Since 2001, the centre of Zaanstad has been transformed to agree with the style of the nearby UNESCO World Heritage site the Zaanse Schans. Architectural highlights of this requirement include the city hall in shape of oversized Zaan houses and the Inntel hotel, which appears as a large stack of the same green houses. The new Cultural Cluster is the next step in this urban plan. The question was raised of how to continue the Zaan style given these existing variations of the traditional house, and also how to secure a clear identity for each of the established cultural institutions within the larger envelope of a single building.
Credits: Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs, and Nathalie de Vries with Fokke Moerel, Klaas Hofman, Gerard Heerink, Luca Moscelli, Rebecca Pröbster, Brygida Zawadzka, Hannah Knudsen, Bart Dankers, Carlo Cattó, CostanzaCuccato
Partners:
Engineering: Royal Haskoning DHV, Netherlands
TheatreAdvice: Bureau Theateradvies, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Lighting Design: Viabizzuno, Italy
Size & Program: 7.500 m2 cultural cluster includinga film house, a library, a performing and visual arts centre, a pop music centre, a music school, a centre for design and a local radio station
The construction of the sports centre Zaandam-Zuid in Zaanstad is located in the Poelenburg district of the city. The sports centre is used during the day by the adjacent practice schools, while in the evening and weekends it will facilitate the needs of the surrounding neighbourhood associations.
Koog aan de Zaan is a sweet little village near Amsterdam. It is located at the river Zaan. In the early seventies a new Freeway was constructed. In order to cross the river Highway A8 was build on columns. The new road crosses town in a fascinating way. It produced a brutal cut in the urban tissue. Ironically, progress has resulted here in a radical separation between the Church and the State: on one side of the elevated highway is a Chapel and on the other the former City Hall. The columns are about seven meters high. The space under the deck is strangely monumental: a stretched cathedral.
Aerial View
Architect: NL Architects, Pieter Bannenberg, Walter van Dijk, Kamiel Klaasse
Name of Project: A8ernA
Location: Koog aan de Zaan, Zaanstad, The Netherlands
Client: Gemeente Zaanstad
Project leader: Sören Grünert
Team: Erik Moederscheim, Sarah Möller, Annarita Papeschi, Michael Schoner, Wim Sjerps, Crystal Tang
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