evr-architecten’s InnovOcean campus is excessive in Ostend
The structure studio evr-architecten from Ghent is planning the InnovOcean campus in Ostend, Belgiummerging a brand new one workplace and analysis building. The undertaking centralizes the maritime analysis actions of ILVO, VLIZ, introducing a responsive operate as a convention heart. The design expresses the ambition of each analysis institutes to collaborate as a lot as potential in an interdisciplinary method and to share amenities and data. The construction installs a densely stacked quantity with a pedestal of public capabilities on the brand new “Watertorenplein”, a rational 7-story workplace tower delimiting the sq.. An space with laboratories and logistics companies is being developed behind the principle constructing. The multi-level building covers blue glass mosaic materiality referring to the marine theme.
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the ocean and water theme is outstanding within the design
The constructing kinds a low columned construction designed as an open framework that plans totally different program factors. Forming the pinnacle of a brand new growth between the water tower and Fort Napoleon in Ostend, on the intersection of “Vuurtorenwijk” and “Oosteroever”, the undertaking combines a technical analysis program with an vital public and concrete anchoring operate. The imposing quantity of evr-architecten Design studio it stands out for its uncommon profile, plinth and materiality, forming the pivot between the lighthouse district and the japanese shore.
The theme of sea and water is mirrored actually and figuratively within the alternative of supplies. The graceful outer shell covers the construction with a mosaic of blue glass. The colour palette of the flooring and joinery refers back to the white-yellow-gold of the ocean sand. Public capabilities are interconnected inside the plinth. The restaurant has an indoor terrace on the prime of the constructing, overlooking the North Sea. A easy intervention that also provides the strong quantity recognizable within the Ostend skyline.
