The new film museum in Amsterdam by Delugan Meissl

Located in the force field of inner city life, the site is characterized above all by the direct encounter between land and water.

The continuous course of this demarcation line can be excitingly charged by the appearance of the building.

Αddition to the concept of the exhibition building that responds to its contents, the effect made by the spatial context of land-water-sky remains a significant architectural parameter. It directly affects the appearance of the building whose reflective façade mirrors the atmospheric changeability of the surroundings and connects different spheres with each other.

Here an exciting interplay of an architecture is generated that, on the one hand, is spatially strongly present through its expressive dynamic form, but which on the other hand also emerges as a restrained, light-filled configuration that can be discovered and experienced through approaching and ultimately entering it.

The building develops initially out of the existing topographical and urban constraints of the place. With the orientation of our film museum we react to the coordinates of the city centre and the neighbouring "Overhoek" Tower.

The plinth of the film museum develops as a topographical element that interlocks with the surrounding park and in a certain sense emerges from it. Plinth and building form an ensemble together with the tower and the open space lying between them along the marina, developing a succinct spatial quality.

The building, which is visible from afar, signalises these aspirations and rises like a flexible exhibition sculpture from ground level, embedded in the specifically modulated topography of the place with an inviting gesture that promises "hospitality".

Another important issue in the concept of this film museum is the coherent interaction of two different disciplines, the art of building and the art of film, forming space and depicting it, in a coherent connection that does justice to both. For the film museum this means not merely graphically reproducing the "idea of film" but making directly spatially and sensuously perceptible to visitors what the common factors and the dialectics of this encounter are.