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Pijnacker tunnel Holland : Interarea - Touch of Evil

Touch of Evil - design by NIO architecten in The Netherlands

Pijnacker tunnel intervention Design: NIO architecten TOUCH OF EVIL Pictures : Hans Pattist What happened here? On the walls and ceilings of the tunnel a strange imprint is visible. A big, whimsical and brightly coloured imprint, an imprint of an unreal and immeasurable shape. As if during the building an unearthly thing got stuck between the formwork. As if the soul of the former landscape, being rooted up by bulldozers, has gone underground. As if the winding pattern of old polder roads, which has made place for rigid urban developments, takes revenge in the tunnel. Compared to the furthermore generic tunnel the thing seems to have loomed up out of nothing. The thing is all the more strange because the rest – the other concrete walls, the asphalt, the paving stones, the fencing, the illumination lines that are at right angles with the road and the bicycle lane/footpath – looks quite normal. The only extravagance being that orange-red thing. It is not art, even though it was designed and made with the same limitations. It was not invented to externalise an intimate or personal experience. No, on the contrary, it wants to make an inhuman form of life visible in a usually anonymous tunnel. Only in this way the tunnel is more than a connection between two areas: an alien, immeasurable, asymmetrical and disoriented experience. A tunnel that you will never understand, even though you have been driving through it every day all your life. Pijnacker tunnel intervention - Building Information Touch of Evil - Interarea tunnel in Pijnacker Address: VINEX location Tolhek, Pijnacker, HOLLAND Design: NIO architecten Client: Gemeente Pijnacker-Nootdorp Contractor: Dura Vermeer (Dubbers-Malden) Structural engineer: DHV/IBZH & Holland Railconsult Design team: Joan Almekinders, Samir Bantal, Hans Larsen, Enrique Moya-Angeler, Maurice Nio, Arek Seredyn, Tine Silvester-Iversen Start design: 2002 Completion: 2004 Costs: € 3.600.000 (10% is spend on architectonical finishing) Pijnacker tunnel images / information from NIO architecten 090409 NIO architecten

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