Catalyst for changing office parks

Housing as an impulse

Master thesis (2020)

Authors

T.A. Edes Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

A. Snijders Architectural Engineering - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
H.T. Remøy Real Estate Management - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
P.L. Tomesen Building Product Innovation - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment
Copyright: © 2020 Thomas Edes
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Published Date

2020

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

The Tesselschade 4 (T4) building in Leeuwarden is a 80 meter tall former tax office building from 1970. The modernistic ‘slab’ is raised from the ground level by the characteristic pilotis. Situated in an office park on the edge of the historical city centre the building offers the opportunity to influence its surroundings positively via conversion to mainly housing. The municipality of Leeuwarden has the opportunity use the Tesselschade 4 building as a showcase when it comes to bottom-up transformation of monofunctional office parks.
Roughly 80 future residents will have the option to realise their preferred housing type in one of the seven upper floors. A second façade, hanging from an added roof structure serves as a thermal and acoustic buffer for the housing units, which can be reached via galleries and corridors in the north façade and the centre of the building. Additional functions such as a playground, coffee-bar, several work-areas and a roof garden can be found throughout the building. The users are the drivers behind not only the use, but also the development of the project.