Content
•The assignment
•General Information
•Individual results
•Gertjan Rohaan
•Laura Mol
•Dorien Treep
Assignment
Renovation and Rehabilitation of Helmond’s water tower
Two proposed programs:
- Luxurious apartments with a public viewing platform
- Artist residences with workshops and an exhibition space
General Information
Helmond, a city in Southeast-Brabant, is a pleasant city with historical ties and has 86.000 inhabitants.After a stormy and energetic development, Helmond has recently evolved into modern city with large aspirations regarding architecture for instance.
Being the fifth largest city of Brabant, Helmond is a centre which seems to keep growing in its appeal.Famous nationally and internationally, are the cities Dierdonk and Brandevoort area, where housing has been based on historical architecture.
The water tower it self has also had a stormy history. It had to be rebuilt three times before it would stay upright and WWII made it that much harder to finish the design. But through it all the tower was finished in 1948 and has been in use up and until the 1990’s.
Individual Results
Gertjan Rohaan
Gertjan Rohaan
Design principles
•The route through the park has to bend because of the extension
• A strong visual line is made to this extension
• In this extension the individual exhibition rooms are situated: shop window
All additions made to the water tower are temporary:
• The two extra towers are built up like scaffolding to show their finiteness
• The inside additions are made of ‘click systems’ to maintain maximum flexibility
Gertjan Rohaan
• All the main functions, for example the living space and workshop are placed in the old tower. Vertical transport up to the water tank is placed in the additional towers
• In the water reservoir is the main exposition space. Also for ‘foreign artists’
• Artists who live in the water tower can distinguish themselves from the ‘foreign artists’ in the added tower: in their personal exhibition space.
Gertjan Rohaan
Water tank
• Exhibition space
• To experience the former most important part of the water tower, a route is created around and through the concrete
•The route begins in the ‘lekkamer’. Where people can continue by stairs or use the 2nd elevator
•This path ends at the top of the tower, where there’s a vantage point
Gertjan Rohaan
Individual results
Laura Mol
Helix
Laura Mol
Design principles
•Luxurious apartments
• Each apartment has a different view of the landscape
•Two extensions: both containing an elevator and staircases
• The path through the park has been moved in such a way that passers-by now move through the water tower
Laura Mol
Design concept
•To achieve each apartment having a different view a helix is introduced
•In doing so the apartments not only have a different view because of their difference in height but also in their difference in orientation
•The ‘Helix’ ends at the ‘lekkamer’
Laura Mol
First floor Second floor Third floor
Rotating floor plans
Laura Mol
Lekkamer
• Here the visitors cross over from the outer elevators to the inner elevator
• This cross over gives the visitors the chance to experience the surroundings from different heights and different vantage points
Water tank
•The penthouses are situated in the water tank
Individual Results
Dorien Treep
Dorien Treep
Design principles
•Keep the existing lines and emphasize them
•In keeping the existing shape of the tower visible, no huge extra towers are introduced
Dorien Treep
Dorien Treep
Water tank
•Introducing an atrium in the water tank, until the ‘lekkamer’
•The exhibition spaces are situated around this atrium