Fuente: Benthem Crouwel Architects, Designboom
Fotografía: John Lewis marshall and Jannes Linders
Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum is renovated and enlarged. Designed by A.W. Weissman, the building is celebrated for its majestic staircase, grand rooms and natural lighting. These strong points have been retained in the design along with the colour white introduced throughout the museum by former director Willem Sandberg. The existing building is left almost entirely intact and in full view by lifting part of the new volume into space and sinking the rest underground.
Fotografía: John Lewis marshall and Jannes Linders
Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum is renovated and enlarged. Designed by A.W. Weissman, the building is celebrated for its majestic staircase, grand rooms and natural lighting. These strong points have been retained in the design along with the colour white introduced throughout the museum by former director Willem Sandberg. The existing building is left almost entirely intact and in full view by lifting part of the new volume into space and sinking the rest underground.
Its entrance has been moved to the open expanse of Museumplein where it occupies a spacious transparent extension. The smooth white volume above the entrance, also known as ‘the Bathtub’ has a seamless construction of reinforced fibre and a roof jutting far into space. With this change in orientation and the jutting roof, the museum comes to lie alongside a roofed plaza that belongs as much to the building as to Museumplein. Against the backdrop of the old building, the white synthetic volume is the new powerful image of the Stedelijk Museum.
Besides the entrance, a museum shop and the restaurant with terrace are situated in the transparent addition on ground level. Below the square are among others, a knowledge centre, a library and a large exhibition hall of 1100 m2. From this lowest level in the building it is possible to move to a new exhibition hall in the floating volume level. Via two escalators in an enclosed "tube", straight through the new entrance hall, the two exhibition areas are connected. This way the visitor crosses the entrance area without leaving the exhibition route and without being distracted by the public functions; visitors remain in the museum atmosphere.
The detailing and color on the inside of the old and new buildings is in alignment, making the explicit contrast between the old building and the new building barely noticeable when walking through the museum. The Weissman building is reinstated in its former glory as it embarks on a new life, facing Museumplein, under one roof with the new addition.
Client
City of Amsterdam
Architect
Benthem Crouwel Architekten
Gross floor area
12000 m²
Start design
2004
Start construction
2007
Completion
2012
Photos
John Lewis Marshall
Jannes Linders
9 comentarios:
Sé que el comentario es superficial pero, ¿A alguien más le parece una enorme bañera?
sí...a partir de aquí, espero quitarme el prejuicio estético o simbólico -o el que sea- para entender el edificio. Siempre que no se me diga lo contrario
a mi tambien me parece una enorme bañera. siglos de pensamiento arquitectonico, busqueda de la proporcion, número phi, gotico, renacimiento, barroco, iluminismo, modernismo, racionalimo... siglos haciendo arquitectura desde la evolución de la propia arquitectura... Para que vengan ahora unos mentecatos seguidores de R. koolhass y adlateres autopremiados haciendo un daño enorme a la profesión. Pues si, es una bañera y hay que joderse
Me acabo de quedar estupefacto. Es uno de esos edificios que no sé si me encantan o no me gustan. Los dibujos y los espacios son bastante atractivos, y la forma del edificio es definitivamente llamativa. Creo que el edificio en sí es interesante, pero la perspectiva frontal no le hace ningún favor.
No está bien hacer comparaciones fáciles y gratuitas. Debemos profundizar más en los proyectos.
Eps! amigos redactores del blog... este lo habeis colgado para que rajemos con los comentarios no? Venga va, admitidlo que os hemos pillado!
Mis comentarios no tienen nada que ver con los redactores del blog, tan solo son comentarios.
sep, no se quien eres y mi anterior comentario no iba dirigido a ti. Tal y como puedes leer era una broma (sin ánimos de ofender a nadie) dirigida a los redactores de este blog, cuyo criterio para seleccionar proyectos a publicar me parece excepcional en la mayoría de los casos.
Aprobecho la ocasion para agradecerles su trabajo de difusion.
juas juas... la banyera i el palacio, que hijos mas guapos va a tener esta entrañable parejita.
PD. opino cómo anónimo al decir que los de hic son unos cachondos.
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