Barcode Architects is an international office for architecture, urbanism, and contemporary design. Our dynamic office is led by Dirk Peters and Caro van de Venne and consists of 70 creative professionals, including architects, urban planners, and technical designers.
Location: Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Size: 22.000m²
Client: VOF Wijnhaven 65 & Wilma Wonen
Program: 116 apartments, commercial space, collective roof garden, shared parking facility, co-working spaces, hotel rooms for guests residents, gym
Collaborators: Pieters Bouwtechniek (structure), ABT (installations, building physics, fire safety, acoustics), SBB Ontwikkelen en Bouwen (construction), VVG (cost management), Hans Wilschut (photography)
Year: 2017-ongoing
Status: Under construction
Our work is pushed by our ambition to create spaces and places that revitalize and transform their environment. Buildings that move people and generate an aesthetic sense, and that people can identify with. Our designs are site-specific, but always with an unexpected twist.
In this fresh and contemporary approach lies the ‘above and beyond’ — the added value that a project gives to its clients, users, and surroundings. Urban masterplans, public buildings, high-quality residential and office towers, exclusive villas: each of our projects is unique and the result of extensive, concept-driven experimentation of function and form.
We design in close collaboration with our clients, users, and our interdisciplinary team. However, our role as architects goes beyond designing the best spatial solution for an assignment. Being entrepreneurs, we actively seek and create opportunities to improve the built environment.
