Corner Stone
Type: Housing Location: Delft Client: DARE project development Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water, Joost Lemmens Floor area / size: 680 sqm Cost: Euro 1.515.000 Competition: Competition, nominated
‘Hoeksteen’ (Cornerstone) is a design for a residential building at the far end of Zuiderstraat that not only serves as a “lantern”, but is also the link between Delft’s city centre and the Zuiderpoort area that is currently under construction.
The meeting of these worlds is literally rendered perceptible: behind the old façade, we placed a new structure in the urban tissue.
The intersecting lines between the old and the new shape the new volume; the shape is adapted, on the one hand, to link up with the old buildings along Achterom and, on the other, manifests as part of the Zuidpoort area. The structure at the Achterom side underlines the old façades by making a cut between the old and the new. The incisions scale down the structure itself.
The commercial premises on the ground floor face all-round. Three small volumes are created that each face a different street side, held together by the courtyard on which all of the front doors are located. Two staircases, on Asvest and on Achterom, lend access to the courtyard. Passersby can look into the courtyard through the large opening in the façade on Zuiderstraat. It provides a view of the private world hidden behind the façade.
