renilde restaurant

The design brief for the café restaurant turned out to be an exciting challenge: the cafe-restaurant had to have a fully flexible interior. The design brief turned out to be ambitious. The challenge for concrete was to design a space that could transform itself: from restaurant to lecture hall, from café to exhibition space. The solution Concrete came up with fits well with the progressive and unconventional character of Depot Boijmans van Beuningen. Instead of placing a collection of individual tables, which would have to be moved and stored when not in use, concrete designed 10 tables with a unique feature: the tables can be folded up to reveal an open and luminous space. This unconventional idea of folding tables makes sure that the functionality of the space can be easily shifted. When the tables are folded, the openness of the room allows many different types of events to take place. When the tables are down, the dining area is filled with long communal tables, that stimulate guests to meet and mingle. The tables are completely made out

Opposite the café-restaurant, on the other side of the atrium, is the permanent event space Coert. This space also needed to be fully flexible and lockable at request. Concrete has therefore devised the idea of installing large wooden pivot doors, which act as dynamic walls. When the doors are open, they connect to the wooden floor strips and light rails in the mirrored ceiling. In the middle of the row of pivot doors, there is a freestanding volume, completely covered with satin stainless steel panels. Behind the folding doors, a pantry bar and cloakroom can be revealed during parties and events. The pantry bar also has the characteristic black and white striped pattern as its back wall. The mobile bar elements, reception desk and DJ table, with a striped pattern of wooden slats in different directions, can be placed in any desired arrangement.