NL architects completes ‘forum groningen’ in the netherlands – Designboom

NL architects has completed a major project in groningen, a city in the northern netherlands, which it describes as a cultural department store. titled forum groningen, the multi-functional building includes exhibition spaces, movie halls, assembly rooms, restaurants, and books. forum groningen is not a library, not a museum, not a cinema, but a new type of public space where the traditional borders between these institutes will dissolve, explains the design team. information will be presented thematically in a way that transcends the different media.

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working alongside engineering firm ABT, NL architects designed forum groningen as a monolithic volume a shape that represents an ambition to combine different cultural facilities into a single structure. the form is further influenced by the surrounding urban fabric, with the volume sculpted to present different appearances from different angles. forum groningen has been engineered to accommodate finding not searching, the architects continue. the design stimulates exploration. it hopes to catalyze the desire to wander, to browse endlessly through a staggering interior landscape.

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internally, the building is articulated around a central atrium where escalators traverse the void from floor to floor. the void works as a spatial interface that binds all functions, movie theater, book collection, expo, auditorium, and as such hopes to catalyze the exchange of knowledge and ideas, says NL architects. connected by the escalators, a series of public squares emerges that provides entry to the ticketed activities. the building offers continuously changing perspectives on the surrounding city, which culminate with a roof terrace with a viewing platform and outdoor theater.

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image: NL architects & ABT marcel van der burg

image: NL architects & ABT marcel van der burg

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project info:

title: forum groningenclient: municipality of groningen delegated client: twynstragudde location: groningen, the netherlands size: 17,000 sqm +10,000 sqm parking area design: 2006 (competition, 1st prize) completion: 2019 architect: NL architects with ABT engineering

design team (NL architects) pieter bannenberg, kamiel klaasse, walter van dijk, thijs van bijsterveldt, florent le corre, sren grnert, iwan hameleers, sybren hoek,kirsten hsig, mathieu landelle, zhongnan lao, barbara luns, gert janmachiels, sarah mller, gerbrand van oostveen, giulia pastore, guus peters,jose ramon vives, laura riao lopez, arne van wees, zofia wojdyga, genyamamoto with christian asbo, nicolo bertino, jonathan cottereau, marten dashorst, rebecca eng, antoine van erp, tan gaofei, sylvie hagens, britta harnacke, jana heidacker, sergio hernandez benta, johannes hbner, yuseke iwata, cho junghwa, linda kronmller, jakub kupikowski, katarina labathova, ana lagoa pereira gomes, qian lan, justine lemesre, amadeo linke, fabian lutter, rune madsen, phil mallysh, jos maria matteo torres, victoria meniakina, shuichiro mitomo, solne muscato, lea olsson, pauline rabjeau, thomas scherzer, michael schoner, martijn stoffels, jasper schuttert, bartek tromczynski, carmen valtierra, elisa ventura, benedict vlkel, vittoria volpi, murk wymenga, qili yang, yena young, alessandro zanini

architectural engineering: ABT with NL architectsinterior design: NL architects i.c.w.: demunnik-dejong-steinhauser, &prast&hooft, tank, northern lightbuilding engineer (incl geotechnical): ABTstructural engineer: ABTbuilding costs: ABTbuilding physics, acoustics and safety: DGMRtechnical installations: huisman en van muijen HVMacoustics: peutzcontractor: BAMseismic engineering: ABT i.c.w. BORG & BAM advies & engineering art in parking: nicky assmann

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