DWA doubles donations for hospice Zambia


This initial amount will be used to start the building,  laying the foundation and beating of the well.
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Studio for Unsolicited Architecture


Fonds BKVB and the NAI selected our proposal New UTility  for the Studio for Unsolicited Architecture.
This half year research period Elstudio, René Kuiken Urbanism and Milieucentrum Amsterdam will collaborate to further develop the proposal. Details »

SAM kick-off in Casablanca


Robert van Kats presenting the Sustainable African Metropolis (SAM) project at the African Perspectives 2011 in Casablanca. Details »

SAM the future of the Sustainable African Metropolis


‘The Sustainable African Metropolis’ (SAM) is a research by interviews project about sustainable development of the future African Metropolis. Details »

De Waardering #0


The first  in a serie of debate evenings about future perspectives for creatives. Details »

Crisis & the “7 Kavels” in the news

Volkskrant 2012-01-13 Details »

Mobex revisited


Visit to the MOBEX in Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht to see the exhibition ‘A Falling Horizon’ from Heidi de Gier. Details »

Sustainable building begins in Chipata Zambia.


Design for a hospice for the palliation of terminally ill patient’s in Chipata, Zambia. Details »

7 plots

7 houses on 7 adjacent plots designed by 7 architect. Elstudio has designed one of the seven detached houses in the Homeruskwartier in Almere. Details »

City Farm


City Farm is a concept for housing combined with care; living in groups in an urban environment with rural quality. Care is customized and shared with the group. Details »

What defines the shape of a farm?


2nd prize
in the competition “‘Een boerderijenfamilie voor de Overdiepse Polder: eenheid in verscheidenheid” for the project “Wat maakt een boerderij?” Details »

E-Vlot


Honorable Mention
in the competition “Duurzaam Drijvend Wonen” for the concept for autarkic units which aims to increase self-sustainability of houseboats. Details »

Urban Environment Design #40


Publication in the Chinese magazine “Urban Environment Design #40″. Details »

self.fab.house


The project Self.urb is published in the Actar publication Self-Fab House. Details »

The Open Monument


The Open Monument takes over the August Allebéplein creating a platform in the form of a monumental plinth, the plinth is the square and the square is the plinth. Details »

Self.Urb

FINALIST in the 2nd Advanced Architecture Contest
WINNER in the World Architecture Community Awards 2009
Self.Urb focus on the possibility of building extensively over water, tackling the current issue of the raising sea level, in an environmental manner. It creates a ‘floating city’. Details »

Ramses Park

Ramses Park becomes the green heart of Cairo. A sustainable city needs green. Located at the base of the Nile delta, Cairo has good soil for building parks. Details »

Cc: JCDecaux


Honorable mention
Date:
2008/6/9
Subject: Design idea competition kiosks Pastoor Joorenplein
To: BNA Kring West Brabant
Cc: “JCDecaux” Details »

Bypassing the bypass


Herning is one of the fastest growing cities in Denmark and therefore has to be attend to the theme of expansion. Recently two planning actions have changed the future scenario of Herning drastically and challenges the city to rethink its positioning from just a suburb to a regional player. Details »

unguided tours Berlin


Unguided tours / Transit Lounge, Part II / Berlin
Project by Isabel Cordeiro / Hugo Moline
Details »

Aldabra Research Station


The Aldabra Research Station is a scientific unit devoted to the study of the uniqueness of the ecological and biological conditions of Aldabra. Details »

Villa Almera


One of the first things people do after buying a house in the suburbs is to fence their plot so they can truly enjoy a taste of the ‘countryside lifestyle’. Details »

Mobex


The Mobex is a mobile exhibition pavilion touring different locations in the Volgerlanden, a new housing development under-construction in Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht ( Vinex location). Details »

Out desk


Buitenbureau (out-desk) was designed for the exhibition ‘Protopark II: NUT’ in the Siegerpark Amsterdam. Details »

Local food production: “jus de rotonde”

Useful art at the roundabouts in Overbetuwe.
We propose to transform all roundabouts in town into little apple orchards.Apples from these trees will be used to make local “jus de rotonde” a new drink from local pressing. Details »

Consumption Required !


‘Consumption Obligatory!’ exposes the boundaries imposed by the rules that control behavior in public space, stretching them till the limits of the reasonable. Details »

2×4=24


Honorable mention in the competition ‘Casa Casla’ Almere
2×4=24 is a design project for two floating exhibition pavilions in Almere. One of the pavilions is meant to be used as an architecture exhibition space, the other as an archaeological exhibition space. Details »