{"id":2685,"date":"2020-08-21T13:37:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T11:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/burovanbaar.nl\/?p=2685"},"modified":"2020-08-22T18:59:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T16:59:37","slug":"delft-city-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burovanbaar.nl\/?p=2685","title":{"rendered":"Delft City Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the elevator lobby, on each level, a longitudinal corridor leads to the different building segments, coded from A to G. The wayfinding system reflects this idea of a main road with left and right turnings on the way. The information is designed as a scheme, using geometrical shapes like circle, square, triangle etc. as an extra element of identity. Meanwhile this technical twist of the graphics refers to Delft as the seat of the renown Technical University Delft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Walking the South-North corridor, one faces the orientation system, depicted on the columns. On the side is a schematic floor plan indicating the current position and the floor number<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Rather than signs, we speak of wayfinding ‘tags’, flat graphics mounted onto the interior surfaces such as columns, walls, doors and glass panels by means of printed wallcovering and adhesive film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the conference centre, an extra longitudinal corridor links numbered meeting rooms. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The electronic booking system, one on each floor. Note the coded building segments.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Elevator sign, thick glass panel with faceted edge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The only physical panels are the elevator signs, made of thick glass panels with a faceted edge, referring to the sloping glass roofs of the building volume. For the service counters we designed three dimensional numbers (channel letters) with adjustable internal light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Detail of the privacy film, using the clouds of the famous Vermeer painting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The interior mainly has glass partitions, which gives the building its crisp transparency. In the conference centre this created the need for privacy window films. The visual theme is taken from Vermeer’s painting “view of Delft” from 1661.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Inside the meeting rooms, the clouds are more visible.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Detail of the Delft footprint infographic. A glossy layer is ‘hoovering’ above a matte layer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The design of the tunnel, the station and the city hall played an important role in re-uniting the separated East- and West city lobs and restoring some of the old canal structure, thus changing the city map. This lead to the idea to create a large wall piece, consisting of map-like plates, depicting four historical phases in the development of the city plan. The rail track comes (1880) and goes (2018). The town hall lies outside of the former city wall but in the current setting rather central in today’s Delft footprint. Visitors are now presented with this meaningful narrative in which some of the antique fortification plans are still visible in today\u2019s street- and canal patterns. The pieces are carried out in a matte layer with a glossy layer on top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Detail of Delft footprint infographic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Delft footprint around 1650.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Detail of Delft footprint infographic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The wayfinding system has been designed as a family with three members, each catering for a specific need:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Offices
Client Contact Centre
Conference Centre<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 25 custom pictograms have been designed in different sets: separate waste collection, special purpose rooms, bicycle parking, office supplies storage, Client Contact Centre<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pictograms for separate waste collection.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bespoke pictogram for allergy room.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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On the inside of each door the evacuation routine can be read. On the outside, a similar plaque gives the room number.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The ambition was great, the pressure to be economical with money was just as great. By using the interior surfaces of the building as a canvas for wayfinding tags, we managed to provide a comprehensive wayfinding- and orientation system, consisting of over 600 items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Background information<\/strong>
The Municipality of Delft took the role as a trailblazer in solving an urban design flaw from the past. Since 1965 the Eastern old center has been cut off from the largest extensions on the West side by a concrete train viaduct. By putting train tracks and station underground, the possibility arose to forge these two city lobes back together. Early on in the planning phase, the idea arose to build a new city hall on top of the station, a contract that, after a competition, was awarded to Mecanoo, located a stone’s throw from the planning area that had meanwhile been coined “Spoorzone”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Colophon<\/strong>
Design concepts were developed in close co-operation with the Delft internal facility management, Fred van der Loos (wayfinding strategy), Studio Biek (interior design) and the architect. The wayfinding graphics were supplied by MakeCover. The infographic wall piece was supplied by Printed.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Floor suface: 19,430m2
Architect firm: Mecanoo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The combined town hall\/ train station sits atop a new tunnel built in place of the old concrete viaduct that has split the town in two since 1965. Public functions are concentrated on the ground floor. Employees and guest visitors enter the offices (levels +1, +2 and +3) and the conference centre (+1) via an eccentrically placed elevator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[79,77,81,74,87,78,84,71,76,72,73,85,80,86,30,83],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burovanbaar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burovanbaar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burovanbaar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burovanbaar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burovanbaar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2685"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/burovanbaar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2721,"href":"https:\/\/burovanbaar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions\/2721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burovanbaar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burovanbaar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burovanbaar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burovanbaar.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}