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Building: The Aluminum Forest
Location: Voorveste 2, Houten, Utrecht, Netherlands
Completion: 2001
Architect: Micha de Hass
Design Team: Micha de Hass, Stephan Verkuijlen and Machiel Bakx

AE Interests: urban, commercial building, concrete, steel and aluminum structure poised above an artificial lake, supported by 368 narrow aluminum columns, which elevates the structure nearly 20 feet above the ground. This design was derived from the Dutch landscape where groups of trees are planted in a square arrangement and an early model consisted of a matchbox propped up on pins.