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outside view - east elevation
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outside view - night
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outside view - south elevation
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inside view - atrium
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inside view - atrium second floor
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inside view - atrium first floor
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plan 1 - situation
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plan 2 - first floor
Laboratories and offices for the Food Inspection Department
Venhoeven CS Architects. Zwijndrecht, The Netherlands
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Name of work in English
Laboratories and offices for the Food Inspection Department
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Name of work in original language
Laboratorium voor de Voedsel en Warenautoriteit
Prize year
EUmies Awards 2005
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Work Location
Zwijndrecht, The Netherlands
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Studio
Venhoeven CS Architects
EUmies Awards 2005 Nominees
Collaborators
Project management: Kees Plomp - Venhoeven CS; Project architect: Peter Heideman - Venhoeven CS; Design: Beate Lendt - Venhoeven CS, Chantal van Dillen-Venhoeven CS, Jos-Willem van Oorschot - Venhoeven CS, Bj Utpott - Venhoeven CS, Jeroen Tacx - Venhoeven CS, Erwin Hilbrands - Venhoeven CS, Katy Cassidy - Venhoeven CS; Construction: Rob Nijsse - ABT Adviesbureau voor Bouwtechniek; Climatisation: Ron van der Plas - Halmos Adviseurs; Design: Peterine Arts - Venhoeven CS
Program
Government & Civic
Completion
2003
The new laboratory stands like an 'alien' in its still to develop area. With its metal skin the relative big volume reminds of the shipbuilding yards in the surrounding area. The most eye-catching are the heads of the building at the south-east-side.
The offices in the heads offer a wide view over the nearby sport fields, the bridge over the river Noord and & in the distance & the old city Dordrecht. The rest of the building is for reasons of climate control relatively closed. Apparently random placed windows take away scale. This is most evident at the southwest side, where the building borders on the gardens of the neighboring houses.
Atria supply the building with light and fresh air. By showing the steel construction and the nodes deriving from the interplay of forces the interior gets a somewhat rough character which contrasts with the smooth out-side skin. Sight lines connect all the different employees and visitors into one organization.