CEPEZED
BUILDING D
CIRCULAR EXAMPLE PROJECT ON OWN PREMISES CEPEZED
Building D(emountable) is a modern, sustainable and fully
demountable structure on the site of a historic, monumental
building complex in the center of Dutch city Delft. This site is
owned by cepezed, an agency with expertise in the development,
the design and the realization of buildings.
CREATIVE CLUSTER
cepezed acquired the complex with former laboratories from
Delft University of Technology in 2012. It transformed the
monumental buildings into a creative cluster with housing for
various companies in the creative sector, including the office
itself. However, the only non-monumental building on site was in
poor condition. It has now made way for the new construction
of Building D(emountable). Again, this is a full-blown own
development of cepezed and it is intended for companies in the
knowledge-intensive creative industry. It houses the app and
website developer, 9to5 software and a game developer Triumph
Studios.
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CIRCULAR PROTOTYPE
The Netherlands has set itself the goal of rendering all
construction activities fully circular by 2050, while cepezed has
a long reputation for modular and demountable design and
construction. Moreover, director Menno Rubbens of developer
cepezed projects is part of the national program committee to
achieve the national circularity goals. Partly for those reasons,
Building D(emountable) also had to become an example project
on cepezed’s own grounds. The way in which the office approaches
circular construction and the way in which one can make
buildings that can later donate to other projects or even be reused
elsewhere in their entirety.
LIGHTWEIGHT, FLEXIBLE AND GAS-FREE
Building D(emountable) has exactly the same footprint as the
existing building that was no longer good and was demolished.
It measures 11 by 21.5 meters and has four floors of about 200