Lensvelt Garden

A furniture company whose headquarters are a tautly designed box, set in an ecological garden with swamps and marshes. A gravel moat surrounds the building, while inside a patio entrance was created with a large, sail-like tent under which employees can take their lunch. This was detailed as a still life in wood, slate and ginkgo trees. The tarmac of the parking areas and the loading docks came to life through a linear pattern of white stripes that organises the trucks and cars.

Free Hand Plan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vSrosMBjoo
Idea for making a free hand plan for a place at the same moment.

Hasselt

The city of Hasselt became famous when the mayor introduced free public transport. With the master plan for the dramatically dated environment of the city station, the city wishes to give its center a new impulse. The basis of the master plan is a set of new squares and streets that will form a blueprint for the future buildings. The Park lane and the new station will make way for upgrading the area on both sides of the tracks. Adding new public spaces will enrich the urban tissue. Between the station square and the center, a promenade forms the basis for lively facades with shops, restaurants and cafés. There is also a lane for busses, embedded in the promenade.

Apart from bus and train, the car is still a very important means of transport to get to the center. Below the Promenade lies a public parking garage. The garage will consist of three storeys, two underground and one above ground, offering parking space for about 1500 cars. This parking garage, with a volume of 50 x 300 metres, will be the largest public building of Hasselt. In the zone between the Promenade and the tracks a new city facade will be constructed, with offices, city dwellings, a hotel, cafés and restaurants.

Project 4 Design Sketches

Design sketches for the food legacy project showing the activities and the installation on a different layer of tracing paper above the sketch.

SCHOUWBURGPLEIN

Nowhere else in the world is there a square so relevant to its context. Shouwburgplein, or “Theater Square,” is situated in the heart of Rotterdam, minutes from the Europe’s largest port, and surrounded by the City Theater, the music hall, Rotterdam’s largest movie theater complex.

This contemporary urban square design, with custom furniture, iconic crane-like lights that park users can operate, and a trademarked hardscape pattern, is a reflection of the Port of Rotterdam. Capped by a light-deck square that replaced an outdated and leaking parking roof structure, the design includes a light structure using durable materials that have remarkably withstood the test of time and heavy usage.

By raising the surface of the square above the surrounding area, the “city’s stage” was created for festivals and installations, framed by the city skyline and its “audience” of inhabitants. This interactive public space, flexible in use, changes throughout the day and from season to season.

BRANDENDE STAD - BLOEIENDE STAD

Is it possible for a blaze of flowers to explain what happened on the 14^th of May 1940, without being instantly a historic monument/The Schouwburgplein is an open space from where you can enjoy the skyline. It is the place to get together during the day. Flowers are hereby the finishing touch, the smile.” Adriaan Geuze

''Kan een vuur van bloemen iets uitleggen over wat er op 14 mei 1940 is gebeurd, zonder direct een monument te zijn/ Het schouwburgplein is een open plek van de nieuwe stad vanwaar je van de skyline kan genieten. Het is de ontmoetingsplek gedurende de dag. Bloemen zijn hierbij de finishing touch, de glimlach.'' Adriaan Geuze

BRIDGE VLAARDINGSE VAART

The new crucial connection in the urban and recreational bicycle network calls for a strong identity in the area. By virtue of its location in a natural green setting on the edge of the city, the bridge is both tempting and surprising to its users. An expressive though subtle sculpture establishes the moment of ‘crossing’ and captures the qualities of the immediate landscape.

Living Machines

Living Machines® require only a small amount of space. They work indoors or outdoors, and each is tailored to the needs of the client. We build them to conform to the demands of the location and of the local climate. Before the water can enter the system, it must be gathered in a tank where the flow is equalized and solids are allowed to settle. Larger installations will use a filter for the same purpose. The flow of water through the system is managed by a central control system, which also monitors system performance. Our control system is the best in the industry, and it uses a web-based interface to track water levels and control flow rates through the system. At the same time it monitors water quality and can send alerts to remote locations if it senses a problem with the system. Clean, treated water is gathered in a storage tank, and distributed for reuse. Uses for water recycled by the Living Machine® can include: toilet flushing, animal and pen cleaning, irrigation, decorative surface features such as ponds or waterfalls, or return directly to the environment.

GARDEN OF 10.000 BRIDGES

West 8 designed a Master Landscape Architect Garden, that plays with the limits and the sensation of surprise.

Gardens tell a story. They combine poetry and narrative. The Garden of 10,000 Bridges represents the human life; the path of people’s lifetime, which is a route of uncertainty and burden, but also of highlights and elation. The garden design takes you on this walk of life as a meandering, winding trail – continuous and like a labyrinth. It lets you find your way through nature and takes you over 10,000 bridges.

Fletcher Vaughan: Collapse

The work of new zealand-based designer fletcher vaughan, 'collapse' is designed as a sculptural representationof the precarious balance between industrial society and nature. standing 13.1ft high x 11.3ft long x 2ft tall (4m x 3.4m x 0.6m), The house of cards is composed of lasercut aluminum with stainless steel fixings and PVC decals.

Installed on the hauraki gulf of waiheke island in new zealand, 'collapse' is directly exposed to the forces of nature and although it is grounded in concrete and composed of durable materials, 'the illusion that [the sculpture could be toppled at any moment by the slight breath of wind represents the fragility of our planet and its inhabitants in the present day.

MUTO Wall-Painted Animation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lrpKfCapNk&feature=player_embedded
http://youtu.be/6lrpKfCapNk

David Hockney Style Project 3

This David Hockney Style collage shows how the pollution spreeds on the sea shell and kills it slowly. The world without pollution is colourfull thats why the stones on the top  of the picture are in colour and as we go down we notice that the stones start to lose their colour and becoming black and white which is our life with pollution.

This Daivd Hockney Style collage shows why i choosed to make the first one because it shows the pollution that exist on the site and where its coming from.

Project 3 Visualization

This image presents the final design for our project 3. Shows the landmark which is covered with concrete sea shell design, the platform, the living machines underneath the platform, the transparent seashell decorations which people are able to see the process of the cleaning of the water. Also the steel structure presents the way that rain water gets into the living machines. Also steel mechanism is placed in the river so when the river flow is high the water can be cleaned and used for plants, tress, The concept is about demonstrating how to clean the water so the people will be aware of the pollution that exist.

NATIONAL 9/11 MEMORIAL

The National September 11th Memorial commemorates the victims of the attacks at the Pentagon, at Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and at the World Trade Center site, both on September 11, 2001, and February 26, 1993. Two gigantic voids – in the footprints of the Twin Towers – and a surrounding forest of oak trees form the core of the rebuilt World Trade Center in New York City and provide a place for contemplation and remembrance within this revitalized urban center.

Using a language similar to Michael Heizer's North, East, South, West, the voids render absence visible. In this way, the overwhelming losses of September 11th are given permanent presence. Within the protected space of the forest, visitors will arrive at the two great voids with their thundering waterfalls. After viewing the victims’ names on the bronze parapets of the voids, visitors will move back to the city through the trees and take comfort from the soothing, life-affirming forest.

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The urban spaces of the new development integrate the existing housing estate into the new. Through the use of planting and materials, the spaces connect and become places for relaxation, social interaction or play. A scattering of birches grow from the gentle gradient of the tilted lawn, a south facing spot for relaxation. The birch tree is the common theme between areas – the woodland square has grouped trees and circular areas of wildflower and grasses. Amongst the flowers are natural logs that double as play benches and seating. The urban square’s surface has an etched pattern of a birch tree forest. Around the edge of Harper Square are areas with taller grasses and herbaceous planting– an informal boundary to the private back gardens of the new flats.

The design for the urban square focuses on celebrating the uses of one tree ; as a material for making furniture and other items; to climb and play on; as a motif for the square and finally to become a natural habitat for beetles. Tree forms are also used as benches; as climbing areas in the form of log piles and upturned logs become the edging to a long community garden planter.

Walsall Art Gallery Civic Square

This project makes a road into a pedestrian space using the materials of road construction. Animation of the square occurs when it is occupied – people visiting the gallery, passing through, gathering to have a drink, parking their bikes or eating lunch – a space separate from but adjacent to the town centre. Objects on the square were located in a random way by casting pebbles onto the surface of the project model.

Daubeney Primary School Experimental Playground

KLA wanted to make a playground that improved the behavior of children in the classroom. The new playground design encourages children to play collaboratively.