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Pijnacker tunnel, Holland, Building, Dutch Project, Photo, Design, Image
Pijnacker tunnel Holland : Architecture Information
Touch of Evil : Development by NIO architecten in The Netherlands
Pijnacker tunnel
intervention
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.

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
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