HOH Architecten combines two 17th-century townhouses to create Institute of Advanced Study
HOH Architecten has connected two 17th-century Dutch canal houses that were "separated at birth" to create a new facility for the University of Amsterdam.
The Institute of Advanced Study (IAS), a study centre for science researchers, is spread across two matching townhouses on the Oude Turfmarkt.
The brief given to HOH Architecten was to create a 600-square-metre "free space" inside the two buildings.
What the architects discovered when they embarked on the project was that, due to extensive alterations over the years, the two sets of interiors no longer had any visual continuity. But instead of trying to resolve these differences, they decided to exploit them, creating a series of spaces in markedly contrasting styles. "No wall, floor or ceiling finishing was identical anymore," explained the studio, which is led by architects Freyke Hartemink, Jarrik Ouburg and Maciej Abramczyk. "One could say the buildings had been reduced to a collection of rooms, of which there are always two with the same proportions."
Built in 1642, numbers 145 and 147 were both designed by architect Philips Vingboons in the Dutch classicist style.
They were commissioned by client Pieter Jansz Sweelinck but, as the architects told Dezeen, "the twins were separated at birth." One became the residence for Sweelinck, and the other was rented out.
"Different use and different owners left their traces on the premises," explained Ou...
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