Experiences at ONSIA Architectuur

Interior Noordsingel
Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2011

Experiences at ONSIA Architectuur

Terbregseweg
Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2011

Experiences at ONSIA Architectuur

Interior Nieuw Hadriani
Voorburg, The Netherlands 2010

Experiences at ONSIA Architectuur

Interior Schiekade 101
Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2010

Commissioned by the Servicedienst Rotterdam, Onsia Architectuur has designed a new interior for the Rotterdam School, which provides training and education. The new interior of a former bank building, made of brick and steel windows, is based on freestanding walls. The ground floor consists of  the entrance foyer, meeting areas and training rooms. The design is open and inviting.

The newley added walls (in the form of combined closets) contain all the necessary support functions and form the separation between the traffic space and training rooms.

On the first floor these walls are rotated 90 degrees. By doing this the big workspace would be divided into several smaller working areas. The private offices and meeting rooms are divided by transparent screens made of steel frames and glass. These refer to the original steel windows of the former bank building. The office restaurant is designed in one part of the basement next to the private garden.

Experiences at ONSIA architectuur

Kruisbeklaan
The Hague, The Netherlands 2009

Experiences at UN Studio

Mercedes-Benz Museum
Stuttgart, Germany 2006

The museum was completed in May 2006. The construction time took three years, which is a realitivly short time given the complexity of the building and the involvement of the approximately two hundred companies in the building. I joined the design team when the construction period of the Museum was already occuring.
Our team was mainly concerned with finishing and refinement of the structural work and interior. This included design and implementation of furniture such as ticket counters, cupboards, ceilings and wall finishes. In large-scale projects such as a Mercedes-Benz Museum it is extremely important to have good communication within the office and with other collaborating companies. The techniques and media we applied to accomplish this were mainly AutoCad, Maya, Adobe Illustrator and of course brainstorming.

Experiences at UN Studio

Tea House on Bunker
Vreeland, The Netherlands 2006

The two bunkers in Vreeland originally are 1936 additions to the nineteenth century New Dutch Water Line of Defense. This defense line is an 85km long protective ribbon of military objects running through The Netherlands.  For a number of years, the two bunkers in Vreeland were part of an estate that is gradually being developed as a mixture of high-end business and sports facilities, centered around stables and polo fields. UN Studio put a structure on the roof of one of this two bunkers, which serves as a business retreat. It consists of a single, large room with some elementary facilities. The seamless, stainless steel facade is orientated towards the polo field with its single window.
A glass skylight accentuates the smooth appearance of the structure. The Tea House on Bunker truly communicates with its surroundings through reflection in its building materials. This way the extension becomes one with its surroundings, like the bunker used to blend in with nature before the conversion. It starts a dialogue with the surrounding terrain, which makes this connection visible to visitors. It tells the story about the changing role of the bunker in the landscape over time. My participation with this interesting project included mainly the creating and the reasearch aspects of the seamless, stainless steel facade.

Experiences at UN Studio

Flood house
2006

The theme of this second International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) was urgent: the Flood. This theme was chosen because of the growing influence of water on the architecture. Also because of the growing opportunities provided by water for innovative buildings and recreation.  In response to this issue, we devised a house that would be resistant against high levels of water. For this reason the rooms of the house are designed higher than normal and are provided with skylights instead of windows in the facade. The positioning of these rooms are seperatly organised to form a composition of rocks, which we assume can break down the force of the waves and therefore reducing the risk of damage to the building. For the presentation of the design we created a model (scale 1 / 50). This was then showed at an exhibition along side many other fascinating ideas by different architects.