🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 Park 20|20

Cradle-to-cradle green

Located in a Dutch polder – land reclaimed from the sea – a new model of circular development that implements the Cradle to Cradle philosophy.

📍Location

Hoofddorp, Netherlands

🏢Building Details

• Mixed-use, community-scale master plan: 114,000 sq m

• Development status: 2010 – ongoing

• American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Honor Award 2010

👷🏾‍♀️Developer & Contractor

• Coert Zachariasse – Owner @ Delta Development

• Owen Zachariasse – Former Head of Innovation, Sustainability & Workplace Strategy @ Delta Development

• VolkerWessels

✍️Architects & Engineers

• William McDonough – Founder of William McDonough + Partners

• Roger Schickedantz – Director @ William McDonough + Partners

• Jeroen Grosfeld – Architect & Owner of N3O

• Warren Byrd – Principal Landscape Architect @ Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects

• Serena Nelson – Associate @ Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects

🌱Sustainability

• World’s first Cradle to Cradle™ optimised working environment: built with circular economy thinking and the idea that waste does not exist in nature – but rather, always has an energy function

• Designed for disassembly: all buildings can be disassembled after use, with all materials having their own passports – materials retain value + can be deployed again

• Entire park fully heated + cooled with a single sustainable powerplant: innovative mix of solar, wind, geothermal heat + gravitation energy

• 90% reduction in water use via solar-powered grey-water treatment facility: no chemicals used

• Each building’s size + massing is optimised for solar orientation so that exterior green spaces and building interiors are flooded with daylight

🥦 Wellbeing

• Abundant outdoors: 9 hectares of green zones, urban plazas, public gardens + canal boardwalks encourage a connection to the larger community

• Urban farming: organic products grown and harvested in community gardens equipped with greenhouses

• Sound masking: innovative technologies for pleasant acoustics enhance open spaces where lots of people work together

• Indoor green walls with moss office partitions + green roofs improve air, thermal + acoustic quality

• Athletic + fitness facilities including on-site cycling trails

🎈Bonus feature

The development has multiple economic achievements – including 18% reduction in initial construction costs, 70-80% uplift in rental value, and 23% return on the sale of the first development phase. Proof of the ‘Triple Top Line’ = social equity + ecology + economy.

🔗 Check it out https://park2020.com/