Serving as a culinary heart and meeting venue for the area, the Traveller is set within the green center of Cumulus Park in Amsterdam Zuidoost, a new campus in Amsterdam for ING and several educational facilities. The design reflects the area’s innovative character and creates a striking architectural statement, while offering a welcoming space to bring together different neighborhood groups. The Traveller’s concept is true to its name, with dishes from all over the world. The restaurant is a space open to all – with 150 covers, it serves a mix of traditional world dishes and beers and wines from all over, thriving on an adventurous combination of international dishes. With affordable meals and opening times from 7 am in the morning, 7 days a week, it serves as a living room of sorts for the area. The interior embodies this welcoming quality while also expressing a polished and innovative allure, in line with the surrounding innovation campus. We combined the sleek curves of glass with a warm wooden core that holds the upper floor, from which one can look down onto the restaurant. This wooden element never touches the glass façade. Due to this separation, the core can be adjusted, if needed, to future uses. An interior of rich colors and soft textures generates an intimate indoor space that is relaxed and comfortable, with a restaurant on the ground floor and a versatile space upstairs that offers opportunity for meetings and events. The Traveller is designed to be seamlessly integrated with its surroundings, creating a dynamic relationship between the interior and exterior. It makes optimal use of the differences in level of the area, with the outer landscape continuing inside –the concrete stairs in the park connect exactly to the concrete stairs in the interior, with only the glass facade as a separation. A high-quality roof sits above the transparent façade and warm interior with differences in height, with open and intimate spaces. The wooden ceiling of the pavilion has the double curved shape of a ship’s hull. This complex shape meant that the roof needed to be built up out of close to 300 uniquely shaped wooden fins. Modelling the connections was a challenge because the shape of the roof is not the same as the façade contours. Adding to the roof’s complexity is the fact that it slopes slightly, is designed as a green roof, and includes a specialized drainage system at its lowest point. Through advanced modelling techniques, we were able to integrate the complexities of the roof into an elegant and streamlined form. The Traveller incorporates very large glass panels with a width of 2.4 meters and a height of almost 4 meters. Only two panels were needed in the lower parts of the building and three panels on the highest part. Following the desired transparency and curvature there were limitations in foils and in thickness to mitigate solar radiation. We needed to engineer a system that combined interior sun shading with drawing warm air from right behind the facade, which reduces the heating of the space. Combined with light reflecting indoor blinds, warm air between the glass facade and blind is extracted into a cove in the wooden ceiling. This meant that we could avoid the use of triple glazing, which greatly reduced costs as well as material. Although the Traveller sits at the heart of the ING campus, it is a social hub open to all and welcomes residents, students, workers, and visitors to the area. With affordable prices, the building is accessible and embraces its role in bringing together people from all walks of life. This new pavilion has energized the area around the campus with a place to meet and come together, as well as providing an iconic marker.