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Het Platform in Amersfoort
- Architecture
- Space Encounters
- Interior Design
- Space Encounters
- Project architect
- Gijs Baks
- Project team
- Joost Baks
- Vincent van Leeuwen
- Bram van den Heuvel
- Isabella del Grande
- Clara Jansen
- Carlos Callejo
- Landscape architecture
- Vic Landcapes
- Design
- Zus
- Construction Management
- Van Bekkum
- Structural engineering
- Van Rossum Raadgevende Ingenieurs
- Building physics
- Hiensch Engineering
- Building services engineering
- Hiensch Engineering
- Floor coverings
- Slimline
- Reppel
- Insulation
- Kingspan
- Windows
- Platowood
- Facade
- Platowood
- Source
- DETAIL 12/2023
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The Dutch architect team of Space Encounters expanded an old warehouse based on a very clear concept: They literally built over it. Similar to a table, the steel frame of the new office volume stands above the low industrial structure made of reinforced concrete and brick. This allowed continuing operations during the construction phase in the existing building, which houses the storage facility of an online retailer and a music club.