And so Cepelák made a 3D visualization of the historical sketch design from 1809 of the summer palace, found in the archives of Drenthe. The result is a model, complete with all outbuildings, and a park around it with rows of trees, including a pond.
“Isn’t it a shame that Assen never got this beautiful palace? Because in Drenthe you don’t have anything so special. It could have been so nice for the city to have this building. But on the other hand, then the beautiful barracks buildings that Assen now have also make it so striking, so we couldn’t stand here, because it’s exactly the same location,” he says. “But then we might have had a barracks, even more in the middle of the city. Because there was a plan for that too.”
Cepelák, who is always looking for remarkable things from history, especially those of Assen, accidentally came across a map on which the summer palace was drawn a while ago. He was leafing through the Historical Atlas of Assen. And his eye lingered on the inscribed royal edifice.
“I couldn’t let it go, it was immediately in my head.” The only problem was that it was no more than a location sketch, showing the buildings on the map of Assen, on a triangle between Witterweg and the Vaart. But real construction plans for the building, of what the palace would look like, were missing.
The quest to visualize the buildings of royal allure in 3D led Cepelák to researcher Bart Rijsbergen. He studied architectural history in Leiden, and did so in 1991 extensive research after Giudici’s urban plan from 1809, which was to enlarge the village of Assen, including the summer palace.
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