NL Architects

摘要

Forum Groningen is a new multifunctional building in the center of Groningen, a cultural "department store" filled with books and images that offers exhibition spaces, movie halls, assembly rooms, restaurants. The Forum aspires to become a platform for interaction and debate - a "living room" for the city. Forum Groningen is not a library, not a museum, not a cinema, but a new type of public space where the traditional borders between these institutes will dissolve. Information will be presented thematically in a way that transcends the different media. The building is designed as a single clear volume to express the desire for synergy and to strengthen the shared ambition of combining different facilities into one new compound. A series of careful cuts joins the building to its site and generates a multitude of different appearances. Forum Groningen features an exceptional central space, an innovative atrium that with its horizontal "tentacles" forms the pumping heart of the venue. The void works as a spatial interface that binds all functions - movie theatre, book collection, expo, auditorium - and as such hopes to catalyze the exchange of knowledge and ideas.