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Type: Office interior Client: Rabobank Nederland Collaborator / associate: Samira Boon, Emma architecten, Ineke Hans, Richard Hutten, Pentagram, Sander architecten Floor area / size: 56.000 sqm. Completion: june 2011 Status: realized

2011-09-09 Nomination LAi award 2011 2011-06-21 Co-creating the Rabobank

The office interior for the Rabobank Nederland headquarters is the result of a co-creation by NEXT architects, Emma architecten, Richard Hutten, Ineke hans, Pentagram with and under supervision of Sander Architecten.

As the office interior is being redefined by the introduction of new methods of working, interior architecture is facing new challenges. In today’s work environment, the emphasis is on cooperation in teams and group dynamics; people go to the office for the social aspect more than anything else.  To realize this ambition, the building is seen as a modern city. After all, the city is where individual freedom and spontaneous interaction are all-important.

The effectiveness of this concept is visible on the Square, located at the plinth of the new office building. Employees and visitors work, eat, read, and meet one another in a diverse landscape.

Within the Square NEXT architects has designed the bakery. The Bakery design is based on a check board pattern of circular meeting rooms and square seating elements, articulating the different modes of working together. Endless benches and communal tables act as catalyst to stimulate interaction. With Sliding walls and moveable panels the openness of the area can be manipulated. Together with Samira Boon a 3D textile has been developed to clothe the meeting rooms.

Type: office Location: Beijing, Third east Ringroad Client: HAYA group ed. Team: John van de Water, Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers met Wopke Schaafstal, Chen Song, Wang Yuan, Dou Jing Jing Floor area / size: 8000m2 Completion: 2009 Status: Realized

The project brief asked for a interior design for a young and ambitious Chinese architecture company in Beijing, China. The company had acquired five floors of a new office building. Each floor was to be organized with individual departments.
The design aims to address two key issues. Firstly it aims to create conditions to stimulate creativity. And secondly it aims to questions creativity in relation to Chinese office hierarchy. Based on Confucianist values, typically Chinese offices are organized according to strict hierarchy.
This office as well, was to be organized ‘segregated,’ on independent floors. In our
view, hierarchy would exclude creativity and as such, the very foundation of an architecture office.

The design starts from the conviction that creativity benefits from exchange. Conditions for creativity arise where there is maximum exchange possible between people and ideas. In order to to make this possible, two forum shaped staircases are introduced in the center of the office floors. The two circular shaped forums connect logistically and visually all floors. In China, a circular shape symbolizes unity and harmony. From our added perspective, anybody that uses the stair, automatically finds himself the be the center of the forum.
More than a just connection, the forums aims to functions as central meeting points of the
company. Next to informal meetings, the forums can be used for a myriad of activities like temporary exhibitions and Chinese celebrations. To our surprise, the forum space is now used for birthday parties as well.

Type: offices Location: Amsterdam Client: Lingotto Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, Joost Lemmens, Agata Piet, Ines Meuws Floor area / size: 3000m2 Contractor: Theuns Construction: Strackee Installations: Bulters&Bulters Start building: 2009-08-15 Completion: 2010-01-01 Status: completed

2010-06-07 Containers placed 2010-02-25 Femke Halsema and Maarten van Poelgeest open 'HET LAB'

The Chewing Gum Factory: ‘THE LAB’ is a project initiated by Lingotto Vastgoed bv. The purchase of an industrial building of 3000m2 from the ‘50 at the Willem Fenengastraat 2 was the start of a metamorphosis. The building consists of 3 large halls of approximately 600m2 in open connection with each other and an office area with 3 floors. The main bearing structure consists of a concrete frame and concrete floors. The facades are made of masonry.

The assignment is twofold: first, the design of an overall concept for the office section and secondly the transformation of the 3 large halls in rentable office for creative businesses.
The land surrounding the building is also included in the development and will provide the offices with parking lots and outdoor spaces.

Type: dwelling Location: Ouderkerk aan de Amstel Client: Schenk / Linders Team: Claudia Linders, Marijn Schenk with Joost Lemmens and Filipe Pocas Collaborator / associate: Claudia Linders Floor area / size: 135 sqm Photographer: Gianni Basso Start building: 2007-04-01 Completion: 2007-10-01 Status: Build

2011-01-01 Elle Wonen features House M&C

Type: dwelling Location: Amsterdam Client: private Team: Marijn Schenk, Claudia Linders, Bart Reuser, Michel Schreinemachers, Joost Lemmens Collaborator / associate: Claudia Linders Floor area / size: 180 m2 Photographer: Gert Jan Kocken Start building: may 2007 Completion: december 2007 Status: realized

2008-10-25 Another NEXT nomination: Dutch Design Awards 2008

The only things inside the House M&M on the Oostelijke Handelskade in Amsterdam are white cubes: no walls, no rooms, no trafficways. Or perhaps, no rooms, no walls, only trafficways.  Each of the four cubes encompasses different functions, serving as a gigantic furnishing that determines the area around it. The first contains a toilet, bath and shower; the second, a wash basin and wardrobe. The third cube envelops a double bed and a bookcase, the fourth cube contains two single beds and a workplace.  In this way the function of the area between the cubes is determined: the area between the first and second cubes, or between bath and wash basin, becomes the bathroom. When not in use, however, these areas revert to open space in the dwelling.  The volumes of the dwelling are finished in white satin paint. The wet function areas have been treated with a polyurethane coating. On the second level of the dwelling, the cube is revisited in the form of a low-elevation square: the kitchen island, around which all the kitchen functions are arranged

Type: Office (renovation and interior) Location: Herengracht 258-266, Amsterdam Client: Wieden + Kennedy Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water, Joost Lemmens, Toon van Schijndel, Jurriaan Hillerström, Agatha Osika, Ieda Alvarez Dogo, Jennifer de Jonge, Bas Kalmeijer, Maria Salinas Floor area / size: 5.600 sqm Cost: Euro 5.500.000,00 Contractor: Dijkman-Carbaat Bouw BV Construction: Strackee BV bouwadviesbureau Installations: Trintas BV (advice); Lomans Groep totaalinstallateurs (E), Gebr. Van Wijk installatietechniek BV(W) Photographer: Iwan Baan, Martine Felice Berendsen Completion: December 2007

2008-11-27 LAI prize 2008 for NEXT architects! 2008-09-12 NEXT nomination Lensvelt de Architect interior award 2007-10-10 Red entrance floor 2007-05-16 Reconstruction started

Wieden + Kennedy, the advertising agency of firms such as Nike and Coca Cola, asked NEXT to design their new accommodation on the Amsterdam Herengracht. The new building was a labyrinthine conjunction of two historical properties.

The six floor areas – 1,000 m² each – were promisingly large, but entirely without vertical connections. NEXT’s proposal was to open up the hearts of the two buildings by inserting three glass shafts that cut through all of the floors. Inside the glass shafts we created double-high spaces that connect to every other floor. This creates diagonal sight lines among all the different floors in the middle of the building. The glass spaces are used as presentation and meeting facilities and are called the ‘meeting and working rooms’. This operation has resulted in a tremendous amount of transparency without loss of useful floor space.  

The details of the interior include various contrasts, for instance between the rough unfinished shop floors and the perfection of the materials and the details in the glass meeting rooms. The original period rooms are extraordinary, too: they have been left intact wherever possible and bring the historical feel of the buildings to life.  Front to back, we designed long cupboards that bridge the height difference between the floors. They are clad in magnetic materials so they can be used as presentation panels: every floor can be transformed from a shop floor to a presentation room.

The programme includes a small theatre for screenings, various studios for audiovisual productions, a gym with a floor made out of recycled Nike shoes, a penthouse with a bar and a roof garden overlooking the city, and a large garden with basketball facilities. On the elaboration of the interior design, NEXT collaborated with several kindred spirits. Snode Vormgevers, for instance, designed a number of tables that can slide out of the kitchen window. The tables include crosscut wood sections for the preparation of food that are removable and washable.

Type: office interior Location: Overamstel, Amsterdam Client: MT mediagroep Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, Joost Lemmens, Immanuelle Faustle, Ines Meuws Material: kzs-blocks and wood Floor area / size: 450m2 Contractor: NB&M Installations: Unica Carpenter: Senso Photographer: NEXT architects Start building: 2009-08-01 Completion: 2009-09-07 Status: delivered

NEXT architects was asked by MT media group to design the interior of their new office in the Chewing Gum Factory. In a bare, industrial hall of 450m2, with a ceiling height of 4.5 m, the programmatic components, such as the kitchen, 2 meeting rooms, board rooms and a storage room, are housed in two volumes. These elements are positioned opposite each other in space. The user experiences, despite the additions, the entire space. The volumes are constructed out of standard KZS-blocks, with continuous vertical and horizontal joints and then painted entirely white. Large windows in the grid of blocks bring the light inside. The windows are framed by rough underlayment frames. The same underlayment is used for the big stair, as part of one of the volumes. This stair can be used as a stage for presentations and meetings. Each room has its own color which reveals a playful character.

Type: Office space Location: Amsterdam Overamstel Client: NEXT architects Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers with Jurriaan Hillerström, Agatha Osika, Ieda Alvarez Dogo, Joost Lemmens, Filipe Pocas, Toon van Schijndel, Jennifer de Jonge Floor area / size: 270 sqm Contractor: KBK bouw Installations: Hollandertechniek Carpenter: Morowood Status: Completed

Our own office space is located since mid-2007 in a former chewing gum factory that has recently become one of Amsterdam’s creative hotspots.

Being one of the first companies to move in, we started with just an empty space.  In general, we wanted to keep that atmosphere intact. We preserved the empty space by creating a large open central work area surrounded by various service rooms that can be closed off or totally opened up as needed. These side rooms can be entirely closed off with ceiling-high sliding doors edged with rubber sealing flanges, like the ones found at carwashes. 

The openness of the large central workspace is preserved and enhanced by the use of 7-meter long tables, creating a large open space between the tables and the ceiling that also draws attention to the industrial character of the ceiling and the room itself. 

Type: Daycare Location: Amsterdam Client: Hestia Team: Marijn Schenk, Bart Reuser, Michel Schreinemachers, Claudia Linders with Toon van Schijndel, Agatha Osika, Ieda Alvarez Dogo Collaborator / associate: Claudia Linders | Labeled Floor area / size: 200 sqm Cost: Euro 87.000,00 Contractor: Nieuwenhuizen Bouwservice Management Installations: EWW Carpenter: Gielissen Interior & Exhibitions BV Completion: August 2007 Status: Completed

2007-11-27 PUBLICATION | DOUBLE SCORE IN DE ARCHITECT

Child-care centre Hestia is located on the second story of a EEA-designed multifunctional building, in which schools for children of other ages are also located.  The space must provide room for different types of activities, and a balanced context in which the child can blossom.

Dance, theatre, music, reading, study, cooking and drawing are all activities which children should be able to carry out at Hestia. Above all, the child-tenders want a space that is easily supervised and restful, that works as a backdrop to personal development. Children should be able to find a place they feel is their own, where it is possible to pullback from the others in the group without being able to fully elude the attentions of the adults.
The available space, the architectonic elements and the demands of the client resulted in the decision  to furnish the space using one large, multifunctional element. This element would serve to divide up the space into different areas, while simultaneously creating a connection between the activities, thereby maintaining continuity and community. A landscape is created as tangible environment on a child-sized scale, offering possibilities and challenging the children to participate; which provides cover or shelter where needed and adventure where possible.

Type: Lobby Location: Shangdi Beijing Client: Huan Yang Grand Land Team: John van de Water, Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers with Melle Pama, Michel van Tilborg, Yuan Duo, Hu Qin Floor area / size: 800 sqm Completion: August 2007

HAYA-mansion is a 1.700 sqm office building located near the North 4th Ring Road. The assignment was for the design of the 800m2 lobby; the client had envisioned a lobby where Chinese tradition and modern office-culture would blend. 

The design follows the Chinese conception of an ideal lobby: a lobby should be large and to suggest it being large, it should be empty. This conception is translated into an architectonic concept in which the lobby wall is used to integrate all interior objects and functions that are required, such as the directory of occupants, visitor seating, art, planting and lighting.  

To blend with Chinese tradition, the initial proposal is optimized in co-operation with a Fengshui expert. This led to specific shapes of the lobby-walls and to specific locations for red lights, paintings, fish bowls and ancient Chinese money. The wall colours are derived from an actual Beijing sunrise, aiming to provide an everlasting vital morning atmosphere.

Type: Retail Location: Amsterdam Client: YOI Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers with Rolf Pederson, Joost Lemmens, Filipe Pocas, Jeroen Bos Floor area / size: 30 till 100 sqm Cost: Euro 40.000,00 Status: On the move

On the move in 48 hours

The challenge was to design a fashion shop which can be moved to another location within 48 hours. A shop which is not merely a place for selling clothing, but fluid in its state of being. It was obvious to combine these two goals, using as a starting point the four values of YOI: AUTONOMOUS, POLYVALENT, environmental, DYNAMIC.  

The design consists of four elements that can be arranged in a multitude of ways for an infinite number of eventual locations. The first and most important element is the floor, which is constructed out of standard plastic pallets. Other elements - like large rotatable mirrors and clothing racks/frames- can be attached to these floor pallets. All back-stock and other inventory is placed in open containers that form part of the display: everything is visible, everything is movable, fluid.  

Since the first store opened in the Declerqstraat, Amsterdam in November 2006 YOI has opened its doors at several locations throughout the city and its products were on show at a number of events and festivals. Meanwhile the collection has been adopted by major Dutch department store The Bijenkorf.

Type: Interior, office space Location: Xicheng District, Beijing Client: Huan Yang Group, JDSF consultancy, NEXT architects Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water with Joost Lemmens, Geoffrey Moote, Froukje van de Klundert, Chen Song, Wang Bo and Zang Rui Floor area / size: 1.250 sqm Completion: 2005

The Beijing NEXT architects / Huan Yang-office measures a 100 x 25 meter typical open office floor. Four different companies and a number of departments share the same office floor. To connect and organize the individual companies, a concept was developed in which the traditional Chinese corridor - or lang - is used as a reference.  

Traditionally, a lang connects places while providing a constant changing perspective over the landscape it crosses. Whilst following the traditional principles, the contempory lang is charged with extra meaning. By transforming constantly in section, it incorporates the functions of lobby, meeting rooms, benches, exhibition and projection areas and storage shelves.

Type: Interior design and furniture Location: Denneweg 25, The Hague Client: Artoteek Den Haag Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water with Ica van Tongeren, Joost Lemmens Collaborator / associate: Architectencombinatie Bos Rosdorff Wiebing Carpenter: Morowood Status: Completed

For the Artoteek in Den Haag, renovated by Bos Rosdorff Wiebing architects, NEXT architects developed the interior design and a series of furniture including working desks and a reading table.

The design concept of the furniture has been based on an array of parallel plywood slats; the shape of the slats has been adapted for various functions such as the storage of a painting, the support of a computer and the storage of magazines. 

Invited by NEXT architects, designer Ica van Tongeren developed a special tile for the restroom of the Artoteek, which is housed in a historic building.

Based on the existing Delft Blue toilet and washbasin she used the coat of arms of The Hague - a stork with an eel in its beak- as the motif in the design of the tiles. By adjusting the scale of the storks she created a sense of space in the relatively small restroom. The images have been transferred to the tiles using a special glazing process through which the images are permanently rendered onto the tiles.

Type: Art Gallery Location: The Hague Client: Artoteek Den Haag / 7X11 Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water with Shaya Fallahi Collaborator / associate: Mieke Gresnigt, Freedom of Creation, Catalogtree and Milou van Ham Floor area / size: 120 sqm Cost: Euro 70.000,00 Completion: March 2004

7X11 is an art centre in the The Hague Ypenburg VINEX project that is in use as residential, work and exhibition space for artists. The starting point for the interior design is flexibility. The space has to accommodate many different types of uses: exhibitions and manifestations as well as studio space or space to host artists in residence. We chose to connect both the light and the decoration elements to a rail system. The decoration elements consist of perforated steel panels that may be used as both space dividers and exhibition panels. A kitchen-bench is part of the interior: to cook on and to sit on. 

Several of the components were created in collaboration with visual artists. The front panels were developed on the basis of photographs by Mieke Gresnigt in collaboration with Freedom of Creation, and a sunblind pattern was designed in collaboration with Catalog Tree designers. Milou van Ham developed a worded wallpaper for 7X11 that entices the audience to associate freely.

Type: Dwelling Location: Amsterdam Client: Boris Hollotcheff Team: Michel Schreinemachers, Marijn Schenk, Bart Reuser, John van de Water Floor area / size: 200 sqm Cost: Euro 300.000,00 Construction: Strackee Amsterdam Completion: April 2002 Status: Completed

The project started with a characteristic Amsterdam period house: built around the end of the 19th century, it is narrow and deep. Prior to the reconstruction, the house had been divided into 3 apartments, each with shower and kitchen, inhabited by a total of 8 students. To restore the original state and typology of this stately mansion, it had to be transformed into one again. The floor plan of the house was established: the kitchen with dining room would be located on the ground floor, on the first floor the living room, on the second a guestroom and study and on the top floor the master bedroom and bath. 

Openness was the overall theme, without compromises, so all interior walls were torn down. The staircase was originally situated at the back of the house, freeing the ground and first floors from transitory traffic. The stairway leading from the second floor to the third is situated in the middle of the area. Within this open space we placed several custom-built constructions to accommodate functions and to provide divisions of space without making closed rooms. In this way we transformed the claustrophobic effect of the narrow space of 4,5 by 10 meter. 

Three installations were added to accommodate a kitchen on the ground floor, a bathroom and a stair on the second and a walk-in closet on the third.

Type: Apartment and office space Location: Lijnbaansgracht , Amsterdam Client: Jeroen Saris, De Stad bv Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water with Wout Smits Collaborator / associate: Color advise: Claudia Linders Floor area / size: 340 sqm Cost: Euro 250.000,00 Contractor: Bouwbedrijf Berlage Build engineer: Bouwadviesbureau Strackee Installations: Van Brederode & co Carpenter: Morowood Start building: January 2002 Completion: September 2002 Status: Completed

The new owner of an historical building in the very heart of Amsterdam asked NEXT Architects to develop a design that would comprise both office and home, but maintain some separation of the two. The building had to contain a large diversity of living and working areas, while opening up the interior space.

We were inspired by synonyms for different life and work spheres, such as: cafe, club, monastery, library and restaurant. The relation between the two office floors is opened up by taking out part of the floor area and replacing it by making a cube that contains many of the service functions, such as kitchen, counter, stairs and toilets. To optimise the use of the space, we opted to partition the building into three functional zones, each with a characteristic design and atmosphere.