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BÜRO UND VERWALTUNG • OFFICE BUILDINGS INNERE WERTE • INNER VALUES

Streifen rechts und links des ehemaligen Kohlenschachtes verlaufen, leiten Tages-
licht in jede Ecke des tiefen Grundrisses. Weitere gemeinschaftlich genutzte Flä-
chen sind ein Restaurant mit Bar im Eingangsbereich und die am Ende der Er-
schließung gelegene Freitreppe, die zu kurzweiligen Gesprächen einlädt und in
den großzügigen Konferenzbereich führt. Regelmäßig werden die Stufen und der
Bereich davor zum Auditorium. Die übrige Fläche wird über alle sieben Ebenen
hinweg von Büros unterschiedlicher Größe eingenommen. Durch die gleichberech-
tigte Anordnung aller Mieteinheiten entlang der Mittelachse soll vermieden wer-
den, dass sich einer der Nutzer benachteiligt fühlt. Festverglasungen sorgen dabei
für ein akustisch ungestörtes Arbeiten bei zugleich visueller Verbindung zum bun-
ten Treiben auf der Gemeinschaftsfläche.

E indhoven is characterized by industrial buildings constructed by the Philips
company after 1916 for the production of light bulbs, household- and medical
appliances. After the relocation of the headquarters to Amsterdam in 1997, compa-
nies from the creative sector started to move into the former factory grounds. Since
2012, attractive converted existing buildings and new residential buildings have
also been developed for a predominantly young clientele. Cafés, restaurants, sto-
res, sports facilities, cinemas, galleries and museums complement the new and
well-balanced mixed use. Until 2018, the inoperative power plant visible from afar
Als Hauptmieter beansprucht die Agentur VanBerlo ... • As main tenant, the VanBerlo agency occupies the ... was the last testimony of times past without a new function. The power plant sup-
plied the whole industrial area with electricity until the 1990s. On the search for
... die größte Fläche. Mit der Gestaltung der Büroräume wurde ... • ... largest area. For designing the offices, ...
new premises for his steadily growing VanBerlo innovation agency, the designer Ad
van Berlo discovered the striking building. He fought for the dilapidating building
and spent two years convincing the authorities until permission was granted. Ad
van Berlo found an investor and the extensive renovation began. Together with the
local Eugelink Architecturr office and De Bever Architecten, Janne van Berlo, an ar-
chitect from Rotterdam and the daughter of the committed initiator was put in
charge of the radical conversion into a modern multi-tenant office building.
From a massive industrial complex to an airy office world

It took another two years to completely remove the asbestos. Then followed an
analysis of the so-far non-insulated clinker and concrete façade and insulation was
unobtrusively added. A visually true to the original but technically updated repla-
cement of the glazing and discrete solar collectors on the roof followed so that,
today, the building achieves the energy-efficiency class A+. The towering central
section with a height of 28 metres and just five metres wide had never been com-
pleted. Decades later, the architects finished the original planning with an open
steel construction and thus produced the symmetry desired from the start. In ad-
dition to a vertical garden, this element now contains an emergency staircase, gla-
zed meeting rooms and a likewise glazed elevator. At the very top, the luminous
Innovation Powerhouse lettering indicates the new use already from a distance.
... Atelier van Berlo aus Rotterdam beauftragt. • ... Atelier van Berlo from Rotterdam was commissioned.
The interiors consisting of raw concrete, visual double T-beams and high-ceilinged
rooms are characterized by the flair of the industrial past. Since recently, inside
this structure the creative tenants find generous areas for contemporary and com-
municative working. On the ground floor as well as on the two levels above it, a
central access axis extends over the whole length where the 14 renting parties au-
tomatically meet every day. The simple routing, colourful furnishing and wooden
cubes structuring the layout promote the exchange among the tenants and, at the
same time, turn the building into a pulsating working world. Ceiling openings on
the two upper floors here once more produce the feeling of spaciousness and
make visual perspectives across the levels possible. Newly installed skylights in-
stalled as strips on the right and the left of the former coal shafts direct daylight
into every corner of the deep floor plan. Additional commonly used areas are a re-
staurant with a bar in the entrance zone and the flight of stairs at the end of the ac-
cess axes which invites to diverting talks and leads into the spacious conference
section. The steps and the area in front of it regularly become an auditorium. On
all seven floors, the remaining area is occupied by offices of various sizes. With the
equal arrangement of all the rental units along the central axis, it was to be avoi-
ded that one of the tenants feels disadvantaged. Fixed glazing ensures working
without acoustic disturbance and, at the same time, becomes a visual connection
to the lively hustle and bustle on the common area.

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