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ACOUSTIC BARRIER; HESSING COCKPIT; EKRIS HEADLIGHTS

ONL (OOSTERHUIS_LÉNÁRD), 1998-2006; 2008, Proostwetering 53, Utrecht

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
ONL (Oosterhuis_Lénárd)

PROJECT ARCHITECT:
Kas Oosterhuis

BUILDING TYPE:
Civil engineering works
Shops


RELATED BUILDINGS:
Office Building Facet
Winkelcentrum The Wall

The Acoustic Barrier along the A2 motorway includes in its one-and-a-half kilometres an industrial building, the Cockpit. This contains a car showroom, an appropriate duty and one exploiting the building's attention value. The position of the Cockpit's greater volume and the sinuous lines of the barrier are redolent of a snake with its recently swallowed prey. All components, including the 40,000 differing steel nodes and the 10,000 differing triangular glass panels, were generated by a computer program, produced as one-offs in a factory and assembled on site like a construction kit.