by
widya bohay
Called the building features overlapping green wooden facades typical of traditional houses in the region.
The 11-storey building is forty metres tall and includes 160 rooms.
A conference centre is due for completion later this year.
Photographs are bywidya bohay
Here's some more information from the architects:
Striking hotel of stacked Zaandam houses
Design: Molenaar & Van Winden architecten/ WAM architecten
The new Inntel hotel in Zaandam is without a shadow of a doubt
already the main eye-stopper in the revamped town centre and a building
that has set many tongues wagging in the Netherlands. The iconic green
wooden houses of the Zaan region were the fount of inspiration for the
hotel’s designer, Wilfried van Winden (WAM architecten, Delft). The
structure is a lively stacking of various examples of these traditional
houses, ranging from a notary’s residence to a worker’s cottage. The
hotel opens its doors to guests from 18 March.
A stack of traditional Zaandam houses
Wilfried van Winden envisages the hotel as a temporary home, alluding
to that transience with the stack of houses. Visually speaking the
structure is built up from a varied stacking of almost seventy
individual little houses, executed in four shades of the traditional
green of the Zaan region. The hotel is unique, familiar yet original and
idiosyncratic. It is a design that could be realised only in Zaandam
but at the same time transcends and reinvigorates local tradition. It
was, moreover, specifically tailored to this site. ‘The Blue House’,
inspired by the work Claude Monet painted at Zaandam in 1871, is the
ultimate attention-grabber. The overall result is striking, the building
exemplary for the Fusion Architecture that Wilfried van Winden
champions. Fusion represents an inventive way of linking present and
past, tradition and innovation, high culture and low. This generates a
novel expressiveness that corresponds to specific local practices but is
at the same time universal. ‘But architecture naturally makes a direct
appeal to the emotions as well,’ notes Van Winden. ‘An acquaintance
recently commented, “When I drive into Zaandam and see the building
standing there a smile inevitably spreads across my face.” You could
hardly ask for a more wonderful compliment.’
A new urban plan with an elegant new hotel
The town centre and station area of Zaandam, hub of the Zaanstad
municipality in the province of North Holland, are currently being
radically restructured. The ‘Inverdan’ urban redevelopment scheme was
devised by Soeters Van Eldonk architecten, a plan that reinstates the
historical street layout, reopens a canal and restores an atmosphere of
congeniality to Zaandam’s heart. The development’s continuation above
the provincial road and railway means that it also interconnects the
urban districts on either side of this infrastructure.
The new hotel is an important building block, the first structure to
be completed within the Inverdan plan. Providing 160 guest rooms, the
hotel also offers a bar-restaurant, a swimming pool, and a wellness
centre with a Finnish sauna and a Turkish bath. The conference
accommodation is being built above the provincial road and is set for
completion in autumn 2010. The hotel tower, with a footprint that is
well-nigh square, is almost forty metres tall and has eleven floors.
Constructed of timber and Eternit fibre cement cladding, the edifice is
expressive, with varied fenestration, wide protruding sections, and
elegant white eaves and barge-boards.ahnivegagahbae04@gmail.com
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