HORTITECTURE The Power of Architecture and Plants
ISBN 978-3-86859-547-5 https://www.jovis.de/de/buecher/product/hortitecture.html
ISBN 978-3-86859-547-5
https://www.jovis.de/de/buecher/product/hortitecture.html
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NTR, OFFICES<br />
HILVERSUM, 1995–1997<br />
<strong>The</strong> NTR building is part <strong>of</strong> a “campus” <strong>of</strong> cooperating<br />
television companies, which together form the third<br />
public television channel in the Netherl<strong>and</strong>s.<br />
By partly pushing the one-story <strong>of</strong>fice building into a hill<br />
<strong>and</strong> designing the visible ro<strong>of</strong> surfaces with greenery, it<br />
blends with the l<strong>and</strong>scape depending on the angle <strong>of</strong> view.<br />
“Sometimes, it is interesting to use greenery <strong>and</strong> vegetation<br />
to hide a building … We had a beautiful green plot where<br />
we wanted to build a one-story <strong>of</strong>fice building which you<br />
should not be able to see from the street. So, we managed<br />
to get the confirmation even though it was not in the building<br />
zoning regulations.”<br />
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