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

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