Sustainable architect Dennis HauerPortfolio architecture and sustianable advise projects

For me architecture is the search to the essence of the program and the fascination of the location.

Designing is about investigating options, getting the optimum out of the program of demands. And preferably more! Characteristic for my design approach is a fascination for complex programms and creating added value by designing special spaces like an atrium as a meeting place. By using urban surroundings and conditions for the design, and looking at factors like orientation, influence of the sun and natural elements the building blends logically into the environment. The form language of the building responds to these factors.

For me sustainability isn’t a problem, but a chance! It is about creating added value. For instance by choosing healthy materials and designing a smart building structure we reduce the use of materials, create a healthier indoor environment and save building costs.

These sustainable buildings can only be designed in cooperation with my clients. Your knowledge is essential at the creation of the design!

After working for a multidisciplinary consultancy firm my strength lies in combining knowledge in my projects. I am convinced that such a sustainable building can only be realized when it is the result of an integrated approach. All the disciplines involved share their part so all building elements have their own function; comparable to nature. Like the human body where all the parts form one entity.

Dennis HauerSeptember 2014

Vision on Architecture ProjectsFrom concept to realization

New ROC van Twente Almelo building; from the first sketch to the actual building

The Greenhouse; Capelle Community Center

Function: Senior ArchitectBureau: KOWPeriod: 2014

Redevelopment of the existing building from Comenius College in Cappelle a/d IJssel into a Community Center or the neighbourhood.The building houses a variety of working and meeting spaces for ZZP and small companies in the Capelle area with workshops and open work space (compared to the Seats 2 Meet concept) The building also has a health center on the groundfloor.

The renovation concept folows the ‘Green and Glass’ principles; with simple features and techniques from the horticulture the building is renovated by adding a greenhouse to provide extra meeting space, give the building a new appearence, give the existing facade a climate buffer and harvest the sun to provide heating and ventilation.

On the roof of the workshops an urban farming area is realised for the use of the tennants.To make this possible an innovative roofsystem will be used to spread the load of the green roof to the existing structure.

renovation primairy school ‘De Krakeling’ Arnhem

Function: Senior ArchitectBureau: KOWPeriod: 2013-2014

Renovation of existing schoolbuilding in Vreedenburg, Arnhem. The renovation solves 3 existing problems:1) indoor climate: by improving the thermal quality of the exterior and adding a decentral ventilation system combined with heathing and summernight-ventilation the existing problems with the indoor climate will be solved.2) educational concept: by restoring the flexible floorplan and creating a building center with shared functions the flexibility of the building is improved. In the architecture this is presented by adding a ‘Green and glass’ facade, which also adds to the improvement of the thermal skin.3) energys use: the facade and roof will be improved to create a better energy prestation, combined with the decentral system and daylight control and healthy indoor lighting, the use of energy will be reduced by 30%

Interior design Best Western hotel Gouda

Function: Senior ArchitectBureau: private projectPeriod: 2012

Interior design for a 4 star hotel in the historical center of Gouda. The project involves 101 rooms, 2 meeting rooms and a bufet restaurant for 75 people.

The interior design referres to the historical setting by adding local images into the modern room design. The corridors and the rooms have typical Gouda images printed on the walls.

The hotel is fitted into an existing building with respect to the existing structure. An open room plan forms the base of the design to create an open spatial atmosphere.

IKC Zeeburgereiland Amsterdam

Function: Sustainability expertBureau: Aldus (designed by Studioninedots)Period: 2013

The new IKC at Zeeburgereiland was a pilot project for a DBMO project on which the consortium was responsible for the design, build and operation of the building over a period of 30 years.

Aldus was part of the consortium and payed extra attention to the healthy light section of the output specifications. We made a simulation of the building to optimize the use of daylight and artificial light in the building to provide a healthy light situation with a minimum of energy use.

Schoolbuilding Houthaven Amsterdam

Function: Sustainability expertBureau: Aldus (designed by Marlies Rohmer)Period: 2011-2012

The Houthaven in Amsterdam aims to be energy neutral (according to the definition of Amsterdam; EPC=0) The new schoolbuilding also had to follow this definition, but also had to become a fresh school level A (according to Agentschap NL)

By being critical to the design process and the different parties involved we used GPR-Gebouw and the EPC tool to reduce the amount of energy required to let the building function according to the required levels.

Aldus made a sustainable Programm of demands, and guarded this during the design process, the tender phase and the actual building process.

The result is a climateneutral building whith an very healthy indoor environment.

The Octopus Haren

Function: Sustainability expertBureau: Aldus (designed by Team 4)Period: 2011

Sustainable advise for a new primairy school in Haren. The task was to present sustainable concepts which add value to the design (energy, healthy indoor environment, sustainable use of materials, water, ecology) and present them in sustainable businesscase with the extra costs, benefits and possibilities to earn back the extra investment over a period of 20 years.

The businesscase resulted in an extra budget from the Municipality to create a schoolbuilding which is more energy-efficient and has a healthier indoor environment.

New Kema head office Arnhem

Function: Architect and sustainability expertBureau: De Zwarte HondPeriod: 2011-2012

Integrated design for the new head office of Kema in Arnhem. The Kema organisation is currently located on 14 seperate buildings in Arnhem. The new building will provide one central office for all Kema’s employers in the Arnhem region.

The goal is a highly sustainable building, the client aims for a BREEAM outstanding certification. The design aims at 3 sustainable topics; energy, daylight and healthy indoor environment.The facade is designed to privide optimum daylight but keep the sun out. More then 70% of the facade is transparant and by a daylight simulation we calculated the areas which needed sun protection by large overhangs on the soude and vertical lamelles at the east and west facade. The sun intention is translated into the design of the lamelles; a larger sun intensity means larger lamelles.

Hotel Azes Lelystad

Function: Architect and sustainability expertBureau: De Zwarte HondPeriod: 2011

Competition design for a new 4 star hotel on a highway location at Lelystad. The hotel concept creates a tention between introvert and extrovert. Introvert are the rooms which are private and a place to get some rest, extrovert are the public spaces which have the function to attract guests from the highway to come in and get a drink or dinner.

The hotel also provides a new type of programm which aims at the business guest. Besides a meeting center the hotel provides flexible working space and a skype lounge to have an interactive meeting.

Redevelopment Antwerp International School (B)

Function: Senior ArchitectBureau: Royal HaskoningPeriode: 2009-2010

The Antwerp International School is a private school for children of expats who work for large multinationals in the Antwerp area. The school lies on a monumantal campus surrounded by green, but the school facilities are outdated.

In a quick scan on the use of the buildings in relation to new educational concepts and an inventory of the technical state and inside air quality different scenario’s have been presented on making the school more attractive and better prepared for the future.

During the summer of 2009 a first phase has been realized, on which the school appaerence has been transformed by making small adjustments on the use of colour and new flooring and ceilings. Also small functional changes has been made to the exiosting class rooms to make them more suitable for the AIS education concept.

New Best Western hotel Woerden

Function: Senior ArchitectBureau: Royal Haskoning ArchitectenPeriod: 2008-2011

Integrated design for a 4 star hotel near the Woerden exit of the highway A12. The project involves 125 rooms, a 1.000m2 meeting center and a restaurant for 500 people. The preliminary design is finished.

The hotel is part of the urban plan “the front garden of Woerden” and will form the landmark entrance to the city of Woerden. The concept is a stacking of 3 functional blocks (the restaurant, the meeting center and the hotel rooms) each with it’s owm appearence responding to the location.

The sustainable ambition of the client is to built a hotel at the “green key gold” standard (the sustainability label of the hotel branche) The hotel has a minimum footprint, a hot and cold storage in the ground, makes use of the sun (harvest daylight) and uses healthy materials. The indoor climate is optimal and uses modern techniques to measure and adjust to the guest’s wishes. The system also saves energy.

Redevelopment Easyjet hotel Amsterdam

Function: Senior ArchitectBureau: privat projectPeriode: 2009

Design study for Easyjet hotels to redesign an existing office building in Amsterdam to an Easyjet hotel.

To create an efficient floorplan 3 voids will be added to provide daylight into the rooms.

Small adjustments will be made to the facade, by adding commercial elements. The existing parking garage will be covered with a green facade.

The room concept is similar to the Easyjet ferries and will be made by modular wall elements and prefabricated bathroom units.

Nieuwbouw Praktijkschool Produs Arnhem

Function: Senior ArchitectBureau: Royal Haskoning Architecten (I.c.w. Re-design interiorarchitect)Period: 2006-2010

Integrated design for a school in Arnhem. The goal was to create an inviting and challenging learning environment which the students can be proud of.

The project’s greatest challenge was integrating a slope from the existing pedestrian walkway in the building and creating a wall in keeping with the urban line of the Burgemeester Matsersingel.

The architecture is a reply to the rigid architecture of the surrounding offices. The cheerful patio gable differentiates itself from the rest and creates a transition between inside and outside. The school want the outside world to see what it does. This is reflected in the design in the transparency and large outward facing display windows where the training companies present themselves.

Rijkspaviljoen Floriade 2012 Venlo (competition, 2nd)

Function: Senior Architect / DuurzaamheidsexpertBureau: Royal Haskoning Architecten & PromhousePeriod: 2010

Design “Rijkspaviljoen” for the Floriade 2012 in Venlo.The design is based on the by Cradle to Cradle inspired Venlo principles and is formed by 5 interactive trees which inform and communicate about the sustainability theme’s from the Dutch Government. The exposition follows a route which is carved out of the landscape which is planted with Dutch farming products.

The roof is made of ETFE foil and covered with solar panels which can be used to provide enough energy to run the paviljon during the Floriade. The paviljoen is temporary and can be re-used after the Floriade. One idea is to use the 5 trees as a paviljoen for the Olympic Games.

Interior “Het Ballet centrum” Bunnik

Function: Senior ArchitectBureau: private projectPeriod: 2009

In an empty garage building at the Regulierenring in Bunnik a new balletstudio has been built with 2 studio’s, dressing rooms, a panrty with toilets and a meeting lounge for waiting parents.

The studio’s make optimal use of daylight by the translucent sheds and a ventilation system which regains heath provides a good indoor climate. The height of the 6 meter high studio spaces is made more intimate by adding a colored part. This simple intervention creates a better proportion to the spaces.

The closed facade is changed by adding a banner in a steel frame. This simple solution gives the building a different appaerence.

Function: Project ArchitectBureau: Royal Haskoning ArchitectenPeriod: 2008

Visualisation of the position and design of the harbour buildings, administration buildings and staff housing and a bridge for the new harbour area.

The design was made in cooporation with First Marine International. My role was to translate the functional and logistic masterplan into an Architectural vision and by that giving an answer to the question of creating a large scale fascility in an area with a historical value.

Design buildings harbour Mers-el-Kebir (Algeria)

Extension United Nations International School Hanoi (VN)

Function: Senior ArchitectBureau: Royal Haskoning ArchitectenPeriod: 2008-2011

With the extension of three new buildings on the existing campus, UNIS is completing it’s high educational standard.

The assignment is the designing of a new “Sports & Multi-purpose” building, an extension of the “Science & Technology” building and a new building for “Music & Arts”, including a 400 seat professional theater.

The concept creates a new layer to the existing “courtyard concept” and adds new elements to it. A remarkable detail is the accessible roof garden of the new Music & Arts building. It is connected to the existing public campus space by an inviting staircase in the foyer.

The Science & Art building has been finished in 2009, the other 2 buildings have been delivered at the end of 2011.

Function: Senior ArchitectBureau: Royal Haskoning ArchitectenPeriod: 2010

Designf or the February issue of the popular-scientific Dutch Quest magazine.

The villa is a spherical mini biotope on the moon. It is metaphorical reference to the earth. The villa forms a contract with the rough and dark moon landscape. A smooth and transparent sphere with a green living environment inside.

The thinking beyond borders leads to innovative solutions and typologies. The villa is designed to provide the energy, water, food and oxygen it needs, since there is nothing available on the moon. It isn’t a traditional house with rooms and walls, but a continuous space; house and garden are one. Only the spaces which ask for privacy, like bedrooms and bathrooms, are placed in closed smaller spheres.

Interesting detail is the “split level” principle. Between the different floors there is a height difference of 1, 20 meters. Because the gravity on the moon is only 1/6 of the gravity on earth, the different levels are accessible without any staircases.

Vision on living on the Moon

New Gelre hospital Zutphen

Function: Project ArchitectBureau: Royal Haskoning Architecten i.c.w. Wiegerinck ArchitectenPeriod: 2006-2010

Integrated design for the new Gelre hospital in Zutphen. Unique because of it’s realization time. From the first sketch to the opening of the actual building took less then 5 years. Normally for a hospital this is between 8 to 10 years.

Within a year’s time it has been fully designed and tendered.

The basic design of the building takes the changes in the industry concerning real estate into account. It is made to fit all flexibilty requirements and will serve the new free market principles.

The building is split up into two main parts: a ‘Hot Floor’ with the technical healthcare functions like operating rooms and laboratories and a wing with all residential area’s. Wood- and stone- like materials indicate the residential wing and make it fit into the surroundings. The Hot Floor is clearly identifiable by steel and glass materials creating a technical atmosphere.

Technisch Paviljoen Hellevoetsluis

Functie: Project ArchitectBureau: Royal Haskoning ArchitectenPeriode: 2008-2009

Technisch Paviljoen Hellevoetsluis shared facilities for 4 local colleges: The Helinium college and the Penta college (comprehensive schools for secondary education), the Haringvliet (a school for special secondary education) and the ROC Albeda college (a regional college providing education for adults).

The combination of the four colleges under one roof provides efficient, shared use of expensive educational facilities such as practicum spaces, a multimedia centre and others.

The building is a prime example of sustainable building. All applied materials are recyclable; the energy consumption is very low due to the compact layout.

Redevelopment Praktijkscholen Rotterdam

Function: Project ArchitectBureau: Royal Haskoning ArchitectenPeriod: 2005-2006

The school building at the Japarastraat 4 has been redesigned to house the new educational center of the Horizon foundation, and the practical education of the Accent education group.

The building will be divided in three parts; the Accent part, the Horizon part and the sport facility part. The entrances will be marked with façade screens with the name of the school. It is also possible to stretch large posters on the frames on which the schools can present themselves and show, for example to use photos, what happens inside the building. The screens continue inside the building so a route is created on which educational spaces present themselves as shops in a shopping mall.

The term “educational work center” was created to name the concept. It is a typological mixture of a building of offices and a shopping mall.

Redevelopment Horizon College Hoorn

Function: Project ArchitectBureau: Royal Haskoning ArchitectenPeriod: 2004-2008

Design of the Unilocation for the Horizon College in Hoorn.

The current buildings are partially demolished, a part of the location will be redeveloped. At the same time the new school is formed by the existing building Velius, which is renovated, and a new building volume. In the new situation all the services are put together under one roof. Old and new are connected by an atrium and footbridges.

The design concept is a translation of the educational concept on wich the educational center (OLC) forms the litteral hart of the school.

The new school houses the technical, educational, trade, economical and care educations of the Horizon College. The motto of the new scheme is Contact, Comfort, Control.

Function: Project ArchitectBureau: Royal Haskoning ArchitectenPeriod: 2002-2003

Urban plan for the redevelopment of the station area. In a number of workshops together with owner Dutch Railways (NS) and the Munivipality of Leeuwarden a solution has been formed to transform the existing bus station and parking into a part of the city.

The development includes 4 buildings in e green setting and a compact and dynamic busstation. The plan also provides a more natural pedestrian connection between the station and the town center.

Urban plan station area Leeuwarden

Design study Pathe cinema Leeuwarden

Function: Project ArchitectBureau: Royal Haskoning ArchitectenPeriod: 2002-2003

As a part of the Leeuwarden station ares development the possibility for a new Pathe cinema has been investigated.

Together with Pathe a new concept has been developed for a building with a better routing inside the building. The functional layout also provides the possibility to make all the facades more transparant. This gives the building a better connection to the location and creates more safety.

Each cinema has a seperate entrance and exit so the public can’t swich to another movie which they didn’t pay for. At the exit route a Cinema cafe is located to create the oppertunity to have a drink after the movies.

New ROC van Twente Almelo

Function: Project ArchitectBureau: Royal Haskoning ArchitectenPeriod: 2002-2006

A new house for the whole community of the practical school ROC van Twente. A house on a very special place: tied up between railway tracks and housing estates, situated on a former factory site, this is a location of great class.

The design is tailor made. It is a ground scraper, a big fitting effortlessly in its environment. Open and transparent, a comfortable home for student and teacher.

The site is completely used; the desired closed classic building is publicly accessible from three sides. Passages relate the centrally situated atrium with the outside world, thereby connecting the heart of the school, directly to the surrounding urban fabric.

Special detail is the for this project developed facade system made of a dry brick system. The bricks are kept in place by an aluminium frame and mounted on a sandwich element. The facade is prefabricated, built very quickly and can be re-used when it should be demolished.

Design study Van de Valk hotel Tiel

Function: Project ArchitectBureau: private projectPeriod: 2002

Design study for the new Van Der Valk Hotel in Tiel. The project houses 225 rooms 2.500m2 meeting facilities and a restaurant for 250 persons.

The hotel of tomorrow must meet in providing a multitude of functions. It should be easily accessible, visible from the highway and has to provide enough space for people who arrive by car.

The hotel of the future is not just a place to stay. It’s a place where people can meet groups and parties to celebrate, with space for exhibitions, meetings or for interviews.

The rooms are bigger and there is a more diverse selection. They offer more luxury, like an office, a swimming pool, a sauna or steam room.

Within all this restaurant serves as the heart of the hotel: a place for gourmets

Urban plan Schiphol Logistics Park

Function: Project ArchitectBureau: Royal Haskoning ArchitectenPeriod: 2000-2010

This urban plan defines a set of rules which aim to render the layout of this business park to be more then just a collection of logistic buildings.

At the same time optimum layout freedom is provided for the individual user. Building area and height are determined by the safety zone requirements of Schiphol. This means that 30% of the area can not be built on. Given that this is one of the most sought after locations in the Netherlands, the aim was to achieve the highest building density in the area in which building is permitted.

At the same time a completely new landscape will be created in the direct vicinity of the airport: two compact, built up lobes surrounded by unattainable, therefore ecologically interesting, landscapes.

Social housing Zenderpark IJsselstein

Functie: Project designerBureau: Jean Desert.remPeriode: 1998-2000

Design of 14 social houses in IJsselstein

This project is special for social housing by there optimal comfort and diversity. Their are 2 types of dwellings which are designed in a configurations which provides space in front of the house to park your car. This means that the street stays clear of cars and more public space for the residents.

The housing is sustainable, built in a wodden skelet (platformmethod) and are passive by using heath exchangers, a solar boiler and PV cells on the roof to provide hot and cold water and electricity.The wooden facade from Western red cedar and larix doesn’t need finishing, is low maintanace and provides a nice color variation in the facades.Wood is also used in the interior, the ceilings are from Larix to provide a warm atmosphere inside.

Urban Entertainment Centrum Jaarbeursplein Utrecht

Function: StudentBureau: Graduation project TU DelftPeriod: 2002Prizes: Finalist Archiprix 2003

For my graduation project i investigated the possibility for an Urban Entertainment Center at the Jaarbeursplein in Utrecht. Purpose of the assignment was to close the gap between the Central Station and the Jaarbeurs premises and use the nwe function to link them together

The concept is based on a number of boxes that contain their own functions (theater, cinema, disco) and which together form an architectural composition in a large translucent box that opens toward the station. The counter-form of the functions used to create a vibrant entertainment world with bars, restaurants and meeting places.

The project has been nominated for the Archiprix 2003.

Personalia

Name Dennis HauerTitle Ir. / Master of ScienceAdress Lindenlaan 61 3442 GE WOERDENMobile 0031 6 23 27 57 52E-mail keydesigner@hotmail.comDate of birth May 13th 1977Place of birth Utrecht (NL)Nationality DutchCivil status Married