KuóStudio has designed the interior of Bever’s brand-new headquarters and distribution centre in Pijnacker. The result is an adventurous and vital workspace where sustainability, creativity, and a love for the outdoors take centre stage.
The complex includes 3,600 m² of office space, a car wash, a repair area for second-life outdoor products, a photo studio, and a warehouse of nearly 12,000 m². The interior design was developed in close collaboration with the Bever team, translating the outdoor specialist’s vision into an inspiring workplace for now and the future.
From Breath, Buzz & Bustle to Bever Basecamp
The starting point was KuóStudio’s flexible concept “Breath, Buzz & Bustle,” where employees can choose the environment that best suits their work and energy at any given moment: a quiet spot for focus, a stimulating setting for creativity, or a lively space for optimal collaboration. There are no fixed workstations; flexibility, vitality, and openness are paramount.
The new headquarters was designed to feel like “Bever Basecamp,” an inspiring and innovative home base for all employees, where the outdoor experience is naturally extended indoors. Sustainable materials such as wood, bio laminate, and marmoleum play a leading role, as do the many plants found throughout the building. The architectural design by Bureau Kroner, with its wooden skeleton structure and generous glass facades, provided the perfect foundation for integrating the outdoor space designed by Smartland, a multidisciplinary landscape architecture firm, into the interior.
Biophilic Design: Designing with nature
Upon entering, visitors immediately find themselves in a green oasis. Trees grow through the entrance, a wooden “Buitenhuis” (Outdoor House) – a familiar feature from Bever stores – serves as a central meeting place, and references to Bever’s core values are everywhere. Throughout the interior, adventurous and nature-inspired details can be discovered: wooden walls reminiscent of topographic maps, sustainable flooring that mimics winding forest paths, a monumental spiral staircase with a climbing rope railing as a nod to the outdoor climbing wall, and balustrades with leaf vein patterns.
Vitality as a design principle
KuóStudio is known for its holistic “Vitality Recipe”: a design approach that not only creates an inspiring environment but also promotes healthy, fit, and productive employees. At Bever Basecamp, this translates into:
• Biophilic design, with natural settings, routing, and sightlines, combined with a rich palette of sustainable materials that enhance well-being and connection with nature,
• Ergonomic workstations with biodynamic lighting that supports the natural day-night rhythm,
• Relaxation areas with swings and informal seating for a homely feel,
• Spaces for silence and focus, including a quiet room, meditation and prayer space, separate training facilities, and restrooms with nature imagery in calming colours,
• An inspiring work café where meeting, merging, and motivating come together.
The result is a workspace that is not only functional and aesthetically pleasing but also invites vitality and balance. With its interior for Bever, KuóStudio contributes to reduced stress and absenteeism, and increased energy and enjoyment at work. The new headquarters offers ample room for growth and represents an important step in Bever’s sustainability ambitions.
Architecuruaral design by Bureau Kroner
On the edge of Pijnacker, beside the De Groenzoom nature reserve, the Dutch outdoor retailer Bever has opened its new headquarters and distribution centre. Designed by Bureau Kroner, with interiors by KuóStudio and landscape by Smartland, the complex embodies Bever’s motto “Buiten heeft je nodig”—the outdoors needs you—and reflects the company’s environmental ambitions, earning a BREEAM Excellent certification with its sustainable, biophilic design.
The wooden framed complex combines approximately 3600 square meters of office and communal space with a modern distribution centre of nearly 12,000 square meters. A rooftop garden and landscaped gardens integrate the buildings with their surroundings, while an additional cafe helps reimagine these once separate departments—administration, repairs, logistics and distribution—as a dynamic social ecosystem.
Dynamic structure and natural materials
The office building is constructed from a hybrid mix of timber, CLT, steel and concrete elements, and has been clad in thermally modified timber. This combination was chosen by the architects for both aesthetics and environmental performance: the materials are durable and predominantly sustainable, and together generate a natural appearance fitting of the HQ of an outdoor brand. Inside, the exposed CLT framework brings a sense of warmth and tactility. Additional sustainable interior finishes include climate positive marmoleum made from 98% raw materials and bio-laminate.
A biophilic program brings the outdoors in
Biophilic principles guide both the form of the building and its interiors. This approach reflects the understanding that people work better when they remain connected to nature: daylight, vegetation and materials that evoke those found in the wild help reduce stress, restore attention and create a more comfortable atmosphere.
At the heart of Bever HQ is a green oasis, or “Buitenhuis,” a with full-height trees that anchor the workplace in nature. In addition to this are a range of nature-inspired details: wooden walls detailed to look like topographic maps, sustainable flooring designed to mimic desire lines that run through woodplands and balustrades with leaf vein patterns cast in metal. Expansive glazing coupled with balconies and outdoor workspaces connect the building to the De Groenzoom reserve, creating an office where a connection to nature can be experienced daily.
Office space that supports new ways of working
The headquarters has been designed to support a range of different working styles and employee wellbeing. Office spaces are flexible, with quiet zones for focused work, semi-open areas for brainstorming and collaborative zones for group interaction. Rather than fixed desks, the layout allows employees to move between these environments depending on their tasks. Ergonomic workstations and biodynamic lighting have been used to support natural rhythms and relaxation areas with swings and informal seating provide places to pause and recharge.
Landscape design that merges with the polder
Smartland’s landscape design brings the headquarters lush natural surroundings into the office. The design features rooftop gardens, terraces and outdoor workspaces planted with native species and completed with nesting boxes and bug hotels to encourage biodiversity. These areas support the environmental aims of the company and act as space for a range of social activities: from after-work drinks to testing Bever prototypes.
Sustainability and environmental performance
Sustainability is embedded throughout the design. In addition to renewable materials, the floor-to-ceiling windows, energy-efficient layouts, and integrated planting reduce energy use and improve environmental performance. The repair center at the heart of the building demonstrates circularity in action, while Smartland’s outdoor interventions enhance biodiversity. Together, these measures contribute to the building’s BREEAM Excellent certification and illustrate Bever’s commitment to environmentally responsible operations.
