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Belle(re)vue
The Bellevue office building as a case study for post-1965 office transformation strategies
This graduation project investigates the transformation potential of the Bellevue office building in The Hague, a post-1965 office building currently threatened by demolition and redevelopment. The research addresses the question: Through what interventions can the Bellevue office building be transformed while preserving its distinctive characteristics and responding to current location specific challenges?
The study is based on a research by design methodology and combines architectural, urban, historical, and spatial analyses. The research identifies Bellevue’s most distinctive quality as its role as an urban transition between low rise and high rise scales. Additional analyses focused on the façade composition, programmatic expression, and spatial organization of the building, particularly its circulation and office layout.
The resulting transformation proposal reinterprets Bellevue as a public university building centered around political engagement and democratic participation. The design introduces new stepped volumes containing student housing, educational functions and public programs. A central public atrium and vertical circulation route connect the program components inspire, explore, and express, culminating in the student’s rostrum: a public platform for political expression. Through these interventions, Bellevue regains urban, architectural and societal relevance. ...
The study is based on a research by design methodology and combines architectural, urban, historical, and spatial analyses. The research identifies Bellevue’s most distinctive quality as its role as an urban transition between low rise and high rise scales. Additional analyses focused on the façade composition, programmatic expression, and spatial organization of the building, particularly its circulation and office layout.
The resulting transformation proposal reinterprets Bellevue as a public university building centered around political engagement and democratic participation. The design introduces new stepped volumes containing student housing, educational functions and public programs. A central public atrium and vertical circulation route connect the program components inspire, explore, and express, culminating in the student’s rostrum: a public platform for political expression. Through these interventions, Bellevue regains urban, architectural and societal relevance. ...
This graduation project investigates the transformation potential of the Bellevue office building in The Hague, a post-1965 office building currently threatened by demolition and redevelopment. The research addresses the question: Through what interventions can the Bellevue office building be transformed while preserving its distinctive characteristics and responding to current location specific challenges?
The study is based on a research by design methodology and combines architectural, urban, historical, and spatial analyses. The research identifies Bellevue’s most distinctive quality as its role as an urban transition between low rise and high rise scales. Additional analyses focused on the façade composition, programmatic expression, and spatial organization of the building, particularly its circulation and office layout.
The resulting transformation proposal reinterprets Bellevue as a public university building centered around political engagement and democratic participation. The design introduces new stepped volumes containing student housing, educational functions and public programs. A central public atrium and vertical circulation route connect the program components inspire, explore, and express, culminating in the student’s rostrum: a public platform for political expression. Through these interventions, Bellevue regains urban, architectural and societal relevance.
The study is based on a research by design methodology and combines architectural, urban, historical, and spatial analyses. The research identifies Bellevue’s most distinctive quality as its role as an urban transition between low rise and high rise scales. Additional analyses focused on the façade composition, programmatic expression, and spatial organization of the building, particularly its circulation and office layout.
The resulting transformation proposal reinterprets Bellevue as a public university building centered around political engagement and democratic participation. The design introduces new stepped volumes containing student housing, educational functions and public programs. A central public atrium and vertical circulation route connect the program components inspire, explore, and express, culminating in the student’s rostrum: a public platform for political expression. Through these interventions, Bellevue regains urban, architectural and societal relevance.
Governed from a parking lot
The distinctive architectural qualities of the former Ministry of Foreign Affairs and temporary House of Representatives
The focal point of this thesis lies within the state building situated on Bezuidenhoutseweg in The Hague. Having been inaugurated in 1985, the edifice functioned as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for approximately 35 years and, from 2021 onwards, as a temporary accommodation for the Dutch Parliament. This thesis, therefore, evaluates the building and its subsequent expansion concerning its role, architectural qualities, and functionality for both purposes. The thesis examines the overall development and situation of the building to provide a balanced answer to the main question, ‘In what way do the distinctive architectural qualities of the former Ministry of Foreign Affairs contribute to the building’s functionality in its role?’
The structuralist design by Dick Apon is characterized by a strong emphasis on the human scale in form and finish. The fragmented facade design plays with introverted and extroverted parts, making it highly suitable for the ministry’s function but less so for parliamentary functions, which benefit from a high degree of transparency. The strongly hierarchical structure of the building supports the ministry’s working methods but completely stifles the dynamics between politicians and the press.
The thesis concludes that the building provides much more functional accommodation for the ministry than for the Dutch Parliament. Therefore, this thesis ultimately recommends relocating the ministry of Foreign Affairs after the return of the Parliament and restoring it to its former glory. ...
The structuralist design by Dick Apon is characterized by a strong emphasis on the human scale in form and finish. The fragmented facade design plays with introverted and extroverted parts, making it highly suitable for the ministry’s function but less so for parliamentary functions, which benefit from a high degree of transparency. The strongly hierarchical structure of the building supports the ministry’s working methods but completely stifles the dynamics between politicians and the press.
The thesis concludes that the building provides much more functional accommodation for the ministry than for the Dutch Parliament. Therefore, this thesis ultimately recommends relocating the ministry of Foreign Affairs after the return of the Parliament and restoring it to its former glory. ...
The focal point of this thesis lies within the state building situated on Bezuidenhoutseweg in The Hague. Having been inaugurated in 1985, the edifice functioned as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for approximately 35 years and, from 2021 onwards, as a temporary accommodation for the Dutch Parliament. This thesis, therefore, evaluates the building and its subsequent expansion concerning its role, architectural qualities, and functionality for both purposes. The thesis examines the overall development and situation of the building to provide a balanced answer to the main question, ‘In what way do the distinctive architectural qualities of the former Ministry of Foreign Affairs contribute to the building’s functionality in its role?’
The structuralist design by Dick Apon is characterized by a strong emphasis on the human scale in form and finish. The fragmented facade design plays with introverted and extroverted parts, making it highly suitable for the ministry’s function but less so for parliamentary functions, which benefit from a high degree of transparency. The strongly hierarchical structure of the building supports the ministry’s working methods but completely stifles the dynamics between politicians and the press.
The thesis concludes that the building provides much more functional accommodation for the ministry than for the Dutch Parliament. Therefore, this thesis ultimately recommends relocating the ministry of Foreign Affairs after the return of the Parliament and restoring it to its former glory.
The structuralist design by Dick Apon is characterized by a strong emphasis on the human scale in form and finish. The fragmented facade design plays with introverted and extroverted parts, making it highly suitable for the ministry’s function but less so for parliamentary functions, which benefit from a high degree of transparency. The strongly hierarchical structure of the building supports the ministry’s working methods but completely stifles the dynamics between politicians and the press.
The thesis concludes that the building provides much more functional accommodation for the ministry than for the Dutch Parliament. Therefore, this thesis ultimately recommends relocating the ministry of Foreign Affairs after the return of the Parliament and restoring it to its former glory.