Police Academy
Police Academy
Police Academy
Seminar is now an academy
The Small Seminary has characteristics of the Delft School. It is traditional in appearance, but business in design, using innovative use of construction and materials at the time. Depending on the program at the time, the character is sometimes sober, solid and distinguished or fresh, light, flexible and neutral. During the restoration, colors and materials were reduced to those from 1935 or were based on them. The former sleeping lofts have also been reduced to the original height of ten meters, resulting in fantastic bright workspaces.
The newly added components are just like the old building: solid, spacious and distinctive, but light and modern. Steel and glass were mainly used. They are, as it were, satellites from the old main volume, just like the old facility buildings were. Then tall and vertical. Now horizontal and with lightweight materials.
A striking example of how architecture from two periods reinforces each other is the Atrium. By covering the old courtyard with a powerful design in glass and steel, an impressive interior space has been created. The synergy between old and new has provided a representative place for The New Way of Working, learning center, media library and encounter; the new heart of the organization.
The old entrances cannot cope with the new flows of visitors. That is why a new main entrance has been built on the north side. Here, the great need for parking could also be met without much prejudice to the monumental landscape. By demolishing the former men's house and designing the site, this, which used to be somewhat ragged, has become a very worthy entrance area. In this way, the old entrances could also be restored to their former glory.
By restoring and thinning dense vegetation, the old façade reappears from the Arnhemseweg as it was in 1935. And the new intervention is also subtle: the old lady wears a halo, that of the new glass Atrium roof.
In addition to the order to design the exterior, Atelier PRO also commissioned the design of the entire interior.
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