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Zwitsal Transformation Scenario’s

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Transformation strategy for the buildings of a historic factory complex in Apeldoorn

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Status: Study 2019
Team:  Johan De Wachter, Joris van Arkel, David Zatloukal, Xavi Aguilar, Marieke van Hensbergen, Anna Kintsurashvili
Client: Gemeente Apeldoorn
Location: Apeldoorn

Zwitsal Transformation Scenario’s

For the municipality of Apeldoorn, we are working on development scenario’s that will be guiding the development of the historical Zwitsal site.

On the scale of the individual building we sketched different scenario’s and looked at how future and current functions are supplementary, both spatially and programmatically. We look to strike a balance between existing tenants, the municipality and future users. The protection of the historical ensemble is of highest priority, as is the complimentary functioning of the site in relation to the city of Apeldoorn.

Our development scenario’s will form the basis of exploitation models, renovation strategies and policy proposals for the entire factory complex. This basis will help the municipality to make investment decisions. Furthermore, the visualizations will communicate an attractive future perspective for potential tenants and investors, communicating the qualities the site has to offer.

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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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