ZONNEHOF PAVILION
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Heritage & Architecture - 2021
TU Delft
Supervisors: Wouter Willers
Using Rietveld’s own legacy and approach as the basis for the design, the extension of the Zonnehof uses Gerrit’s own sketch for an extension as a starting point, building around the south facade with a sculpture garden. The volumes are kept low, wrapping around the square plan of the Zonnehof, bridging to the building in important parts for the reception and the offices.
Although the eastern elevation is preserved, the sketch is twisted and adapted to the contemporary requirements, adding additional volumes in a similar style, and emphasising the roof slab in a similar way to the Zonnehof, this time extending it over to create a modernist colonnade. The windows playfully puncture the prefabricated CLT facade of the exhibition spaces, allowing the sunlight reflect off of the new pond, into the interior.
The facade is covered in hand-applied blue lime plaster, inspired by the single blue glazed brick facade of the Zonnehof. Inside, shades of grey and black place the emphasis on the art inside.
Although famous from its history of being used as a Lavanderie- where women would wash clothes, the river that divided this Mediterranean city is almost invisible in the city centre, present only in name. The larger walkway of the path uses one of many documented forms of the typically dry river bed to freeze its history in place, a snapshot of the past from the archives. On top, the grid of the more modern planned city, which orients itself around the bend of the river, is juxtaposed.
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