Architectuur Centrum Eindhoven asked us to investigate the experiences of the (international) knowledge workers in the city of Eindhoven. It was surprising to discover that the city policy makers talk about this group of ‘city’ users in numbers, statistics and assumptions. We made a critical document that categorizes the qualifies the experiences of a diverse group of expats as in the yellow pages.
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The city of Utrecht is participating in the run for becoming the European Capital of Cultural 2018. In 2010 YYY created 3d maps of the existing creative industry in the city for a magazine published by the city council. The map represents the city of Utrecht devided in hectares. Bars show the amount of cultural industries on each hecatare. It resultated in a visualisation that looked not only promising on the level of culture, but also on the level of urbanism: Utrecht as highrise city.
Because of political reasons the Stedelijk Museum had to send two extension plans to the dustbin. To break through an emerging vacuum YYY proposed to situate a new typology at the Museumplein: besides Rietveld’s Van Goghmuseum with its extension and the transpierced Rijksmuseum, the new Stedelijk Museum could be densified with new program stacked on top of the monumental museum. The the monumental facades would not be ruined. A connecting program of everyday facilities could be distributed all over the building: congress-facilities, a café which transforms in a disco at night, a roof garden, etc. The program would be carefully linked with escalators and staircases. The everyday program guaranteed a lively building outside the opening hours of the museum. Like the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, it could become of the major attractors in Amsterdam again.
The court in ‘s Hertogenbosch (NL) launced an architectural competition for a court of the future. In stead of redesigning the court, we chose to interpret its new role in society. The project is the result of a simple combination of statements from several political parties and public temper to terrorism. We concluded that the court should be mobile, flexible and dominantly present in daily life. We brought up the concept of Circus as a discussion model. It can travel from city to city to judge right on the spot. And it is a very flexible organizational model. The scheme was announced as competition winner, and we presented it to the Dutch Secretary of State for Justice. The court in ‘s Hertogenbosch (NL) launced an architectural competition for a court of the future. In stead of redesigning the court, we chose to interpret its new role in society. The project is the result of a simple combination of statements from several political parties and public temper to terrorism. We concluded that the court should be mobile, flexible and dominantly present in daily life.
Mendel Robbers and Noemi Vos brought up the concept of Circus as a discussion model. It can travel from city to city to judge right on the spot. And it is a very flexible organizational model. The scheme was announced as competition winner, and we invited to present it as a retrospective scheme to the Dutch Secretary of State for Justice.