Quick FACTS 🧾
Structural engineer: Arup, Aronsohn
Architects: MVSA Architects
Main contractor: Heijmans
Floor count: 10
Height: 48m
Floor area: 5,600m2
Construction dates: Nov 1999 - Sep 2002
Design 🏗
Raising the building in this way also allowed room at ground level for a spacious entrance zone. The glazed entrance lobby is surrounded by green lawns. Running underneath the building is an approach road for taxis, coaches and board members’ chauffeurs.
A car park and bicycle garage are located below grade. The auditorium and its foyer can be used by the entire ING group and has its own entrance with lifts.
The building responds to its surroundings with an ‘intelligent’ facade design. The long south elevation has to contend with a high solar heat load and the north elevation with noise and air pollution from the A10 motorway.
A double-skin facade ensures a pleasant indoor climate for all, with the possibility of natural ventilation. On the south side, solar shading hangs in the facade cavity; a natural chimney effect extracts solar heat. The glazed skin on the motorway side is closed and the cavity is supplied with fresh air drawn from the south side.
Source: Archdaily.com , MSVA Architects
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