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I submitted a project in the Prix de Rome competition a couple of weeks ago. I didn’t win or made it onto the longlist. I guess kicking against the competitionbrief didn’t work this time. Anyway enjoy the presentation boards.

Complete presentation:

Board 1:

And board 2:

Anyway, i will upload a complete pdf of the presentation, so the small texts can also be read.

In 2008 the Zuid Hollandse Vormgevingsprijs (a design competition) was about the Grevelingen. This sweetwaterlake in the southwest of The Netherlands is getting less popular with tourists. The design brief asked for new ways of stimulating tourism. I focussed on the middle area of the lake. This very quiet part of the Grevelingen could be developed in extensive recreation area, where the experience is focussed on the water. Floating bungalows, for the most part underwater, have a minimal impact on the openess of the landscape and are very well suited to act as a base for diving activities. The Grevelingen has some of the best diving spots in Europe.

After I handed in this design I got a completely different and much better idea about promoting the Grevelingen. But i will post on that later.

Together with Sebastiaan Hermans I realized his design for an exhibition object. In it 2 students of the Artemis fashion school had to show their graduation projects. We made a very practical object, easy to set up and dismantle. The object enable the students to show their fashion in space (instead of flat).

In 2003 I was able to study in Los Angeles at SCI Arc (Southern Californian Institute of Architecture). i took a designstudy given by Perry Kulper, an amazing teacher with tremendous dedication to his teaching and students.In the studio we had to assemble our own designbrief. It should contain a museum for things re(a)d and a roadside motel. There was no location given, it had just had to be placed adjacent to the Salton Sea. This manmade saltwater lake is Southeast of Los Angeles in the middle of the desert. Once this lake was supposed to become known as the next Vegas, but that never happened. Infrastructure was put in place though. But nobody came. And the lake? It smells badly of rotten fish.

The museum collection consists of 2 major parts. A metaphorical red part: Weapons of Mass Destruction; The other part consists of protective gear (against the WMD) coloured red. Showpiece of the museum is an airtight area where all kinds of bacterial agents (from biological warfare) are free to roam. Visitors can enter this part of the museum (at their own risk) by using another piece of the collection, the biohazard suit (in red of course). The museum and motel are intertwined. The collection can be found in the rooms, in the parkinglot, around the swimmingpool. Through the bottom of the swimmingpool you can look down into the biohazard chamber. The swimmingpool also contains fluoresent bacteria that light up when stirred. Specific spaces in the design were charaterized by a soundtrack (available on cd) to describe their feel before actual design would take place.