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ADSL 2008 Workshop
March 15, 2008Antipodal to the seemingly unstoppable ever accelerating hurricane of globalization there is the sluggishly changing.We, the inhabitants of the 'West' experience birth only as transition from one to another well tempered high security comfort zone; in fact, we are the inhabitants and co-designer of an gigantic palace.
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The Hague International
January 15, 2008‘The Hague International’ is a proposal for a long term, integral planning process which includes ideas about an international zone as well as all of The Hague’s inhabitants and businesses. It shows a city that could become the first exclusively international area where all nationalities are equally welcomed and regarded...
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Wohnreaktor
October 15, 2007Investigation into the possibility for ecological living combined with multi-generational living.For this project the “house in a house” system was established, where different layers of comfort are wrapped around the residential zone. These layers are layers of different temperatures and at the same time layers of privacy.
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The History of Expos
October 01, 2007World’s fairs are an offspring of the age of industrialization in Europe, with its initial focus rather on innovative products than on magnificent architecture of pavilions and convention halls. The155 years of World’s Fairs can be clearly divided in two periods, the Industrial Revolution and the Digital Revolution, with the...
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Polder-Bridges
July 15, 2007The assignment was to design a family of 41 bridges for the area ‘Park Zestienhoven’ in the north of Rotterdam. The idea is simple. Since the theme of this new housing area will be the Dutch polder it is obvious that the bridge should reflect the image of a...
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GROOT
July 15, 2007GROOT english text / translation will follow soon!De eeuwige maagden van RotterdamDe laatste introductie op het thema werd gegeven door Theo Deutinger, TD Architects. Op verzoek van AIR ging hij in op de wijze waarop GROOT in de Rotterdamse cultuur van stadsontwikkeling een plek heeft gekregen en op de...
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Refugee Camps
May 01, 2007Of the worldwide 33 million people that are currently uprooted from their homes, 12 million are refugees and asylum seekers living in camps in countries other than their own.Sudden crises like the most recent one in the Sudanese region of Darfur where more than 5.3 million people left their homes...
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Welcome to Fabulous Hoofdstraat
March 15, 2007Landgraaf defines itself along a spine. This spine was neither planed nor ever longing for being something more than a road that connects the houses and villages along it. 25 years ago three villages along this spine united to form the newly defined town Landgraf.
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Selfmade Biodiversity
March 01, 2007In the year 2004 scientist published an estimation that through the warming up of the earth’s atmosphere 15 to 37 percent of our current species will be exterminated by the year 2050. While this rapid decrease of species is stated, the human beings as main source of this process, are...