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DEPOT NETHERLANDS MARITIME MUSEUM

E.M. VAN DER POL (ATELIER ZEINSTRA VAN DER POL), 1997-2000, Kattenburgerstraat 7, Amsterdam

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Atelier Zeinstra Van der Pol

PROJECT ARCHITECT:
Liesbeth van der Pol

BUILDING TYPE:
Museums and exhibition buildings

The depot of the Netherlands Maritime Museum is sited in the high-security naval grounds behind a wall. Ninety metres long, the building is dominated by three 18 metre tall humps giving it a distinctive form that rises above the wall. These humps trace the contours of the services below. Inside the sealed outer skin of titanium-clad steel are conservation studios as well as fully climate-controlled collection storage areas completely isolated from the rest and from the outer skin in their own concrete box.