The Eemhuis is a cultural centre that combines the city library, a pop concert hall, the regional archives and an arts school. The building is organized as a vertical stacking of these programs that enhances the continuity of the public domain into the building. At the ground floor, the public square becomes a covered plaza, the foyer of the pop concert hall. At the other end, the plaza steps up gradually to form a terraced library. On the top of the stairs the library spills into a vast open space overlooking the city. Above it hovers the archive volume that forms the ceiling of this space. The attic of the building houses the arts school. The three arts departments (theatre & dance, visual arts and music) are each expressed separately as cantilevered beams that crown the complex.
Program: 15.000 m2
Costs: € 19.000.000
Client: City of Amersfoort
Support: ABT Bouwkunde
Status: design 2006, start construction 2010
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