Child Welfare Council Office / Onix

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Text description provided by the architects. The office for the Child Welfare Council is a part of a new complex of government buildings in Lelystad, Netherlands. It manifests itself as a monolithic trunk of wood. Two dynamic routes link all the important rooms (waiting room/reception area, conference rooms, library, canteen, atrium). The direction of these routes is exhibited on the exterior as bark that has been peeled off.

Child Welfare Council Office / Onix - Chair
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The ‘wooden landscape’, as these routes are called, is the part of the interior that has been designed and determined. But there is also a ‘free zone’, an area where the user has a free hand. This area displays many industrial elements: concrete walls and ceiling, industrial polyurethane floor, and floating climate islands.

Child Welfare Council Office / Onix - Table, Chair
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Most of the furniture in the reception area ‘grows’ out of the wooden landscape and is thus no addition, but rather a part of the whole. This was the most important starting point for the design of the Child Welfare Council office – to make a totally integrated design where the exterior and the interior are one, where the building is a single entity.

Child Welfare Council Office / Onix - Stairs, Handrail
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Address:Lelystad, The Netherlands

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Cite: "Child Welfare Council Office / Onix" 02 May 2011. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/131698/child-welfare-council-office-onix> ISSN 0719-8884

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