Sluisbuurt Kavel 5A1, Amsterdam →

Mixed-use development in Sluisbuurt, Amsterdam

PAC Brighton College →

Performance arts building for Brighton College, UK.

Singer Laren

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A public foyer and theatre addition to the Singer museum complex.

De Woeker Theatre, Oudenaarde →

New culture site in Oudenaarde, Belgium.

Vuurtoreneiland

The masterplan should safeguard the unique combination of the history - as part of the UNESCO heritage of the Stelling van Amsterdam - and its open natural character, while at the same time allowing for it to be enjoyed by the public.

Vuurtoreneiland is a magical place, an island where a fortress and a lighthouse is surrounded by the open waters of the IJ.

Together with Arup we developed a sustainable masterplan, closing all material, energy and water cycles on the island.

Open air theatre next to former ammunition bunkers that where transformed into small refuges where people can spend the night

Exploring the island

Floor plan of barracks after transformation

Night lights at Vuurtoreneiland

Restaurant

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Kitchen

Detail of floor and lighting

Toilet block as separate entity

A sustainable masterplan and transformation of a former fortress island.

Summer stay on Makom

Summer stay on Makom island, Amsterdam

Joy Jaagpad →

Tennis club house in Amsterdam.

Dreve des Libellules

Eco villa for a family in the south of Brussels.

Vianen Cohousing

Large size cohousing project on the Merwede canal with strong diversity of typologies

Pesthuis complex →

Redevelopment of the Pesthuis complex and its surrounding in Leiden.

Hembrug bunkers →

Transformation into private housing of the Hembrug bunkers, in Amsterdam.

Kunstencampus Asse →

Art campus in Asse, Belgium.

KAF Art Space

At the edge of the Weerwater, the Kunstlinie building by Japanse architect SANAA, is a contemporary monument. A vast reorganisation created the KAF - a new space for theatre and art. This allowed for a reshuffle of program within the building, inclu

In the monumental architectural landscape, the southeast corner of the vast building is reserved for contemporary art. In order to make this possible, the existing office spaces have been transformed into exhibition spaces, by creating a circular ro

The original corridors is kept intact, but passes through a landscape of coulisses. This allows for flexibility, but keeps the original design concept of 'infinite rooms' intact.

A new passage along the spectacular facade makes a new circuit.

The unique construction, made of massive steel slabs, is left standing to keep an image of the original rooms. At the same time, these seemingly random slabs are perceived as objects on display themselves, exhibited in the open space.

Every exhibition space has a direct relation with the surrounding water.

Transformation of a contemporary monument into an art space.

IKEC Hoorn

A school for children with learning difficulties and social challenges

Hof van Holland →

Design for affordable, adaptive and demountable sustainable housing

Community Centre Zandhoven

A low square facade connects to the existing small scale building around the square, where the library tower behind is a vertical accent in the background.

On the medieval square of Zandhoven, the new community centre will make a connection between the square and the hidden garden, opening it up for public use.

By setting the building apart from its neighbour, a new passage into the garden appears, making the garden public and putting the entrance in the middle of the project, in the garden.

The library is set behing the community hall in a vertical sense and mimics the tree size. Large openings allow views of the large trees to enter the interior spaces.

The building surrounds an existing garden with the monumental Vredegerecht and some monumental trees.

The facade consists of a pattern of ceramic scales, referring to the ancient nickname of the villagers - ‘Doppenrapers’.

The vertical library is a sort of bell tower, nestling in the trees, making the project well visible in the village.

A community centre with library in a rural town in Flandres.

Scarwafa Cohousing

In the upcoming north part of Amsterdam, three young families took their chances during the financial crisis and decided to build together.

The tryptique facade was an informal front facade, facing the garden on the south: a front and back facade at the same time. We translated this condition into a superveranda, a steel structure that worked as a coat rack for informal infill: balconie

In the facade, the game of collective and individual expression is noted in the repetition of form, but change of material. All families chose their own material, but the same detailing was consequently applied.

All families all chose a specific spatial configuration, according to their individual way of life.

House nr 1 asked for a compact set-up, but still enough light in the heart of the house. A thin light well drags daylight to the bottom of the house.

House nr 2 has a clean split level, with the Japanese bath room hanging in the core of the house.

House nr 3 has a large canyon like space with a sculptural staircase in the middle.

The budgetary demand for simplicity in materials and detailing let to innovative solutions.

Co housing project in former industrial area.

Dutch Mountain

Drawing attention since it has finished construction in 2010, it has been nominated for multiple awards and widely published internationally.

The layout of the house is a simple open plan, an empty space in which the individual rooms are placed.

The main idea was to bury a house in an artificial mountain in the midst of an open space in the forest.

In the choice of materials, we have pushed for sustainable, local and/or reusable materials: wood from the surrounding forest, bio-based insulation, second hand plate steel.