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Museum Kranenburgh

The new museum is a substantial expansion of an existing villa on one of the best locations in The Netherlands: between sea and polders, dunes and flat land, forest and glade, old and new.

The design combines the beautiful nature of the environment with a generous, functional museum. In order to have a seamless fusion between these two elements, the museum needs to be modest and sober.

The design consists of one floor with a underground section. The concept consists of parallel walls with a distance of nearly eight meters. They continue outside the building. In this way, the building doesn't present itself as a unit but as a series of free walls in the landscape.

Name

Museum Kranenburgh

Design

2009 - 2010

Built

2010 - 2012

Client

Museum Kranenburgh

Team

Dirk Jan Postel, Annemiek Bleumink, Nol van den Boer, Patrick Keijzer, Laurence Meulman

GFA

1,841 sqm

a synthesis of two opposed tendencies:
to keep the beauty of the environment, whilst creating a vital art centre.
the latter requires a complex, layered space,
the first requires almost nothing