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MIXED-USE CENTRE 'T KARREGAT

F. VAN KLINGEREN, J. DE WEIJER, J.A.M. MULDER, 1970-1973, Urkhovenseweg 8, Eindhoven

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Frank van Klingeren
John de Weijer
Johan Mulder

:
Cor Passchier
architecten/en/en
DiederenDirrix

BUILDING TYPE:
Sociocultural buildings

STATE:
architecten/en/en, DiederenDirrix (ren. 2010-2015)


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Multi-function Centre De Meerpaal

This experimental scheme brings together a shopping centre, schools, a gymnasium, a library, a community centre and a medical centre literally under one roof. Its informal arrangement without thresholds and partitions steps off from a systematic, standardized configuration: stable steel parasols each atop an open column, in-between which are lattice girders overlaid with timber joists. This horizontal plane is kept independent of facades and partitions. This product of bilateral decision-making has since been altered and largely boarded up.