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Article from issue 12/2003 »Plastering, Rendering and Paint«

Documentation Centre in Vught

documentation p. 1460 - 1462
Architect en Kaan, Claus | Structural Engineer Adams Bouwadviesbureau BV |

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Circulation plan 1:2500
Floor plan 1:750
Section through fassade at main entrance 1:20
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Vught was the largest SS-controlled concentration camp in the Nazi occupied Netherlands. The first steps to create a memorial onthe 86-acre site were taken in the early 1990s. A documentation centre with a museum has now been added that forms an entrance to the partly reconstructed camp. The clear, elongated form of this building is horizontally articulated with a fine strip pattern ofhand-made terracotta slips and slightly recessed, white-rendered bricks. The entrance is marked by a powerful canopy in sandblasted concrete. Internally, the spaces are directly linked with each other without a corridor. Based on an idea by Adolf Loos, their heights vary, according to function.