Heesterveld Dwellandscape
Heesterveld dwellandscape is a project for the restructuring of part of a post war neighborhood in the Bijlmer. It aims for a similar ambition as the original master plan, creating dwellings in the green. Only this time the housing will not be conceived as disconnected UFO’s in the park, but will rather form a symbiotic relationship with it.
Bloemhof Brede School
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What do kids in a run-down, totally paved neighborhood need? We could only answer that question with ‘nothing’. No playground instruments, no fixed sportsfields, no new rules. They need a piece of urban nothingness, a wilderness to play in.
When confronted with the question to design a school with sports and playground facilities to be shared with two other schools, we decided to create this playfull wilderniss.
(de)scripting space
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Can we de-script the social logic of apartment buildings and replace it with an entirely different script? One that actually allowes people to communicate?
A research to the “elevator effect”in buildings, conducted with Machiel van Dorst, Duzan Doepel, Christian Muller, students from ARTEZ academy of architecture in Arnhem, students of the summerschool 2009, academy of architecture Rotterdam.
cascade
De Cascade is an apartment building in a location pestered by pollution and noise. The soil is heavily polluted with toxics, and one of Netherlands major railwaylines runs at less than 100m from the site. Two environmental issues that are most common in the Netherlands, but dealt with in the least creative way.





