IKEA BUSINESS COLLEGE
interior training center
design
Starting point for the organization of the program, is to determine the potential of the program to communicate and connect to passers-by on the highway, people coming from the city and visiting IKEA customers. For example, this involves the entrance and exit area, restaurant and college area. For this reason, the program is shown by large glass surfaces.
This means that the supporting parts of the program, such as the printing and copying room, smoking lounge, toilets and various consultation rooms are housed in a so-called program-based strip-shaped core. This core is considered at a certain distance set back from the facade. This gives a clear structure to the large areas and a recognizable organization of many functions.
The majority of the strip walls are executed in glass in the longitudinal direction. This provides not only an open character, but also ensures daylight penetrating far into the building.
interior training center
| client: | Inter IKEA Systems Holding BV |
| design: | John van de Weg |
| project team: | Mathijs van Daal, Remco van Dijk, Joris Jansen, Dirk-Jan Schaap, Lard Joordens |
| management: | L&A Real Estate Solutions, Rotterdam |
| advisors: | Bartels Ingenieursbureau BV (structure); Halmos BV Adviseurs (M&E); Civil Support (infra) |
| contractor: | Heijmans Bouw Rotterdam BV (structure); Imtech Projects (M&E); Boskalis (infra) |
| location: | Olof Palmestraat, Delft |
| floor area: | 36.000 m² - concept store 39.000 m² - parking |
| start design: | February 2002 |
| start bouw: | February 2005 |
| completion: | August 2008 |
design
Starting point for the organization of the program, is to determine the potential of the program to communicate and connect to passers-by on the highway, people coming from the city and visiting IKEA customers. For example, this involves the entrance and exit area, restaurant and college area. For this reason, the program is shown by large glass surfaces.
This means that the supporting parts of the program, such as the printing and copying room, smoking lounge, toilets and various consultation rooms are housed in a so-called program-based strip-shaped core. This core is considered at a certain distance set back from the facade. This gives a clear structure to the large areas and a recognizable organization of many functions. The majority of the strip walls are executed in glass in the longitudinal direction. This provides not only an open character, but also ensures daylight penetrating far into the building.
assignment
The interior design of IKEA Business College is an integral part of the assignment for the expansion and extension of the IKEA store in Delft, the Netherlands. The existing program components are modified and a parking building and training IKEA Business College (IBC) are added.
All non-store functions, such as IKEA Business College and offices, have an almost identical and clear set in terms of their layouts. 
At certain points, passages are located on either sides of the strips to connect the areas. The areas in the strips are accessible in three ways; sometimes only directly from the adjacent open space, sometimes only from the narrower passage and sometimes from both sides.
