The Philips Wing takes a relatively small share in the total project of the Renovation of the New Rijksmuseum. Due to its construction in different stages in the past, the many consecutive interventions by different architects throughout the 21st century, one could say that the Philips Wing is a modest, but somehow complex puzzle.
The name corresponds to a group of buildings made by Cuypers (Fragments Building) and his son (the 2 Drucker extensions). The Fragments Building is a composition of building fragments from all over The Netherlands, which were saved by Cuypers right before they were to be destroyed. The newer wings made by his son were destinated to show the collection that the Rijksmuseum inherited from the Drucker Family. As explained below, the story of the renovation of ‘the tail’ of the Rijksmuseum is more than just the continuation of the successful strategy of the Main Building.
The commission’s description as defined in 2012 consists of accommodating many new functions and preparing the exhibition rooms for the temporary exhibitions starting from the 1rst of November 2014. Several interventions have been set back and corrected, whilst other areas are prepared for new uses. This all had to be done in accordance with the intervention in the recently renovated Main Building and a lower budget. At the end of a total exhibition area of net 1.320 m² there will be a new high-end restaurant with 135 seats, a public terrace of 255 m², a bar and a reborn atrium of 203 m².
The coherence with the main building can be seen in the spatial and functional organization. Its main characteristic is the distribution from the heart of the building, central courtyard, from which one can reach the surrounding galleries. Although the former courtyard in the Philips Wing was only latently present, but with a similar potential, both patterns were similar.
Client:
Rijksvastgoedbedrijt / Rijksmuseum
Address:
Museumstraat,1. 1071 Amsterdam, Netherlands
Typology:
Museums & Galleries, Transformation
Status:
Built
Competition:
2001
Design of project:
2012 - 2013
Construction:
2013-2014
Implementation:
2014
Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos
Collaborators:Alicia López, Beatriz Aragón, María Angeles Macias, Marije Ter Steege, Muriel Huisman, Óscar García de la Cámara, Tirma Reventós
Arquitecto local:Cruz y Ortiz arquitectos
Restauración:Van Hoogevest Architecten
Photography:Duccio Malagamba, Luuk Kramer
Structural engineering:Arcadis
Survey:Rijksvastgoedbedrijf, Van Hoogevest Architecten
Site control:Rijksvastgoedbedrijf, Van Hoogevest Architecten
Contractors:Koninklijke Woudenberg
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