© Stijn Poelstra
Construction progresses for Cluster Zuid
With the glass roof on the atrium and the facade elements installed, it is visible where the central meeting space and teaching rooms will be. In the late 1970s, architect Joop van Stigt designed a special building for Leiden University’s Faculty of Humanities: Cluster Zuid. De Zwarte Hond is renovating this beautiful example of structuralist architecture in a circular way, reusing the striking concrete columns and wooden ceiling panels, among other things.
After the renovation, the faculty will have a healthy and sustainable building with attractive spaces for students and staff to meet. Thus it is transformed into one spacious, light and pleasant building under a glass roof will also earn the leading sustainability label BREEAM-NL level excellent. It should be ready for use and occupation in 2024.
For the execution, we are working with Combinatie Cluster Zuid, consisting of Constructif, Nelissen ingenieursbureau and Kuijpers; and with HARRYVAN, New Horizon and BWRI.