Blok 3A, Westerpark West

Blok 3A, Westerpark West

Westerpark West is a 70.000m2 mix-use development, consisting of mutiple plots with different character. Plot 3 consists of smaller scale urban blocks, set up on a shared park space, designed by Gustafson Porter Bowman .

The tallest of Plot 3 is 12 story wooden tower, consisting of a simple wooden spaceframe, which can we filled with a diverse selection of typologies.

These typologies are visible in the facade, creating a lively stack of individual houses.

All typologies are identifiable as individual houses, like a stacked village. This is an expression of our ideas in our research Dense Individuality .

Mass timber residential highrise in Westerpark area.

Blok 3H, Westerpark West

Westerpark West is a 70.000m2 mix-use development, consisting of mutiple plots with different character. Plot 3 consists of smaller scale urban blocks, set up on a shared park space, designed by Gustafson Porter Bowman .

For the smallest kid on the block, we proposed a simple stack of 6 + 6 town houses, focusing on the lack of urban family housing in the city.

The top 6 houses are collected around a raised courtyard, creating a small scale shared semi-public space.

The block itself is kept intact as a simple brick mass with regular perforations. Slits in the top volume create views to the outside and inside of the block.

The tilted volume raises an interesting set of window details, referring to the Amsterdam School building on the opposite side of the park.

Stacked family housing block in Westerpark area

Dense Individuality

Research project on dense self-built housing typologies

De Appel Arts Centre

We decided to celebrate this. Our design left all previous identities present, just adding a flexible, lightweight inner layer, useful for contemporary art. This layer has been left visibly seperate from the monumental context of the building, allow

The building has a long history of sailors, socialists and hippies, whose stories are part of the building. Every new user adapted the building to its needs.

By removing the large staircase on one side , we created an extra, 7m high exhibition space.

By adding a new sculptural staircase on the other side, all levels - cafe exhibition space and library are connected in one gesture.

Transformation of 17th century house to centre for contemporary art.

De Kleine Komedie

De Kleine Komedie ('the small theatre') is probably the most iconic theatre of The Netherlands, next to the Rembrandtplein, the originale theatre district of Amsterdam.

Dating back to the 18th century, the theatre has always been a homeground for popular theatre.

Since then, it has always been a homeplace for the theatre community and a birthplace for talent.

We had been asked to clean up its public foyer, reconnect the differentiated spaces and give the iconic hall a worthful public image.

We did so by actiavting the existing and historical spatial connections in the building.

Transformation of an 18th century theatre.

Items at Dutch Design Week

Items magazine used to be one of the leading magazine for design in The Netherlands. Their yearly selection of graduates is a tastery for upcoming talent. The 2012 graduates selection - unfortunately the last selection Items has been able to pu

Together with graphic design collective Almanak, the visual editor of the magazine at that time, we designed the graduate exhibition, which was to travel around the country.

For this purpose, we designed a lightweight, easily movable system of exhibition furniture made out of CNC milled cardboard honeycomb sheets.

The product selection was ecclectic, colorful and divers and to be presented in a space that was likewise. We found a reference in an artpiece by Marijke van Warmerdam, using a plein white blank space as an intermediate between context and product.

Lightweight, traveling exhibition on Dutch Design talents.