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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Gate House IPKW in Amhem, The Netherlands by NL ArchitectsOctober 14th, 2012 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: NL Architects Industriepark Kleefse Waard is a successful business park in Arnhem focusing on innovative technologies. The park is spacious and features numerous beautiful industrial buildings both old and new. One of the keys to the success of the IPKW is the safety policy; the premises are under permanent surveillance. The park is fenced and features a porter’s lodge. Visitors, employees and suppliers find their way to the terrain via this reception area. The lobby is open 24 – 7. All visitors are registered and announced and subsequently directed to their destination.  Image Courtesy © Jeroen Musch
 Image Courtesy © Jeroen Musch In order to improve logistics the access road to the IPKW needed to be doubled. This meant that the existing gatehouse had to make way… But such heavy duty infrastructure is hidden in the first floor of the existing structure that it turned out to be impossible to demolish the building; an electronic highway is actually running through it… Cutting the wires would jeopardize the operations on the entire park. So some sort of surgery was needed.  Image Courtesy © Jeroen Musch Part of the existing building was sliced off, the skin removed and a new body with slightly different proportions was composed around the remaining structure. Transformative re-use.  Image Courtesy © Jeroen Musch Below the Black Box, inside the all glass lobby two objects are placed, a back office and a front desk that features 360 views. In the lobby people can prepare for their appointment, grab a snack or a newspaper. The lobby is enveloped in single glass, which renders the building particularly transparent, much more transparent than most other present-day buildings. An intermediate climate comes into being, between the office space and the exterior.  Image Courtesy © Jeroen Musch The box that contains the upper floor is clad in retro-reflective film. BLACK retro-reflective film… A mind-blowing counter intuitive inversion unfolds: the film has a black daytime appearance but reflects white at night… The specific properties of retro-reflection create intimacy; a unique relationship between the light source, the reflective object and the observer is established at every moment.  Image Courtesy © Jeroen Musch The object will change color depending of the temperature of the light source. Brake lights will create red glow, blinkers will evoke a pulsating orange. The sunset might turn the black into gold: 3M alchemy!  Image Courtesy © NL Architects A retro-reflector (sometimes called a retroflector or cataphote) is a device or surface that reflects light back to its source with a minimum scattering of light. An electromagnetic wave front is reflected back along a vector that is parallel to but opposite in direction from the wave’s source. The device or surface’s angle of incidence is greater than zero. This is unlike a planar mirror, which does this only if the mirror is exactly perpendicular to the wave front, having a zero angle of incidence. (Wikipedia)  Image Courtesy © NL Architects Retro reflectivity is the proper term given to materials having the ability to return most of the light back to it’s originating light source. Many objects are reflective, but the light reflecting off them (the light that’s not absorbed by the color itself) is scattered in many directions, because they do not possess the ability to re-focus the light hitting them back to the light source. (Good Prince of Darkness)  Image Courtesy © NL Architects  Image Courtesy © NL Architects  Image Courtesy © NL Architects  Image Courtesy © Ralph Kämena  Image Courtesy © Ralph Kämena  Image Courtesy © Ralph Kämena  Image Courtesy © Ralph Kämena  Image Courtesy © Ralph Kämena  Image Courtesy © Ralph Kämena  Image Courtesy © Ralph Kämena  Image Courtesy © Ralph Kämena  Image Courtesy © NL Architects  Image Courtesy © NL Architects
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