Woods on top of the Boijmans van Beuningen Collection Building

March 19, 2015

MTD landschapsarchitecten has been commissioned by MVRDV to jointly design the roof landscape and surroundings of the new Collection Building of the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum which is to be built in Museum Park in Rotterdam. The spectacular circular building will be implemented at the northern edge of Museum Park and will be provided with a mirroring façade, in which the environment will be reflected in a special way.
At an altitude of 32 metres the building will have a special roof landscape with a closed wooded atmosphere; silver birches (Betula pendula) and high grasses form an isolated world, which form part of Museum Park anyway. At the ‘woodland edge’ locally there's a view over the park and the skyline of Rotterdam.

The design for the immediate surroundings of the Collection Building aims to enhance the existing axis between the Kunsthal [art gallery] and the Netherlands Architecture Institute. The rectangular space around the Collection Building acts as an entrance and will be transformed, just like to roof, into a wooded world of silver birches (Betula pendula) and pines (Pinus sylvestris). This wooded world is reflected onto the building's façade and strengthens the green atmosphere. The tree islands in the forest landscape can be used as picnic spots.
After the Collection Building has been completed, the tremendous Boijmans van Beuningen collection, which is currently spread over a number of depots, can be collected within a single building and made accessible to the public.
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