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Renilde Restaurant Depot Boijmans Museum
Renilde Restaurant Depot Boijmans Museum
Rotterdam, Netherlands
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Renilde Restaurant Depot Boijmans Museum
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Firm
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2022
SIZE
3000 sqft - 5000 sqft
BUDGET
Unknown
DESIGN STORY
THE INTERIOR DESIGN
The doors of the new Depot building, part of Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, opened in
2022. The Depot is a special, fully mirrored, bowl-shaped building, designed by MVRDV. It is the
first publicly accessible art storage facility in the world. On top of the reflective bowl, on the 6th floor, there
are a publicly accessible roof garden and a terrace. In the middle of this 'green forest’, a glass cross-shaped
pavilion is situated, containing a café-restaurant and event space. Concrete designed the interior for both
spaces.
Café-restaurant Renilde
The design brief turned out to be ambitious. The challenge for concrete was to design a space that could
transform itself: from restaurant to lecture hall, from café to exhibition space. The solution Concrete came up
with fits well with the progressive and unconventional character of Depot Boijmans van Beuningen. Instead
of placing a collection of individual tables, which would have to be moved and stored when not in use,
concrete designed 10 tables with a unique feature: the tables can be folded up to reveal an open and
luminous space. This unconventional idea of folding tables makes sure that the functionality of the space can
be easily shifted. When the tables are folded, the openness of the room allows many different types of
events to take place. When the tables are down, the dining area is filled with long communal tables, that
stimulate guests to meet and mingle.
The tables are completely made out of wood and so are the floor and ceiling strips. The furniture, wooden
doors, tables, kitchen and bar have been built by Roord Binnenbouw.
The open-show kitchen and the bar are located on both sides of Renilde, this being the name of the caférestaurant.
In line with the museum's famous graphic identity, both the open kitchen and the bar have a black
and white striped tiled back wall. The front of the kitchen is made of white terrazzo, while the opposite bar is
made of black terrazzo. This way, the two are in perfect balance. The kitchen and bar are housed in wooden
volumes, with the word ‘Renilde’ towering in pink neon letters on top of the kitchen. Behind the bar vistors
can access the public roof garden and terrace.
Event room Coert
Opposite the café-restaurant, on the other side of the atrium, is the permanent event space Coert. This
space also needed to be fully flexible and lockable at request. Concrete has therefore devised the idea of
installing large wooden pivot doors, which act as dynamic walls. When the doors are open, they connect to
the wooden floor strips and light rails in the mirrored ceiling.
In the middle of the row of pivot doors, there is a freestanding volume, completely covered with satin
stainless steel panels. Behind the folding doors, a pantry bar and cloakroom can be revealed during parties
and events. The pantry bar also has the characteristic black and white striped pattern as its back wall. The
mobile bar elements, reception desk and DJ table, with a striped pattern of wooden slats in different
directions, can be placed in any desired arrangement.
photography by Wouter van der Sar
THE INTERIOR DESIGN
The doors of the new Depot building, part of Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, opened in
2022. The Depot is a special, fully mirrored, bowl-shaped building, designed by MVRDV. It is the
first publicly accessible art storage facility in the world. On top of the reflective bowl, on the 6th floor, there
are a publicly accessible roof garden and a terrace. In the middle of this 'green forest’, a glass cross-shaped
pavilion is situated, containing a café-restaurant and event space. Concrete designed the interior for both
spaces.
Café-restaurant Renilde
The design brief turned out to be ambitious. The challenge for concrete was to design a space that could
transform itself: from restaurant to lecture hall, from café to exhibition space. The solution Concrete came up
with fits well with the progressive and unconventional character of Depot Boijmans van Beuningen. Instead
of placing a collection of individual tables, which would have to be moved and stored when not in use,
concrete designed 10 tables with a unique feature: the tables can be folded up to reveal an open and
luminous space. This unconventional idea of folding tables makes sure that the functionality of the space can
be easily shifted. When the tables are folded, the openness of the room allows many different types of
events to take place. When the tables are down, the dining area is filled with long communal tables, that
stimulate guests to meet and mingle.
The tables are completely made out of wood and so are the floor and ceiling strips. The furniture, wooden
doors, tables, kitchen and bar have been built by Roord Binnenbouw.
The open-show kitchen and the bar are located on both sides of Renilde, this being the name of the caférestaurant.
In line with the museum's famous graphic identity, both the open kitchen and the bar have a black
and white striped tiled back wall. The front of the kitchen is made of white terrazzo, while the opposite bar is
made of black terrazzo. This way, the two are in perfect balance. The kitchen and bar are housed in wooden
volumes, with the word ‘Renilde’ towering in pink neon letters on top of the kitchen. Behind the bar vistors
can access the public roof garden and terrace.
Event room Coert
Opposite the café-restaurant, on the other side of the atrium, is the permanent event space Coert. This
space also needed to be fully flexible and lockable at request. Concrete has therefore devised the idea of
installing large wooden pivot doors, which act as dynamic walls. When the doors are open, they connect to
the wooden floor strips and light rails in the mirrored ceiling.
In the middle of the row of pivot doors, there is a freestanding volume, completely covered with satin
stainless steel panels. Behind the folding doors, a pantry bar and cloakroom can be revealed during parties
and events. The pantry bar also has the characteristic black and white striped pattern as its back wall. The
mobile bar elements, reception desk and DJ table, with a striped pattern of wooden slats in different
directions, can be placed in any desired arrangement.
photography by Wouter van der Sar
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