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Floating office

This floating office is designed for maximum stability. It has two office sections and an on-board parking in the third section. Both land use and footprint is minimized. The flexibility and the mobility of the structure allows a long life span.

Traffic control centres, NS Reizigers

The interior design for the control centres of theDutch Railways was designed and built. The commission included centres at Zwolle, Arn-hem, Alkmaar, Utrecht and Eindhoven. The workspaces were designed for 24-hour use.

Apartments on a dock block

Following a four step logic: rotation, translation, copy and mirror, an apartment building emerg-es. By applying symmetry, a spectacular atrium is created as a roofed communal space. All vistas from the individual apartments over-look the surrounding water and each view is unique.

Olympic stadium

A serie of concrete Bini - domes are used to build an protective island in front of the Dutch coast. The domes are used as stadiums for the Olympic Games in 2028.To avoid “white elephants” after the games, the domes are converted to housing and the artifi-cial island is partially returned to the sea.

Restoration of a Rietveld villa

This listed villa in Amersfoort (G.T. Rietveld, 1954) was restored and extended. For each specific phase in the project, the required docu-ments were produced.

Outdoor handsketching in Beijing

Offices, Woonzorg

With the requirements as established by man-agement consultants Twijnstra Gudde as a starting point, the interior with 9.000 m2 office space was designed and built. The building, dating from 1972, was completely refurbished by the architect Koen van Velzen.

TBS clinic

By combining the typical prison wall and the hortus conclusis, multiple and unique open spaces are formed.The individuality of each open space is en-hanced by the use of colour and texture.By emphasizing the walls, the building mass it-self nearly disappears, resulting in a contradic-tory illusion of freedom.

Extension

A 1950’s house was extended with a winter-garden and a carport. The composition of the garden, in which water is the main theme, was derived from the structure of the house. The wintergarden is made from structural glass.

Museum of Modern Art, Rotterdam

The building consists of an elevated square on the west side of the central station and a “float-ing” shape with the exhibition space above it. Escalators connect the elevated square to the platforms and the square itself connects the city centre with the city quarters on the other side of the railway tracks.

The interior of the exhibition is made up of a series of plateaus, each one connected to the others with escalators, stairs and elevators.Openings in the walls and the floors make it possible to break the chronology and to initiate a fresh dialogue between the works of art.Protruding cabinets allow for the highlighting of certain works and to discover influences and new associations. In that way, the exhibition becomes a machine for new meanings.

The roof is made up of inflated ETFE cushions, allowing the building to be lit up with LED light-ing. At night, the building will seem to float as a cloud in the city.The column-free span of the exhibition space over the square acts as a protective canopy, allowing open air events and cultural manifes-tations. The orientation of the building towards the south leaves the elevated square bathing in sunlight.