Portfolio Jan Willem Terlouw
2008-2016
NIO architecten
THE WAVE AND THE WHIRLWIND The building for the ZEP Leisure Park is based on Zeeland’s two most vital natural elements: wind and water. The image that the building evokes is that of a dance between a wave and a whirlwind. The wave is the horizontal binding theme for the events park, the whirlwind is the twenty-five meter high tower that can be seen from afar and that can be climbed by the daredevil. With that the building sets the tone: not only is it embedded in Zeeland’s nature, but it also refers to adventure, excitement, discovery and surprise. It is an adventurous building in which all kinds of things can be experienced, from the most intimate moment of relaxation to the wildest impressions. Everybody has something to look for here. For this leisure park we looked for real experiences. The trees that border the car park and that grow on the square, are real and not made of plastic. From the ZEP-tower kids can actually float to the ground, they do not play in a virtual image. The things that are there to see, to do and to buy relate to physical, often sporty activities: skating, sailing, climbing, biking, working out, dancing and last but not least playing soccer. Of these real experiences the building wants to be a continuation, an experience in the form of wind and water.
ZEP Leisure Park Middelburg location: Schroeweg, Middelburg, HOLLAND client: RECC/TCN Property Projects building contractor: Walcherse Bouw Unie structural engineer: SmitWesterman design team: Joan Almekinders, Radek Brunecky, Joost Kok, Sean Matsumoto, Maurice Nio, Arek Seredyn, Jan Willem Terlouw, Stefan Signer start design: 2004 completion: 2009 building costs: € 27.000.000 area: 20.000m2 Personal commitment phases: definitive design, construction drawings, detail drawings skills/software: Rhino, Autocad, physical modelmaking
THE GREEN GOBLIN “An exercise in repetition” was how it was described. Just copy and paste. But nothing could be further from the truth. At first sight, the Outdoor Center may well resemble the neighbouring Retail Park Roermond but, if you look more carefully, you will notice that its construction principle and the structure of the façade are completely different. In fact, the projects only have a few things in common such as the 8.1 x 8.1-metre grid and the slanting red columns in the car park. Of course, they also both have that mica coating where the colour changes according to where you stand. Right at the beginning, we presented the building’s users with a tint that varied between gold and orange, but which they felt was too upmarket. And indeed, apart from the relatively expensive De Waard tents, all of these retailers are selling camping goods at extremely affordable prices. This therefore had to be reflected not only in the building’s appearance but also in its colour: cheap and cheerful. And that’s the reason for the mean green goblin colour, which sometimes verges on the golden brown of De Waard tents. So, if the inspiration for the Retail Park Roermond was a beguiling blue atoll, then the Outdoor Center must have been based on a small and grimy green lake. The perfect place for a cheap camping site where people sleep in cut-price sleeping bags and head to the toilet at night clutching shoddy torches with rechargeable batteries that come from the bargain basement. However, if one day the building were to become home to a luxury discotheque, then its expensive side would suddenly come to the fore. And lo and behold, this is the chameleon-like magic of mica architecture!
Outdoorcenter Roermond lokation: Sint Wirosingel, Roermond, HOLLAND client: Van Pol Participaties building contractor: Louis Scheepers structural engineer: Schaal Ingenieurs design team: Maurice Nio, Gabriel Pena, Jan Willem Terlouw start design: 2008 completion: 2009 building costs: € 8.500.000,area: 12.000 m2 Personal commitment phases: concept development, sketch design - definitive design, construction drawings, detail drawings skills/software: Rhino, Autocad, CS Photoshop, CS Illustrator, CS Indesign
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
KFC restaurant Roermond lokation: Sint Wirosingel, Roermond, HOLLAND client: Van Pol Participaties building contractor: TBM-bouw structural engineer: Schaal Ingenieurs design team: Maurice Nio, Jan Willem Terlouw start design: 2009 completion: 2010 building costs: â‚Ź 2.500.000,area: 405 m2 Personal commitment phases: concept development, sketch design - definitive design, construction drawings, detail drawings skills/software: Rhino, Autocad, CS Photoshop, CS Illustrator, CS Indesign
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THE HARD AND THE SOFT The Retail Park Almere Poort is one of the first large-scale retail developments (39,000 m2) in Almere Poort and is located in the Olympia Quarter. The Olympia Quarter area is the center of Almere Poort and enjoys a prominent location along the A6. Thus, the Retail Park has a particularly good location between Almere and the northern Randstad and offers an excellent regional position. The new Retail Park offers a beneficial addition to the current city facilities and allows Almere to profile herself as a splendid city for shopping. In the Retail Park, consumers will find more than fourteen major stores in the field of sport, play and leisure. However, Retail Park Almere is more than just a shopping facility. For example, there are several events organized and visitors and local residents are actively involved in developments in and around the park, they literally help to make the park a succes. In return, the Retail Park also makes its contribution to the community and the environment. During the development and realization of the park, sustainability has always been an important factor. The Retail Park consists of two ‘hard’ urban components and a ‘soft’ landscape building component which includes a parking garage for approximately 800 parking spaces. Within the park, there are four restaurant pavilions. The landscape plan is inspired by the typical image of the Dutch clay landscape, including the cracks after the soil has dried. Thus the hard and soft volumes are embedded in an inviting landscape plan.
Retail Park Almere lokation: Pierre de Coubertinlaan, Almere Poort, HOLLAND client: Dura Vermeer Vastgoed/TCN Property Projects building contractor: Dura Vermeer structural engineer: Imd Raadgevende Ingenieurs designteam: Joan Almekinders, Nelson Javier Arango Castro, Iñaki Llorens Canosa, Maurice Nio, Arjan Pit, Arek Seredyn, Jan Willem Terlouw, Anja Verdonk start design: 2008 building costs: € 36.500.000 area: 39.000 m2 Personal commitment phases: sketch design - definitive design, construction drawings, detail drawings skills/software: Rhino (Vray), Autocad, CS Photoshop, CS Illustrator, CS Indesign, physical modelmaking
WILD ORCHID We start downstairs, in the basement. In this rather quirky space with unusual alcoves, twelve extraordinary and very expensive cars are being displayed, and on the walls is a collection of works of art. This is the space for the collection. A secret little staircase connects the basement with the house above it, on the ground floor, a continuous space shaped like an orchid. There actually aren’t any rooms. Private rooms could be created, however, in the form of objects in the space - a bedroom object, a kitchen object, a bathroom object - but essentially the house is one space that is shared by everybody, just like the villas of Palladio in which everyone - parents, kids, guests, servants - uses the same space. This is the space of the family. A perky spiral stair opens up the roof. A wild rib structure is decoration and construction at the same time. This is a space where the family wants to give parties, on the roof, surrounded by trees. This is the space for the guests, and for heaven.
Villa Waalre lokation: Waalre, HOLLAND client: private person building contractor: structural engineer: designteam: Joost Kok, Maurice Nio, Arek Seredyn, Jan Willem Terlouw start design: 2008 building costs: area: 300 m2 Personal commitment phases: concept development, sketch design skills/software: Autocad, physical modelmaking
TWIN BLADE It’s a well-known adage that the knife cuts both ways. What this means is that each advantage has its disadvantage, that there’s a drawback to everything. This makes it an unanswerable platitude that results in a great deal of apathy. Better than a knife that cuts both ways is a knife with two blades, which share the same handle and where each blade has a single cutting edge. This is known as a twin blade. It allows you to cut two different things at a single stroke or to facilitate two dissimilar functions - or characters - at one and the same time. And that’s the idea behind the houseboat. The houseboat is literally (and coincidently) a twin blade, which it also is in figurative terms. As seen from the outside, it appears to be 98% symmetrical. But once inside, your perception capsizes to reveal an asymmetrical structure with two faces. This houseboat has been designed for a couple with completely different characters. Whereas he is a composer and a musician, she is a visual artist. Whereas he is something of a worrier, she is cool, calm and collected. Whereas he is always pale, she is never seen without bright red lipstick. And whereas he works in an underwater cellar in a remarkably integrated and highceilinged space, she sits upstairs in a studio with a low ceiling that reflects the water’s surface. Then there’s the staircase in the middle, which connects these two rooms by way of the bedroom, the living room and the kitchen. Although actually it’s not so much a staircase as an ascent that launches you into the living room… Effectively, this room is the handle that joins the spaces of the “sound cellar” and the “image attic”, that holds them together and creates something communal. And that’s how it should be. The ability to remain as sharp as a knife without getting in each other’s way: in perfect, asymmetrical symmetry. Houseboat Amsterdam lokation: Jaagpad, Amsterdam, HOLLAND client: private person building contractor: Het Waterhuys structural engineer: designteam: Maurice Nio, Arek Seredyn, Jan Willem Terlouw start design: 2009 completion: 2011 building costs: € 400.000 area: 280 m2 Personal commitment phases: concept development, sketch design - definitive design skills/software: Autocad, CS Photoshop, CS Illustrator, physical modelmaking
HOUSE ON AN ISLAND
Villa Amersfoort lokation: De Bron, kavel 4, Amersfoort, HOLLAND client: private person building contractor: K6V and sub-contractors structural engineer: Imd Raadgevende Ingenieurs designteam: Maurice Nio, Arek Seredyn, Jan Willem Terlouw start design: 2013 completion: 2015 building costs: â‚Ź 300.000 area: 300 m2 Personal commitment phases: concept development, sketch design - definitive design skills/software: , Autocad, physical modelmaking
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WARMTEBOUW
Office + Factory Utrecht lokation: Middenwetering 1, Utrecht, HOLLAND client: K6V/Warmtebouw BV building contractor: structural engineer: designteam: Maurice Nio, Jan Willem Terlouw start design: 2015 area: 300 m2 Personal commitment phases: concept development, sketch design skills/software: , Rhino (Vray), Autocad, CS Photoshop, CS Illustrator, CS Indesign
noord-west gevel
noord-oost gevel
zuid-west gevel
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Pavilions covering the stair approaches and elevators The pavilions on street level are the wings of the angel. They literally open up the gate to the Novoperedelkino metro station. Although they are made of concrete, they look very delicate, sensitive compared to the surrounding. The underside of the roof of the pavilions is paved with black tiles, as a start towards the space of hope, the entrance of the dark cloud. The green belt where the pavilions are situated will be greener, not just a simple grass strip, but a mature green breath.
I AM AN ANGEL
Section pavilion with stair
Below-street underpass
Behind a dark cloud there is always a glimmer of light. That is the concept of this project. The design for the Novoperedelkino metro station tells about hope. And about forgiveness, of course. If you are cynical you could say that this theme, this thought could be implied to all metro stations in Moscow, but that is not true. Especially in this unforgiven neighbourhood the theme is on its place. This generic neighbourhood must be inspirited. By anyone other than an angel? When you enter the Novoperedelkino metro station you go from dark to light, from the below-street underpass to the platform area. A gradient of 10 colours of black, grey and white tiles guides the public from up to below. The lightning design is designed according to this scheme. Upward lighting to the white ceilings and downward lightning to the white platform. There is also extra functional lighting on the walls to guide the public up and down from the station. Remember that behind a dark cloud there is always a ray of light.
Section pavilion with elevator
Plan -1
Below-street underpass Coming down on the wide stairs under the wings of the angel you come in the rather low underpass. But because the ceiling is not flat and the colours are quiet dark it looks like an enormous space. The underpass is easy to understand. There are no barriers and the lighting and tile design direct the passengers immediately in the right direction. Furthermore all lighting devices are integrated in the ceiling or floor, this also implies to all furniture. There are no other colours than the 10 greys, except for the red Novoperedelkino signing.
Section underpass
Hall for ticket booth and escalator/stairway zone
Plan -2
Hall for ticket booths and escalator/stairway zone The rays of light are perfectly visible here. After entering the ticket booths you enter the angelic space. White spots on the ceiling and floor guide the public to the platforms. You can also see more clearly that the ceiling is not flat but curved, like wings, to give the space a spirited dimension. The ticket desks are very visible with the red signing, excavated from the black tiled walls. Everything is functional but at the same time the space is beyond a functional description.
Section stairway zone
The platform area
Plan -3
The platform area The platform areas are actual the lightest places, although they are the deepest places. Here the angel speaks of hope. It is not merely a traffic space; it is also a blessed place, a place of bliss. Like most of the Moscow metro stations this is not merely a functional space, it is also a spiritual space. The ceilings and floors of the platforms are covered with white tiles, while the walls are dark. The benches and light fixtures are specially designed for the Novoperedelkino metro station.
Metrostation Moscow lokation: Novoperedelkino, Moscow, Russia client: Moscow Municipality building contractor: structural engineer: designteam: Maurice Nio, Jan Willem Terlouw start design: 2014 building costs: area: 2500 m2
Section platform, begin and end
Colour palette of materials
White coating 80% glossy Black coating 80% glossy
Personal commitment phases: concept development, sketch design skills/software: , Rhino (Vray), Autocad, CS Photoshop, CS Illustrator, CS Indesign
Section platform, middle
Black rough granite
Polished concrete
AGROB BUCHTAL ceramic tiles ChromaPlural “neutral line� Gradient in 10 colours
Polished stainless steel
Red lighting, signing
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MIDNIGHT OlL Being independent and still being able to fit in an existing network, that is the biggest issue of today. Especially for a train station. How can you be yourself, maintain your own character, while you are being tied to and in a network full of expectations and demands, and while at a few kilometres distance an ambitious main station is being designed? Maybe, by seeing the concept of ‘peripheral’ in a new light, not as something negative, but as something positive, and that without scruples. As designers, we state this: Cessange will become a beautiful, laid-back peripheral station, without grudges. The station is unique in its kind, but at the same time it is very laid-back with regard to all wishes and demands from the network. That relaxed, laid-back feeling expresses itself in everything. We do not propose a monument that forces everything in its place with one gesture, but a careful unravelling and branching of streams and routes. A walk through the park is being crossed here by the course of trains, trams and busses. Thousands of commuters mingle here with students and locals every day. Offices, houses, shops and station share a collective public space. The different groups do not clash and they certainly should not avoid each other. We let them merge and stream in a new natural flow. Not only from a logistics point of view, this station is relaxed and laid-back, also in its shape. We have carefully looked at relaxed shapes, not at canals, but at spontaneous streams of water, not at pinstripe suits, but at track suits, not at confident geometries, but at vulnerable and peripheral shapes. Hence the seemingly unpredictable roof. Hence the columns that are jealous of the platform. Hence the furniture that is more Dali than Malevich. Hence that underworld that merges everything wonderfully well, whether it is bus traffic or a simple kiss & ride moment. Cessange peripheral station Luxemburg lokation: Boulevard de Hollerich, Luxemburg, LUXEMBURG client: Ministère des Transports de Luxembourg building contractor: structural engineer: Daedalus designteam: Joan Almekinders, Etienne Jaunet, Maurice Nio, Giulio Piacentino, Jan Willem Terlouw start design: 2009 building costs: € 150.000.000 area: 10.000 m2 Personal commitment phases: concept development, sketch design skills/software: , Rhino (Vray), Autocad, CS Photoshop
VOLCANO HIGH This station is not just a functional space where the travelers descend and ascend. It is especially an area that is determined by type of infrastructure systems that are connecting. Vesuvio Est station is particular because in this station cross two railway lines that differ greatly from each other: the line and the line Circumvesuviana High Speed Mount Vesuvius. The two types of lines both are literally, diametrically opposed. The first line is a hothead, but rather slow understanding, the other line is ultra mentally, but rather phlegmatic. The first line is red, the other is blue. The station, as it reflects us, is the personification of these two different characters who meet in this place. There is another thing that makes special design of this station is a design durable. Even where there is enough space, we do not want to waste it. The imprint was minimized and extensions will be made only above the existing building. We do not want to waste no energy. We therefore propose a building intentionally ‘heavy’ that day remains fresh, as in churches. In the cold just a simple heating Radiant panels are sunk into the floor. This prevents the use of plants High heating energy consumption. In addition to this we want to replace the Forced ventilation systems with natural ventilation without any waste of energy.
Stazione Vesuvio Est Napoli lokation: Napels, ITALY client: R.F.I. Rete Ferroviaria Italiana SpA building contractor: structural engineer: Daedalus designteam: Joan Almekinders, Maurice Nio, Giulio Piacentino, Arjan Pit, Arek Seredyn, Fabrizio Stenti, Jan Willem Terlouw start design: 2009 building costs: € 11.500.000 area: 10.000 m2 Personal commitment phases: concept development, sketch design skills/software: , Rhino (Vray), Autocad, CS Photoshop, CS Illustrator, CS Indesign
THE CAIMAN De kaaiman is een amfibisch wezen. Hij leeft zowel in het water als op het land. Zo zou je het sportcomplex in Amersfoort ook kunnen opvatten als een amfibisch project. Er wordt gezwommen en er wordt gesport, er is een nat deel en een droog deel. Deze twee karakteristieke aspecten zijn duidelijk afleesbaar aan het ontwerp. Er is een witte opgetilde rechthoekige volume met een sportfunctie en er is een langwerpige gefaceteerde volume in een goud/geel/groene kleur met een zwemfunctie. De sportfunctie is soeverein, de zwemfunctie genuanceerd. Het ontwerp is één krachtig statement met drie gezichten. Aan de zijde van de Hogeweg is het silhouet van de kaaiman het meest duidelijk. Deze gevel is ook de meest stedelijke, bijna monumentaal, met het enorme verticale venster dat uitzicht biedt op de duiktoren. De langgerekte horizontale vensters bieden aan deze zijde voor voetgangers en fietsers een blik op de zwembaden. Aan de buurtas domineert de witte, opgetilde sporthal waar het golvende venster zicht geeft op de sportfunctie en waar de sporters zichtbaar via een grote trap omhoog lopen. Het opgetilde Op het plein is het terras direct gekoppeld aan de horeca. Het derde gezicht ligt aan het Waterwingebied, waar de gevel trapsgewijs omlaag gaat. Hier is de gevel niet monumentaal maar ingepast in het landschap. De kleuren van het interieur zijn precies het omgekeerde van de kleuren van het exterieur. Daar waar de sportfunctie wit is van buiten neemt het binnen de kleuren aan van de zwemfunctie: goud/geel/groen. En daar waar de zwemfunctie goud/geel/ groen is van buiten wordt ze wit van binnen. Een omkering die zowel verrassend is als vanzelfsprekend. Wit tegelwerk past het best bij een zwemomgeving, terwijl een houten sportvloer het best ondersteund kan worden met wanden en plafond in soortgelijke tinten. Sportcenter, Amersfoort lokation: Buurtas, Amersfoort, HOLLAND client: Amersfoort Municipality building contractor: Pellikaan Bouwbedrijf BV structural engineer: designteam: Joan Almekinders, Tobia Davanzo, Maurice Nio, Arek Seredyn, Jan Willem Terlouw, Anja Verdonk start design: 2014 building costs: € 24.400.000 area: 10.000 m2 Personal commitment phases: concept development, sketch design skills/software: , Rhino (Vray), Autocad, CS Photoshop, CS Illustrator
THE FOUR GOLDEN SURFERS The Angel of the bell tower of the Church of Santa Maria di Castello fell in the parking lot of Piazza Primo Maggio and has multiplied in four seraphic sculptures pointing toward the natural expression represented by the tree species present in the park boundaries. In contrast to the reference structure - mobile - that changes its position with the wind, the four angels link - fixed - towards our ecological future: green and sustainable. The bodies of the angels remind us of the body of the legendary hero of the Silver Surfer comic books, which, like the archangels, save the earth by a demonic force known as Galactus. He defeats Galactus and banishes him to Earth as punishment. The four golden angels are called: Michele, pointing to the east, Uriel, pointing south, Raffaele, pointing west, and Gabriel, pointing north. Â At dusk you activate a light system. From the hands of angels emerge beams of laser light directed toward the trees. The four green laser beams are reflected from the trees toward the center of the parking lot, where stands another sculpture - a sort of crystal - made of glass and mirrors. The light is refracted here and talks about the future of our precious ecological system that will spread throughout the world: green, no vehicular pollution, damage to the ozone layer, noise, traffic, traffic jams and accidents - an electric future without petrol and diesel.
Sculptures Udine lokation: Piazza Primo Maggio, Udine, ITALY client: Udine Municipality building contractor: structural engineer: designteam: Maurice Nio, Jan Willem Terlouw start design: 2016 building costs: â‚Ź 105.000 area: Personal commitment phases: concept development, sketch design skills/software: , Rhino (T-splines)(Vray), CS Photoshop, CS Illustrator, CS Indesign
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DARK ROOM Sometimes, in order to achieve a particular goal, you should do something that is contradictory. In this case there is a small, dark, contemplative space created whose walls consist of three rather agitated elephants. This small space is unaware she is the epicenter of violent animal nature. Unaware she is the flapping of the butterfly leading to an emotional hurricane (or has the hurricane just died down to stillness?). We know elephants are among the smartest animals on earth with great intelligence and excellent memory. But few know that, like humans, they have genuine emotions and can very much ‘feel’. An elephant’s trunk is a fundamental part of its body, used not only to smell, feel and speak but also to reveal feelings. Used at one moment to grasp while at the next to unleashes a blast of water. The trunk communicates emotions. Dark Room is about contrasts and seemingly impossible solutions. You make something still through noise. You make something human through the animal. You make something small through the disproportionate. You make something contemplative through the supersensitive. Sometimes, in order to achieve a particular goal, you should do something that is contradictory.
Sculpture Dalian lokation: Huayuankou Economic Zone People Park, Dalian, CHINA client: Dalian Zhengtai Construction Project Management Consulting Co.Ltd. building contractor: structural engineer: designteam: Maurice Nio, Jan Willem Terlouw start design: 2015 building costs: € 1.500.000 area: 10 m2 Personal commitment phases: concept development, sketch design skills/software: , Rhino (T-Splines)(Vray), CS Photoshop, CS Illustrator, CS Indesign
DE KINETOSCOOP De sokkel en de daarop gepositioneerde woningen vormen gezamelijk een ijkpunt in de wijk en een verbijzondering van het plein. Het is echter niet alleen een fysieke hoeksteen die de ’vergeten’ ruimte tussen twee kopse gevels opvult, het is ook een schoorvoetende toren die een voorzichtig optimisme viert, langzaam maar zeker wordt Woensel-West getransformeerd in een gemoedelijke hype woonbuurt. Het karakteristieke volkse leven op straat en in voortuinen is gebleven en verrijkt met de komst van jonge gezinnen, kunstenaars, creatievelingen en startende ondernemers. Een fysiek kenmerk van Woensel-West zijn de karakteristieke, in de regel rode, lineare ritmes van schild-, tent- en zadeldaken. Deze ritmes wordt in dit ontwerp letterlijk en figuurlijk omgegooid. Daken transformeren in gevels en gevels transformeren in daken. De karakteristieke Nederlandse typologie van gevels en daken wordt ‘gedemonteerd’ opnieuw geïnterpeteerd en op een verrassende manier ‘geassembleerd’. Eén van de laatste uitvindingen van Thomas Edison was de kinetoscoop. Een curieus apparaat dat wordt beschouwd als de voorloper van de filmprojector. De kinetoscoop was een individuele kijkmachine, men gooide er geld in waarna men via een kijkgaat naar een uit losse foto’s opgebouwde animatie kon kijken. Ook deze twee bescheiden woningen functioneren als een curieuze kijkmachine, vanuit zorgvuldig gepositioneerde venters kunnen de ritmes en rituelen van deze, toch wel, karakteristieke volkswijk geobserveerd en geanalyseerd worden. De twee overhoekse vensters bepalen de orientatie van de woningen en creëren een visuele connnectie met het naast gelegen Edisonplein, de kinderspeelplaats en de 2e Franklinstraat.
Two apartments, Eindhoven lokation: Edisonplein, Woensel-West, Eindhoven, HOLLAND client: Trudo/DNC vastgoedontwikkeling building contractor: structural engineer: designteam: Maurice Nio, Jan Willem Terlouw start design: 2016 building costs: € 250.000 area: 250 m2 Personal commitment phases: concept development, sketch design skills/software: , Rhino (Vray), Autocad, CS Photoshop, CS Illustrator, CS Indesign
SALT In 1315 verwierf Zaltbommel officeel zijn stadsrechten. Dit ging gepaard met de komst van een prachtigstadswapen, een eigen munt en de robuuste fortificatie van de stad. In 2016 vindt er opnieuw een fortificatie plaats, niet met stadswallen maar met subtiele verlichtingelementen in de straat. De oplichtende wapens markeren eventueel niet alleen de grenzen van de alsmaardoorgroeiende stad maar ook mogelijk monumentale gebouwen en bijzondere kunstwerken. Het viaduct onder het A2 snelwegtracé is een essentiële schakel in deze fortificatie, het is namelijk één vande enige plekken die het oostelijk en westelijk deel van de stad met elkaar verbindt. Net zoals stadspoortenvragen dit soort plekken om extra aandacht. Het viaduct is niet zomaar een technische onderdoorgang. Passanten worden onderdompeld in een blauwe salte ervaring die verwijst naar water, zoutkristalen en eenroemrucht verleden.
Lighting Viaduct, Zaltbommel lokation: van Heemstraweg/A2 highway, Zaltbommel, HOLLAND client: Zaltbommel Municipality building contractor: structural engineer: designteam: Maurice Nio, Jan Willem Terlouw start design: 2016 building costs: € 28.000 area: 1000 m2 Personal commitment phases: concept development, sketch design skills/software: , Rhino (Vray), Autocad, CS Photoshop, CS Illustrator, CS Indesign
Bovenaanzicht tegel
De Mispel
RVS verlichtingselement in vierkante betonsteen met daarin een abstracte weergave van de Mispel
Het wapen van Salt Bommel
NIO architecten
A HING IN SPACE AND TIME The desire for a square and a youth center and a new interior for the busstation underlines the tremendous importance of this integral intervention. The proposed scheme fluently connects the urban scale with the architectural scale and with the interior scale. But within this fluency, we strongly believe that all interventions should be approached from its intrinsique shelf life; urban interventions from a more classical, monumental point of view where interior design can incorporate the precarious taste of fashion and tendencies. The 3 scales of our proposal can be read as followed; the square of 50 x 200 meters on the west side of the busstation can’t hardly be interpreteted as a classical square but more as a (piece of) a boulevard; a monumental linear space, divided primarily in the length with trees, and subtle crossed by side streets. These crossings divide the ‘lane’ into 3 parts; the head- the location of the youth zone, the middle - a water square, and the foot of the square that mainly provides a connecting space to the city center. the built intervention consists of a light-weight, fluent and oval shaped form that stays separate from the parking building. The only connection, an enclosed and lifted bridge, reflects the way the parking building has always been connected with its surrounding buildings. The roundings of the pavilion provide a maximum of control of the public space around the building while it makes the appearance of the volume small and modest. In the evening, the translucent facade, lit from inside, will be a light beacon on the square. the busstation itself has mainly all the ingredients to become Lighting Viaduct, Zaltbommel lokation: van Heemstraweg/A2 highway, Zaltbommel, HOLLAND client: Zaltbommel Municipality building contractor: structural engineer: designteam: Maurice Nio, Jan Willem Terlouw start design: 2016 building costs: € 28.000 area: 1000 m2 Personal commitment phases: concept development, sketch design skills/software: , Rhino (Vray), CS Photoshop, CS Illustrator, CS Indesign
Kick pitch (35x18m)
Third floor/roof
External recreation ( or with roof, NHS sexual health Clinic)
Second floor
Staff room (with kitchen) General manager room General office Two staff meeting rooms Film, Multimedia room Toilets, Hygiene room Music room
Sportshall Sportshall store
Changing facilities Preforming Arts studio
Changing facilities
First floor
Toilets, showers, hygiene
Entrance lobby Reception desk Meeting room Café, Chill-out zone) Kitchen and servery Group work room Health, Beauty and Wellbeing room Arts, Crafts & Fashion room Inclusion room Small group work rooms
Entreance
Store and Workshop Skatepark Climbing Wall Fitness Suite Boxing, Matial Arts Gym
Ground floor
White walls with prints Dark grey metal windowframes
White metal stair (existing elevator) Dark grey metal windowframes Lighting stipe (color)
Rubber floor (different colors)
Chrome reflecting walls Lighting stipe (white) Concrete bench
Rubber floor (existing black)
SCHAFFENHOUSE
Office + Factory Zwijndrecht lokation: Lindtsedijk 76, Zwijndrecht, HOLLAND client: Schaffenburg Office Furniture BV building contractor: IHC Metalix/van Eijk Meubel-en Interieurbouw structural engineer: IMD Raadgevend Ingenieurs designteam: Maurice Nio, Jan Willem Terlouw start design: 2015 building costs: â‚Ź 2.500.000 area: 5200 m2 Personal commitment phases: concept development, sketch design - preliminary design skills/software: , Rhino (Vray), Autocad, CS Photoshop, CS Illustrator, CS Indesign
One company <> Four buildings/departments
STEP 1
STEP 2
STEP 3
STEP 4
-1 -2 -3 -4
New facade
New clear main entrance
New Showroom connecting the four different deparments
Visual conection with the four different departments
office production assembly stockroom
DARK HORSE Grief is one of the deepest emotions. When someone really dear to you dies, grief can unleash the exchange of life and death. You are alive, right now, whereas the other person is dead. Yet you simultaneously project yourself onto that person and die, so that he or she can come back to life again. Michelangelo’s Pietà is a unique depiction of this exchange. Mary supports the body of Jesus with just her right hand while, with her left hand, she is inviting you to take part in this cycle, in this exchange of life and death. Dark Horse is the final bed before the grave becomes the ultimate destination. It is the final bed where you dream of becoming a horse or something seemingly impossible such as perhaps - the voice of Marvin Gaye. Why not? It is the final bed where the reciprocity between life and death becomes intensely palpable, where the original reciprocity between humans and animals can trigger deep emotions. But Dark Horse is more than simply a sculpture. It is also a mise-en-scène of the emotion of grief. At the Gipsoteca of the Istituto d’Arte di Porta Romana in Florence, where Dark Horse is being shown, the heads of the copies of famous Tuscan sculptures are covered with black scarves. Are they also in mourning? Or have they simply become fundamentalist Muslims? Next year, the cortège will be continuing in the garden outside. Twenty sculptures made of black material will be positioned in the middle of the garden and will form a circle around the mourning trees. And this is how the circle is completed: Where once the horses walked in circles inside the Gipsoteca, now the black “stallions” will be walking the same circles outside in the garden.
Exhibition + Sculpture Florence lokation: Gipsoteca di Firenze, Florence, ITALY client: NIO architecten building contractor: Kangsi Art Limited structural engineer: designteam: Joan Almekinders, Giacomo Garziano, Maurice Nio, Luca Rimatori, Jan Willem Terlouw start design: 2012 completion: 2013 building costs: € 15.000 area: 100 m2 Personal commitment phases: concept development, sketch design - definitive design, organisation expo skills/software: , Rhino (T-splines)(Vray), CS Photoshop, CS Illustrator, CS Indesign
DARK MATTER We live in a world that is becoming more and more transparent. Riddles are being solved, secrets uncovered, irregularities glossed over, twists rationalized: the other becomes the same. At the point of complete transparency, we end up in a state of complete obscenity as well. After all, when all veils are gone, we are left with nothing but trivial nudity. The temptation has disappeared. At the same time, however, there is the awareness that 90% of our universe consists of dark matter. Matter that could well be the cause of many incomprehensible phenomena in the universe. If you apply this hypothesis to our world, that would mean that fortunately only 10% could really be transparent and obscene. So let us search for the rest, for that 90% dark matter. Dreams, emotions, plants, stones, but especially animals are part of that 90% dark matter. Animals do not talk. They growl, hiss, whistle, bark. We can hear them, but not understand them. That in itself makes them a mystery. What is more beautiful than staring at an animal that does not say anything? What is more beautiful than an animal that does not communicate and withdraws into its own shadow? (The artwork is a 17-meter-long polyester object of 8 animals that have melted together and that are hung with about 12 screens on which images of animals can be seen, recorded by webcams mostly at exotic locations.)
Exhibition + Sculpture Milan lokation: Dependance Museo Pecci, Milan, ITALY client: NIO architecten/Museo Pecci Prato building contractor: Kangsi Art Limited & Kleurbleur Visuals/Mark Ridder structural engineer: designteam: Joan Almekinders, Giacomo Garziano, Maurice Nio, Luca Rimatori, Jan Willem Terlouw start design: 2009 completion: 2010 building costs: â&#x201A;Ź 20.000 area: 150 m2 Personal commitment phases: concept development, sketch design - definitive design, organisation expo skills/software: Rhino (T-splines)(Vray), CS Photoshop, CS Illustrator, CS Indesign
PHYTHON OVERPASS In Eastern cultures, the serpent is the appearance of a supernatural being that is able to appear in various shapes. Sometimes it emerges as a dragon but usually as a snake. These creatures protect the waters of the earth and guard the gates to sacred places. This snake guards a dried, reclaimed dike, between and among asphalt roads, resulting in a many-headed piece of concrete technology. Not exactly a holy place, at first sight. Civil work KW137, the intersection between the new road N201 and the R-net (the former Zuidtangent) is the result of the compact combination of roads due to the development of the adjacent office and industrial area Beukenhorst Oost-oost. The image that arises in this piece of infrastructure is that of a scissor pattern that, where it crosses the concrete beams, the grid smoothly folds open and closed, and finally becomes a two-dimensional drawing on a huge retaining wall. This pattern is created with colored ceramic tiles with exceptional features: they rid themselves of any dirt - even graffiti - and are able to decompose exhaust fumes produced by cars and industry, year after year. This snake doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mould. The serpent in this infrastructural work is in our eyes what could result from all what has become soulless, that has become to the core technical and functional, both body and space. There it is possible, by precise architectural interventions, to add again a spiritual dimension in the relation between people and objects. It is like creating spaces in other spaces, spaces not only for humans but also and especially for spirits, for the traffic of virtual bodies. KW137 is a Snake Space in heart and soul. A sacred place for the technical area.
Viaduct lokation: Beukenhorst-Oost, Hoofddorp, HOLLAND client: Provence of Noord-Holland building contractor: NMO Vervat structural engineer: DHV Ruimte en Mobiliteit designteam: Joan Almekinders, Maurice Nio, Arek Seredyn, Jan Willem Terlouw start design: 2007 completion: 2013 building costs: â&#x201A;Ź 15.000.000 Personal commitment phases: sketch design - definitive design, construction drawings, detail drawings skills/software: Rhino (Vray), Autocad, CS Photoshop, CS Illustrator, CS Indesign
ANGELIC DRIVE Designing a new entrance to a city is quite a serious task. Especially if you go from nothing to something so fast, from a highway environment to a new dense urban environment. Driving towards the center of Amersfoort you will drive along this overpass, not with neutral grey concrete walls on either side, but cladded in pearl glass mosaic. You will soon notice that it is not just a civil underpass, but something special, a magical passage, especially once you have discovered the four light pylons, piercing towards the sky. The design for this intersection is based on three perspectives: the perspective of the drivers that drive in and out of the city of Amersfoort and absorb a glimpse of the miraculous structure above the crossing. It is also based on the perspective of those who literally drive, cycle or walk in the light of the pylons and undergo an angelic experience. Finally, it is designed for the perspective of the residents of the apartments that look down on this intersection and that will feel that everyone who passes their intersection, will be blessed. What is basically a classic separation of traffic flows -conceived in terms of a more efficient, safer and more reliable flow of traffic- is in this case a magical interweaving of the lower and upper world. The underworld of the intersection not hiding, but reveals itself in a spirited way to the upper world, to the stars and beyond.
Viaduct lokation: Buurtas, Ammersfoort, HOLLAND client: DHV Ruimte en Mobiliteit building contractor: Ballast Nedam Infra structural engineer: DHV Ruimte en Mobiliteit designteam: Omar Aljaboeri, Joan Almekinders, Maurice Nio, Giacomo Garziano, Jan Willem Terlouw start design: 2010 completion: 2013 building costs: â&#x201A;Ź 10.000.000 Personal commitment phases: sketch design - definitive design, construction drawings, detail drawings skills/software: Rhino, Autocad, CS Photoshop, CS Illustrator
The Monkfish and the Waterwolf When human intervention takes on the proportion of a natural phenomenon, the question arises whether the nature gods should not be conciliated in advance. What in oriental cultures is not even considered as a form of religion anymore, but as part of everyday life, seems to have disappeared completely from the Dutch culture. In the past sailors and fishermen were capable of attributing special forces to storms, waters and sea creatures. Nowadays every kind of involvement in nature is merely seen as a political act while it could just as well be that we have to beware of upsetting the nature gods, especially when we do so much harm to our environment. In order to curb the daily traffic disaster between Leiden and Burgerveen, the A4 highway will be broadened with one lane in both directions over a distance of 14 kilometres. This means that all the civil works on this route will have to broadened. In Leiden was decided to take advantage of this project by placing the broadened highway immediately in a deepened vessel in order to reduce the noise pollution a much as possible. The lowest point of this civil work is the crossing with the Oude Rijn river, where the cars will pass underneath from now on. The second striking point on this route is an aqueduct as well, on the crossing with the Ringvaart, the border of the Haarlemmermeer, right next to the existing aqueduct - the one with the chessboard. The ploughing and the drilling of the earth, which is aimed at directing a stinking stream of cars through it every day, requires at least something respectful in return, a place where the Monkfish and the Waterwolf, the Kami (nature deity) of the Oude Rijn and of the Ringvaart, are respected. Tunnel + Viaduct lokation: Qianhay, A4, Leiderdorp, HOLLAND client: BAM building contractor: BAM structural engineer: BAM designteam: Joan Almekinders, Radek Brunecky, Jan Moritz, Maurice Nio, Jan Willem Terlouw, Anja Verdonk, Giuseppe Vultaggio start design: 2006 completion: 2015 building costs: â&#x201A;Ź 250.000.000 Personal commitment phases: concept development, sketch design skills/software: Rhino (Vray), Autocad, CS Photoshop, CS Illustrator, CS Indesign
BRIDGES SHENZHEN We strongly believe that each of the eleven bridges can add specific qualities to the experience of the park; they are contributions to the park, to the activities in the park and to the natural and sustainable character of the park itself. Constructive elements that are carrying the bridges will be more additions to the park instead of obstacles. The bridges together can tell a story. All the 3 rivers, the Shuangjie river, the Guiwan river and the Chanwan river, are stringing together groups of 3 of 4 bridges to a breaded necklace where the accompanying parks form the continuous story lines. For these stories we have been inspired by the experience of travelling on an exotic river. We imagine ourselves in a dugout canoe, sliding smoothly and slowly through a vibrant forest full of unknown sounds and agitation. This scene occurs in one sustained movement where sometime the forest opens up and folds down again, creating a enchanting alternation of bright and filtered sunlight, a spectacle of constant revelation. The 11 bridges on the 3 rivers in Qianhai will give this certain density or compression to the linearity of the parks. The narration of Qianhai comprises the story of water (Shuangjie river), the story of the city (Guiwan river) and the story of nature (Chanwan river). We will apply the themes to the bridges to make them emblematic to the regarding river. 008
Principle 1
SHUANGJIE RIVER
The space in the park, underneath the bridge, should be preserved as much as possible from obstacles like columns.The consequence of this would be a hanging bridge deck. A suspension bridge, like a pylon bridge, would look odd in the context of this dense high rise. Our point of departure is a low arch bridge, where the construction and the details stay close to the scale of the passenger, as well on the road as in the park.
GIUWAN RIVER
CHANWAN RIVER
Bridges lokation: Qianhay, Shenzhen, CHINA client: Shenzhen Municipality building contractor: structural engineer: Buro Happold designteam: Joan Almekinders, Maurice Nio, Arek Seredyn, Jan Willem Terlouw start design: 2015 completion: building costs: Personal commitment phases: concept development, sketch design skills/software: Rhino (Vray), Autocad, CS Photoshop, CS Illustrator, CS Indesign
Principles 2 The space in the park, underneath the bridge, should receive as much as possible natural daylight. First of all this is important for feeling of security of the pedestrians and cyclists in the park. And second, this will contribute to the continuity of the vegetation in the park; plants simply donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t grow in dark places. Our point of departure is to split up and unravel the lanes of cars, cyclists and pedestrians.
GIUWAN RIVER Theme masterplan
URBAN
Wu Xing elements
FIRE
Wu Xing color
RED
Wu Xing heavenly creature Maximum span
95 meter
Lattice type
Pratt truss Bridge Urban is the central theme for the Giuwan river, the central river of the 3 rivers. The element from Wu Xing that relates with the lively city is Fire The heavenly creature that is linked to fire according is the Vermilion Bird and its colour is red. The pattern of the wings of the bird is used to define the structure of the trestle. Looking at the tradition of bridge structures, the pattern of the wing comes close to Pratt truss bridges The bridges on the Giuwan river will have a span of 95 meter. The Pratt truss bridge is a relatively light type of bridge and an efficient type for this span.
CHANWAN RIVER Theme masterplan
NATURE
Wu Xing elements
EARTH
Wu Xing color
YELLOW/BROWN
Wu Xing heavenly creature Maximum span Lattice type
95 meter Double lattice Bridge Nature is the central theme for the Chanwan River, the most southern river of the 3 rivers. The heavenly creature that is linked to water according Wu Xing is the yellow dragon and its colour is yellow/brown. The pattern of the skin of the dragon is used to define the structure of the trestle. Looking at the tradition of bridge structures, the pattern of the dragon skin comes close to the Double Lattice bridges . The bridges on the Chanwan River will have a span of approx. 50 meter. The Double lattice bridge is an efficient type for this span.
SHUANGJIE RIVER Theme masterplan
WATER
Wu Xing elements
WATER
Wu Xing color
BLACK
Wu Xing heavenly creature Maximum span
> 50 meter
Lattice type
Vierendeel truss bridge Water is the central theme for the Shuangjie river, the most northern river of the 3 rivers. The heavenly creature that is linked to water according Wu Xing is the black Tortoise and its colour is black. The pattern of the skin of the Tortoise is used to define the structure of the trestle. Looking at the tradition of bridge structures, the pattern of the Tortoise comes close to the Vierendeel truss bridges The bridges on the Shuangjie river will have a span of less then 50 meter. The Vierendeel truss bridge is an efficient type for this span.
STAIRWAY@HEAVEN.NL This is not a stairway. It is a life story. You always start with two, then go apart, then meet again to eventually disperse. Life is a drama; stairways should also be so. This is not a stairway. It is an opening for thousands of stairs. A sort of key for multiple solutions, whether symmetrical or asymmetrical, black or white, shiny or dull, closed or open. This is not a stairway. Because like a bridge it marks not only a functional crossing but a loaded moment. You go somewhere, up or down, but it will always contain an emotional experience. Certainly in the case of this stairway.
Stairs + Balustrades lokation: client: EeStairs Barneveld BV building contractor: structural engineer: designteam: Maurice Nio, Jan Willem Terlouw start design: 2014 completion: 2016 building costs: Personal commitment phases: concept development, sketch design - definitive design, organisation expo skills/software: Rhino (T-splines)(Vray), Autocad, CS Photoshop, CS Illustrator, CS Indesign
SENSING THE WAVES
Concept extention
The “Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci” was opened in 1988 and donated to the city of Prato by Enrico Pecci, in memory of his son who died at an early age. The museum is situated on the periphery of Prato, near the exit of the A11 highway, a strategic spot where, from the first floor, you can see the skyline of Florence, the city where tourism and ancient culture reign. On this spot however, two opposites dominate: (textile) industry and modern art. The art centre is one of the few museums in Italy that is devoted to modern art and furthermore, that possesses a superb collection which, for lack of exhibition space, is stored in various depots. To be able to display the invisible works of art it was decided to double the exhibition space and to solve two important problems with the new construction. One problem is that it is not possible to make a tour through the museum, there is a route, but that is linear (when you arrive at the end, you have to take the same way back). The other problem is that no one can find the entrance. It looks just like the imperial palace in Tokyo, super visible, but inaccessible. The first problem was solved by creating a circular plan on the first floor, where all current exhibition rooms are, in such a way that several tours can be made. The second problem was solved by situating all public services on the ground floor and by explicitly orienting the main entrance towards the street.
Existing building: - Unclear floorplan - Hidden entrance
As opposed to the rather rigid, mechanical character of the existing museum building, partly inspired on the industrial textile markets in Prato, the new part looks fluid and ecstatic. It embraces the existing building and touches it only there where needed for the circular plan. Because the cross section of the exhibition floor constantly changes, within the interior different spaces with different atmospheres come into being, and thus different exhibition possibilities. Museum lokation: Viale della Repubblica 277, Prato, ITALY client: Mrs. E. Pecci - Prato Municipality building contractor: CLA 1921 structural engineer: Bureau Zonneveld designteam: Joan Almekinders, Gaicomo Gaziano, Radek Brunecky, Jan Moritz, Maurice Nio, Jan Willem Terlouw, Luca Rimatori, Giuseppe Vultaggio start design: 2006 completion: 2016 building costs: € 7.800.000 Personal commitment phases: definitive design, construction drawings, detail drawings skills/software: Rhino (Vray), Autocad, CS Photoshop, CS Illustrator, Indesign
New extention building: - Doubling of floor area - New routing and exhibition possibilities - New prominent entrance facing the city
Exhibition and routing variations
1 total exhibition space (old+new)
routing total exhibition space
4 two simultaneus exhibition spaces (old+new)
routing two simultaneus exhibition spaces
7 half exhibition space (new)
routing half exhibition space
2 left half exhibition space (old+new)
routing left half exhibition space
5 right half exhibition space (old)
right half exhibition space
5 left half exhibition space (new)
routing left half exhibition space
3 right half exhibition space (old+new)
routing right half exhibition space
6 left half exhibition space (old)
left half exhibition space
6 right half exhibition space (new)
routing half exhibition space
SCIENTIA INTUITIVA It seems a contradiction: something material as tribute to Spinoza. Would a purely spiritual hymn are not appropriate? The answer is simply ‘no’, as written andspoken hymns of Spinoza there are enough. What we need, what Amsterdam needs is a built gesture that is as sublime as the thinking of the radicalverlichter. No statue, but a public facility, a universally accessible center that not only Spinoza in the spotlight but also to Amsterdam as the capital of Spinoza. The proposal is fully in line with the tower tradition of Amsterdam (Montelbaantoren, Haringpakkerstoren, Schreierstoren, to name but a few) and alsoembodies the ‘ladder’ of Spinoza. Underneath, on the ground floor space for the first form of knowledge - ‘opinion’ or ‘imagination’ - based on vague, arbitraryexperience. The second level is the space for the mind, reason, clear, and systematic welonderscheiden defined. But what matters is the above space, the space for the intuitive know, for the total “transparency” of the essence of things. In the center of Amsterdam are many places for the tower to Spinoza, but perhaps it is Mr. Visserplein the most ideal location. Here, near the place where Spinoza was born, is the shiny facade of the tower, three religious institutions reflect the seventeenth-century Portuguese-Israeelitische Synagogue, the High German Synagogue (now part of the Jewish Historical Museum) and the nineteenth-century Moses and Aaron Church . What’s better than this direct illustration of pure spinozistische Amsterdam and tolerance?
Infocenter lokation: Amsterdam, HOLLAND client: Spinaza Stichting building contractor: structural engineer: Bureau Zonneveld designteam: Joan Almekinders, Joost Kok, Maurice Nio, Jan Willem Terlouw, start design: 2008 completion: building costs: € 500.000 Personal commitment phases: concept development, sketch design - definitive design skills/software: Rhino (Vray), Autocad, CS Photoshop, CS Illustrator, Indesign CS Indesign
YOUTH PALACE A building in which the youth after school can learn more, can ‘grow’, must be able to inspire, to inspirit and symbolize ‘growth’. The building must, as it were, be just as curious as its users, just as enthusiastic as the teachers. That curiosity, that willingness to suck on new knowledge, is embodied by the design of this building. A building, accessible to all people, with one large, communal and inspired space that forms the heart of the many different functions of the library and the school. Two are stronger than one - that is the motto of this building. Two main functions - Library and School - under one roof. More compact it can not be, but more important is the flexibility of the building. In the future, functions namely grow or shrink. That is possible in this building, while a proposal in which the functions are divided into (two) different volumes make flexibility impossible. The theater / auditorium is a different story. Due to the specific structural and spatial requirements the theater is placed under the atrium and can be unlocked independently of the library and the school. This building is not blind or autistic, as nowadays many buildings are. The building is sensitive to the main external influences: the city and the sports park. Two large openings mark the corners of the building. One in the northwest, focused on the city, and one in the southwest, focused on the sports park. They are large outdoor spaces where performances can take place, or where the users can simply enjoy a break. The smaller, circular openings in the façade give dosed view of the surroundings. Never too much at once, as you never judge a book at once to read.
School + Libaray lokation: Dongguan, CHINA client: Dongguan Municipality building contractor: structural engineer: designteam: Joan Almekinders, Chen Li, Tobia Davanzo, Maurice Nio, Jan Willem Terlouw, Anja Verdonk start design: 2015 completion: building costs: Personal commitment phases: concept development, sketch design skills/software: Rhino (Grasshopper)(Vray), Autocad, CS Photoshop, CS Illustrator, Indesign