These are associated with the pioneer of the Dutch East India Company Jan Joost van Lodesteyn, the aforementioned Hugo Grotius and the navigator Piet Hein.
See from the customer's point of view how Allplan Architecture was used in different challenging customer projects and contributed tremendously to their success.Īt its narrow end, House of Delft adopts the 20 meter protruding form of three houses. These ten different facades tell the stories of these heroes, how they lived and how they worked.
Thus, the house honors its extraordinary achievements in crafts, science, art and technology by taking up and re-interpreting ten facades of historical houses, once inhabited by some of Delft's pioneers. House of Delft is an ode to such local pioneers whose stories form the architectural foundation of the building so to speak. The list of historical innovators, for example, includes names such as Hugo Grotius, the "father of international law," or Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, the inventor of the microscope. This will not only unite externally modern interpretations of historical homes of local pioneers, but also provide space for pioneers of the future.ĭelft is a great city that has brought about so many enigmatic personalities. One example of this particular type of building is the House of Delft. However, there are also buildings that are "steeped in history" in a very different way, namely they literally embody history. Normally people speak of a building steeped in history when a building is particularly old and therefore has already "seen a lot." Or it is a locality that has played a significant role in certain historical events.