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Category 1: Buildings
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Plaswijckpark - Rotterdam, The Netherlands
SE
Contact
Theo Meijer
Address Dijkstelweg 26
3253TB Ouddorp, The Netherlands
Website
Constructiebureau Krepidoma is an engineering office that has been
working since 1996 in the residential and commercial construction business,
on commercial buildings and on industrial plants. We work out static
calculations and drawings for supporting structures in steel, concrete, wood
and foundations. Our clients are architects, contractors and individuals,
and indirectly we also provide lateral support to large engineering
companies. We specialise in thinking through the design, specification and
implementation of a project, as well as fitting in the structure as well and as
cheaply as possible in accordance with the architect’s design.
Owner
Foundation Plaswijckpark the Rotterdam/
Hillegersberg
Architect
Ssse| OvO associates Architects the Amsterdam
General Contractor
Fraanje B.V.
Engineering Office
Constructiebureau Krepidoma
Construction Period 04/2012 - 04/2013
The project is named “the hollow house in the hill”, and is a 1600 m
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playground for children, consisting of several different attractions inside
the house. Attached to the hollow house in the hill is a greenhouse-like
construction of steel and glass, where the restaurant is situated.
Our engineering office designed the steel construction of the hollow hill
and the greenhouse; Adviesburo Luning designed the pile foundation
and the concrete floors at ground level. This steel construction is built up
in triangles from steel roof beams, “HEA and HEB”, (rotated 90 degrees,
and on the underside of the beam there are welded plates, where the
prefabricated wooden roof panels “lignatur” are placed), making the
construction stable in each direction. We also designed all the difficult
connections, in association with Meijers Staalbouw B.V. A part of the roof
of the hollow house is also supported by a ’tree’ built up from steel tubes,
which gives inside of the house a very striking appearance. The connections
of the steel roof beams at the foundation are made with steel dowels of HE
profiles, because of the large forces in the local x-direction of the beams. At
some points there are three steel beams coming together at the foundation,
which led to difficulties in designing the dowel. SCIA Engineer has the option
to calculate the resulting forces at that point, which made it easier to design
the dowel. The roof of the hill is finished with grass and ivy.
Constructiebureau Krepidoma
