RESEARCH CENTER TEIJIN
new development in Arnhem
location
The proposed site for the Research Centre is on the business park “Kleefsewaard” in Arnhem. This historic industrial business park is over half a century the leading location for companies in the industry of chemistry.
design
The spatial organization of the building is based on the process-oriented functioning of the company. The technology hall occupies a central position. The remaining functions, the laboratories and offices, are grouped around the hall. By this, a lay-out is generated by parallel bands of offices, laboratories and traffic areas which are folded around the technology hall. The various sections of the company can cluster and co-work in different parts of the building.
By applying the same strategy of transparency for the exterior facade of the building, a similar effect is gained on an urban scale. The building reveals and conceals its contents to its environment and plays a game with secrecy and openness. On the one hand, the building involves its surroundings in what is happening on the inside, on the other hand it hides the research activities in a carefully way.
new development in Arnhem
| client: | Schipper Bosch Projectontwikkeling, Amersfoort |
| design: | Gert Jan Knevel, Benjamin Robichon |
| project team: | Thijs van der Heijden, Philip Rutten, Lard Joordens |
| model: | PIAA V.O.F. |
| consultants: | BFB, Nijmegen (building costs) |
| location: | Industriepark Kleefsewaard, Westervoortsedijk 73 Arnhem |
| plot size: | 8.300 m² |
| floor area: | 70.000 m² |
| design: | April 2007 |
location
The proposed site for the Research Centre is on the business park “Kleefsewaard” in Arnhem. This historic industrial business park is over half a century the leading location for companies in the industry of chemistry.
design
The spatial organization of the building is based on the process-oriented functioning of the company. The technology hall occupies a central position. The remaining functions, the laboratories and offices, are grouped around the hall. By this, a lay-out is generated by parallel bands of offices, laboratories and traffic areas which are folded around the technology hall. The various sections of the company can cluster and co-work in different parts of the building.
By applying the same strategy of transparency for the exterior facade of the building, a similar effect is gained on an urban scale. The building reveals and conceals its contents to its environment and plays a game with secrecy and openness. On the one hand, the building involves its surroundings in what is happening on the inside, on the other hand it hides the research activities in a carefully way. 
assignment
The assignment concerns the accommodation of a Research Centre for the company “Teijin” in Arnhem, the Netherlands. The new program includes a technology hall, laboratories, offices and storage. Teijin is the global leader in aramid products and offers new technologies like composites, conveyor belts and optical fibre cables.
By opening the physical boundaries between the various programmatic areas in varying degrees; spheres can liquefy towards the intermediate traffic areas. These traffic areas can transform into areas with their own specific value of a “staying space” which could absorb other components of the program. 
