A close-up of one of the maps I created during my master thesis at the TUDelft has been selected as bookcover “Border Conditions“, by Marc Schoonderbeek, which is the Archined book of the month.

“Border Conditions presents the initial results from the research and design studio of the Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology. The book offers a collection of essays and experimental architecture projects that emanated from research into the spatial impact of socio-political developments, with an emphasis on mapping the contemporary urban milieu. The book provides a thematic overview of the contemporary discussion surrounding borders in architecture, from conflict situations to marginal urban areas; from Kinshasa-Brazzaville, Gibraltar, Kaliningrad and Kiev to Benidorm, Marseille and Rotterdam. A selection of projects shows how mapping can be used to not only register and interpret urban processes, but to show how these design principles can act as the basis for architectural interventions.”

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This edition of  Test_lab, a bi-monthly event by our friends at V2_ featured a selection of freshly graduated artists, architects, and designers from European art and design academies whose projects explore the invisible aspects of our contemporary urban environments. This sounded interesting enough to travel to Rotterdam, where I found out that the event had grabbed a lot of peoples attention: the room was packed.

Let me start of by saying that it was hot. So hot in fact that none of the participants got what they deserved: interaction with the audience. We were simply unable to think.

With that out of the way I let’s see what the event was like. The opening speaker, Theo Deutinger is known for his data-visualizations. He learned from the best: he was trained at Rem Koolhaas’ OMA, who besides architecture make wonderfully evoking visualizations. OMAs style was recognizable in Deutingers presentation, however only one part actually made sense to me. With a beautiful animation, Deutinger showed us that the world actually goes to sleep everyday at 24:00 GMT+1. I always figured that when we went to sleep, people were at work on the other side of the world, and this would balance out over the day, keeping a stable amount of people who were at work. However, in his Work around the world project Deutinger shows the opposite.  Play around with it. It looks beautiful. [Read more →]

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Mijn review van Visible Cities 2 met o.a. Ole Bouman van het NAi is te lezen op de website van ‘de Architect’

Augmented Reality (AR) is een nieuw medium dat zich onlangs heeft aangediend als interessant platform voor architectuur. AR is een methode om digitale data over de fysieke wereld te projecteren. Het NAi loopt op de ontwikkeling vooruit met haar iPhone-applicatie SARA. Deze applicatie maakt het mogelijk om architectuur die (nog) niet gerealiseerd is, of niet meer bestaat te aanschouwen op schaal, in 3D en op locatie. Dit geeft uitgebreide mogelijkheden voor educatie over het verleden en de toekomst van de gebouwde omgeving. Op woensdag 3 maart was Ole Bouman te gast bij het Visible Cities programma in ‘De Verdieping’ bij Trouw Amsterdam.

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