Mecanoo | Knowledge and Cultural Park, Kongsberg, Norway

Source: Mecanoo Architecten

On October 22nd, Kongsberg City Council announced that Mecanoo, together with Oslo based Code Arkitektur and Buro Happold, have won the design competition for a Knowledge and Cultural Square in the centre of Kongsberg, a former mining town about 75 kilometers southwest of Oslo. The project comprises of a design for a cultural and teaching building totaling approximately 24,000 m², and includes future expansion of other functions, such as student housing, sports facilities and businesses.

Mecanoo | Student Housing, Delft

Fuente: Mecanoo

Fotografía: Christian Richters



shortage
The numbers of students enrolled at the Technical University of Delft has increased dramatically in recent years. This has created a sharp student housing shortage on the TU Campus. To tackle this problem, more than 1700 homes will be built in the coming years. Because these homes are not yet readily available, the student housing foundation, DUWO, asked Mecanoo to design housing, which can be easily achieved, for the increasing group of foreign students. In response, Mecanoo designed three towers which can be assembled with a high degree of prefabrication on the Leeghwaterstraat; sketch to completion, including the authorization process, is only one year. Through Mecanoo’s design, the TU campus is able to achieve a specially designed, high quality residential housing complex in a very short period of time.

Mecanoo | Kaap Skil, Maritime and Beachcombers Museum, Texel, the Netherlands

Fuente: Mecanoo
Fotografía: Mecanoo



tourist attraction
The island of Texel is situated in the Waddenzee and is the largest of the Dutch Wadden Islands. Every year a million or so tourists visit the island, which is only accessible by plane, boat or ferry. Few however will be familiar with the glorious history of Texel and its links with the Dutch East India Company. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the Company’s fleet used the anchorage of Texel as its departure point for expeditions to the Far East. The ships waited there for a favourable wind before weighing anchor and sailing off to the ‘Orient’. While they waited, maintenance work and small repairs were carried out, victuals and water were brought on board and family could see their loved ones one last time. Many painters visited the ‘Reede van Texel’ (the offshore anchorage of Texel) to depict on canvas the fleet of the Dutch Republic. In the new entrance building of the maritime and beachcombers museum, Kaap Skil, in the hamlet of Oudeschild, the public is taken back in time to the Dutch Golden Age. The showpiece of the museum is an eighteen-metre long, four-metre deep model of the Reede van Texel, displaying in great detail the impressive spectacle of the dozens of ships anchored off the coast of the Wadden Island.

typical gable roofs
The museum is designed with four playfully linked gabled roofs which are a play on the rhythm of the surrounding roof tops which, seen from the sea, resemble waves rising out above the dyke.

MECANOO|VILLA WAGENINGEN

por María G. Orille, Rotterdam

Con un trabajo inspirado en la sostenibilidad  y el respeto por la naturaleza, el estudio holandés Mecanoo, dio forma a esta sugerente vivienda cuya estructura rinde tributo al paisaje de la localidad de Wageningen (Holanda) donde se ubica.

Mecanoo | Complejo cultural en Shenzhen

Fuente: Archdaily

Mecanoo ha sido seleccionado para realizar el complejo cultural de Shenzhen, China. El proyecto engloba un museo de arte, un museo de las ciencias, un centro joven y una librería.

La Llotja de Lleida. Mecanoo.

Aquest és un projecte prou interessant com per a que expressem les nostres opinions. Es tracta del darrer edifici "mediàtic" projectat per un dels "stararchitects" del moment, Mecanoo. Què en penseu? Sens dubte la manera en la que s'aixeca del terra no pot deixar indiferent a ningú....
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