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Bonnefanten Museum

Hollandse Nieuwe

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JURY VOTES
Small Office
6.64
7.00
7.00
6.14
6.7
Frank Lee
Frank Lee Founder and President at Shanghai Fengyuzhu Culture Technology
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5
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5
5.75
Simon Goff
Simon Goff Founder and Director at Floor_Story
Really enjoyed the light and short...
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5
6.25
Nathan Watts
Nathan Watts Creative Director at Interstore
Beautifully sequenced animation of...
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4
6.25
Ting Yu
Ting Yu Chief Architect at Wutopia Lab
It's cool that lighting combines wi...
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5
5.75
Janne van Berlo
Janne van Berlo Founder at Atelier van Berlo
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5
6
Nic Granleese
Nic Granleese CEO and Cofounder at BowerBird
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5
5.5
Lorcan O'Herlihy
Lorcan O'Herlihy Founder, Design Principal at Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects [LOHA]
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6
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5
5.75
Jeff Yrazabal
Jeff Yrazabal President at SRG Partnership
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6
Julio Kowalenko
Julio Kowalenko Cofounder at Atelier Caracas
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7.25
Akanksha Deo Sharma
Akanksha Deo Sharma Designer at Ikea
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5
6
Tobias Geisler
Tobias Geisler Cofounder at VAVE Studio
Nice Visual Effects that resonate w...
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Client
Bonnefanten Museum
Floor area
750 ㎡
Completion
2020
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Located in Maastricht, The Bonnefanten museum is housed in a world renown monumental building designed by Aldo Rossi. Hollandse Nieuwe were asked to re-design the Bonnefanten Museum’s work space and employee areas. These new areas consist of the director’s rooms, workspace for employees planning and curating exhibits and a small restaurant. Housed in architecture amongst curated art collections, the office occupies a unique and specific place. Taking this as inspiration, the workspace aims to bring these two worlds together in different ways, to create a surprising, specific and enjoyable spaces to work in and create and to create a workspace that feels uniquely part of the museum. The workplace area is built around the idea of discovery and exploration, much like an exhibition or gallery layout. Rather than rows of desks or partitions, a family of furniture pieces define different routes around the space. These furniture elements get progressively taller the further into the space they are located, creating more open and informal spaces at the front and more closed, quieter spaces towards the back, culminating in the half-hidden library at the far end of the space. Here, the wall hiding the library is still considered a furniture element but plays with its architectural scale by having an arched opening and round window. The floor, ceiling, walls, desks and chairs of the office space were kept light as a neutral base to allow for these wooden elements and to stand out. The furniture pieces carry the idea of the architecture and art nature of the space. The wooden furniture pieces were conceived to have a timeless, monumental simplicity, constructed from the same vertical ribs and recessed doors or openings. The spacing of the ribs and height of each furniture piece differs, creating a varied but related family of objects. The back face of each element is covered in fabric, each printed with its own colour combinations derived from colour theory and drawing on the new Bonnefanten graphic identity. Entering the space, the wooden objects stand out and suggest routes, openings and places to work but looking to the entrance from the back of the space, the collection of wooden objects is now transformed into a playful game of colour, which visually leads back to the entrance of the office and into the new rooms of the two directors. These two rooms were created with a large, prominent window each. The rooms’ walls were painted in colours from the same range as in the open office space, so that from the back of the work space the two windows continue the game of colour and scale. The restaurant continues the combination of colour and simple wooden objects, the cupboards and wall of the pantry are part of the workspace’s family of wooden furniture, while colours pop in the main entrance, in selected furniture pieces and in the art pieces on the wall. As in the office, the space is a neutral ground for the colour and wood to be seen against. The bathrooms were also a part of the transformation. Taking the existing tiled space as the neutral base, the sink areas became the place for the bold colour combinations that is also seen throughout the rest of the workfloor spaces. In an architectural monument amongst art collections, this workplace brings two worlds together, creating surprising spaces that feel part of the museum.