3 doors turn into a high-profile circular meeting table.
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This morning, amid great interest, a controversial circular meeting table was handed over by Marc van der Heijden, director of circular office furnisher TRIBOO and Wouter 't Hardt, project manager circular projects at MSO Circulair to Drs. Ing. Menno Riemersma, director integral building programme of Erasmus MC. This special table is made of the doors from the former Dijkzigt hospital that will be demolished. The doors, which for years were pushed open by care workers to look at the patients and to take care of them, will now serve as a table to enjoy a nice lunch. The table can be admired in the Erasmus MC and will be shown and used at various places during this year.
The former Dijkzigt hospital in Rotterdam is being demolished. Not with bulldozers and demolition bullets, but stone by stone. The Erasmus MC, to which the Dijzigt falls, opted for circular demolition, amounting to a good 85,000 square metres. And so doors, ceiling plates and window frames from the hospital are given a second life. When it comes to the doors, MSO Circulair, TRIBOO and Erasmus MC have joined forces to extract as much value as possible from the raw materials that can be reused. The circular Dijkzigt meeting table is the high-profile example of this. How worthless waste changes into valuable circular office furniture.
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MSO Circulair, the circular organisation within MSO Group (Meuva, Schotte, Oranje) organises for the entire group that all materials released from demolition are reused in the most circular way possible. The Erasmus project has about 2500 doors of which 95% do not have the right dimensions to be reused in a circular new building. This prompted them to look into what else was possible with these doors. They soon discovered that the door fittings, door closers and stainless steel kick plates could be reused. But that still left them with the door itself. TRIBOO upcycled the doors and designed and built a valuable circular solution, the Dijkzigt meeting table.
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With a striking design, the Dijkzigt table is available in various sizes. 2 doors for 2000 x 1000 mm, 3 doors for 2750 x 1200 mm, 3 doors for 3000 x 1000 mm and a total of 4 doors for 4000 x 1000 mm.
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At first glance, you would not know that the table is made of waste and that is exactly the intention. It takes 2, 3 or 4 doors to make one circular meeting table. Layered in a distinctive pattern, this table creates a sparkling appearance.
In the design, the starting point was to create a robust table that could be used for a long time and should be able to change when required without having to replace the entire table. The wooden parts of the doors are placed on a large modular panel. This panel offers the possibility to change the top and replace it with another one made of waste. In this way, it is no longer necessary to replace an entire table but the table can change its appearance simply by replacing a panel.
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The table was made in the Netherlands by craftsmen who worked with a great deal of love to give the table a beautiful appearance. Something we are very proud of. Because the tables are made in our own country, we preserve craftsmanship and provide employment. In addition, the kilometres made are minimal and that saves CO2. A win-win situation, in other words.
There is a huge stock of raw materials in Rotterdam that can be reused to make Dutch offices circular. Therefore, the harvested raw materials are now available to everyone. From now on, as an organisation you can make the circular economy visible in your interior. By using the doors harvested from the old Dijkzigt hospital. All doors have been disassembled and the valuable raw materials are safely stored in TRIBOO's vaults. Ready to be made into high-profile meeting tables again. Together, we contribute to stopping waste and reducing CO2.
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