Dutch Profiles: UN Studio

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For those who needs the architect's words:
"I once called architects the fashion designers of the future meaning us architects dress the future. As an architect, you should aim to make something enduring like Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam which initially generated a lot of media attention. I think it's good for projects to be a little provocative. that way they contribute to a city's social cohesion"
“Entering the building you come into a central atrium with three main capsule lifts to take you up. It’s like going back in time.
At the top you emerge in a kind of cloud. You’re in this kind of timeless space. The horse can be seen as an indication thar we are in a space dedicated to our means of transport before the invention of the automobile.”
You have to try and imagine how you would walk through this space and design scripts, as it were, which makes sure you’re communicating on many different levels. The scale of a building has become near irrelevant. From the outside, it looks like a three-story building when there are in fact seven or eight levels. It’s really two buildings interlocking in a complex way. Because you’ve got these two spirals, it means that at no point are they on the same level. You never know at which level you are or where exactly you find yourself. Often visitors aren’t sure whether they’ve actually been to a particular section”
“These two interlacing spirals make you feel as if the spaces are following you. You don’t just see things in front of you, that’s the classic idea of architecture, the modernist principle, of everything being in front of you, as a camera would see it, but much more is possible now. You can create 3D and 4D experiences with the idea of moving through space”
It’s not just about architecture. It’s about architecture as a means of communication. The incredible cinematographic aspect of travelling is also very much part of this museum. Changing experiences, light and dark coming to meet you, all this has been taken into account in creating the travel experience of this building"
“We introduced UN Studio by publishing a book called Move which was about the architect’s new role, about what the concept of an architect might come to mean in the future. There we already predicted that architects would have to move within networks as phlegmatically as possible and not only that. Today the talk is all about using computers to create nice forms and we can in fact make almost anything in a short space of time; but that’s not the only interesting aspect about the computer’s role in the process. We can now create a 3D model incorporating all the different variants from contractors and subcontractors, make the adjustments and send them back within one day. This means you can work much faster in a programming kind of way. So besides drawing and making models you’re also becoming a programmer”