Chaoyang Urban Planning Museum
Location: Chaoyang District Client: T-space Team: John van de Water, Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers met Wopke Schaafstal, Chen Song, Wang Yuan, Dou Jing Jing Collaborator / associate: HAYA group ed. Floor area / size: 17.000 sqm. Start building: 2009 Completion: 2010 Status: Realized
The urban planning exhibition museum has been realized in just nine months from competition to opening. The museum is located in three old factories in Chaoyang Park. The design exploits the relation between old and new, history and future.
The 17,000m2 museum accommodates a range of exhibitions about the urban development of Chaoyang District, Beijing’s CBD, the art district 798 and the Olympic Green. The design further includes a cinema, a 4D theatre and a range of interactive exhibitions.
Rotterdam City Museum
Type: Exhitions and manifestations Location: Rotterdam Client: Department of Culture Municipality Rotterdam, Historical Museum Rotterdam Team: Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, Bart Reuser with Toon van Schijndel, Jurriaan Hillerström, Abdel Tutu, Maria Teresa Durao, Menwua Deng Collaborator / associate: Kossmann.DeJong Exhibition Architects Floor area / size: 10.000 m2 Cost: 45.000.000 Status: study 2008
Together with exhibition architects Kossmann & De Jong, NEXT architects has been asked to develop a strategy for Rotterdam’s new City Museum. This museum, which would encompass the existing Historical Museum of Rotterdam, will be a place to depict and discuss the contemporary city, its history, and dream of its future: a place to celebrate the urban identity of this international harbour city.
The concept of the building is derived from the idea of a giant collection of showcases, apparently stacked and combined to create a three-dimensional open structure. The smaller showcases house the permanent collection of the museum and thereby function as a public depot; the bigger showcases generate space for temporary exhibitions. City life continues within the framework of the stacked boxes; the interstitial spaces function as new public domains and represent the dynamic of the Rotterdam street-life. It is a building without thresholds.