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The material transparency contrasts with the compositional complexity and ambiguity, allowing for the hidden and open interaction to take place in both the informal and formal meeting spaces. The gradual transition defines the levels of privacy reflected in the typology of the gardens, namely the ‘honest’, the ‘secret’ and the ‘unexpected’. The material ‘coldness’ of the glazing and the aluminium panel walls is balanced with the enclosing timber facades and the soft river stones of the gardens.

View “Negative”

View “Unexpected”

View Secret Garden

View Salon

Elevation Entrance

Section Fragment

Fragment Axonometry

Developed Surface 1:100

The heart of the project, the salon, emerges as a resultant consequence of the extrusions which pierce the space – following the order of the exterior, they ordain the interior along with its most significant part which adjusts instead of dominating. This spatial distribution attunes the functional one – reaching the salon is not the goal in itself but the path leading to it offers intriguing moments of movement and reflection through the various corners and corridors. They are the result of the main intrusion which divides the building in two: the formal salon and the informal one which is meant to attract the raw social tissue of the streets – the bikers, the artists and the musicians.

Plan 1:200

Axonometry

Linear composition dominates the urban character of the Pelgrimsstraat and permeates into the interior of the Diepeveen through the vertical and horizontal rhythms: the bicycle lines, tram rails, the forest of columns of the existing structure. The building embraces this imposing harmony and as a threshold zone reflects it back through the negative volumes, the interplay of light and shadow and the layering of transparency which, paradoxically, acts as a border between different purposes.

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