Client : Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie Textile Design : Aliki van der Kruijs

The Creatieve Industries Fund NL is one of the most important institutions in the Netherlands for the arts and creative industries. Through the fund many aspiring designers from different fields are able to launch their first ideas. As such it is a crucial link in a societal ecosystem that allows new ideas to emerge.
Our design for the Creative Fund Office consists of three layers that provide space to the institutions' three central activities. First there is the entrance hall which is designed as a representative foyer. Here, guests are received, projects are displayed and the chance of coincidental disciplinary interactions are facilitated. A large moving curtain indicaties different types of occasions from more the public to more work oriented.
The second layer is focussed around group work, meetings and presentations in reconfigurable rooms with folding walls.
The last layer consists of spaces for individual concentration. Where staff members can retreat and carefully evaluate the many proposals they have to proces.
The design furthermore emphasizes the characteristic concrete brise-soleil facade of the monumental Groothandels gebouw through opening the adjacent space and moving the program inward. The design will be executed in winter of 2019.

TITLE: Office - Creative Industries Fund NL
PROGRAM: Office Transformation
LOCATION: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
CLIENT: Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie
YEAR: 2019
STATUS: Competition Winner - Completed