Amsterdam is a city known for its drug tourism, where the parliament decriminalised possession of less than five grams of marijuana in the 1970s. This allowed for the upsurge of coffee shops selling marijuana with approximately 90% of the customers being foreigners.

However, in the early 1970’s there was an epidemic of heroin, which was framed as a public health problem with approximately 30,000 users. Nevertheless in 2010, the epidemic broke with 14000 users remaining who receive methadone as a substitute for heroin.  Therefore, the solution to decrease the harm caused by drug addiction in Amsterdam was to achieve a more realistic approach by creating alternative drugs called Smart drugs

The Exhibition and Research Center for Drugs project will be an institution that celebrates the use of smart drugs as well as raise awareness on drug use in Amsterdam and will serve as a research center for its on-going study. The goal for this project is to search for a secure way of drug management while educating the public on the history, laws, types, effects and purposes for drug use in Amsterdam. The building is divided into two programmes; the exhibition center and the research centre shaped around the concept, Labyrinth.

Exhibition Center: This will comprise of two galleries; Legal drugs and illegal drugs gallery,an exhibition hall and a restaurant. 

The galleries are organised around a labyrinth telling stories in an experimental manner engaging visitors both individually and collectively. 

Retail shop: The retail shop will also consist of a smoke spa and a smart shop selling herbal drugs also known as smart drugs. These drugs improve on cognitive function, particularly executive functions, memory, creativity, or motivation, in healthy individuals. (for example; Guarana, Kolanut, Skullcap, Valerian, Aphrodisiac, Muira Puama, Biloba and magic mushrooms and so on. Other items will be sold like vitamins, weed seeds, grown kits, pipes and various souvenirs and arts.

In the smoke spa, once inside one of the rooms, the herbal brew chosen from the reception is served through clouds of fragrant fog consumed through breathing and absorbed into the skin.

Research center: The research center funds the Exhibition center. It is to such for a secure way of drug management in Amsterdam.

The building is formed of streets with two different wall constructions. The public spaces (eg. the exhibition center) are made up of pre-insulated precast wall panels, which have good sound insulation. However, the non-public spaces (eg. the labs) are made up of common masonaray wall construction. The sectional detail drawing depicts the buildings streets showing the distinction between the spaces as well as the facade. This concept is derived from Amsterdam’s similar but some-what distinctive facade theme. In addition it feeds on the concept Labyrinth city.