The design organizes the site into a series of archipelagos dedicated to leisure and performance, each island is reinforced with an icon dedicated to performance. The icons form a continuity of irregularity, each with unique spaces and functions, and varying in typology, density, and landscape.

Adjacent to the performative landscape is the existing neighborhood. Whereas islands and supporting icons provide difference and diversity, the existing neighborhood provides cohesion and unity. By reorganizing the adjacent streets vehicular traffic to one-way flow, and consolidating infrastructure and logistics to the center of the site, the existing roads are transformed into commercial boulevards. The site is no longer a residual geological junk space, but the physical and programmatic center of the neighborhood.

The masterplan consists of five programmatic anchors: creative industries, automotive industry, film, technology, and performance. The anchors are closely related through innovation and research, and provide the basis for strategic and economic cooperation for the metro region.

Project name: City Hall Park
Location: São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, Brazil
Program: 623,000sqm GFA (Performance Plaza – 33,000sqm; Museum Park – 20,000sqm; Creative Labs – 72,000sqm; City Center – 98,500sqm; Incubator City – 120,000sqm; Convention Center – 92,500sqm; Gateway Tower – 187,000sqm)
Site: 30 Hectares masterplan
Client: Municipality of São Bernardo do Campo
Project Team:
DOMAIN (Mitesh Dixit, Sven Jansse, Katerina Salonikidi, Yiannis Tsoskounoglou)
KAAN Architecten (Dante Borgo, Renata Gilio, Kees Kaan, Yinghao Lin, Maria Stamati)
Collaborators: Beauty & The Bit (visualization); Werkplaats Vincent De Rijk (model)

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This National Heritage Site, built for the Department of Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries in 1917 and subsequently occupied by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation until 2013, will soon be converted into the Dutch government’s premier new knowledge centre. In 2016, the renovated B30 building will serve as the joint premises for the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB), the Netherlands Institute for Social Research (SCP), the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Dutch DPA) and the Council for the Environment and Infrastructure (Rli).

KAAN’s winning design is characterised by a shared ground floor area that serves as a ‘public area’ at the intersection of city, woodlands and public gardens. The seemingly unapproachable edifice will be transformed into a succession of attractive, transparent spaces. The bright, airy expansions will be carefully interwoven with the massive architecture of the monumental building to create a new, clearly defined and unified complex.

The aim of the design is to transform the closed-in, hierarchical building – with an atmosphere representative of people’s perception of the State in the early 1900s – into an open, transparent and inviting setting that is in line with a modern-day government think tank.

More information on the project can be found at www.B30.nl.

The Facilicom PPS B30 Consortium is made up of Facilicom, KAAN Architecten, Braaksma & Roos Architectenbureau, Deerns, Pieters Bouwtechniek and Rebel Group.

Project: PPP Bezuidenhoutseweg 30
Programme: Public environment with seminar rooms, conference rooms, a library, flexplace workstations, a restaurant and espresso bar and an office environment with work areas, concentration rooms, social hotspots and executive clusters.
Location: Bezuidenhoutseweg 30, The Hague, the Netherlands
Client: Government Buildings Agency, The Hague, the Netherlands
Architect: KAAN Architecten
Project team: Timo Cardol, Kevin Claus, Sebastian van Damme, Paolo Faleschini, Kees Kaan, Loes Martens, Giuseppe Mazzaglia, Maurizio Papa, Dikkie Scipio, Christian Sluijmer
Design: 2013
Final acceptance: 2016
Gross floor area: 21,000sqm

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https://kaanarchitecten.com/kaan-architecten-wins-bezuidenhoutseweg-30-ppp-contract/