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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. Visitor Pavilion at Castle Duivenvoorde in Voorschoten, Netherlands by 70F architectureApril 24th, 2018 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: 70F architecture Dutch architecture studio 70F architecture designed a visitors center that ‘lives’. Hof van Duivenvoorde (Duivenvoordes Courtyard) has nine movable facade parts that open up the building in the morning and close it at night. When the façade is open the building is a light restaurant, when it’s closed it becomes a modest barn that disappears in its surroundings.
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 Image Courtesy © 70F architecture Hof van Duivenvoorde is the visitors center that belongs to Duivenvoorde Castle and Estate, a national monument in the city of Voorschoten. The Duivenvoorde foundation was the comissioner and asked 70F architecture to create a building that would look like a barn but at the same time be transparent and have a welcoming atmosphere.  Image Courtesy © 70F architecture  Image Courtesy © 70F architecture The solution, with its movable facade parts was a direct hit with the commissioner, but turned out to be difficult to execute. No hatch producer or hinge supplier was up for the challenge. Bas ten Brinke, owner of 70F architecture, therefore decided to do the engineering himself.  Image Courtesy © 70F architecture  Image Courtesy © 70F architecture Hof van Duivenvoorde inhabits a restaurant, a museum shop and space for the volunteers who give guided tours in the castle and around the estate. The building is relatively small – 6 x 30 meters – but feels spacious because of the high transparency. You can look from one side of the building to the other. The space above the kitchen (in the far end of the building) and the sanitary unit (in the middle) are left open, thus showing the roof and it’s construction in it entirety. Some of the fixed windows continue up and over the roof-ridge into the back roof plane, towards the monumental garden wall.  Image Courtesy © 70F architecture  Image Courtesy © 70F architecture The building is an example of modern architecture, fitting seamlessly in its 13th century surroundings defined by the castle.  Image Courtesy © 70F architecture  Image Courtesy © 70F architecture  Image Courtesy © 70F architecture  Image Courtesy © 70F architecture  Image Courtesy © 70F architecture  Image Courtesy © 70F architecture  Image Courtesy © 70F architecture  Image Courtesy © 70F architecture  Image Courtesy © 70F architecture  Image Courtesy © 70F architecture  Image Courtesy © 70F architecture  Image Courtesy © 70F architecture  Image Courtesy © 70F architecture  Image Courtesy © 70F architecture  Image Courtesy © 70F architecture
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