Hof van Duivenvoorde, Courtyard Building Images, Visitor Centre Holland, Project
Hof van Duivenvoorde
Movable Facades in Dutch Visitors Centre Building – design by 70F architecture, The Netherlands
2 Mar 2018
Hof van Duivenvoorde
Kasteel Duivenvoorde
Design: 70F architecture
Location: just west of Voorschoten, east of Den Haag
Duivenvoordes Courtyard
70F architecture designs visitors center that ?lives?

Dutch architecture studio 70F architecture designed a visitors center that ?lives?.

Hof van Duivenvoorde (Duivenvoordes Courtyard) has nine movable facade parts that open up the building in the morning and close it at night.

When the façade is open the building is a light restaurant, when it?s closed it becomes a modest barn that disappears in its surroundings.
Hof van Duivenvoorde is the visitors center that belongs to Duivenvoorde Castle and Estate, a national monument in the city of Voorschoten. The Duivenvoorde foundation was the comissioner and asked 70F architecture to create a building that would look like a barn but at the same time be transparent and have a welcoming atmosphere.

The solution, with its movable facade parts was a direct hit with the commissioner, but turned out to be difficult to execute. No hatch producer or hinge supplier was up for the challenge. Bas ten Brinke, owner of 70F architecture, therefore decided to do the engineering himself.

Hof van Duivenvoorde inhabits a restaurant, a museum shop and space for the volunteers who give...