Samenvatting

Radio Kootwijk is a well-known architectural and historic icon near Apeldoorn, surrounded by extensive heath fields, sand dunes, and forests. Most of the old built infrastructure around it has disappeared, safe the ruins of Hotel Radio, a former workers pension. Benefiting from the natural environment and in the spirit of the heroic technical history, a new approach in public health prevention is broadcasted by means of a spa complex embedded in the site of the ruined hotel. Publicly accessible, the embedded complex houses a diversity of programs, from conference, restaurant, pool, sports and treatment to hotel, crafts studios, and parking garage. A series of buildings, partly new and partly old, including a former water tower, forms a cross-axial arrangement around a central dune garden, in the middle of which is a sunken court, serving the hotel, with underneath the pool building. On the ground level the buildings are not connected, this happens underground, by means of which the natural openness that once reigned around here is reintroduced. The entry points on ground level are framed in glass to contribute to openness and transparency in the same manner.