Aluned HQ / HA-HA Design & Development

© Aiste Rakauskaite

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• Area
  Area of this architecture project

  Area: 
  800 m²

• Year
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  Year: 

  
  2025
  

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  Brands with products used in this architecture project

  Manufacturers:  Aluned, Awood, Frenoflex, Stalku

© Aiste Rakauskaite

Text description provided by the architects. After a devastating fire in 2021, aluminium manufacturer Aluned faced a critical question: how do you rebuild a workplace that is not only functional but also sustainable, inspiring, and in dialogue with its surroundings? HA-HA Design & Development, a Rotterdam-based architecture firm, saw an opportunity in the crisis. By retaining the existing foundations and steel structure, they designed a contemporary work environment that honours the site’s industrial heritage while embracing the landscape. “We saw the loss of the old building as a chance to show what circular and adaptive building can truly mean.” — Nima Morkoç, Architect at HA-HA. “It’s remarkable how a limitation, the existing steel structure, became the basis for a light and open design.” — Aluned BV, Client. In 2021, a fire destroyed the Aluned headquarters. Instead of demolishing and starting from scratch, the project team chose radical reuse: the original foundation and steel structure were preserved. The Zwijndrecht site consists of three industrial halls arranged around a central green courtyard with a pond — a rare oasis of green in an otherwise paved industrial zone.