5.2.1 Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen – Rotterdam (The Netherlands)

Our first stop is the new iconic building in Rotterdam, Depot Boijamans van Beuningen. Here we meet Jaap Wiedenhoff and Gertjan Peters, who are façade experts at ABT, Consulting Engineers. How have they engineered this complex façade? That’s the question we put to them!

Building: Depot Boijmans van Beuningen
Location: Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Year: 2021
Architect: MVRDV
Façade engineer: ABT
Partners:
 Jaap Wiedenhoff, Senior Consultant, and Gertjan Peters, Consultant, at ABT

Watch the interview and add your notes to the stickies below.

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How to develop a complex façade?

 

First idea: design or technology 

Translation to design

Dos and don’ts in process?

How to engineer a complex façade? 

 

Free Form Façade: Which façade technology?

Right system?

Right material?

 

How to build a complex façade?

 

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Does it work in the end?

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