Composite staircase – De Effenaar – Eindhoven

From 1971 to 2005, pop venue de Effenaar was housed in an old linen factory. The already old building was used so intensively during this period of almost 25 years that it increasingly failed to meet the needs of both the contemporary public and the artists.

Architectural firm MVRDV was chosen because of their (inter)nationally strong reputation as a visionary firm with numerous innovative projects to their name. MVRDV started working on the programme and requirements of De Effenaar. The wish was to create an open building with a large hall for 1200 visitors and a small hall and foyer for 400 visitors.

Pop venue De Effenaar in Eindhoven is equipped with external stairwells, which are clad with Raficlad Unicolor from Holland Composites. Although Raficlad is normally used as facade cladding, these stairwells show the versatile application possibilities of composite. Nice detail: the stairwells are completely enclosed, for which molded parts have also been made.

Architectural firm MVRDV came up with the clearly visible, pitch-black stairwells on the outside. Development, production, transport and assembly of the composite stairwells for pop venue De Effenaar in Eindhoven by Holland Composites.