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Type: Five dwellings Location: Almere Overgooi Client: Villa van Vijven Team: Michel Schreinemachers, Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk with Joost Lemmens, Filipe Pocas, Esther ten Brink, Rolf Pederson, Maria Salinas Floor area / size: 1.300 sqm Cost: Euro 1.500.000,00 Contractor: Bouwbedrijf Siebenga Build engineer: Adviesburo Nieman, VDW Bouwadvies Construction: Pieters Bouwtechniek Installations: Van Duin Installation Management, Installatiebedrijf Hoekstra-Mildam First design: 2008-03-01 Start building: January 2007 Completion: April 2008 Status: Completed

2008-04-17 golden nomination 2008-03-03 scaffolding removed

The Overgooi project concerns a villa-like residential building with five specific accommodations commissioned by the Villa Van Vijven (Villa For Five) Association that consists of five private clients.

The opportunity arose to develop five residential units on a 5000 m² lot – with the restriction that they had to look like a single villa.

Based on this fact and on various qualities of the environment we implemented a series of transformations on the building volume. On the basis of a number of workshops with the residents this resulted in five specific accommodations, each with its very own character.

Each storey has been rotated a quarter turn in relation to the others, giving the residences exceptional orientation, incidence of sunlight and spatiousness. Subsequently, the entire building was raised to give each residence a second floor view – over the dike – of the Gooimeer.

Type: Office (renovation and interior) Location: Herengracht 258-266, Amsterdam Client: Wieden + Kennedy Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water, Joost Lemmens, Toon van Schijndel, Jurriaan Hillerström, Agatha Osika, Ieda Alvarez Dogo, Jennifer de Jonge, Bas Kalmeijer, Maria Salinas Floor area / size: 5.600 sqm Cost: Euro 5.500.000,00 Contractor: Dijkman-Carbaat Bouw BV Construction: Strackee BV bouwadviesbureau Installations: Trintas BV (advice); Lomans Groep totaalinstallateurs (E), Gebr. Van Wijk installatietechniek BV(W) First design: 2007-12-10 Completion: December 2007 Status: Under construction

2007-10-10 Red entrance floor 2007-05-16 Reconstruction started

Wieden + Kennedy, the advertising agency of firms such as Nike and Coca Cola, asked NEXT to design their new accommodation on the Amsterdam Herengracht. The new building was a labyrinthine conjunction of two historical properties.

The six floor areas – 1,000 m² each – were promisingly large, but entirely without vertical connections. NEXT’s proposal was to open up the hearts of the two buildings by inserting three glass shafts that cut through all of the floors. Inside the glass shafts we created double-high spaces that connect to every other floor. This creates diagonal sight lines among all the different floors in the middle of the building. The glass spaces are used as presentation and meeting facilities and are called the ‘meeting and working rooms’. This operation has resulted in a tremendous amount of transparency without loss of useful floor space.  

The details of the interior include various contrasts, for instance between the rough unfinished shop floors and the perfection of the materials and the details in the glass meeting rooms. The original period rooms are extraordinary, too: they have been left intact wherever possible and bring the historical feel of the buildings to life.  Front to back, we designed long cupboards that bridge the height difference between the floors. They are clad in magnetic materials so they can be used as presentation panels: every floor can be transformed from a shop floor to a presentation room.

The programme includes a small theatre for screenings, various studios for audiovisual productions, a gym with a floor made out of recycled Nike shoes, a penthouse with a bar and a roof garden overlooking the city, and a large garden with basketball facilities. On the elaboration of the interior design, NEXT collaborated with several kindred spirits. Snode Vormgevers, for instance, designed a number of tables that can slide out of the kitchen window. The tables include crosscut wood sections for the preparation of food that are removable and washable.

Type: Office space Location: Amsterdam Overamstel Client: NEXT architects Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers with Jurriaan Hillerström, Agatha Osika, Ieda Alvarez Dogo, Joost Lemmens, Filipe Pocas, Toon van Schijndel, Jennifer de Jonge Floor area / size: 270 sqm Contractor: KBK bouw Installations: Hollandertechniek Carpenter: Morowood First design: 2007-11-15 Status: Completed

Our own office space is located since mid-2007 in a former chewing gum factory that has recently become one of Amsterdam’s creative hotspots.

Being one of the first companies to move in, we started with just an empty space.  In general, we wanted to keep that atmosphere intact. We preserved the empty space by creating a large open central work area surrounded by various service rooms that can be closed off or totally opened up as needed. These side rooms can be entirely closed off with ceiling-high sliding doors edged with rubber sealing flanges, like the ones found at carwashes. 

The openness of the large central workspace is preserved and enhanced by the use of 7-meter long tables, creating a large open space between the tables and the ceiling that also draws attention to the industrial character of the ceiling and the room itself. 

Type: Shopping mall with office buildings Location: Beijing Client: Huihuang Real Estate Ltd. Team: John van de Water, Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers with Chen Song, Jiang Xiao Fei, Guo Zhi Fang. Jia Yuan, Xin Hong, Mo Lisheng, Yang Zhong Hui, Zen Zhao Ying, Yuan Duo, Ma Qin, Qin Qin, Zhang Rui, Su Yue, Wu Yun, Zhang Yu Hua, Lu Ming, Jiang Nan Collaborator / associate: HAYA architects Floor area / size: 180.000 sqm First design: 2007-10-21 Start building: 2005-11-01 Completion: 2007-09-01 Status: realized

The Huihuang International Plaza is a building complex of 180.000m2 in size and accommodates shopping, offices, residential, conference, a hotel and parking. Four of the five towers were initially designed as office towers. Because of changing market conditions, three of the four had to change into residential towers over night. As a clause, the design had to be able to change back to offices before the building was completed. To anticipate on ever changing requirements, an architectonic concept is developed in which residential blurs with office. This ‘blurring’ makes both residential and office in representation possible. ‘Blurring’ is achieved by a changing relieve between stone and glass; the foundations of the buildings being more stone, the tops more glass. This pattern aims to visually dissolve the program, as well as the height of the towers. The architectonic concept is strengthened by economics: the higher the floor, the more view is offered, the higher the market value can be.

Type: Master plan + Dwelling Location: Eck en Wiel Client: Stichting Locus a/d Rijn Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water, Claudia Linders with Joost Lemmens, Rolf Pederson Collaborator / associate: Labeled / Claudia Linders Floor area / size: 600 sqm Cost: Euro 720.000 Contractor: Aannemersbedrijf van der Helden BV Construction: Goudstikker - de Vries Installations: Walter Jansen Special thanks to: Landscape advisor:Thijs van Hees Landschapsarchitectuur First design: 2007-10-20 Completion: July 2007 Status: Realised

2007-12-01 Huis te Wiel in De Gelderlander 2007-10-01 Huis te Wiel nears completion

The design for the ‘Huis te Wiel’ estate is a careful composite of the existing farm, two new houses and an annex.

By adding the new buildings, we created a courtyard. The existing farm, a national monument, has preserved its main building status and the hierarchy is strengthened as the new buildings are constructed like this farm: its slanted roof and the different directions of the ridges of the front of the house and of the attached barn are copied in the new buildings.

The buildings’ unity and coherence are increased by adding structuralizing elements – duckboards and platforms – that mark the transition between the collective and the private. The decoration of the yard includes elements – a hedge, formal beds of plants – that refer to the location’s past. The master plan design echoes the various strata of the country estate’s rich history.

The materialization of new buildings refers to an agricultural past, the yard and the composition refer to the history of ‘Huis te Wiel’.

Location: Xidan, Beijing Client: Meisheng Real Estate Ltd. Team: John van de Water, Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers with Wopke Tjipke Schaafstal, Bobby de Graaf, Chen Song, Yang Zhong Hui and Jia Yuan Floor area / size: 400 sqm First design: 2007-10-20

2007-10-01 Selling center of Xidan shopping nears completion

Water Stone is a high-end residential project located in the centre of Beijing. The assignment asked for a 400sqm so-called sales centre; an exhibition-like pavilion in which the apartments will be sold before they are actually built. The building has to accommodate private meetings like closing financial agreements and signing contracts while at the same time it has to seduce the public to enter. The building aims to express this ambiguous tension of simultaneously being public and private.

A standard rectangular building envelop is reshaped into an envelop that has three straight and two inclined faces. The reshaping creates a volume with two strong directions: one side seems to open up towards a street corner while the other side seems to close the building of. To emphasize the tension between public and private, the inclined elevations are executed in transparent glass while the straight walls are executed in a translucent double layered skin. Where the building opens up towards the public completely, a narrow casted view over a 1:100 scale model of the Water Stone is offered.

Type: Daycare Location: Amsterdam Client: Hestia Team: Marijn Schenk, Bart Reuser, Michel Schreinemachers, Claudia Linders with Toon van Schijndel, Agatha Osika, Ieda Alvarez Dogo Collaborator / associate: Claudia Linders | Labeled Floor area / size: 200 sqm Cost: Euro 87.000,00 Contractor: Nieuwenhuizen Bouwservice Management Installations: EWW Carpenter: Gielissen Interior & Exhibitions BV First design: 2007-10-12 Completion: August 2007 Status: Completed

2007-11-27 PUBLICATION | DOUBLE SCORE IN DE ARCHITECT

Child-care centre Hestia is located on the second story of a EEA-designed multifunctional building, in which schools for children of other ages are also located.  The space must provide room for different types of activities, and a balanced context in which the child can blossom.

Dance, theatre, music, reading, study, cooking and drawing are all activities which children should be able to carry out at Hestia. Above all, the child-tenders want a space that is easily supervised and restful, that works as a backdrop to personal development. Children should be able to find a place they feel is their own, where it is possible to pullback from the others in the group without being able to fully elude the attentions of the adults.
The available space, the architectonic elements and the demands of the client resulted in the decision  to furnish the space using one large, multifunctional element. This element would serve to divide up the space into different areas, while simultaneously creating a connection between the activities, thereby maintaining continuity and community. A landscape is created as tangible environment on a child-sized scale, offering possibilities and challenging the children to participate; which provides cover or shelter where needed and adventure where possible.

Type: Lobby Location: Shangdi Beijing Client: Huan Yang Grand Land Team: John van de Water, Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers with Melle Pama, Michel van Tilborg, Yuan Duo, Hu Qin Floor area / size: 800 sqm First design: 2007-10-08 Completion: August 2007

HAYA-mansion is a 1.700 sqm office building located near the North 4th Ring Road. The assignment was for the design of the 800m2 lobby; the client had envisioned a lobby where Chinese tradition and modern office-culture would blend. 

The design follows the Chinese conception of an ideal lobby: a lobby should be large and to suggest it being large, it should be empty. This conception is translated into an architectonic concept in which the lobby wall is used to integrate all interior objects and functions that are required, such as the directory of occupants, visitor seating, art, planting and lighting.  

To blend with Chinese tradition, the initial proposal is optimized in co-operation with a Fengshui expert. This led to specific shapes of the lobby-walls and to specific locations for red lights, paintings, fish bowls and ancient Chinese money. The wall colours are derived from an actual Beijing sunrise, aiming to provide an everlasting vital morning atmosphere.

Type: Two bridges Location: Glanerbeek Client: Municipality Enschede Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water with Shaya Fallahi, Joost Lemmens Collaborator / associate: H+N+S Landschapearchitects Floor area / size: 20 mtr span Cost: - Contractor: Spijkerbouw Construction: ABT construction, Rob Nijsse and Jans Askes First design: 2007-06-15 Start building: May 2006 Completion: 2006 Status: Completed

To reconcile the rather contradictory aim of transporting motor-vehicle traffic through the ecological zone of the Glanerbeek, the continuity of both is taken as a starting point. Above the brook the bridge transforms according to visual and ecological demands.

The bridge splits into three separate lanes – one each for bus, pedestrians and bicycles - and each assigned its individual artery the maximum available height, clearance and incline. This emphasizes its transparency, providing daylight underneath the bridge for flora and fauna, as well as a view of the Glanerbeek for passersby. A bench placed at the most advantageous overlook on the footpath combines the traditional function of the bridge as a point of transition with that of a meeting place. 

The construction is based on a thin in-situ concrete deck, strategically positioned atop a repetition of gabions filled with rough stones. The use of gabions allows plants and wildlife to inhabit the structure, further integrating the bridge into its natural surroundings. 

Type: Retail Location: Amsterdam Client: YOI Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers with Rolf Pederson, Joost Lemmens, Filipe Pocas, Jeroen Bos Floor area / size: 30 till 100 sqm Cost: Euro 40.000,00 First design: 2005-08-01 Status: On the move

On the move in 48 hours

The challenge was to design a fashion shop which can be moved to another location within 48 hours. A shop which is not merely a place for selling clothing, but fluid in its state of being. It was obvious to combine these two goals, using as a starting point the four values of YOI: AUTONOMOUS, POLYVALENT, environmental, DYNAMIC.  

The design consists of four elements that can be arranged in a multitude of ways for an infinite number of eventual locations. The first and most important element is the floor, which is constructed out of standard plastic pallets. Other elements - like large rotatable mirrors and clothing racks/frames- can be attached to these floor pallets. All back-stock and other inventory is placed in open containers that form part of the display: everything is visible, everything is movable, fluid.  

Since the first store opened in the Declerqstraat, Amsterdam in November 2006 YOI has opened its doors at several locations throughout the city and its products were on show at a number of events and festivals. Meanwhile the collection has been adopted by major Dutch department store The Bijenkorf.

Type: Interior, office space Location: Xicheng District, Beijing Client: Huan Yang Group, JDSF consultancy, NEXT architects Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water with Joost Lemmens, Geoffrey Moote, Froukje van de Klundert, Chen Song, Wang Bo and Zang Rui Floor area / size: 1.250 sqm First design: 2005-04-23 Completion: 2005

The Beijing NEXT architects / Huan Yang-office measures a 100 x 25 meter typical open office floor. Four different companies and a number of departments share the same office floor. To connect and organize the individual companies, a concept was developed in which the traditional Chinese corridor - or lang - is used as a reference.  

Traditionally, a lang connects places while providing a constant changing perspective over the landscape it crosses. Whilst following the traditional principles, the contempory lang is charged with extra meaning. By transforming constantly in section, it incorporates the functions of lobby, meeting rooms, benches, exhibition and projection areas and storage shelves.

Type: Interior design and furniture Location: Denneweg 25, The Hague Client: Artoteek Den Haag Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water with Ica van Tongeren, Joost Lemmens Collaborator / associate: Architectencombinatie Bos Rosdorff Wiebing Carpenter: Morowood First design: 2004-09-01 Status: Completed

For the Artoteek in Den Haag, renovated by Bos Rosdorff Wiebing architects, NEXT architects developed the interior design and a series of furniture including working desks and a reading table.

The design concept of the furniture has been based on an array of parallel plywood slats; the shape of the slats has been adapted for various functions such as the storage of a painting, the support of a computer and the storage of magazines. 

Invited by NEXT architects, designer Ica van Tongeren developed a special tile for the restroom of the Artoteek, which is housed in a historic building.

Based on the existing Delft Blue toilet and washbasin she used the coat of arms of The Hague - a stork with an eel in its beak- as the motif in the design of the tiles. By adjusting the scale of the storks she created a sense of space in the relatively small restroom. The images have been transferred to the tiles using a special glazing process through which the images are permanently rendered onto the tiles.

Type: Art Gallery Location: The Hague Client: Artoteek Den Haag / 7X11 Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water with Shaya Fallahi Collaborator / associate: Mieke Gresnigt, Freedom of Creation, Catalogtree and Milou van Ham Floor area / size: 120 sqm Cost: Euro 70.000,00 First design: 2004-07-01 Completion: March 2004

7X11 is an art centre in the The Hague Ypenburg VINEX project that is in use as residential, work and exhibition space for artists. The starting point for the interior design is flexibility. The space has to accommodate many different types of uses: exhibitions and manifestations as well as studio space or space to host artists in residence. We chose to connect both the light and the decoration elements to a rail system. The decoration elements consist of perforated steel panels that may be used as both space dividers and exhibition panels. A kitchen-bench is part of the interior: to cook on and to sit on. 

Several of the components were created in collaboration with visual artists. The front panels were developed on the basis of photographs by Mieke Gresnigt in collaboration with Freedom of Creation, and a sunblind pattern was designed in collaboration with Catalog Tree designers. Milou van Ham developed a worded wallpaper for 7X11 that entices the audience to associate freely.

Type: Renovation of a dwelling Location: Amsterdam Client: Woningbedrijf, Amsterdam Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water with Joost Lemmens and Shaya Fallahi Floor area / size: 170 sqm Cost: Euro 170.000,00 Contractor: Mercuurbouw bv, Volendam Construction: Bouwadviesbureau Strackee bv First design: 2003-05-12

Type: Dwelling Location: Amsterdam Client: Boris Hollotcheff Team: Michel Schreinemachers, Marijn Schenk, Bart Reuser, John van de Water Floor area / size: 200 sqm Cost: Euro 300.000,00 Construction: Strackee Amsterdam First design: 2001-12-01 Completion: April 2002 Status: Completed

The project started with a characteristic Amsterdam period house: built around the end of the 19th century, it is narrow and deep. Prior to the reconstruction, the house had been divided into 3 apartments, each with shower and kitchen, inhabited by a total of 8 students. To restore the original state and typology of this stately mansion, it had to be transformed into one again. The floor plan of the house was established: the kitchen with dining room would be located on the ground floor, on the first floor the living room, on the second a guestroom and study and on the top floor the master bedroom and bath. 

Openness was the overall theme, without compromises, so all interior walls were torn down. The staircase was originally situated at the back of the house, freeing the ground and first floors from transitory traffic. The stairway leading from the second floor to the third is situated in the middle of the area. Within this open space we placed several custom-built constructions to accommodate functions and to provide divisions of space without making closed rooms. In this way we transformed the claustrophobic effect of the narrow space of 4,5 by 10 meter. 

Three installations were added to accommodate a kitchen on the ground floor, a bathroom and a stair on the second and a walk-in closet on the third.

Type: Dwelling Location: Werkhoven Client: G. Van Echtelt Team: Michel Schreinemachers with Joost Lemmens, Wout Smits, Vincent Heck, Shyla Rietveld, Patrick Maisano, Floris de Ridder Collaborator / associate: JMA, Amsterdam Floor area / size: 200 sqm Cost: Euro 255.000,00 Contractor: Timmer- en aannemersbedrijf J.H. de Vries Build engineer: Pieters Bouwtechniek Photographer: Jeroen Musch First design: 2001-10-01 Start building: May 2004 Completion: December 2005 Status: Completed

The wish of the client was to create a house which draws on the ideals associated with the traditional farmhouse.

The volume is created through a number of subtle manipulations such as the vertical and horizontal displacement of the main elements along a sort of a fault-line: this shift reinforces the perspective of the surrounding landscape, optimising the view of the vast horizon.  The floor plan has been organized in such a way that it achieves a continuity between the different  functions involved with a residential program, while separating service areas such as the main entranceway, bath and pantry. 

The main area is built using traditional details. Relying on knowledgeable specialists, we were able to construct the house using bricks and straw. The bigger window openings cut though this volume, open up the interior and connect it to the landscape.

Type: Apartment and office space Location: Lijnbaansgracht , Amsterdam Client: Jeroen Saris, De Stad bv Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water with Wout Smits Collaborator / associate: Color advise: Claudia Linders Floor area / size: 340 sqm Cost: Euro 250.000,00 Contractor: Bouwbedrijf Berlage Build engineer: Bouwadviesbureau Strackee Installations: Van Brederode & co Carpenter: Morowood First design: 2001-10-01 Start building: January 2002 Completion: September 2002 Status: Completed

The new owner of an historical building in the very heart of Amsterdam asked NEXT Architects to develop a design that would comprise both office and home, but maintain some separation of the two. The building had to contain a large diversity of living and working areas, while opening up the interior space.

We were inspired by synonyms for different life and work spheres, such as: cafe, club, monastery, library and restaurant. The relation between the two office floors is opened up by taking out part of the floor area and replacing it by making a cube that contains many of the service functions, such as kitchen, counter, stairs and toilets. To optimise the use of the space, we opted to partition the building into three functional zones, each with a characteristic design and atmosphere.