Steven Holl Architects - Sarphatistraat Offices

Steven Holl Architects
Sarphatistraat Offices
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Photo: arcspace

The new addition to the renovated Singel Gracht building, the former Federal Warehouse of Medical Supplies, has replaced one of the outbuildings on the canal side of the four - story brick “U” building.

A new boardwalk with public benches and a row of special cypress trees along the canal marks the new public space.

Photo: arcspace

The new large conference room pavilion, available to the public for weddings, meetings, and other events, has been built directly on the foundation wall of the new mechanical parking system (capacity 48 cars).

Photo: arcspace

Sponge-like spaces in a plan and section were developed with passages, storage, etc., located between the perforated walls. The building scale of the pavilion is thus related to detail scales in the renovation.

Photo: arcspace

The concept of "Patterns in a Chromatic Field", inscribed in a rectangular "sponge", establishes a series of perspectival overlapping interior spaces animated by "phenomenal screens of color." The screens form a spatial and experiential frame containing services such as lighting, supply and return air grilles.

The perforated screens developed in three dimensions are analogous to the "Menger Sponge" principle of openings continuously cut in planes approaching zero volume.

Photo: arcspace

Photo courtesy Steven Holl Architects

Sketch courtesy Steven Holl Architects

Net Floor Area:
Addition: 3500 square feet
Renovation: 50,000 square feet
Completed: June, 2000

Client: Woningbouwvereniging Het Oosten
Architects: Steven Holl Architects
Design Architect: Steven Holl, Justin Korhammer
Project Architect: Justin Korhammer
Project Team:
Hideaki Ariizumi
Martin Cox
Annette Goderbauer
Yoh Hanaoka
Heleen van Heel

Associate architect: Rappange & Partners Architecten
Project Manager: Bart Kwant
Project Architect: Bert Wever
Structural engineers: Ingenieursgroep† Van Rossum Contractor: VOF Van Eesteren
Steven Holl

Parallax

What makes Steven Holl one of the most celebrated architects working today? As we learn in Parallax, his success comes from his sculptural form making, his interest in the poetics of space, color, and materiality, and his fascination with scientific phenomena. Holl reveals his working methods in this, his biggest and most ambitious book yet on his work-part treatise, part manifesto, and part, as Holl writes, "liner notes" to fifteen recent projects, some never before published.

October 4, 2004

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		Steven Holl Architects Sarphatistraat Offices Amsterdam, The Netherlands Photo: arcspace The new addition to the renovated Singel Gracht building, the former Federal Warehouse of Medical Supplies, has replaced one of the outbuildings on the canal side of the four - story brick “U” building. A new boardwalk with public benches and a row of special cypress trees along the canal marks the new public space. Photo: arcspace The new large conference room pavilion, available to the public for weddings, meetings, and other events, has been built directly on the foundation wall of the new mechanical parking system (capacity 48 cars). Photo: arcspace Photo: arcspace Sponge-like spaces in a plan and section were developed with passages, storage, etc., located between the perforated walls. The building scale of the pavilion is thus related to detail scales in the renovation. Photo: arcspace Photo: arcspace The concept of "Patterns in a Chromatic Field", inscribed in a rectangular "sponge", establishes a series of perspectival overlapping interior spaces animated by "phenomenal screens of color." The screens form a spatial and experiential frame containing services such as lighting, supply and return air grilles. The perforated screens developed in three dimensions are analogous to the "Menger Sponge" principle of openings continuously cut in planes approaching zero volume. Photo: arcspace Photo courtesy Steven Holl Architects Sketch courtesy Steven Holl Architects Net Floor Area: Addition: 3500 square feet Renovation: 50,000 square feet Completed: June, 2000 Client: Woningbouwvereniging Het Oosten Architects: Steven Holl Architects Design Architect: Steven Holl, Justin Korhammer Project Architect: Justin Korhammer Project Team: Hideaki Ariizumi Martin Cox Annette Goderbauer Yoh Hanaoka Heleen van Heel Associate architect: Rappange & Partners Architecten Project Manager: Bart Kwant Project Architect: Bert Wever Structural engineers: Ingenieursgroep† Van Rossum Contractor: VOF Van Eesteren Steven Holl Parallax What makes Steven Holl one of the most celebrated architects working today? As we learn in Parallax, his success comes from his sculptural form making, his interest in the poetics of space, color, and materiality, and his fascination with scientific phenomena. Holl reveals his working methods in this, his biggest and most ambitious book yet on his work-part treatise, part manifesto, and part, as Holl writes, "liner notes" to fifteen recent projects, some never before published. October 4, 2004 Steven Holl arcspace features