ZAMU 2

Zaanstad Amsterdam Museum - 2026

ZAMU Museum #2 is located at the south end of the ZAMU site on a grassy knoll by the Zaan River. During the research phase we learned that the soil on the site contains pollutants leftover from years of industrial manufacturing. These site conditions led us to consider burying the museum in the encapsulated dirt thereby providing one of Holland’s highest elevations where people can play, hang out and picnic next to the museum with views of the river.

From inside, museum visitors would see the facade cutting through the earth to reveal the environmental, geological and military history of the site juxtaposed against the artwork. This enables protection of the art inside from future flood damage by using the fallout from one man-made environmental calamity to protect cultural patrimony from the crisis currently underway.

Proposal showing the building , located on 6320 sq. meters of grass lawn, where the horizontal green surfaces are rolled up to meet the façade in a carpet-like invasion of architecture - including fragmented contours that articulate the higher elevat

Proposal showing the building , located on 6320 sq. meters of grass lawn, where the horizontal green surfaces are rolled up to meet the façade in a carpet-like invasion of architecture - including fragmented contours that articulate the higher elevations.

Proposal showing the building , located on 6320 sq. meters of grass lawn, where the horizontal green surfaces are rolled up to meet the façade in a carpet-like invasion of architecture - including fragmented contours that articulate the higher elevat

Proposal showing the building , located on 6320 sq. meters of grass lawn, where the horizontal green surfaces are rolled up to meet the façade in a carpet-like invasion of architecture - including fragmented contours that articulate the higher elevations.

Proposal showing the building , located on 6320 sq. meters of grass lawn, where the horizontal green surfaces are rolled up to meet the façade in a carpet-like invasion of architecture - including fragmented contours that articulate the higher elevat

Proposal showing the building , located on 6320 sq. meters of grass lawn, where the horizontal green surfaces are rolled up to meet the façade in a carpet-like invasion of architecture - including fragmented contours that articulate the higher elevations.

Proposal showing the building , located on 6320 sq. meters of grass lawn, where the horizontal green surfaces are rolled up to meet the façade in a carpet-like invasion of architecture - including fragmented contours that articulate the higher elevat

Proposal showing the building , located on 6320 sq. meters of grass lawn, where the horizontal green surfaces are rolled up to meet the façade in a carpet-like invasion of architecture - including fragmented contours that articulate the higher elevations.

From inside, museum visitors would see the facade cutting through the earth to reveal the environmental, geological and military history of the site juxtaposed against the artwork.

From inside, museum visitors would see the facade cutting through the earth to reveal the environmental, geological and military history of the site juxtaposed against the artwork.

PROJECT CREDITS:

Collaborators:

I-Beam Design Architecture, PLLC, Architect

Buroloof, Architect of Record

Piet Oudolf, Landscape Architect

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