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Matchbox Amsterdam, Photos, Architect, Netherlands Architecture, Design, Image
Matchbox Amsterdam : Architecture Information
Building by Allard Architecture in Holland, Europe
3 Mar 2009
Matchbox Approved by Amsterdam Aesthetics
Committee
The Matchbox is an blend of artistic, creative and commercial spaces.
The building is shaped specifically as a result of the accommodation
of companies and zoning regulations. It houses 22 corporate units,
a rooftop restaurant and semi-underground parking in the artistic
hub of Amsterdam North. The building lends its playful façade
that sticks out cantilevers up to 5 meters, to each unit being individually
angled and stacked on top of another to give every company its own
space and identity. Bridges constructed above a central atrium garden
act as catalyst for the networking between companies while distributing
sunlight through the building.

Especially well-suited to start-up businesses, themed rent is an ideal
way of promoting networks and building strong links within a wider
industry. Originating in the arts sector, themed rent is now spreading
to meet demand from elsewhere. The rotated nature of the units of
the Matchbox merge with its simple large windows framed in black borders
recalling a strip of film negatives.
The Matchbox building will be made of prefabricated concrete. The
bent faces of the cantilevering boxes are constructed in prefabricated
concrete walls. The hang not on a structural core but on the structural
shear walls. This effect completes shape of the stacked boxes. Use
of steel in this building structure is minimised. Except the internal
light non-structural walls have a galvanized steel finish. In their
interior this enabling tenants to use the wall to pin up their work
using magnets. The black frames around the boxes are constructed
in folded aluminium elements glued on stiff insulation. Frames are
shoved over the edges of the concrete floor. All the other grey coloured
exterior surfaces are sealed with a seamless Poly-Urethane finish,
spray on.

Matchbox Building Amsterdam - Credits
Everything in this process is kept within its limits also the advisors'
team, all to keep on going and realize this extraordinary project
in Amsterdam. Dutch companies as Van Rossum is on structural engineering,
DGMR and LaRotonda are responsible for building regulations. The Allard
Architecture office is based in Amsterdam. Allard's co-workers in
the architectural team are Jurriën Boon, Daniël Bakker and
Cruz Garcia Santiago
Matchbox
Amsterdam - Building Information
Project name: Matchbox
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Use: Offices and commercial spaces for the creative industries
Client: Pand Noord 3 b.v.
Site Area: Amsterdam North
Bldg. Area: 1,125 m²
Gross Floor Area: 6,400 m²
Gross Floor Ratio:
Programme: 22 business units between 80 m² and 250 m² Rooftop
restaurant with rooftop terrace.
Building Cost Estimate: €7.040.000
Design Team : Allard Meine Jansen- bna- architect director
Jurriën Boon-project Architect
Daniël Baker-technical manager
Cruz Garcia Santiago, Jennifer Gauthier, Roderick van der Weiden,
Jeroen Linnenbank, Jan Nauta
Design Office: Allard Architecture b.v.
Structure: Van Rosssum Raadgevende Ingenieurs
Max.Height: 24m
Landscape Area:
Parking lots: Parking garage 1,150 m² (40 parking spaces)
Exterior Finish: Seamless Sprayed Polyurethane
Completion period: Dec 2010
Previously:
Matchbox Building Amsterdam

Matchbox is a 40 unit commercial building with 4.500m2 leasable space.
The building will connect to and share facilities with an existing
building in Amsterdam North.
Conceived of as pre-fabricated units that are stacked one on top of
the other. A central atrium garden carves open a space for natural
light to filter in, thus allowing maximum use of the site, whereby
units can also face inward.
A greenhouse roof enclosure eliminates the need for covered bridges
spanning the atrium garden and provides a 365 day per year dry balcony
space for its tenants. This central atrium space becomes a lush garden
of draped greenery, acting as the lungs of the entire building.
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First new-build commission by Allard Meine Jansen, a multi-occupancy building
in Amsterdam North. The design entitled Matchbox, is a stacking
of commercial units that are rotated and shifted with respect to one another
a strategy designed to liberate them from their claustrophobic situation
between two bigger buildings and to underscore the individuality of the
users. A10 Nov/Dec 2007
Dutch Architect Office : Allard
Architecture, Netherlands - contact details

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