Boon Edam announced that Utrecht University in The Netherlands has installed a custom-made, TQM manual revolving door at the entrance to the school?s newest addition, the Viktor J. Koningsberger building, dedicated to the faculties of Geosciences, Science and Medicine.

Renowned Rotterdam-based architects, Ectory Hoogstad, were asked to create a building at Utrecht University that would serve as an addition to two other existing buildings: the Minnaert building and the Buys Ballot building.

Joost Ector, Director and Project Architect, explains, “All buildings had to be combined into one educational center for the science faculties. We solved that very simply by making a kind of ‘loop’ on the first floor; a circuit that runs through all the buildings.

A new building has been added on the corner, and that is what has become the Koningsberger building. Through the ‘walk’ all buildings are now connected, and the students can easily walk from one building to another.?

Functional and Aesthetic Design

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