Haag Wonen office in The Hague

The assignment was to realise the head offices of Haag Wonen, a housing corporation in existing, recently completed rented premises.
The image required by Haag Wonen is positive, open and involved. On the ground floor, the public area is "the market". The interview rooms and visitor toilets are housed in a metal box with views to both sides, for the purpose of social control. The desks have a wooden veneer.
The housing corporation requires a low threshold for clients to visit the offices. The street and private area are kept distinctively separate in the design. The street is the collective area in the plan, including the passageway or a conference room, for example. The private area is the staff's own offices. There are views of the street from the offices, and glimpses of the activity in the offices from the street. The street design is uniform and set, with no room for private possessions. Users have great freedom in the offices in order to design and use the interior exactly as they wish, which is why the private environment has been kept simple in the design.
The Holding is housed on the 5th floor. Here, the office tabletops are wooden, to emphasise the representative character, while the rest of the interior is the same as that of the housing corporation.