Angie Abbink – Double Harvest

Following an education in Brussels & London, Angie Abbink settled in Amsterdam where she completed her studies at the Rietveld Art Academy and the Academy of Architecture. After winning the 2001 Archiprix and being nominated for the RIBA Residents Medals she established her architectural career in 2002. In 2008 she joined forces with Micha de Haas, and started Abbink X De Haas architectures. She teaches at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam and lectures abroad.

 

Project: Double Harvest is the new extension for AT Osborne on their magnificent country estate in Baarn. The brief required a building that respects history but is in itself visionary and will enhance AT Osborne's sustainable identity.  The new 500m2 building is cleverly hidden beneath a new vegetable garden which will provide the company restaurant with local fresh products.

 Glasshouses and patios are incorporated into the vegetable garden which will bring light and air into the subterranean building. The horticultural patios simultaneously create spaces for exotic fruit & vegetables between which AT Osborne's employees and guests can work and meet, bringing an entirely new working environment to AT Osborne's rich palette of existing working atmospheres.

 

The space is based on maximum flexibility so as to house workspaces, seminars, presentations and meetings at any given time. Even the landscaped exit to the forest can be used as an outdoor working arena. By using the heat of the ground and the concept of a healthy (work) garden the ideal working environment can be realized with a minimum of technical requirements. Double harvest for people & planet & profit!