project01:Styling

The styling

De Geleerde Netwerk will offer the students a mix of determined and undetermined space. The space will be flexible, enabling the students to use it as they see fit. Het Geleerde Netwerk provides students, teachers, tourists and locals with a library, bookshop, reading room, bar and exhibition space. These facilities are connected via walkways. These walkways directed to other projects and potential docking stations. They will provide much needed public open space. Traffic will be generated along the walkways, however they will also encourage people to rest and relax in the space. Most of the walkways are terraced, creating interesting natural patterns. The terraces are used to connect the upper and lower levels, and also to create seating and vegetation platforms. The main terracing, connected to RDM campus and the exhibition space will create an auditorium of sorts to look down upon the exhibition and survey the whole development.

As the project is centred around creating open public space and a new landscape for the public, nature is the starting and finishing point for the design. As a result, the walkways in Het Geleerde Netwerk are to be constructed from wood. This will create a visual and practical link between the built form and the concept of the project. The images below show some inspiration that will influence the design process for the exhibition space.

The shape of the structure has been based off the original connections / interactions outlined last week and their approximate position within the RDM site. From there a 3D form has been developed by wrapping a bridge structure with this shape.

Internal styling Library

Internal styling Meeting Room

Internal styling Bookshop

Internal styling Exhibition and Bar