IKEA DELFT: TRANSFORMATION OFFICE
IKEA Concept Center in Delft
| client: | Inter IKEA Systems Holding BV |
| design: | John van de Weg |
| project team: | Dirk-Jan Schaap, XiaoBin Chi, Bas van Berkum, Jos van der Weijden |
| management: | Kleissen en Partners Oost |
| consultants: | Bartels Ingenieursbureau BV (constructies); Halmos BV Adviseurs (installaties); Civil Support (infra) |
| contractors: | Bouwbedrijf De Vries en Verburg BV (structural); Van der Leun electrobouw BV (electrical installation); Van Dijk & Korteland (mechanical engineering) |
| location: | Olof Palmestraat 1, Delft |
| plot size: | 52.200 m² |
| floor area: | 7.400 m² |
| start design: | November 2013 |
| start construction: | January 2015 |
| completion: | February 2016 |
design
The expansion of approximately 3.000 m² is realised in a volume on columns floating above the ramp to the underground parking and connected to the existing 3.000 m² office floors.
At the far end of the new volume, on the side of the parking plaza, there is a wide double-height glass front, that makes a big window to the square. On the larger scale of the entire complex this big window is related to the huge glass front window of the cantilever with the restaurant, which also overlooks the square.
location
Given its location, the building forms a buffer between town and landscape and is situated directly adjacent to the A13 motorway which connects The Hague with Rotterdam. The motorway separates the IKEA building from the town of Delft.
assignment
For being the Concept Center, the IKEA store in Delft has an important global role in the Inter IKEA Systems organization. The complex includes an IKEA store but also other facilities a.o. to serve as a laboratory for testing new ideas and as a knowledge- and training center for further development of the 'IKEA concept'.
The architecture of the new facades is generally in line with the existing building. But at the connection of the expansion and existing building there has been placed an intermediair. A zone, slightly pressed inwards, having a width of about three meters with facades executed in building-high horizontal articulated glass panels, which feature a print screen of black dots. Because of this 'necking' inbetween the new expansion and existing building, the new volume remains a more or less independent object equivalent in size and direction with buildings in the immediate vicinity such as the building and FoxIt and Westcord Hotel.
Given its location, the building forms a buffer between town and landscape and is situated directly adjacent to the A13 motorway which connects The Hague with Rotterdam. The motorway separates the IKEA building from the town of Delft.
assignment
For being the Concept Center, the IKEA store in Delft has an important global role in the Inter IKEA Systems organization. The complex includes an IKEA store but also other facilities a.o. to serve as a laboratory for testing new ideas and as a knowledge- and training center for further development of the 'IKEA concept'.
The architecture of the new facades is generally in line with the existing building. But at the connection of the expansion and existing building there has been placed an intermediair. A zone, slightly pressed inwards, having a width of about three meters with facades executed in building-high horizontal articulated glass panels, which feature a print screen of black dots. Because of this 'necking' inbetween the new expansion and existing building, the new volume remains a more or less independent object equivalent in size and direction with buildings in the immediate vicinity such as the building and FoxIt and Westcord Hotel.
