Sitting at the heart of the Hoge Veluwe National Park is the new Park Pavilion designed by De Zwarte Hond and Monadnock. Designed to welcome visitors and heighten the quality of their visit, the pavilion offers a restaurant, park shop, education spaces, and reception areas. It inserts itself as a modest addition to the 5,400 hectare nature reserve that is the Hoge Veluwe National Park.
The architects focused on ensuring the building was an integral part of the landscape and the park experience. Pulling from the nostalgic qualities of a country house, the structure, when viewed from its narrow end, mimics the characteristic double roof of the home archetype. Moving beyond this, the building subtly transforms into an organic curvilinear form, with expansive glazing that highlights a more intimate and smaller scale, allowing users to take in the surrounding landscape.
A vaulted ceiling extends the full length of the space leading visitors through an intuitive path through the building. At one end, the pavilion offers a warming fire place for cold days, along with the information desk, gift shop, and restaurant; and in the center, a large lounge and central stair case. Intended to be "a place where you feel at home," the new addition aims to provide an inherent sense of intimacy and comfort to park patrons.
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Amazing Pavilion!
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