Crisis / Emmen

Crisis in Emmen reacts on the financial crisis and their consequences. A clean and minimal urban plan and architecture gets rid of all the unused program, spaces and materials.

A sustainable strategy influences every scale level in the design. In contradiction with urbanity the park becomes the most urban fragment in the urban structure of Emmen and connects the different neighbourhoods. Eleven small and fragile towers and a 110 m long by 7.5 m in depth mixed-use block are scattered all over the park. Repairing and re-thinking the existing infrastructure created a new hierarchy between slow and fast traffic. Radials for bicycles and pedestrians are on top of a curved meander for local traffic. 

A flexible generic structure provides the possibilities for new dwelling concepts. Raw and sustainable materials enforce the sustainable strategy. The architecture changes over time from a raw concrete to a green and healthy facade.

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oASe

oASe is a new kind of public building and urban space. A green and vertical park includes public functions around an urban camping at six different levels. oASe combines new forms of short-stay camping plots with an urban culture program and congress facilities. 

oASe is in contrast with the existing context. The Zuidas in Amsterdam consists mainly out of high-rise offices and dwellings with some commercial spaces on the ground level. Public spaces are rare in this high density environment. Above all oAse is sustainable, temporary and can be re-located at any moment at another empty plot in the city. Finally you can set up your tent just in the middle of the Zuidas and 10 minutes from the old centre of Amsterdam.

Current phase: 2nd round competition De Boog Zuidas Amsterdam. (still ongoing) More information about the progress and development will follow soon.

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Leiden Waterfront

The Lammermarkt waterfront in Leiden is an unique opportunity to experiment with a new type of park, an ’urban park’. A park that combines the idyllic green character, with a real urban program. Many of these urban spaces and places are already existing. The main problem is there isn’t a clear structure which links these urban components.

This proposal tries to link and add serveral new public buildings and pavilions. By doing this the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts.


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SCHOOL INTERIOR

Another Architecture Office made an interior plan for a new education program for a school in The Hague. This resulted in five blocks containing all the different program elements. Through several layers and different materials of transparency it becomes easy for the teacher to maintain a clear view although serperate spaces are create.

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US TERROR TRIBUNE

A new approach to architectural design –based on an opposition to the dominance of orthogonal and vertical forms– is used for the design of the US Terror Tribunal in New York City. This opposition is based on the outcome of the mappings/ analysis made in an earlier phase and on the argument, developed by Paul Virilio, that there is an explicit relationship between these orthogonal and vertical forms of architecture and the historical as well as structural relations between cities and terror/ war. The presence of fear plays an essential role in the design of the US Terror Tribune by blurring the boundaries/ borders between divine enchantment/ curiosity and divine fear.

The public urban landscape is based on military ideas of optical camouflage this project attempts to create an invisible architecture that uses camouflage patterns to create a disturbance in the visual field of the urban environment. The building structure itself is designed with an inherent tension, both attracting and repulsing its visitors.

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VERTICAL CITY / SPONGE BLOCK

A folded, slowly inclining street breaks with the typical verticality of the urban housing block. the street and its squares creates an sequence of different public spaces. slowly, the fast and dense urban environment changes in a typical dutch ‘woonerf’ with a variety of dwelling typologies. 

Nominated project / Young Architects Competition BNA 2010

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