Key：Netherlands

项目概况:

Maritime and BeachcombersMuseum designed by Mecanoo in 2010-2011 is situated in the island of Texel, Waddenzee,Dutch. The museum is an eighteen-metre long, four-metre deep model of the Reedevan Texel, displaying in great detail the impressive spectacle of the dozens ofships anchored off the coast of the Wadden Island in the Dutch Golden Age. Themuseum is designed with four playfully linked gabled roofs which are a play onthe rhythm of the surrounding roof tops which, seen from the sea, resemblewaves rising out above the dyke. For hundreds of years they have made gratefuluse of driftwood from stranded ships or wrecks to build their houses and barns.The wooden façade of Kaap Skil is a good example of this time-hallowedtradition of recycling. The vertical wooden boards are made of sawn hardwoodsheet-piling from the North Holland Canal and have been given a new life justlike the objects in the museum collection. From within, the glass facade infront of the wooden boards allows an inviting view of the outdoor museumterrain and of the famous North Holland skies to visitors of the museum café.Inside the building the boards cast a linear pattern of daylight and shadowcreating an atmosphere infused with light and shelter. The entrance and themuseum café form a natural frontier between the world of the Reede van Texel inthe basement and that of the underwater archaeology on the first floor. Thecontrast between the two worlds is reinforced by the different experiences oflight and space. In the basement visitors are drawn around the exhibition byprojections and animations, creating an intimate space that harbours a sense ofmystery. On the first floor the North Holland sky floods the objects on displaywith light. The movable showcases of robust steel frames and glass create atransparent effect so that the objects in the collection seem to float withinthe space.