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Karres en Brands

Based in Hilversum, Karres en Brands balances industrial heritage with expressive material transitions across civic masterplans and public landscapes, incorporating fluid curved glazing, tactile brick paving, and warm laminated timber ribs into open urban thresholds. This portfolio serves as a strong reference when detailing continuous precast concrete seating along pedestrian pathways, integrating historic track infrastructure into public squares, or specifying timber structural elements that soften large-scale community developments.

Rendering of a public square with outdoor seating, mature trees, and a circular pavilion by Karres en Brands.

public-space

A landscape and public-realm precedent for integrating community gathering spaces, outdoor dining, and a focal circular pavilion within an industrial heritage context.

What we like about this project
Historic railway tracks embedded flush into the herringbone brick paving, preserving the site's industrial memory.

Materials

  • brick
  • paving-stone
  • steel
  • timber
  • glass

Visual identifiers

  • circular-pavilion
  • herringbone-paving
  • industrial-facade
  • outdoor-dining
  • mature-trees

Style tags

  • contemporary
  • industrial-chic
  • landscape-led
  • contextual

Visual tags

  • public-realm
  • urban-square
  • adaptive-reuse
  • landscape-architecture
  • civic-space
  • pedestrian-zone
Geometry
An open public plaza framed by industrial brick facades, featuring a central circular pavilion and structured paving zones with embedded rail tracks.
Facade system
Existing historic brick masonry walls with large arched industrial window openings.
Structural guess
Steel frame and timber deck for the central circular pavilion canopy.
Spatial scale
Generous human-scaled public plaza designed for community gathering, dining, and performances.
Lighting
Diffused daylight filtering through lush canopy overhead, casting soft shadows across the paving and seating areas.
Atmosphere
Vibrant and welcoming open-air community atmosphere softened by mature greenery and warm daylight.
Environmental context
Post-industrial urban quarter with converted brick factory architecture and abundant native planting.
Spatial experience
The viewer stands at the paved threshold looking across a multi-use civic square activated by outdoor dining and gathering spaces under mature trees.
Composition rhythm
Diagonal paving lines and embedded tracks lead the eye inward toward the central circular pavilion and distant activities.
Style reading
Contemporary industrial landscape architecture
Program
Urban public square and cultural gathering plaza
Perspective
Aerial/Site
Discipline
landscape
Materials
brick, paving-stone, steel, timber, glass
Visual identifiers
circular-pavilion, herringbone-paving, industrial-facade, outdoor-dining, mature-trees
Style tags
contemporary, industrial-chic, landscape-led, contextual
Visual tags
public-realm, urban-square, adaptive-reuse, landscape-architecture, civic-space, pedestrian-zone
Geometry
An open public plaza framed by industrial brick facades, featuring a central circular pavilion and structured paving zones with embedded rail tracks.
Facade system
Existing historic brick masonry walls with large arched industrial window openings.
Structural guess
Steel frame and timber deck for the central circular pavilion canopy.
Spatial scale
Generous human-scaled public plaza designed for community gathering, dining, and performances.
Lighting
Diffused daylight filtering through lush canopy overhead, casting soft shadows across the paving and seating areas.
Atmosphere
Vibrant and welcoming open-air community atmosphere softened by mature greenery and warm daylight.
Environmental context
Post-industrial urban quarter with converted brick factory architecture and abundant native planting.
Spatial experience
The viewer stands at the paved threshold looking across a multi-use civic square activated by outdoor dining and gathering spaces under mature trees.
Composition rhythm
Diagonal paving lines and embedded tracks lead the eye inward toward the central circular pavilion and distant activities.
Style reading
Contemporary industrial landscape architecture
Program
Urban public square and cultural gathering plaza
Perspective
Aerial/Site
Discipline
landscape

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Rendering of a public square with outdoor seating, mature trees, and a circular pavilion by Karres en Brands.

public-space

A landscape and public-realm precedent for integrating community gathering spaces, outdoor dining, and a focal circular pavilion within an industrial heritage context.

What we like about this project
Historic railway tracks embedded flush into the herringbone brick paving, preserving the site's industrial memory.

Materials

  • brick
  • paving-stone
  • steel
  • timber
  • glass

Visual identifiers

  • circular-pavilion
  • herringbone-paving
  • industrial-facade
  • outdoor-dining
  • mature-trees

Style tags

  • contemporary
  • industrial-chic
  • landscape-led
  • contextual

Visual tags

  • public-realm
  • urban-square
  • adaptive-reuse
  • landscape-architecture
  • civic-space
  • pedestrian-zone
Geometry
An open public plaza framed by industrial brick facades, featuring a central circular pavilion and structured paving zones with embedded rail tracks.
Facade system
Existing historic brick masonry walls with large arched industrial window openings.
Structural guess
Steel frame and timber deck for the central circular pavilion canopy.
Spatial scale
Generous human-scaled public plaza designed for community gathering, dining, and performances.
Lighting
Diffused daylight filtering through lush canopy overhead, casting soft shadows across the paving and seating areas.
Atmosphere
Vibrant and welcoming open-air community atmosphere softened by mature greenery and warm daylight.
Environmental context
Post-industrial urban quarter with converted brick factory architecture and abundant native planting.
Spatial experience
The viewer stands at the paved threshold looking across a multi-use civic square activated by outdoor dining and gathering spaces under mature trees.
Composition rhythm
Diagonal paving lines and embedded tracks lead the eye inward toward the central circular pavilion and distant activities.
Style reading
Contemporary industrial landscape architecture
Program
Urban public square and cultural gathering plaza
Perspective
Aerial/Site
Discipline
landscape
Materials
brick, paving-stone, steel, timber, glass
Visual identifiers
circular-pavilion, herringbone-paving, industrial-facade, outdoor-dining, mature-trees
Style tags
contemporary, industrial-chic, landscape-led, contextual
Visual tags
public-realm, urban-square, adaptive-reuse, landscape-architecture, civic-space, pedestrian-zone
Geometry
An open public plaza framed by industrial brick facades, featuring a central circular pavilion and structured paving zones with embedded rail tracks.
Facade system
Existing historic brick masonry walls with large arched industrial window openings.
Structural guess
Steel frame and timber deck for the central circular pavilion canopy.
Spatial scale
Generous human-scaled public plaza designed for community gathering, dining, and performances.
Lighting
Diffused daylight filtering through lush canopy overhead, casting soft shadows across the paving and seating areas.
Atmosphere
Vibrant and welcoming open-air community atmosphere softened by mature greenery and warm daylight.
Environmental context
Post-industrial urban quarter with converted brick factory architecture and abundant native planting.
Spatial experience
The viewer stands at the paved threshold looking across a multi-use civic square activated by outdoor dining and gathering spaces under mature trees.
Composition rhythm
Diagonal paving lines and embedded tracks lead the eye inward toward the central circular pavilion and distant activities.
Style reading
Contemporary industrial landscape architecture
Program
Urban public square and cultural gathering plaza
Perspective
Aerial/Site
Discipline
landscape

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