Julianaplein Vaals, Limburg Residential and Commercial, North Brabant Property, Building, Dutch Architecture Images
Julianaplein Vaals, Limburg North Brabant
23 Jun 2022
Design: Martens Willems & Humblé Architecten
Location: Limburg, North Brabant, Holland, The Netherlands

Photos: Arjen Schmitz
Julianaplein Vaals, NL
Julianaplein Vaals
How can a store and residential block in the social housing sector, which will partly determine the image of the new Koningin Julianaplein, become a natural part of the protected villagescape of Vaals" Because if buildings could speak, our block will have to enter into a strong dialogue with its surroundings.

What language should we speak in this border town" Without Von Clermont, Vaals would have remained a village. Because of this energetic cloth manufacturer Johann von Clermont (1728-1795) the monumental von Clermont house, today’s town hall, the Bloemendal and Vaalsbroek castles appear in 18th century Vaals.
Since that time Vaals is more or less a surprising stately suburb of Aachen, situated on the other side of the border. The current center of Vaals provides a diverse architectural canon, tied together by a color palette of painted white and reddish brown brickwork. All von Clermont buildings used to be ‘gestrichen in ein gefäliges Gelb’.

Our L-shaped residential and commercial block surrounds the square with a natural yellow-brown, highly nuanced, handmade brick fired from nearby Maas clay, ...