DRENTS ARCHIVE

Time machine becomes the entrance for a journey through time



In 2010 Zecc Architects was selected through a European tender for the expansion and renovation of the Drents Archive in Assen. Two years later Zecc delivers its first public building: The monument is quite been dusted, completely reorganized and equipped with a brand new entrance at the canal. The reason for the plan is a new way of giving access to archival material. In the Drents Archive 3.0, you no longer find containers filled with with family trees on old cards, but now you can navigate through digital photos, old maps and film material. You can search by time and place or even leave text messages with the found material to bring old stories back to life. An important goal is making the archive data accessible to a broad audience: young and old, for large groups, for “archive snackers and deep diggers”.



With its seamless shapes, transparency and inviting staircase it seduces the visitor to discover the history. It optimistically preludes the future and connects the present with the rich past of Drenthe

