A20 Cockpit

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Year: 2013

Typology: Office

City: Rotterdam

Country: Netherlands

Client: ONLdevelop

Budget: N/A

Floor area: 1315 m²

Team:

Lead designers: Kas Oosterhuis, Ilona Lénárd
Project architect: Gijs Joosen
Design Team: Ilaria Giardiello, Pieter Schreurs, Rick de Lange

Partners:

Structural engineering and MEP desing: ARCADIS

Tag That Body: Architecture

Shape That Body: CNC manufacturing, Component, Diagrid, File to factory, Generative, Nonstandard, Parametric, Mass customization

The A20 Cockpit is a medium scaled building body sharply cut into the existing embankment. The refined industrial atmosphere of the five two storey units in the Cockpit can adapted to serve as an open office space, a showroom or a workshop. Externally the building represents the unique ONL approach to architectural design. The A20 cockpit is designed according to state-of-the-art sustainable building methods and combines simplicity with an outspoken signature.

The A20 Cockpit is concieved as an inlay in the embankment next to the A20 highway and will become the main icon of the 15 acre Nesselande Bussiness park at the outskirts of Rotterdam. The plot directly adjacent to the A20 highway secures a high visibility from one of the busiest traffic routes in the region. The signature glass facade with its diamond shaped windows facing the A20 highway brings light deep into thhe building.

Approaching the A20 Cockpit from the bussiness park, the ground floor level opens up due to the generous entrance facade at the very end of the Mart Stamhof. The individual workspaces offer a great panoramic view to the surroundings.