Project description
The new Amsterdam Court House was realized in the heart of the prestigious southern Amsterdam business area. The 10-floor building comprises of 60.000 m² of floorspace and houses fifty courtrooms. This huge project was challenging for its complexity, the high demands and all the different and divergent shapes of walls, counters, balustrades and domes.
In order to meet these high demands the project required a huge number of 179 different and specially designed metal stud walltypes where heavy natural stone was mounted. The rounded balustrades had to be evenly rounded and solid. Rounded domes in the sloped ceiling were also 3-D designed and we used shanks and prefab frames to match the slope of the ceiling that was later installed.
Throughout the building there are reception counters in special, uneven shapes where the upper part seems to be floating. The upper parts of the counters were 3-D engineered, then produced in prefab and the shanks were covered with curved plasterboard.
The large scale of the project required metucilous planning and preparation. Just-in-time deliveries, horizontal and vertical transportation and on-site construction were necessary. Muller and Gyproc were involved with the architect and client in a very early stage to determine the types of solutions to be applied and a huge amount of time was spent in the engineering and planning to make sure all issues were tackled regarding the wall structures, balustrades, domes and counters.
Main information
Building size
60 000 m²
Building purpose / type
Office
administration
Building owner name
Rijksvastgoedbedrijf
(Central Government Real Estate Agency)
The Hague
The Netherlands
Architect name
KAAN Architecten
Rotterdam
The Netherlands
Contractor
Company name: Muller Afbouwgroep
Main Representative: Mr. Freddie Muller, Mr. Patrick van Oosterbosch
Number of collaborators: 130 to 500 persons including all project teams
Specialties: Large scale utility construction, drywall, ceilings, interior
Founded in: 1999
Biography: Muller Afbouwgroep builds, renovates and transforms for contractors, developers and endusers. Muller operates in the Netherlands and Belgium. The company took off with metal-stud installations and has developed into a business group that offers complete drywall and interior solutions including wooden prefab construction, fire safety solutions and kitchening.
Muller is solution and innovation oriented. They like to be involved in a very early stage of a project, to be able to offer the best and most complete solution – within a reasonable and realistic budget
Innovation partner: Heijmans N.V. Rosmalen, The Netherlands
Contractors: Mr. Freddie Muller, Mr. Patrick van Oosterbosch
Saint-Gobain products & systems
