Lantern on the Amsterdam ring road

The flexible industrial building Pieter Braaijweg in Amsterdam serves as a kind of 'lantern' on the Amsterdam ring road. The inventors behind this company building are KOW from Amsterdam. It is a sustainable building equipped with a geothermal heat pump and solar collectors with 1,300 m2 of industrial space, 570 m2 of office space and 11 parking spaces on the first floor. The special thing about this assignment was that maximum transparency has been given to the functions on the ground floor. As a result, the parking and storage has been moved to the 1st floor. A ramp brings the cars to a shielded parking deck with 11 parking spaces. On the second floor, an office space has been created around a roof terrace which overlooks the adjacent harbor.

Ideal sun radiation angle

The facade has an ideal sun radiation angle. The supporting structure is future-proof and is set up in such a way that a highly adaptable floor plan is realized. The appearance of the architecture is powerful and simple, with open and closed surfaces. By executing the facade of the middle layer in perforated steel, the building takes on a new look throughout the day. At night it functions as a lantern with hundreds of small holes, during the day the facade ventilates the parking deck.

Assignment for Metadecor

Metadecor has been assigned to supply and assemble a MD Designperforation facade for the Pieter Braaijweg industrial building in Amsterdam. We have attached this beautiful facade with a (semi) MD Verti fastening system. The facade panels of this cladding consist of aluminum. We have provided them with four different colors of powder coating. At the beginning of 2020, the assembly of the facade cladding of this flexible industrial building on the Amsterdam ring road has started and has already been delivered to our client.

Architectuur.nl and Architectenweb also paid attention to this project and we wrote a blog in collaboration with Sebastiaan Jansen, architect KOW, about this project in Amsterdam.