Breda Municipal Offices
The Municipal Offices are part of the development of the Chassé Terrain master plan in Breda. The programme, of office spaces, and the envelope, a long structure hovering over a logistics area, were already set out. The rectangular volume served as a starting point, with an interior central corridor that separated one and two-desk offices on one side from large communal office spaces on the other.
The horizontal emphasis gives the building presence, and also functions as a diagonal roof cover for the entrance to the underground car park. The south façade consists of alternating strips of steel and glass. The north façade has large windows which become slightly smaller per storey, responding to the amount of ambient light higher up. At night, frosted glass volumes beneath the building illuminate the foundation of the building, giving the appearance of a black box atop a light and open base.
Info
- Location
- Breda, NL
- Date
- 1999–2003
- Size
- 8,500 sqm
- Client
- Municipality of Breda
- Team
- Allard Assies, Dikkie Scipio, Frederik Ellens, Hannes Ochmann, Jan Teunis ten Kate, Jesús Hernández Mayor, Karsten Schellmat, Kees Kaan, Pasquale Talerico, Valery Didelon, Vincent Panhuysen
- Photography
- Christian Richter, Luuk Kramer
- General contractor
- Heijmans IBC Bouw
- Construction advisor
- Aronsohn Raadgevende Ingenieurs
- Site supervisor
- Site supervisor
- Building physics engineer
- DGMR
- MEP engineer
- W&R
