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Maasberg Overloon / By UArchitects

Overloon, Netherlands
UArchitects
Post By:Kitticoon Poopong

Photo © Courtesy of Norbert van Onna--Floating

Client:
Unit 6 of "JJI De Hunnerberg, De Maasberg" in Overloon is converted from an prison for adults into an autonomously functioning juvenile detention institution.

Photo © Courtesy of Norbert van Onna--Entrance ramp

The buildings for the living areas are renovated and two new living rooms are added. A new pavilion for education, visitors and offices is also part of the first phase of a master plan.

Photo © Courtesy of Norbert van Onna--Front facade

Concept:
A new and more intensive interaction with the surrounding nature is aimed at for the youngsters. The open structure stimulates the daily shifts between living, learning and recreation.

Photo © Courtesy of Norbert van Onna--Facade

The resoluteness of the world which aims at the interior is partly removed, so that the youngsters can prepare themselves for their return in society.

Photo © Courtesy of Norbert van Onna--Stairs to education

The concept aims at an open, transparent building between the closed prison and the outside world. Visitors can throw a glance at the prison life and the youngsters can look at the outside world, the society in which they will return later on.

Photo © Courtesy of Norbert van Onna--Bankirai wood profile

Space and material:
For the flexibility at future changes in the program and treatment, the construction is situated in the side façades, the service pipes have been integrated centrally and the side façades are composed of elements which can be changed modularly.

Photo © Courtesy of Norbert van Onna--Fire stairs

By means of the light appearance and the placement of the steel frame on metal feet in the woodland soil, the volume seems to float in the wood. Because of the layered façade in steel, aluminium and Bankirai the building will be merged in the surrounding woodland scenery, showing different shades of grey.

Photo © Courtesy of Norbert van Onna--Entrance to education

The class-rooms on the first floor (for the youngsters) and the visiting rooms and offices (for visitors and staff) on the ground floor are functioning separately from each other by means of the two outside stairs in the head façades.

Photo © Courtesy of Norbert van Onna--Entrance to visiting room

At the entrance to the visiting room there is a hall in which both functions are in contact with each other, dramatizing the moment of the meeting between the youngsters and the visitors.
The severe measures and the rhythmic of the carefully detailed elements of the façade may lend a structure to the youngsters, which they need to proceed their way.
Description from the Architects:

Project Data
Project name: Maasberg Overloon
Location: Overloon, Netherlands
Program: Civic
Completion Year: 2008

Award:

World Architecture Festival 2008 - Shortlisted

The people

Client / Developer: Mr Marco Haagen, Rijksgebouwendienst Directie Projecten, Netherlands Architects: UArchitects

Architect:

Mr Misak Terzibasiyan
UArchitects for the Rijksgebouwendienst
Netherlands

Mr Emile van Vugt
UArchitects for the Rijksgebouwendienst
Netherlands

Cost Consultant: Mr Rob Ulehake, RU bouwadvies, Netherlands
Lighting Consultant: Mr William Mulders, Rijksgebouwendienst directie A&A, Netherlands
Main Contractor: BAM Utiliteitsbouw Eindhoven, Netherlands
Mechanical advisor: Mr Adrie Jonkergouw, Rijksgebouwendienst directie A&A, Netherlands
Structural Engineer: Mr Bert Jans, SIGMA Engineering, Netherlands
Supervisor of construction: Mr Rob Ulehake, RU bouwadvies, Netherlands

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