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Architectenbureau Filip Mens

The Hague, NL

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Legoland Discovery Centre, Scheveningen

The building for a Legoland Discovery Center, with a restaurant pavilion upstairs, will be placed where the former Vitalizee is currently located.

In order to enable the construction of a basement (a space of 3000 m2) for the LLDC, the current building has to be demolished.

This also offers possibilities to upgrade this part of the buildings on the Boulevard, together with the planned renewal of the North Boulevard as an extension of the already refurbished Boulevard south of Sealife.

The current building of Vitalizee is characterized in particular by a relatively closed façade on the sea side where the entrance is located at the landing level of the public staircase between Rederserf and Boulevard.

Moreover, the floor height of the two-storey building is limited.

The future building for the LLDC and the catering pavilions will fit much better in the design and in the materialization of the public space to be renovated.

The façade on the sea side will, as it were, be turned into the public staircase between Rederserf and Boulevard. This creates a long front façade with an optimal view of the entrance and store of Legoland.

The façade therefore does not focus exclusively on the Boulevard but also on the route that many people travel from the Gevers Deynootweg towards the beach and vice versa.

In addition to the entrance to Legoland, two restaurant spaces are oriented on the Boulevard.

The ground floor of both Legoland and the catering areas consists of a row of concrete piers in which a color surcharge is included. Between these columns a glass facade is ensuring optimum transparency.

For the restaurant there is only limited space for a terrace at Boulevard level. That is why there is a terrace accessible from the Rederserf and the two glass pavilions on the first floor.

The terrace, with a balustrade of hardened and laminated glass, protrudes slightly over the Boulevard so that not only more square meters are realized, but also a sheltered spot on Boulevard level is created along the façade with a view of the beach and sea.

Rounding off the corners of the ground floor and of the catering pavilions has a number of other functions: it retains a better view of the monumental Kurhaus coming from the south and it better guides the flows of people to and from the Rederserf . In addition, this makes the building a bit softer.

 
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Status: Built
Location: The Hague, NL
Firm Role: Architect