Kop Havenkwartier

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Expressive head building for the creative harbor district of Deventer

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Status: Completed 2023
Team: Johan de Wachter, Marieke van Hensbergen, Nicolette Marzovilla, Joris van Arkel, Liene Medniece
Collaboration: IGE Emmen, M-Trix
Client: O|M|A Apeldoorn and Nijhuis bouw
Location: Mr. H.F. de Boerlaan, Deventer, NL
Program: 72 Sustainable BENG houses

Photography: Aiste Rakauskaite

Kop Havenkwartier

For O|M|A Apeldoorn, JDWA designed an expressive residential building for the creative harbor district of Deventer. The area has a rough industrial atmosphere, and is home to artists, entrepreneurs and eccentric self-build projects. The KOP (HEAD) building, signals the start of the harbor district when arriving from the center of Deventer. The building is thus designed to reflect the district: lively, tough en eccentric.

The KOP building will offer sustainable BENG housing for young starters en vital elderly and therefore aims to minimize costs and at the same time maximize living quality and social interaction in and around the building.

The KOP building is a combination of three main elements:

The Koopman, a historical building on the site that will be preserved and will house collective functions such as laundry and a shared roof terrace. The external circulation giving the building its expressive look while offering residents a place to relax and meet each other. An intelligent, straight forward brick volume that minimizes costs while offering a multitude of housing types.

This combination is KOP Havenkwartier.

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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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