Tempororay Pavillion for Yoga courses next to the Rifugio Chaligne

Wilde Westen is a pilot program defining the outline of an urban strategy for the renewal of west Amsterdam Tuinsteden. The program entails an array of software and hardware initiatives and interventions organically connected to Geuzenveld-Slotermeer, Osdorp, Soltervart and Bos-en-Lommer around the Sloterplas. The program is based on an open, dynamic and participatory process that grows and evolves according to the exerted impact on the addressed urban and social context. The program is an initiative of Wild West Foundation, a diverse coalition of entrepreneurs, designers, researchers, government bodies, and property developer.
Target
1. To promote entrepreneurship and a vibrant live-work environment in the western garden cities of Amsterdam.
2. to identify, connect and develop the local economy, education, urban initiatives.
3. to develop alternative models for urban development
Scenario
From Software to Hardware Wilde Westen strategy is inverting the usual practice of restructuring city district by proposing a bottom-up approach.
Through out the organization of events, the development of networks and interventions in public space initiatives of entrepreneurs and residents eventually solidify into physical developments.
The Wilde Westen Programma’s aim to improve the image of the area, to stimulate the identity and promotes a sense of belonging amongst its population. It reveals the complexity and multicultural aspect of its community of residents and entrepreneurs and use it as a positive and rich value for the development of the neighbourhood. It stimulates creativity and innovation on a professional scale and an ambitious and emancipator approach on a life scale. It promotes a Re-appropriation and reuse of the existing spaces which enable participation and creates social inclusion.

Shelter for the work of artist Daniele Pario Perra: “Twenty questions to Baron de Montesquieu” within the exhibition "Redefine the Enemy" at Tent, Rotterdam

Redefine the enemy Tent 19/03/2008

"Tree is leaf and leaf is tree. House is city and city is house. Atree is a tree but it is also a huge leaf. Aleaf is a leaf, but it is also a tiny tree. Acity is not a city unless only if it is also a tiny city."
Aldo Van Eyck

In July 2007, TENT presented the eighth edition of the Tent Academy Awards 2007, a national competition between young audiovisual artists.
Following the success of the event, the OC&W Ministry of Culture in Den Haag has offered to provide a space in the ministry to continue showing the student films.The structures of the TENT exhibition were reconstructed and suspended to be installed in the entrance lobby, the only publicly accessible space of the ministry. See also [[17/01/2008 Tent Academy Award 2007 OCW]].
Due to the complexity of required regulations,security and access in the building, one giant screen unit for the communal projection is suspended, and two small TV units for the archive of the preceding years are positioned on the ground at the entrances on Koningskade and Oranjebuitensingel.

www.cbk.rotterdam.nl/tentplaza/academyawards07-uk.htm

Mooi van Ver (Stand well back to appreciate) is based on the publication Mooi van Ver – Muurschilderingen in Rotterdam by the author Siebe Thissen.
The book is a study of the sometimes turbulent history of murals in Rotterdam, in which commercial motives, social engagement and autonomous expression alternate as a source of inspiration for the artist. What has contemporary art in these past decades tried to convey to us on the exterior walls of the city?
The exhibition sheds light on the history of wall painting, and a number of artists have been invited to explore the power of expression of contemporary wall painting on the TENT walls.
The participating artists translate their engagement into what are sometimes highly personal worlds. Beyond any documentary observations and away from the language of mass media, they opt for artistic positions that have a clear social undertone.
In reaction to the indoor artists’ mural interventions, the historical section needed to be experienced in a recreated outdoor environment.
The use of a network of scaffolding constructed throughout the space at a high level, bridging and running along walls provides the main tool that enables the viewer to discover the exhibition. A peculiar shift of perception is engaged when starting out on the scaffold walk. It articulates a set of lost and found objects, documents, photos and film footage, accompanying the viewer on a journey through space and time. The path follows chronologically through four main themes, the 1920’s and 1930’s, the post war period, political activism in the 1970’s and the public commissions and young artists initiatives of the 1980’s and 1990’s.

www.cbk.rotterdam.nl/tentplaza/mooi-uk.htm

[[16/11/2007 Mooi Van Ver TENT]]

Knokke-Heist is a mythical “cité balnéaire” in Belgium. The apartment lies on the 2nd floor with a view over the Rubensplein.
Despite its generous size, the typology of the flat is very long and narrow which makes the current layout very inefficient with regard to corridors and effective living spaces.
A clear reorganization of the internal partitions and bathroom layouts enables us to develop a new specific concept not only for the space and the materials, but also for the display of the client art collection, a mini "personal museum" A frame to look out at the ocean and towards the beach in the daytime, the apartment becomes a glowing space to look into at night time.
Increasing the perception of generous space was the prime goal pursued in order to provide a new living experience within. The idea was to blur the limits of the rooms to maximize the impression, the continuity and the fluidity of space.
This was achieved by a careful planning of niches integrated into the walls creating pockets on both sides, extending the volume from one side to the other.
These miniature rooms are not touching the ground. They are perceived as floating elements, with the floor opening out below them. The fact that the edges of the ground are not visible increases the virtual gain of space.
Immateriality and materiality are used in a dynamic way to provide a clear context of the outdoor / indoor feel, transparencies and reflections:
-Concrete for walls, ceilings, and niches
-Highly reflective glass for bathrooms and cross visual panels.
-Natural wooden floor salvaged from the original Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam creating a continuous surface that morphs into furniture, inducing this feeling of unity and space. The provenance of the floor constitutes a reference to the art world important for the client's "personal museum".
-Collaboration with the artist Maxime Ansiau has led to the design of specific tiles for the bathrooms, with manipulated illustrations of original Dutch landscapes.
They create an indoor landscape that honours the close relationship with the clients home country, the Netherlands.

Rotterdam north houses a very calm and peaceful area named Zevenhuizen. It is a naturally protected district where canals, small villages, fields of sheep and cows, birds and windmills create a perfect idyllic Dutch landscape. The zone holds the status of “recreation area” with small weekend / holiday houses. Each one of them has access to waterways to make use of a boat.
With the goal of improving the architectural quality of the typical typology, the project reinterprets the rules about height and rain water outlet systems.
This provides an optimized building envelope with an indoor space that is widely open to nature.
The ground floor matches the existing layout, and the first floor space is cantilevering out towards the trees with a perimeter balcony and a green roof, ensuring a perfect symbiosis with nature.

TENT presents the 8th edition of the TENT Academy Awards, a national competition between young audiovisual artists.
The selection consists of the best final exam videos, films, shorts, and animations from all the Dutch art academies in 2007.
This year for the first time, the Awards include an exhibition in TENT, where the 2007 selection is presented alongside previous editions of the competition.
The expression and materialization of spaces of projection and visualization was the underlying theme in this installation.
Two giant screen units for the communal projections (the 2007 competition films) and four small TV units for the archive of the preceding year were constructed. Together the elements form a landscape of trapezoidal projection boxes of differing scale, for various types of projection experiences; One to be experienced in a group, the other one more intimate allowing the viewer to be immersed in the archive.


http://www.cbk.rotterdam.nl/tentplaza/awards07-uk.htm

[[12/07/2007 Tent Academy Award 2007 TENT]]

“Wrong Time, Wrong Place” is an exhibition featuring work by more than twenty international artists working in Rotterdam at the time of the exhibition as artists in residence.
“Wrong Time, Wrong Place” also highlights the major influence that five studio complexes have exerted on the dynamism of the artistic climate in Rotterdam.
Rotterdam possesses a network of artist residences, unique in the Netherlands, which operate on an artist-to-artist principle. Artists offer other artists accommodation in their studio complexes.
B.a.d, Kaus Australis, Het Wilde Weten, Duende, Kunst & Complex and others are studio complexes where local artists work and also act as hosts for foreign colleagues who want to spend some time working in Rotterdam.
For an artist, a residency is usually a way of gaining experience, making contacts and finding inspiration. The artist heads into the city, looks, thinks and discovers. The experiences gained surface later elsewhere in the art.
“Wrong Time, Wrong Place” turns this principle around and shows the work of artists in precisely the place where it was conceived. It is not only showing this ‘new crop’ in Rotterdam but also questions the relationship of the artist in residence to the kaleidoscopic reality of the modern city. The exhibition presents the artists at a vulnerable moment as they try to balance the identifiable desire for a home with the acknowledgement of our nomadic and global reality.
The main question posed is: Why does Rotterdam appeal so much to foreign artists? What are they looking for here that they cannot find elsewhere? And what is the effect of this constant flow of visitors on the artist community in Rotterdam?
This relationship between the city, its “art initiatives” and the artists themselves, is expressed with a floor grid and a map that forms the underlying framework for the exhibition and expresses the relocation of these art initiative territories within the TENT museum space.

http://www.cbk.rotterdam.nl/tentplaza/awards07-uk.htm
[[24/05/2007 Wrong Time Wrong Place TENT]]

The project Van der AA is the conversion of a villa located in the Ringvaartweg, neighborhood in Rotterdam using a series of side extensions to accommodate new programs and ease the overall circulation within and the house.
The villa is composed of an eclectic set of building: An original building from the early 20th century, a first extension built in 1991 mirroring the house and tripling the areas of it, and , a 2003 remodelling to add 3 rooms and several facilities just before the current owner moved in.
Few years later, those series of extensions have proven to be highly inefficient with a set of substantially unusable spaces. This has resulted in an introvert and dysfunctional house negating the natural elements giving the house its charm; the canal, the forest and the gardens.
In order to open the house to those features, a continuous series of spaces wraps around the house from the front garden to the back lawn all the way up to the roof.
The family can gather indoor, around and above the house, experiencing new informal locations to enjoy a new family life closer to nature.
From dining to kitchen via the winter garden…From kitchen to stairs via the garden lounge…. From the stair to the rooms via the family room.