmark tower and lower-level block together make an emphatic yet friendly gesture to the outside world.
The atrium at the building’s heart
Designed by Powerhouse Company together with Architekten Cie and Marc Koehler Architects, the new university center houses facilities for disciplines from building engineering to aviation. These are revealed to each other – and encouraged to mix – by the soft edges of our atrium. Each department has its own floor, with a showcase terrace forming its lively public face. Through this intervention, the building embodies the concept of further knowledge through human interaction. The atrium’s soft edges also ensure a balance with the existing buildings next door, while the off-center landmark tower and lower-level block together make an emphatic yet friendly gesture to the outside world.
‘Education is changing rapidly, so flexibility is central to the design.’
– Nanne de Ru, Founder
Learning to change
Stefan Prins, Partner at Powerhouse Company
With the Covid-19 pandemic revealing just how quickly the world can change, it also highlights how architecture needs to be adaptable to future needs. The Conradhuis is highly adaptable to the short-term needs of changing education – both the high-rise and low-rise buildings, connected by the atrium, are efficient structures that can be subdivided in many ways to adapt to changing educational needs. But we took our thinking further: what if its function changes?
Inspiration through interaction
Marc Koehler, Founder of Marc Koehler Architects
In our design for the Conradhuis, we split the building up into a high-rise wing and a low-rise wing, removed the passageway, and designed an atrium to connect the Conradhuis with the Theo Thijssen Building. The atrium's terrace layout means students 'hop' from floor to floor and draw inspiration from the projects that they pass along the way – inspiring cross-pollination of ideas in an open and creative environment.
Breaking down educational barriers
Gerard Kuiper, Director of Education at the Faculty of Technology
The Conradhuis ties in perfectly with our new vision of education and research: more project-based work and fewer lectures, with students working together as communities. This new vision requires a new learning environment and we'll have to develop new routines. This sort of cross-pollination will be essential to solving the wider social themes of the future. I'm really looking forward to it.
Flexible property is the future
Hans Wichers Schreur, Director of Campus Real Estate and Policy at AUAS
"In a time in which change is the only constant factor, the Conradhuis provides much-needed flexibility. Among other purposes, the design is intended to facilitate interaction between different disciplines. What will this achieve? Well, if a mechanical engineer had never met a nurse, for example, then the artificial knee would never have been invented. The open ambiance of the atrium facilitates interaction between people – potentially resulting in revolutionary innovations.
Forming a welcoming gateway to the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences campus, our new Conradhuis building bridges the academic world and the city. It gracefully embraces the past through a dynamic relationship with its surroundings, while its flexible interior leaves space to accommodate future educational requirements. Advancing the notion of furthering knowledge through personal exchanges, a high degree of transparency and fluidity places meetings and accidental encounters at the heart of the building, in our soaring, light-filled atrium.
‘The open environment promotes the communication of knowledge in a natural way.’
– Stefan Prins, Partner Architect
Scientific encounters
Designed by Powerhouse Company together with Architekten Cie and Marc Koehler Architects, the new university center houses facilities for disciplines from building engineering to aviation. These are revealed to each other – and encouraged to mix – by the soft edges of our atrium. Each department has its own floor, with a showcase terrace forming its lively public face. Through this intervention, the building embodies the concept of further knowledge through human interaction. The atrium’s soft edges also ensure a balance with the existing buildings next door, while the off-center landmark tower and lower-level block together make an emphatic yet friendly gesture to the outside world.
The atrium at the building’s heart
Designed by Powerhouse Company together with Architekten Cie and Marc Koehler Architects, the new university center houses facilities for disciplines from building engineering to aviation. These are revealed to each other – and encouraged to mix – by the soft edges of our atrium. Each department has its own floor, with a showcase terrace forming its lively public face. Through this intervention, the building embodies the concept of further knowledge through human interaction. The atrium’s soft edges also ensure a balance with the existing buildings next door, while the off-center landmark tower and lower-level block together make an emphatic yet friendly gesture to the outside world.
‘Education is changing rapidly, so flexibility is central to the design.’
– Nanne de Ru, Founder
Learning to change
Stefan Prins, Partner at Powerhouse Company
With the Covid-19 pandemic revealing just how quickly the world can change, it also highlights how architecture needs to be adaptable to future needs. The Conradhuis is highly adaptable to the short-term needs of changing education – both the high-rise and low-rise buildings, connected by the atrium, are efficient structures that can be subdivided in many ways to adapt to changing educational needs. But we took our thinking further: what if its function changes?
Inspiration through interaction
Marc Koehler, Founder of Marc Koehler Architects
In our design for the Conradhuis, we split the building up into a high-rise wing and a low-rise wing, removed the passageway, and designed an atrium to connect the Conradhuis with the Theo Thijssen Building. The atrium's terrace layout means students 'hop' from floor to floor and draw inspiration from the projects that they pass along the way – inspiring cross-pollination of ideas in an open and creative environment.
Breaking down educational barriers
Gerard Kuiper, Director of Education at the Faculty of Technology
The Conradhuis ties in perfectly with our new vision of education and research: more project-based work and fewer lectures, with students working together as communities. This new vision requires a new learning environment and we'll have to develop new routines. This sort of cross-pollination will be essential to solving the wider social themes of the future. I'm really looking forward to it.
Flexible property is the future
Hans Wichers Schreur, Director of Campus Real Estate and Policy at AUAS
"In a time in which change is the only constant factor, the Conradhuis provides much-needed flexibility. Among other purposes, the design is intended to facilitate interaction between different disciplines. What will this achieve? Well, if a mechanical engineer had never met a nurse, for example, then the artificial knee would never have been invented. The open ambiance of the atrium facilitates interaction between people – potentially resulting in revolutionary innovations.
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