Catalogue 5 The Work of cepezed

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catalogue the work of cepezed

catalogue 5 the work of cepezed

catalogue the work of cepezed nai 010 publishers 2018

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Like its predecessors, cepezed’s fifth catalogue presents a broad overview of current projects: already realized but also in various phases of construction or design. Naturally all the projects are once again unmistakably characterized by the specific cepezed approach that focuses on achieving an optimal balance between long-term flexible user convenience, a high incentive to linger, a lucid aesthetic and the specific preconditions.

Like Mies van der Rohe, cepezed does not invent a new architecture every Monday morning either but, just like this archmodernist, the office prefers to focus on continually refining and perfecting its methods, techniques, solutions and applications. This invariably gives the projects, besides a great degree of recognizability, a timeless and self-evident quality as well; almost as if they have always been there.

A clear and unambiguous lay-out, maximum result with minimum material use and a high degree of transparency, openness and spatial variation are constant factors. As is minimalistic, often refined detailing and a fusion of architecture, structures, building services and building physics that is efficient, functional and elegant.

Furthermore, process, concept and implementation are always indivisibly connected. Stemming from a meticulous analysis and systematization of all the information relating to matters such as location, programme, budget and planning, is in general a spatial and constructive approach brought back to the essence, which directly guarantees the most simple and focused construction method. Again and again this way of working provides added value that makes clients steadfastly choose cepezed. And often makes then return to the office for subsequent projects. ’t eemgoed

With all the characteristics that make the cepezed approach widely applicable and give the oeuvre great consistency, a catalogue with recent work naturally creates a portrait of the times as well. That is partly reflected in something as simple as the type of assignments with their corresponding wishes and requirements. After all, an architectural office must continue to design topical answers to topical spatial issues within a topical framework. To an extent, however, it is also reflected in less directly visible aspects such as changing market models and organizational forms within which the projects come about.

A portrait of the times also represents an interface, certainly in a still relatively slow field as architecture, although it is moving increasingly fast. It still carries within it all sorts of characteristics from what went before, but also from what is happening by now. For instance, some projects were already initiated during and subsequently interwoven with the economic crisis that began exactly 10 years ago this year. However, others were explicit exponents of the by now strongly recovered economy.

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One of the developments in recent years is that the government has steadily withdrawn from many fields where it previously intervened more intensively; from healthcare to the development of the built environment. This is manifested in different ways, including the shift in opportunities, risks and relationships in the market. But this trend can also be seen in the government’s own accommodation. Projects like De Resident and government office De Knoop which you will find in this book, house a slimmed-down administrative body in an efficiently utilized compact number of metres. With different backgrounds, the same incidentally applies to the two buildings of merged municipality Westland.

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Another tendency is the generation of new focuses in the building process. The revitalized economy is responsible for renewed demand for commercial buildings, such as the one for producer of innovative motorcycle clothing REV’IT. There is also a catch-up taking place in the residential market, which had being lagging behind for years. Certainly in and around the large cities, completely new neighbourhoods and urban districts are being created, often based on new business models, new demographic trends and new visions with respect to urban design, density, residential quality and society. A project like Park Hoog Oostduin combines the demand for luxury city living in the higher segment with the transformation of existing property, which remains unabatedly an opportunity and challenge. However, an almost Arcadian residential building project such as ’t Eemgoed in Oosterwold originates from entirely new, private initiatives for special forms of housing.

Both comprise unorthodox housing typologies with considerable spatial quality. A large-scale housing project such as the International Student House in Delft reflects the internationalization of education. Although it does not have radically new floor plans, it does have student rooms with a level of quality and setting previously unheard of, each with their own sanitary facilities, for example. Furthermore, it has been carefully inserted into its historical surroundings.

Education itself represents a significantly large segment of the building task at the moment. Ranging from primary to secondary and higher education: throughout the entire sector, changes are taking place to amended needs and contemporary requirements or institutions are committing emphatically to long-term visions for the future. The budgets here often represent a challenge, but cepezed knows how to achieve the maximum attainable. Important exponents within the office’s education portfolio are the revitalization of the iconic Tinbergen building at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and a brand new research and education building for the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. These are assignments with in this instance the same type of client but of a very different order. A project such as the SintLucas vocational school for creative professions again combines modern new-build with the transformation of an existing monumental building.

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By now well into the 21st century, the infrastructure for mobility requires an upgrade for the future. Examples of this in the cepezed oeuvre are the station in Tilburg, the Moreelse bridge and the new pier at Schiphol. The technical complexity, the complicated playing field with many stakeholders and the often challenging planning and logistical circumstances mean that these sorts of assignments make many demands on the designers, both in terms of procedure and purely in their own discipline.

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Projects such as the EYE Collection Centre and the Collection Centre Netherlands (CC NL) both provide integral long-term solutions for large cultural heritage collections that for decades had been preserved in a scattered fashion and under sub-optimal conditions. They facilitate more than sufficient possibilities for storage and restoration under the best imaginable conditions. The sizeable CC NL is even going to function as ‘the treasure trove of the Netherlands’, with the collections of four major institutions including the Rijksmuseum. Because it concerns long-term storage, the sustainability ambitions are additionally very high. The building is receiving a BREEAMNL Outstanding certificate for sustainable buildings. Passive climate control makes a significant contribution in this area.

The necessity for sustainability is naturally permeating the whole field increasingly deeply, but with the emergence of circularity in recent times it has taken on another new dimension recently. Circularity encompasses many aspects, from the application of reused, reusable and responsibly produced materials to the construction method and the way the building is utilized. The fundamental idea of circularity closely mirrors the way of building cepezed has been advocating for decades: using prefabricated, modular elements which facilitate construction, increase flexibility and simplify the replacement of components, dismantling of the building and reuse. So cepezed was a natural partner for a project like the Temporary

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Collaboration and co-creation have in a short space of time become the themes of today for the future of tomorrow. This is not just making its mark in processes that cepezed itself experiences as part of large project teams, but also in the demand from our clients. The call for buildings that promote and facilitate interaction, connection and cross-fertilization can be heard everywhere: a wish that fits in perfectly with cepezed’s architectural perspective, which after all advocates a high level of transparency and also significant optical and physical relationships between spaces and building components. Particularly in research buildings like the one for KWR Watercycle Research Institute, Genmab or DSM, strong players in the continually growing biotech sector within which cepezed acquires many assignments, there is a strong focus on collaboration, including with external partners. Similarly, a multi-company building like the revitalized Van Spaendonck Enterprise House is entirely organized on the basis of partnership and association and even wears collaboration explicitly as motto.

Courthouse Amsterdam, the first large-scale project put out to tender by the Central Government Real Estate Agency with removal and reuse explicitly included in the contract conditions. The temporary function did not lead to any concessions in terms of quality and appearance, which was partly the reason that the project won the Amsterdam Architecture Prize in 2017. The temporary restaurant and pavilion with meeting facilities The Green House in Utrecht is, with a substantial proportion of reused and bio-based materials, another building package that is simple to disassemble and reassemble and is additionally completely circular in operation. It was recently described as the most circular building of this moment.

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cepezed naturally operates primarily as architect, but has historically been active in other areas as well. For instance, the office also designs building products, and from an early stage in its existence has carried out the realization of select self-designed projects with its own building enterprise. Under the name cepezedbouwteam, the restarted building arm recently started providing a host of advantages again in the areas of process coordination and implementation organization. cepezed also has a development company, cepezedprojects. A few years ago, the office additionally started up an in-house department completely focused on interiors. The architects and interior architects each have their own assignments, but also work integrally together on projects such as the Cocoa factory in Helmond and the previously mentioned new pier at Schiphol. In these cases, architecture and interior fully constitute a single entity, which results in maximum synergy between building and experience. In the last decade, traditional organizational structures in construction have also shifted and diversified in all sorts of ways. As a result, the range of roles, tasks and responsibilities that cepezed takes on in continually changing configurations has only become wider: managing clients, realizing total concepts, guaranteeing quality, keeping stakeholders in agreement, introducing efficiency to the process or simply getting projects off the ground that would otherwise never have seen the light of day. From concept developer to product and project developer, from integral process manager to sustainability pioneer and from housing strategist to financial adviser, cepezed is all of these. With the same stable vision as basis, cepezed constantly responds to changing opportunities and circumstances. A project involving all the roles is the transformation of the historic Armamentarium in Delft to become hotel, restaurant and conference centre the Arsenaal. cepezedprojects is developing it, cepezed and cepezedinterior are designing it and cepezedbouwteam is responsible for the implementation.

The variety of roles and organizational forms can also be seen in a range of contract forms. The projects in this catalogue have been realized on the basis of traditional assignments but also, for example, on the basis of total engineering, Design & Build or agreements such as Design Build Finance Maintain & Operate and Design Build Maintain & Remove, which leave a great deal of initiative and responsibility with the market. For some

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Regardless of the function, scale and physical or procedural context: cepezed’s work starts and ends with creating space, literally and figuratively. Space for the client to achieve their objectives and space for the users to carry out their everyday tasks in a pleasant, comfortable and healthy environment. cepezed constantly keeps one eye on the future as well.

Because time and change unavoidably go hand in hand, the space that cepezed creates is always pliable.

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projects, cepezed functions as integral chief contractor and the office hires in all the other disciplines required – for a project such as Brussels Environment this even included an entirely international shadow team for aligning the design with local laws and regulations. In others, the risk and capital relationships are different. cepezed is the subcontractor for large consortiums, but also plays a central role in the process coordination.

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The Collection Centre Netherlands (CC NL) is to become the depot for objects from the Rijksmuseum, Holland Open Air Museum, Paleis het Loo and the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands. It will be located in Amersfoort Vathorst and consists of three linked structural elements that are being referred to as the Kop (Head), the Hals (Neck) and the Romp (Trunk). The Kop is a transparent volume with the entrance and offices. The Hals houses the ateliers where the objects with cultural-historical value can be studied and restored.

There is also an X-ray room, a photo studio, a cold store, quarantine and oxygen-free rooms and a space for transport preparation. The ateliers are flooded with daylight through shed roofs facing north and a generous patio between the Kop and Hals.

Lastly, the Romp is a compact, closed four-storey volume. This is the actual depot for no less than 675,000 artworks and other valuable objects. The column structure with large 8.1-metre spans makes a flexible arrangement possible. To provide optimal protection against fire, the fire compartments are small and the dividing partitions carry a high classification.

The Romp also has special facilities such as a cold store for audiovisual material and an extra-large space on the ground floor for large and heavy objects.

From Kop to Romp the structural elements are connected by two parallel, seven-metre-wide axes which provide access to the building over the entire length and in so doing form the most important thoroughfares. One of the axes links the covered distribution area at the front to the depot in the Romp.

The CC NL has been certified according to the BREEAM NL sustainability system and has achieved the certificate Outstanding. The depot has special climate control. Like a tea cosy an insulating skin has been placed over the Romp, while the floor at ground level actually remains uninsulated and in direct contact with the underlying ground, which works as a temperature buffer as a result. The Kop and the Hals also enjoy a high insulation value. In addition, these volumes utilize a system of long-term heat and cold storage in the ground, and a greywater system to flush the toilets, for example. On the roof, a large area with solar panels is included and the outdoor spaces have been laid out ecologically.

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KWR Watercycle Research Institute is a renowned research institute in the field of water and water cycles, which develops expertise and makes it accessible to various types of national and international organizations such as drinking water companies, regional water boards, local governments and trade and industry. At the green location on the Groningenhaven in Nieuwegein, a new office has risen to replace the existing one, which was outdated and no longer met today’s requirements. cepezed’s design is strongly interwoven with and makes maximum use of the surrounding landscape. The building is elevated more than a metre above ground level, making it an open, light and transparent pavilion on a plateau. To create a pleasant space outside and effective protection from the sun, it has been provided with a broad canopy at the top. The pavilion itself is largely made of glass, which gives the users an optimal connection with the green surroundings. The building structure consists mainly of two generic bays 12 metres deep. These do not have any supporting walls and have a gross storey height of four metres. This arrangement allows for every conceivable combination of laboratories, offices and shared functions such as meeting spots, quiet spaces, brainstorming spaces, meeting rooms, project team areas and so on.

The bays are interconnected by means of passages and footbridges. In between the bays, a stepped atrium represents the beating heart of the building; this is a place where people can come together, work and confer, but can also eat and have coffee in the restaurant part underneath. So the atrium is multifunctional and can also be used for conferences or other largerscale events.

On both the upper and lower sides it continues into an outdoor terrace. On the lower side, this terrace is directly situated beside the water that forms part of the landscape design. On the upper side, it has a sheltered position between the two generic bays and is organized with greenery that seems to integrate with the vegetation roof. This way, nature seems to literally continue into the building on both sides.

The building is also equipped with integral sustainability measures that were included in the design; these measures fit in well with KWR and are also in part focused on achieving optimal water management. The parking spaces are situated apart in the green area, so employees have a short walk through the landscape to the building.

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credits texts olof koekebakker architectenbureau cepezed bv: jeroen hendriks documentation architectenbureau cepezed bv: jim navarro sketches and drawings architectenbureau cepezed bv renderings architectenbureau cepezed bv: marko antic: 13, 172, 176-177, 178179, 180-181, 182, 184-185, 186-187, 286-287, 288-289 richard geleijnse: 14, 16, 17, 69, 90, 92-93, 94-95, 102-103, 248-249, 252, 254-255, 258-259, 284, 320, 326-327, 328-329, 330-331, 332-333, 334-335 marko antic/ richard geleijnse: 115,96, 98-99 richard geleijnse/ misa marinovik: 100, 104-105, 106-107 schiphol nederland bv/architectenbureau cepezed bv: 322-323

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photography architectenbureau cepezed bv: albertien kers: 293 ronald schleurholts: 29, 235, 274, 275, 276-277 lucas van der wee: 28, 38, 40-41, 42-43, 45, 46-47, 48-49, 50-51, 52-53, 54-55, 56, 58-59, 60 -61, 63, 64-65, 66-67, 70-71, 114-115, 116-117, 120121, 124, 126-127, 136-137, 138-139, 140, 142-143, 144, 146-147, 148-149, 156-157, 162-163, 164, 168-169, 170171, 204, 206-207, 208-209, 212-213, 214-215, 216, 218-219, 222-223, 224225, 226, 228-229, 246, 250-251, 252, 262, 264-265, 266, 268-269, 270-271, 272-273, 278, 280-281, 282-283, 292, 294-295, 298-299, 300-301, 302-303, 314-315, 346-347 léon van woerkom: 4-5, 30-31, 32, 34-35, 36-37, 39, 57, 153, 173, 194195, 196-197, 198-199, 304, 306-307, 308-309 boudewijn boer (©vinitex laboratoriuminrichtingen bv): 132-133 yvan glavie: 72 joep jacobs: 164-165 fas keuzenkamp: 6-7, 18-19, 20-21 horizon photoworks: 130-131, 134-135 luuk kramer: 78, 80-81, 82, 84-85, 86887, 88-889 jannes linders: cover, 8-9, 24-25, 68, 74-75, 110, 113, 118-119, 122-123, 152, 154-155, 159, 160-161, 190, 192, 200-201, 202-203, 234, 236-237, 239, 240-241, 242-243, 244-245, 310, 316317, 318-319 nuvastgoed: 312-313 henk schuurmans: 10-11 rené de wit: 22-23 lithography marc gijzen, leidschendam

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translation schot in de roos, rotterdam: christine gardner design reynoud homan, muiderberg robbert zweegman, malden printed by grafiplaza – drukkerij mart.spruijt bv, amsterdam © 2018 architectenbureau cepezed bv, delft nai010 uitgevers, rotterdam isbn 978 94 6208 389 9 dutch edition isbn 978 94 6208 390 5 english edition

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from research building, cultural hotspot and collection centre to luxury apartment complex, town hall and airport pier: like its predecessors, cepezed’s catalogue 5 is full of projects in different stages between initial design and in use. in all the designs the complexity of technology and functionality has been brought back to the essence. anything not necessary is left out. everything really necessary is greatly simplified, thoughtfully systemized and elegantly arranged. at the basis there is invariably an unambiguous concept: the composition, structure and function are clearly distinguishable. that makes the buildings honest, often literally open-hearted. first and foremost every project facilitates a habitat for its users – the architects never forget the people and circumstances they are actually designing for. with considerable focus on the experience, great stylistic craftsmanship and a high level of technological ingenuity cepezed is responsible for buildings that are in balance on every front.