NEXT 10/89

Type: Public space / Art Location: Tilburg Client: KORT; Municipality Tilburg Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, Joost Lemmens, Geoffrey Moote Floor area / size: 36 sqm Cost: Euro 90.000,00 Status: Completed

2011-09-05 Istanbul Design Week features NEXT projects 2010-03-01 growth monument officially opened 2009-09-01 Start construction 2008-01-12 Restart

A monument to represent the blossoming and flourishing of the city of Tilburg, a ‘textielgroeimonument’ (textile growth monument), realized at the Textielmuseum Tilburg in 2009 as part of the celebration of the 200^th anniversary of the city. Since the Mommerscomplex that accommodates the textile museum is metaphorically speaking a living monument, would it perhaps be possible to create a growing monument that is literally built up from living matter?

The new volume can be read as an addition to the industrial complex: a shape that brings to mind the high factory buildings; a reprise of the building structure of the textile museum.

The overgrowth lends to the monument the dynamics of nature. It literally grows, and this ensures that it always looks alive. It is not a massive volume but a transparent, open structure.

A platform connects the interior space with the courtyard. It provides a possible connection to the monument and a starting point in the open space around the complex. It facilitates encounters and exchanges and in doing so it adopts the part of accelerator in the creative public domain that is currently being developed in Goirkestraat. And so as the volume turns the past into a visible experience in the present, the platform is the first step towards the future.

Type: offices Location: Amsterdam Client: Lingotto Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, Joost Lemmens, Agata Piet, Ines Meuws Floor area / size: 3000m2 Contractor: Theuns Construction: Strackee Installations: Bulters&Bulters Start building: 2009-08-15 Completion: 2010-01-01 Status: completed

2010-06-07 Containers placed 2010-02-25 Femke Halsema and Maarten van Poelgeest open 'HET LAB'

The Chewing Gum Factory: ‘THE LAB’ is a project initiated by Lingotto Vastgoed bv. The purchase of an industrial building of 3000m2 from the ‘50 at the Willem Fenengastraat 2 was the start of a metamorphosis. The building consists of 3 large halls of approximately 600m2 in open connection with each other and an office area with 3 floors. The main bearing structure consists of a concrete frame and concrete floors. The facades are made of masonry.

The assignment is twofold: first, the design of an overall concept for the office section and secondly the transformation of the 3 large halls in rentable office for creative businesses.
The land surrounding the building is also included in the development and will provide the offices with parking lots and outdoor spaces.

Type: Office and commercial space Location: Beijing Client: Golden Star Real Estate Team: John van de Water, Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers with Wopke Tjipke Schaafstal, Bobby de Graaf, Chen Song, Guo Zhi Fang, Jia Yuan, Jao Peng, Xin Hong, and Li Jia Collaborator / associate: HAYA architects Floor area / size: 60.000 sqm Start building: November 2007 Status: Completed

Twist is a twin-building located near the East 5th ring road. The building will contain mostly service apartments. These apartments can accommodate start-up companies, which makes that the building has to blend between apartment and office building. The design-strategy follows three steps: projecting a typical NS orientated Beijing slab, rotating and finally twisting the slab in order to optimize daylight and view. The twisted slab is taken as a starting point to manipulate the buildings massing proportions, following the analogy that people prefer to live in a tower over living in a slab. Towards the new city street, the building will follow a smaller scale to enclose a square. Towards the South side of the site, the buildings will take on a more urban scale. To increase the diversity of the apartments, floors are proposed with three different window-heights.  Metaphorically, the twin building resembles two dynamic Dragons encompassing a shining pearl.

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 Photographer: Iwan Baan Start building: January 2007 Completion: April 2008 Status: Completed

2010-11-01 Nomination Architectuurprijs Almere 2010 / Nomination Ecola Award 2010-05-28 broadcasting II 2009-11-18 Creative Commons: Dwell featuring Villa Overgooi 2009-08-07 Nomination Europa House Award 2008-11-10 broadcasting 2008-08-12 NEXT nominated for the AM NAi Award 2008 2008-04-17 golden nomination

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: dwelling Location: Ouderkerk aan de Amstel Client: Schenk / Linders Team: Claudia Linders, Marijn Schenk with Joost Lemmens and Filipe Pocas Collaborator / associate: Claudia Linders Floor area / size: 135 sqm Photographer: Gianni Basso Start building: 2007-04-01 Completion: 2007-10-01 Status: Build

2011-01-01 Elle Wonen features House M&C

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, Joost Lemmens, Rolf Pederson Collaborator / associate: Labeled / Claudia Linders and Cor Kalfsbeek Contractor: Aannemersbedrijf van der Helden BV Construction: Goudstikker - de Vries Installations: Walter Jansen Photographer: Lisette van de Pavoordt Special thanks to: Cor Kalfsbeek (Masterplan / House Kuenzli) and Thijs van Hees Landschape design Completion: July 2007 Status: Realised

2010-05-04 WOOD 2010: The Architecture of Necessity 2008-06-27 Festive opening 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’.

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 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.

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 Status: Completed

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.

Location: ZPARK Beijing Client: Beijing Century Real Estate Team: John van de Water with Chen Song, Wopke Schaafstal, Lui Gui Feng, Li Gui Feng and Bart Reuser, Marij Floor area / size: 55.000 m2 Start building: August 2007

2009-08-27 Google Earth View 2008-05-10 Sneak preview 2007-11-10 Construction at full speed 2007-08-07 Construction started

This IBM research-office building is situated in a new, green IT-development zone in North-west Beijing. The given site is elliptical and according to the urban plan, buildings are to be single entities. IBM aims to provide a healthy working environment, as part of their vision to provide a productive environment.

To maximize the building area, the building envelop follows the site restrictions and therefore is elliptically shaped. To stimulate a healthy environment, the building aims to maximize its relations with its green surrounding landscape.  

As such, the building consists of one two-story ellipse that rests on four smaller ellipses. The top two floors contain offices; the collective program is concentrated in the smaller ellipses.

The meandering space between the ground floor ellipses opens up towards the surrounding landscapes and accommodates the central lobby and three internal gardens.

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 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.