AVHuis Breda
The brief for the AVhuis, a multi-tenant building specifically aimed at the Audio Visual industry, was to make a design that would maximize interaction and meeting opportunities between its tenants. Knowing that interaction stimulates knowledge development and encourages links between complementary business expertise, this strategy would contribute to the commercial and creative success of all individual offices and thus the AVhuis as a business concept.
To realize this ambition, the building hosts a number of collective spaces and facilities. Some specifically aimed at the AudioVisual industry like a studio, a preview room and a demo-reel library, others more general such as a large meeting room, small pantries and a lunch area. All these facilities (except for the studio) are clustered in a volume located at the core of the building called ‘the Villa’. This volume also contains the vertical circulation system and sanitary facilities. Following the cliche that the most creative ideas do not emerge in an office but in a comfortable setting such as under the shower or laying on the couch, we figured it would be a good plan to bring some of this homey atmosphere to the place where the work is done. Therefore, in contrast with the office space the atmosphere in the Villa is homey and each functional room has a different materialization. It allows tenants to virtually escape their office environment for a while and meet others while doing it.
multi-tenant building
surface
2500 m2
completion date
december 2011
client
red concepts
