Renilde Restaurant, Rotterdam Holland, Netherlands Architecture, Dutch Interior Design, Photos
Renilde Restaurant at Depot Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
30 Nov 2022
Design: concrete
Location: Rotterdam, Holland

Photos © wouter van der sar
Renilde Restaurant, Holland
Renilde is a concrete-designed restaurant that resides on the Depot Boijmans van Beuningen rooftop, the first fully accessible art deposit in the world. The Depot forms part of Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, one of the most important art institutions in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

With this project, concrete breaks the rules of what it means to design a restaurant. The challenge was to design a space that could transform itself: from restaurant to lecture hall, from café to exhibition space.
The design

The Amsterdam-based architecture studio found a perfect solution that fits the innovative and groundbreaking character of the museum. The tables that concrete designed have a peculiar characteristic: they can be folded. When the tables are folded, the openness of the room allows many different types of events to take place.

This ensures that the functionality of the restaurant can easily be shifted. When tables are down, the dining area can be filled with long communal tables that entice guests to meet and mingle.

Designing for a museum

“The advantage of having a museum as a client is being open to original ideas. We would have never been able to build this restaurant for a traditional restaurate...