项目名称：艾因德海德瞭望塔

地点：贝赫艾克，荷兰

设计团队：NEXT Architects

建筑高度：26米

竣工时间：2024年

摄影：Karl Banski，Koen Mol

设计特色：

项目 - 在荷兰布拉班特肯彭森林，NEXT Architects完成了高26米的艾因德海德瞭望塔项目，为游客提供森林全景视野的同时，也为当地蝙蝠种群创造了栖息地。这座瞭望塔将休闲功能与生态保护完美融合，通过一个既简约又具标志性的结构，增强了艾因德海德地区的独特身份。

设计的核心是一个螺旋楼梯，引导游客登上观景平台，让访客能从不同高度体验森林景观。这座使用松木建造的结构在不同层级设置了多个开口和凹槽，随着游客攀登提供独特的视角体验。塔楼的特殊形状允许游客透过并俯瞰森林树冠，获得无阻碍的视野。

除了作为观景平台，这座塔还专为支持蝙蝠种群而设计，在整个木质结构中融入了多样化栖息环境。结构中的壁龛和空腔提供了栖息、交配和筑巢的空间。这些特点在生态专家Jeroen Mos的建议下开发，完美复制了自然条件，与森林环境融为一体。建筑所用木材，特别是层压落叶松和热处理松木，不仅提供结构稳定性，还为蝙蝠提供了自然粗糙的抓握表面。塔基的混凝土基础则作为蝙蝠的冬季栖息地。这种自然包容性设计延续了这家总部位于阿姆斯特丹的事务所的其他生态项目理念，如De Centrale As的Hopovers项目。

由贝赫艾克市政府委托，该项目与WSP、Mos生态咨询与研究所以及H+N+S景观建筑师密切合作完成。艾因德海德瞭望塔成为森林休闲网络中的功能性地标，平衡了人类互动与野生动物保护之间的关系。该项目入围了2024年荷兰木结构奖和2024年Archello奖决赛。

团队 - NEXT Architects成立于1999年，是一家国际建筑设计事务所，专注于城市规划、建筑、室内设计和基础设施领域的设计与研究项目。总部位于阿姆斯特丹，并于2004年在中国北京设立了第二个办公室。该事务所由Bart Reuser、Marijn Schenk和Michel Schreinemachers领导，已发展成为一支多元化的设计团队。

创造连接是NEXT的核心理念，这体现在他们广泛的设计方向和不断扩大的标志性桥梁作品集上——这些都是字面意义上的连接。通过在更广泛层面思考设计在环境中的角色，连接不仅构成了其作品集的主线，也形成了其工作方法的基础。NEXT建筑事务所与多学科团队合作，以创新方式处理项目。凭借其好奇的特性、跳出框架思考的愿望以及广泛的知识基础，他们能够汇集合适的专家和利益相关者提供解决方案。

事务所的优势在于发展强有力的理念，使其以令人信服的方式成为项目特定背景的一部分。从探索到灵感，从抱负到概念、形式和物化——项目的社会、技术和景观背景使每个项目独一无二。建筑最美的部分在于将理念具体化，通过可视化、精确化和细节化最终确定我们将要创造的内容。通过共同构思并实现这些想法，他们字面上一起建造未来。

多年来，NEXT的设计已获得国际认可，其作品被广泛刊载于专业出版物中，并荣获多项国际设计奖项。他们的设计方法将严谨的建筑规划与对用户体验的敏锐洞察相结合，成功在美学质量与实用功能之间取得平衡。

Project Name: Watchtower Einderheide

Location: Bergeijk, Netherlands

Design Team: NEXT Architects

Height: 26 meters

Completion: 2024

Photography: Karl Banski, Koen Mol

Feature:

Project - NEXT Architects has completed the 26-meter-tall Watchtower Einderheide in Bergeijk, designed to offer visitors a panoramic view of the Brabantse Kempen forest while serving as a habitat for local bat species. The lookout tower integrates both recreational and ecological functions in a modest yet iconic structure that enhances the identity of Einderheide.

The design features a spiral staircase leading to the viewing platform, where visitors can experience the forest from various heights. The structure, utilizing laminated larch and pine wood, includes multiple openings and notches at different levels, offering unique perspectives as visitors ascend. The tower's characteristic shape allows for unobstructed views through and above the forest canopy.

In addition to its role as a viewing platform, the tower is designed to support the bat population by providing diverse habitats. Niches and cavities are integrated throughout the wooden structure, offering spaces for roosting, mating, and nesting. These features, developed with ecological advice from Jeroen Mos, replicate natural conditions, blending seamlessly into the forest environment. The wood used in the design, particularly laminated larch and thermally preserved pine, contributes to this integration, providing both structural stability and natural rough surfaces for bats to grip. The tower's base is made of a concrete foundation, which serves as a winter roost for bats. This nature-inclusive design follows other ecological projects by Amsterdam-based practice, NEXT Architects, such as the Bat Bridge and the Hopovers at De Centrale As.

Commissioned by the Municipality of Bergeijk and supported by the Province of North Brabant and Boskalis, the project involved collaboration with WSP, Mos Ecological Advice and Research, and H+N+S landscape architects. The Watchtower Einderheide stands as a functional landmark within the forest's recreational network, balancing human interaction with wildlife conservation. The project was longlisted for the Nationale Houtbouwprijs 2024 and was a finalist for the Archello Awards 2024.

Design Team - NEXT Architects is an international architecture firm established in 1999, working on design and research projects in urban planning, architecture, interior design, and infrastructure. Based in Amsterdam, the firm opened a second office in Beijing, China, in 2004. The practice is led by Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, and Michel Schreinemachers, and has developed into a diverse design team.

Connection forms the central thesis of NEXT's approach—evident in their broadly oriented design practice and growing portfolio of noteworthy bridges—literal connections. By thinking on a broader level about the role of design within an environment, connection forms not only the common thread through their portfolio but also their working method. NEXT Architects collaborates in multidisciplinary teams to approach projects in innovative ways. With their curious character, desire to think outside the box, and broad knowledge base, they can bring together the right specialists and stakeholders to provide solutions.

The strength of the office lies in developing strong ideas that become part of the specific context of a project in a convincing way. From exploration to inspiration, and from ambition to concept, form, and materialization—it revolves around the social, technical, and landscape context that makes each project unique. The most beautiful aspect of architecture is making ideas tangible, visualizing, specifying, and detailing to ultimately know for certain what they will create. By making what they conceive together, they are literally building the future together.

Over the years, NEXT Architects' designs have gained international recognition, with their work widely published in professional publications and honored with numerous international design awards. Their design methodology combines rigorous architectural planning with keen insights into user experience, successfully achieving a balance between aesthetic quality and practical functionality.