University building Minnaert

University building Minnaert
Coauthor: West 8
Address: Leuvenlaan 4, De Uithof, Utrecht, Netherlands
Investor:Universiteit van Utrecht
Project:1994
Completion:20.05.1996 - 24.10.1997
Area:9000 m2
Price:10 000 000 Euro


All circulation space of this central university building has been concentrated in one big hall on the "piano nobile" of the building. It constitutes the communal gathering place and living room for all staff and students in this part of the campus and gives access to the restaurant, the study centre and the laboratories. In the middle. The hall has a large pond of 10 x 50 metres that collects the rainwater and is used as a cooling device for the building. The facade of the building is clad with undulating sprayed concrete of pigmented red earth colour.
Neutelings Riedijk Architects
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