︎


Encounter Iced Sound. Pavilion with integrated sound installation that performs the sound of the endangered alpine glaciers as a multi-channeled composition, created through field recordings, algorithm processing and performances with various musicians. The pavilion makes perceptible what we cannot see, and in this case, hear: the story of fragile landscapes that are gradually, but also ever faster, changing as a result of our own human actions, which has major consequences for our planet. In collaboration with composer and musician Ramon Landolt. First location: Schiffbauplatz Zürich, 2023 Encounter Iced Sound. Pavilion with integrated sound installation that performs the sound of the endangered alpine glaciers as a multi-channeled composition, created through field recordings, algorithm processing and performances with various musicians. The pavilion makes perceptible what we cannot see, and in this case, hear: the story of fragile landscapes that are gradually, but also ever faster, changing as a result of our own human actions, which has major consequences for our planet. In collaboration with composer and musician Ramon Landolt. First location: Schiffbauplatz Zürich, 2023 Encounter Iced Sound. Pavilion with integrated sound installation that performs the sound of the endangered alpine glaciers as a multi-channeled composition, created through field recordings, algorithm processing and performances with various musicians. The pavilion makes perceptible what we cannot see, and in this case, hear: the story of fragile landscapes that are gradually, but also ever faster, changing as a result of our own human actions, which has major consequences for our planet. In collaboration with composer and musician Ramon Landolt. First location: Schiffbauplatz Zürich, 2023 | © Alex Ochsner Encounter Iced Sound. Pavilion with integrated sound installation that performs the sound of the endangered alpine glaciers as a multi-channeled composition, created through field recordings, algorithm processing and performances with various musicians. The pavilion makes perceptible what we cannot see, and in this case, hear: the story of fragile landscapes that are gradually, but also ever faster, changing as a result of our own human actions, which has major consequences for our planet. In collaboration with composer and musician Ramon Landolt. First location: Schiffbauplatz Zürich, 2023 Fragment Encounter Iced Sound. For the MODEL Barcelona Architectures Festival, we created a transportable spatial and sound installation that we brought to different places in the city, creating a ’sonic route’, April 2023. In collaboration with composer and musician Ramon Landolt. Intercultural Bench. Together with the students we went on-site to physically mark the bench, its size and directions. Enlarging the gesture resulted in a 35-meter long bench that accentuates potential future routes, and that activates an unused area in the middle of the neighbourhood Antwerpen Luchtbal. Workshop tutors, University of Antwerp, February 2020 Strito studio. For ‘strito studio’ we came up with four multifunctional small-scale studios that can be used independently, and that can be assembled into one full-fledged house of 42 square meters, made entirely of bio-based materials. We are currently developing the studios according to the building code (adapted to a small-scale living idea) and so that they are transportable as ready-to-use modules. For and in partnership with Willem Fokke/strito studio, Netherlands, 2021 - ongoing. Evidence of the Absent. One-year architecture residency on urban transformation, where we focused on architectural representation methods that publicly suggest the future in the present, on-site and in the scale 1:1, to question the balance between showing and omitting, abstraction and detail – and the roles of physical experience, interpretation and imagination in envisioning what is to come. Presented through a self-curated public program at Kulturfolger Zürich 2019 Evidence of the Absent. One-year architecture residency on urban transformation, where we focused on architectural representation methods that publicly suggest the future in the present, on-site and in the scale 1:1, to question the balance between showing and omitting, abstraction and detail – and the roles of physical experience, interpretation and imagination in envisioning what is to come. Presented through a self-curated public program at Kulturfolger Zürich 2019 Evidence of the Absent. One-year architecture residency on urban transformation, where we focused on architectural representation methods that publicly suggest the future in the present, on-site and in the scale 1:1, to question the balance between showing and omitting, abstraction and detail – and the roles of physical experience, interpretation and imagination in envisioning what is to come. Presented through a self-curated public program at Kulturfolger Zürich 2019 Evidence of the Absent. One-year architecture residency on urban transformation, where we focused on architectural representation methods that publicly suggest the future in the present, on-site and in the scale 1:1, to question the balance between showing and omitting, abstraction and detail – and the roles of physical experience, interpretation and imagination in envisioning what is to come. Presented through a self-curated public program at Kulturfolger Zürich 2019 Evidence of the Absent. One-year architecture residency on urban transformation, where we focused on architectural representation methods that publicly suggest the future in the present, on-site and in the scale 1:1, to question the balance between showing and omitting, abstraction and detail – and the roles of physical experience, interpretation and imagination in envisioning what is to come. Presented through a self-curated public program at Kulturfolger Zürich 2019 Evidence of the Absent. One-year architecture residency on urban transformation, where we focused on architectural representation methods that publicly suggest the future in the present, on-site and in the scale 1:1, to question the balance between showing and omitting, abstraction and detail – and the roles of physical experience, interpretation and imagination in envisioning what is to come. Presented through a self-curated public program at Kulturfolger Zürich 2019 Evidence of the Absent. One-year architecture residency on urban transformation, where we focused on architectural representation methods that publicly suggest the future in the present, on-site and in the scale 1:1, to question the balance between showing and omitting, abstraction and detail – and the roles of physical experience, interpretation and imagination in envisioning what is to come. Presented through a self-curated public program at Kulturfolger Zürich 2019 Space in-between. Exhibition and Publication, London Festival of Architecture (LFA), 2020 | Email us if you want to order a copy! Learning from Venice - anticipating a constantly changing landscape. Making future flooding of inner-city rivers visible, overlapping present and future through maps and On-Site Explorations, to architecturally and culturally revisit public space and the (value and meaning of) urban elements by which it is formed. Design Studio tutors, Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Design, Spring Semester 2022 Learning from Venice - anticipating a constantly changing landscape. Making future flooding of inner-city rivers visible, overlapping present and future through maps and On-Site Explorations, to architecturally and culturally revisit public space and the (value and meaning of) urban elements by which it is formed. Design Studio tutors, Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Design, Spring Semester 2022 Learning from Venice - anticipating a constantly changing landscape. Making future flooding of inner-city rivers visible, overlapping present and future through maps and On-Site Explorations, to architecturally and culturally revisit public space and the (value and meaning of) urban elements by which it is formed. Design Studio tutors, Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Design, Spring Semester 2022 Learning from Venice - anticipating a constantly changing landscape. Making future flooding of inner-city rivers visible, overlapping present and future through maps and On-Site Explorations, to architecturally and culturally revisit public space and the (value and meaning of) urban elements by which it is formed. Design Studio tutors, Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Design, Spring Semester 2022 Architectural Positions. Our assignment for the students was to create an alternative set of guidelines for development: to imagine an entirely different development for this area, one that is not market-driven, but that answers to local, national and even global questions, and that carefully considers the site-specific conditions. Students had to form a critical position on how to develop, or not to develop, the site and define its potential through a range of explorative research methods, each with the focus on another topic. Studio Tutors, TU Delft Faculty of Architecture, Msc1 Fall Semester 2021 Three Pavilions. A series of modular pavilions as markers of change. They serve as a first gesture and stimulus to change the perspective on the city’s central square, which will undergo a transformation during the next years to become more pedestrian friendly – a real place for encounters, a place for the residents. Therefore, we proposed a combination of functions: a public library, an observatory, a collective table with benches and a small theatre. Place du Marché, Municipality of Aigle, 2021 Three Pavilions, Place du Marché, Municipality of Aigle, 2021 Three Pavilions, Place du Marché, Municipality of Aigle, 2021 Three Pavilions, Place du Marché, Municipality of Aigle, 2021 Pavilion La Derivée. For the cultural summer festival La Dérivée, we designed a modular wooden pavilion that can be built (assembled and disassembled) by the community, on the south bank of the Neuchâtel lake – a territory that popped-up as a consequence of water corrections in the Jura mountains in 1870. Yverdon-les-Bains, 2017-2022 Pavilion La Derivée. For the cultural summer festival La Dérivée, we designed a modular wooden pavilion that can be built (assembled and disassembled) by the community, on the south bank of the Neuchâtel lake – a territory that popped-up as a consequence of water corrections in the Jura mountains in 1870. Yverdon-les-Bains, 2017-2022 Path of Play. Introducing play as a form of design – as a new way of experiencing and imagining space through interaction, improvisation and suggestion – to establish a dialogue with the existing context to uncover new potential places. Workshop tutors, University of Antwerp, February 2022 Path of Play. Introducing play as a form of design – as a new way of experiencing and imagining space through interaction, improvisation and suggestion – to establish a dialogue with the existing context to uncover new potential places. Workshop tutors, University of Antwerp, February 2022 Path of Play. Introducing play as a form of design – as a new way of experiencing and imagining space through interaction, improvisation and suggestion – to establish a dialogue with the existing context to uncover new potential places. Workshop tutors, University of Antwerp, February 2022 Sant Pere Mitjà. Conservation and transformation of the ground floor, first floor and entrance of a 19th century building on the Carrer de Sant Pere Mitjà, a four and a half metres wide street within the old city fabric of La Ribera, Barcelona, into a workshop and studio space, 2021 | © Victor Lacima Sant Pere Mitjà. Conservation and transformation of the ground floor, first floor and entrance of a 19th century building on the Carrer de Sant Pere Mitjà, a four and a half metres wide street within the old city fabric of La Ribera, Barcelona, into a workshop and studio space, 2021 | © Xavi Creus Kitchen and Bar. Transformation ground floor and first floor, Rotterdam 2017 Along the Line. Making the original shoreline of lake Neuchâtel visible as a 1 km-long temporary installation – a new scenographic path. On the occasion of 150 years since corrections of water in the Jura mountains, which led to 400 metres of 'reclaimed' area along the lake, but actually mostly caused a disruption of the originally strong relationship between city and water. The installation invited the city and its inhabitants to reflect on the past, to feel the present and to question the future potential of (this area for) the city. Municipality of Yverdon-les-Bains 2018 Along the Line. Making the original shoreline of lake Neuchâtel visible as a 1 km-long temporary installation – a new scenographic path. On the occasion of 150 years since corrections of water in the Jura mountains, which led to 400 metres of 'reclaimed' area along the lake, but actually mostly caused a disruption of the originally strong relationship between city and water. The installation invited the city and its inhabitants to reflect on the past, to feel the present and to question the future potential of (this area for) the city. Municipality of Yverdon-les-Bains 2018 rotative research. Our first project was the exploration and development of an experimental research method. “Rotate and change the perspective”. To approach a topic (contemporary issues and personal fascinations) from various perspectives, including people (voices and tones) from different places and disciplines, in a non-hierarchical, equal way. To develop alternative approaches (formats and methods) to architectural research and design. To change the way we look at things, such as to the cities in which we live, and that we know, and the transformation processes they undergo. Allowing ourselves to surf the waves of a process, to improvise, spontaneously and intuitively, in dialogue. 2016 - ongoing, as part of the DNA of rotative studio Along the Line. Making the original shoreline of lake Neuchâtel visible as a 1 km-long temporary installation – a new scenographic path. On the occasion of 150 years since corrections of water in the Jura mountains, which led to 400 metres of 'reclaimed' area along the lake, but actually mostly caused a disruption of the originally strong relationship between city and water. The installation invited the city and its inhabitants to reflect on the past, to feel the present and to question the future potential of (this area for) the city. Municipality of Yverdon-les-Bains 2018 | © Julien Mudry Textile Factory. Proposal for conversion into housing, studios and museum, Balgach, 2020 Urban Transformation as Event / rr-dialogues. One-year interactive research project with 30 invited contributors from different disciplines and cities in Europe, inviting them to react from their own perspective on one specific topic that we put 'on the table'. Curated and published throughout the year on ‘rr-dialogues.org’ and physical workshops in Rotterdam and Zürich, 2018 Urban Transformation as Event / rr-dialogues. One-year interactive research project. We designed and created the online interactive platform 'rr-dialogues.org' to show all the different contributions simultaneously and non-hierarchically: the circle, our logo, as a digital round table with all the contributions around. We established relations between the contributions, duos in a ‘split-screen’ format, of corresponding or contradicting approaches. No contribution was ever shown alone, but always in relation to another one, to allow cross-reading. 2018. The Image of Promises. "For as much as the architectural structure is presented as a promise, its semi-utopian image contains the features of a non-space, of the ever-the-same or radical interchangeability that also characterizes much of our current global system." Multiple cities - Belgrade Waterfront, 2017 Conditions for Growth. For the Ministry of Make, a self-proclaimed ministry that aims to contribute to the radical transformation of the Netherlands by offering concrete solutions for the housing shortage, the energy transition and the consequences of climate change, we proposed a ‘masterplan’ of ‘conditions for growth’, which includes valorizing and preserving the existing landscape and built environment, an incremental densification strategy, planting trees (a production forest) as opposed to (more) extraction and redefining how much space we actually need for living and how we want to live together. Exhibited at International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam 2022.