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28. Januar 2012 - newroom
Public spaces
The floors and panelling give the public spaces their character with applied Trespa remains. These panels have been sand-blasted in surreal Arabic patterns. The white brown Trespa, in combination with the acoustic wall and ceiling panels (originating from an Indonesian Airlines Airbus), the NS orange airplane chairs and the airport lamps, create a exceptional kind of „Nouveau Chique“ look. The hall's walls and ceiling are finished with airplane interior panels where all the technical systems are hidden behind; ventilation system, grid, lighting plan and sprinklers. By designing it this way, the competence has become invisible and the spacial- and light experience are more dominating.
Offices & Studios
The offices and sound studio's have mainly been designed by Atelier van Lieshout based on the spacial design structure by 2012Architecten. AVL has chosen to weld the walls out of heavy rusted steel panels. A kind of fortification, literally, to filter the sound out from the hall but also in the figurative way to entrench against the next crisis.
House & Bar
The house, the bar and the filmstudios have been fitted into the existing smaller spaces of the basement. Here, the atmosphere is determined by the present functional tiles and installation technology. By applying a series of toilets, made out of liquid containers (Marc Heumer) and oak wood furniture (Jasper van der Made), it completes an alienated postindustrial atmosphere. In the shop and foyer the rolling archive cabinets have been reused, as they were previously owned by the Photo Museum and found in the cellar. For the LP, CD, DVD, Superuse shop and the lockers this system has been applied by which the space is utilised efficiently in it's original function. The part in front of the bar there are ten of these frames with four persons seats, composed more spaciously. As soon as clients discover that their seats are mobile, this creates different kinds of social encounter.
