A new reception building for the Negenoord nature reserve is being constructed along the banks of the old Meuse arm. An information point and an exhibition space are stacked on top of each other in an elongated tower volume, enclosed between two solid concrete cores. Slender TT floors span a free field of ten metres from core to core, leaving the front and rear façades transparent.

A light steel skeleton is being built around the concrete building, leaning forward towards the water and wrapped in cable mesh. Between the building and the second skin, two external staircases are fitted at the ends, winding their way up from the dyke to a public viewing point on the roof.

Over time, the steel structure will be overgrown with climbing plants, allowing the building to blend into the landscape.