Shopping, working and living are stacked on top of each other. A visionary and ambitious concept, but the seventies architectur needs an update. Together with the owners, enterpreneurs en inhabitants we worked on a strategy for renewal for the entire center. The physical switch of the seventies architecture to a rather chique new look is an important part of the project. But also the redefinition of the image and identity of the center as a shopping center is part of the discussions. The brand needs to be defined over again and the buildings are part of that. Under the umbrella of a strong common identity we want to make the area attractive again. It has to again becom a place where people like to go, a place where shopping is more than just buying necessities.
De Hamershof
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Status: Completed 2020, participation and design 2010, development 2014
Team: Johan De Wachter, Viktorija Gailiūtė, Marieke van Hensbergen, Kim van den Hoven, Andrius Kalinauskas, Mikas Kauzonas
Client: Collective of owners of the Hamershof
Location: Leusden, NL
Team: Johan De Wachter, Viktorija Gailiūtė, Marieke van Hensbergen, Kim van den Hoven, Andrius Kalinauskas, Mikas Kauzonas
Client: Collective of owners of the Hamershof
Location: Leusden, NL
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Johan De Wachter
Johan de Wachter is an architect and founding partner at Woonwerk Architecten. He came to Rotterdam after his studies at the Catholic University of Louvain (KUL) and worked from 2000 to 2004 at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA/Rem Koolhaas) on various urban planning and architecture projects and competitions. In 2003 he founded Fün Design Consultancy and was a partner until 2005. In 2005 he founded Johan De Wachter Architecten and in 2011 he started 2DVW Architecten in Antwerp together with Rik De Vooght. In 2023, the agencies are given a new name. With the establishment of Woonwerk Architecten, the collaboration is given further shape. With Woonwerk, Johan works on projects at home and abroad.
Johan regularly teaches and has been, among others, a guest lecturer at Delft University of Technology, the Academy of Architecture in Rotterdam and the Fontys University of Applied Sciences in Tilburg. He was appointed associate professor of urban design at Kaunas University of Technology in 2015. Here he leads the design studios with a specific focus on the integral transformation of former soviet residential areas (microrayons). Johan De Wachter was selected in 2014 for the “Europe 40 Under 40 Award”. This award recognized Johan as one of the 40 leading young design talents from Europe.
In addition to his work as an architect and teacher, Johan regularly sits on various committees and juries in the Netherlands and abroad. He is currently a member of the spatial quality committee in Breda (NL) and of the environmental committee in Tilburg (NL).
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