Abels & Partners Architecten - Large Scale

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Harry Abels Architect - Director Office manager Design | Strategy | Development Architect Mickey de Haan Nina Isabelle Kater Antonio Nieto

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Architect Parametry | Senior designer Itziar Epelde Stef Hoeijmakers Technical engineer Sidney Brouwer Assistent designer Yurii Papikian

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OUR OFFICE

Together with eight people, from which six architects, a technical engineer and an office manager, we work with great enthusiasm on beautiful plans. Our location on the IJ river on the KNSM-laan helps us to enjoy our work. We work on our designs there together with other innovative design studios.

It is essential for us to make a good inventory of what the desire to build entails by listening carefully, questioning, analyzing in depth, testing with examples, offering alternatives and opening up unexpected possibilities. Our strength lies in this thorough dialogue in the process of thinking about building and how to build.

We are a compact international team and are able to work very intensively, concentrated and pleasantly together, we are accessible and clients like to work with us.

Our projects range from small and intimate to large and complex. From the reuse of buildings, restoration, from building for Collective Private Commissioning (CPO), but also new construction in an existing context, including school construction and healthcare institutions. The urban and social context play a major role for us, we make buildings that fit into our complex and continuously changing urban and rural environment. We can work in a large team that is jointly responsible for a largescale environment, but we can also lead design processes on a large and small scale. Abels & Partners Architecten strives to create buildings that appeal to all the senses, are exciting and where it is a pleasure to stay.

We are very interested in the context of the assignment. Does it have to be built, for whom are we building, what are the consequences of what we do? These are questions we ask, but it is often the motivation to pick up projects and initiate them yourself. What is the future of the city, village or countryside and how can we make a responsible contribution to it? We are aware of the social context and of the sociogeographical consequences of what we contribute. This means that you can also expect a contribution from us that is based on a socially and intellectually responsible assessment.

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Hospital MST Enschede, Enschede, The Netherlands

Hospital MST Enschede

Enschede, The Netherlands

First aid building VUmc

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

City Hall Rotterdam

Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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Completed by Harry Abels as director of IAA Architecten in association with Merkx + Girod Architecten Completed by Harry Abels as director of IAA Architecten Completed by Harry Abels as director of IAA Architecten

Typology Hospital

Client

Raad van Bestuur Medisch Spectrum Twente

Year

2008-2016

Status Completed Area

80.000 m²

Typology Hospital

Client

VU Medisch Centrum

Year

2010-2013

Status Completed Area

19.000 m²

Typology Governmental

Client Gemeente Rotterdam

Year

2004-2013

Status Completed Area

30.000 m²

Project

After almost a decade of hesitation as to whether a new hospital could be built in the center of Enschede in the middle of the crisis, we were able to draw up a plan that ensured that the size of the existing hospital could be reduced by approximately 60,000 m², which resulted in enormous savings.

The new hospital is a compact building that is completely built according to the laws of evidence-based design and healing environment. The building has departments in all medical disciplines and all patients are treated in single rooms.

Thanks to intensive and inspiring cooperation between the client, consultants and builders, we were able to realize a very advanced building for a low building price and within a short period of time.

Project

Since 2013, the De Westflank building, the joint accommodation of the emergency department of the VUmc, the academic psychiatric center De Nieuwe Valerius and the guesthouse of the VUmc, has been located on the grounds of the academic medical center of the VU University (VUmc) in Amsterdam since 2013.

The VUmc is the trauma center of the North-West Netherlands region and is the only one in Amsterdam to have a trauma helicopter. Due to the increasing number of admissions to the emergency department, the old location was no longer sufficient and the VUmc decided to build a new one.

Project

The restoration of the Rotterdam City Hall started with an assignment in which we were asked to make a master plan for the building and to investigate whether the existing monument could be made suitable for a much more intensive use. We were able to achieve this by proposing to open up the existing attics and make them suitable for use.

A very intensive architectural/administrative consultation eventually led to the city council itself also recognizing the value of the better use of the building and agreeing to an approach to the building. We then invited Evelyne Merkx to support us in interior architecture, she took over that task completely and fulfilled it excellently.

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Technical college ROC van Twente, Hengelo, The Netherlands

Technical college ROC van Twente

Completed by Harry Abels as director of IAA Architecten

in association with Maarten Fritz - Architectura et Amicitia

Hengelo, The Netherlands

Pre-vocational secondary education school Scholingsboulevard

Completed by Harry Abels as director of IAA Architecten

Enschede, The Netherlands

Faculty building Saxion Epy Drost

Completed by Harry Abels as director of IAA Architecten

Enschede, The Netherlands

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Project

After winning a selection as architects for the new building of the ROC van Twente, we proposed converting the Stork iron foundry into a large-scale educational environment. In the largest covered space in Twente, the atrium of the school was built into the heart of a dynamic educational institution.

We have succeeded in building a ROC school that is not inferior in appearance to university buildings. The monumental environment has not been sterilely restored, the history can be felt in every intervention.

Project

The educational vision for the Scholingboulevard in Enschede was very ambitious and innovative, so that we as architects were challenged to present a special plan. Many students learn together in one building, or in this case in two buildings, but need their own world within that large environment. Within the complex it is possible to give smaller groups their own world, which are still part of a larger ‘society’. The students and teachers work together in a kind of department store.

Project

More than 26,000 students study at Saxion University of Applied Sciences, divided over locations in Enschede, Deventer and Apeldoorn. One of the faculties is the Academy of Creative Technology (ACT), consisting of HBO-ICT, Creative Media & Game Technologies, Fashion & Textile Technologies (the successor to the Hogere Textielschool) and Media, Information and Communication.

Lack of space due to the growing number of students and the fragmentation of the programs across several locations prompted Saxion to design a new. The new building had to be an inviting, eye-catching building, flexible and future-oriented in order to continue to facilitate developments in education.

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Saxion Hogescholen Year 2006-2009 Status Completed Area 8.750 m²

Client

Typology Education Client ROC van Twente Year 1999-2009 Status Completed Area 56.000 m²

Typology Education Client Gemeente Enschede Year 2004-2010 Status Completed Area 25.000 m²

Pre-vocacional secondary education school Scholingsboulevard, Enschede, The Netherlands

Textile college ROC De Maere and Faculty building Saxion Epy Drost, Enschede, The Netherlands

Faculty building Saxion Ko Wieringa

Enschede, The Netherlands

Textile college ROC De Maere

Enschede, The Netherlands

University of Applied Sciences De Haagse Hogeschool

Den Haag, The Netherlands

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Completed by Harry Abels as director of IAA Architecten Completed by Harry Abels as director of IAA Architecten

Project

In 1993, Hogeschool Oost Nederland, the later Saxion Hogescholen, decided to concentrate its Enschede and Hengelo programs in one place. Adjacent to the city center of Enschede, the site of the former Ziekenzorg hospital provided space for new construction, but also for reuse. The new university of applied sciences had to be an open, functional and pleasantly usable building with the appearance of a dynamic educational institution. Fitting in its surroundings and with a pleasant atmosphere due to the colors and materials used, but above all, city and school had to be connected.

Project

The Higher Textile School De Maere was built in Enschede in 1922 as a combination of a learning school (with classrooms) and a learning factory at the rear of the building, where practical lessons could be followed in a factory environment. After vacancy at the end of the twentieth century, demolition was prevented because the Twente Textile and Confection Center Expertex established itself in the building, a cluster of institutions associated with the textile industry, including Saxion University of Applied Sciences, the ROC of Twente and the textile research institute TNO Textiel. Expertex commissioned the restoration of the monumental school to make it suitable for modern textile education and to design an extension with laboratories and offices for TNO.

Project

Eight years ago we won the selection to adapt the large complex of the Haagse Hogeschool, designed by Atelier PRO. The building performed excellently, but had to be adapted to the new requirements and the changes in education. The variety of educational forms required therefore an intervention to the interior. The changes has been implemented in many common areas, such as the entrance hall and surroundings, but also for each faculty separately by introducing study landscapes, individual study rooms, classrooms and group rooms. These adjustments must all take place in a building that offers hardly any extra space and while education is in progress. Thanks to intensive cooperation with the facilities department of the University of Applied Sciences and the builders, we are able to complete major operations without major inconvenience for the users.

19 Typology Education Client Saxion Hogescholen Year 1999-2001 Status Completed Area 24.000 m² Typology Education Client ROC van Twente Year 1999-2001 Status Completed Area 8.200 m²

Typology Education Client De Haagse Hogeschool Year 2016-future Status In development Area 30.000 m²

Burnout clinic, Dassow, Germany

Technical College

Taekniskollin

Hafnarfjörður, IJsland

Burnout clinic

Dassow, Germany

Large hybrid company building

OVEC

Sloterdijk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Typology Education

Client Tækniskólinn

Year

2019 - now

Status

Program of Requirements, Feasibility Study, vision

Area

31.000 m²

Typology Healthcare

Client

Klinik Schloss Luetgenhof

Year

2020

Status

Preliminary design

Area

6950 m²

Typology Commercial

Client Loek Hartgers

Year 2021 - now

Status Building permit

Area 35.000 m²

Project

Tækniskólinn has asked us to support them in setting up a new community college in Iceland. Tækniskólinn is an intermediate vocational school that is now spread over several old buildings in Reykjavik and the surrounding area. All schools/faculties will be brought together in one new location.

We assist them in the choice of location and the formalization of the concept, scope, synergistic benefits, identity and configuration of the different education formats among themselves. We draw up a spatial, technical and functional program of requirements for them. We help them in the qualitative and quantitative comparison with other schools elsewhere in Europe in order to build an optimal new community

Project

In Dassow, Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Germany, is a vast estate with a castle and several outbuildings where intensive care is provided to patients with a burnout. We have designed an extension in the form of a free-standing pavilion for 42 patients with accommodation and treatment rooms.

The high-quality and sustainable pavilion is designed in the tradition of a spa, with, in addition to the spacious hotel rooms, also areas for various therapies around the heart of the building, the inner garden.

Our urban plan and landscape plan will also include a nursery, a sports hall and housing for employees.

Project

For Loek Hartgers, steel constructor and owner of an industrial building Ovec on Sloterdijk in Amsterdam, we made a plan for a hybrid business, logistics and office building in a compact complex.

The municipality of Amsterdam is looking for new typologies for buildings in places where land is scarce. This has created the need to design large stacked industrial buildings.

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Large hybrid company building OVEC, Sloterdijk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Urban development

Living in park Bleeker

Enschede, The Netherlands

Urban development

Wanheimerort

Duisburg, Germany

Residential building

Grijze generaal

Eindhoven, The Netherlands

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Completed by Harry Abels as director of IAA Architecten in association with Frits van Dongen Architects + Ton Schaap

Typology

Housing and commercial

Client

Fons Architecten & Bouwregisseurs

Year 2021 - now

Status

In development

Area

21.000 m²

Typology

Housing and commercial

Client

Alga Gassmann, Kondor Wessels Berlin

Year

2018-2021

Status

In development

Area

50.000 m²

Typology

Housing

Client

Wooninc Eindhoven

Year

2005-2008

Status Completed Area

12500 m²

Project

For decades, the Bleeker garage determined the image of an important entrance to the city center of Enschede, the Hengelosestraat. The name says it all, the most direct connection - from heart to heart - between Hengelo and Enschede, the two cores of an urban area with a quarter of a million inhabitants.

It is not by accident that the University of Twente, the Kennispark and the FC Twente stadium are located on this street. Everything in a green setting of large villa gardens, a golf course and meadows surrounded by tree banks.

Ton Schaap and Frits van Dongen have asked Abels & Partners to support them in preparing an urban development plan and an architectural design.

Project

We have developed urban development plans for the owner of a large industrial site on the banks of the Rhine in Duisburg. It concerns a huge transformation of a rough terrain with a major infrastructural impact. Two railway lines run across the site, there is a factory with a risk of explosion in the vicinity, and two ports for barges are accessed via a busy traffic route.

The city of Duisburg invests a lot in this area and this transformation into a new living/working area is an important part of this.

There is a lot of beautiful industrial heritage that we are integrated into the masterplan design. This will further be developt in collaboration with other parties.

Project

In the complex urban master plan, a residential building has been designed that consists of a section on Winston Churchilllaan that runs in height and a kinked ‘snake’ that connects to the building of the Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority from phase 1. More than 25 different housing types are located on galleries that enclose two shared roof gardens. The apartments, from studio to penthouse, are designed in such a way that they can be adapted in the future without major renovations. The specific shape of the building with the rising and curved roof lines means that there are special homes on the floors below the roof. At street level, the block is intersected by diagonally laid out passages. Underground there is a single-storey parking garage with 130 parking spaces.

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