![Child Welfare Council Office / Onix - Windows, Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5014/3193/28ba/0d5b/4900/0152/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1361414763)
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Architects: Onix
Text description provided by the architects. The office for the Child Welfare Council is a part of a new complex of government buildings in Lelystad, Netherlands. It manifests itself as a monolithic trunk of wood. Two dynamic routes link all the important rooms (waiting room/reception area, conference rooms, library, canteen, atrium). The direction of these routes is exhibited on the exterior as bark that has been peeled off.
![Child Welfare Council Office / Onix - Chair](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5014/318c/28ba/0d5b/4900/0150/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1361008566)
The ‘wooden landscape’, as these routes are called, is the part of the interior that has been designed and determined. But there is also a ‘free zone’, an area where the user has a free hand. This area displays many industrial elements: concrete walls and ceiling, industrial polyurethane floor, and floating climate islands.
![Child Welfare Council Office / Onix - Table, Chair](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5014/31a5/28ba/0d5b/4900/0158/medium_jpg/stringio.jpg?1361008587)
Most of the furniture in the reception area ‘grows’ out of the wooden landscape and is thus no addition, but rather a part of the whole. This was the most important starting point for the design of the Child Welfare Council office – to make a totally integrated design where the exterior and the interior are one, where the building is a single entity.
![Child Welfare Council Office / Onix - Stairs, Handrail](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5014/3196/28ba/0d5b/4900/0153/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1361008579)