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TUNNEL VISION | ON6

OUDE KERK

sight lines

main public programmeframing icons

contra / vorm

atrium / main programme

ARTIESTENRUIMTEN

Category Site Term Tutors

INGANGHOOFD-

public circulation

Public building | Music venue

Spiritus- en Gistfabriek | Delft Sixth semester | 2023-2024

Cas van der Zanden, Jacques Vink

Tunnel vision is a proposed pop concert hall in the Northern edge of the old city in Delft. The building is set to expand on an existing factory building. The concept aims to redefine the relation between the city and concert. While the huge glass windows frame the views of Delft’s historical icons - Molen de Roos, De Watertoren, and De Oude Kerk - glimpses of the concert are visible from the city. The facades of the three main programmes - the big hall, small hall, and the café - acts as a two-way frame in space and time.

The building responds to the context by using its location on the edge of the city to reflect back upon it. The semideconstructivist approach in the building’s massing can be described a bit as parasitic architecture, in how the new structure interweaves between the existing.

private circulation

The fragmentation of the programme is a nod to the factory’s seemingly random extensions over time, which have refused to follow the natural grid and symmetrical composition of the original T-form building.

The composition and positioning of the three programmes result in a a contradiction between three clear masses, and a left over space, the atrium. While the three seemingly conflicting grids create imbalance, the central atrium forms a central hierarchy.

The sloping roof of the atrium attempts to make the connection between the human and industrial scale, from city to industry. From the Northern facade, the roof slopes down to the centre point of the old ‘foot’ of the T, referring to the old gable roof of the original building.

MUZIEKSCHOOL

kleineBAR zaal

KANTOREN

BARS grote zaal

Envisioned as a music venue for Delft, Den Haag and Rijswijk, the building can be accessed from three main entrances: the South, North and Northeast. The intersection of these three entrances forms the atrium. The building is surrounded by water and ponds, creating a soft buffer from the city.

Due to the concept of framing views, the backstages of each hall are considerably far apart. This imposes a challenge in terms of private circulation. To address this, the main logistics hall runs under the main hall towards the small hall. This walkway simultaneously serves the artists’ lounge, changing rooms, music school, and office, forming the backbone of the building which connects the two wings.