Learning is working best when kids are into subjects of study that match their interests. It also works well when projects are realistic.
Also there has to be place for the making. It should be possible to make prototypes, do experiments, program shows and produce goods to express yourself.
This Is No School is the world on a stamp. A meeting square, workshops, labs, a theater, a fram, sporting facilities, restaurants, shops and a hotel.
T-shirts for YouTube channel 2kB of Fun
2018
Sound and Vision in Hilverum was interested in buying Retro Space arcade cabinets for their museum.
This request demanded an extra durable version of the Retro Space cabinets.
The new cabinet is fully re-engineered in folded aluminium sheets. The cab is fully modular, perfectly recyclable and gets prettier from a little use.
The incredible world of handheld video games from ‘76-’85
2013
Een plat pakket doe-het-zelf versie van Retro Space
2013
Renewal of house extension with new car port for DAF 46
2012
Photo report of the STRP Festival 2011 by Mick Visser
2011
Tool to convert Rōmaji, Katakana and ASCII/UTF-8
2011
Photo report of the STRP Festival 2010 by Mick Visser
2010
Luxury villas at the Berlaer site in Helmond
2010
Redesign of the classic office desk calculator within 1 hour
2010
Interior photographs of creative companies in a former Philips factory
2010
26 arcade cabinets for Dutch Game Garden
2010
A new and usable subway map for the biggest city on earth: Tokyo
2009
A new factory for Kingspan insulation panels at Medel near Tiel
2009
A man is a real man, if welding is what he can!
2009
Hacking Ikea table with Sega Megadrive or Pac Man inside
2009
Photos of 2 projects by Johan van den Berkmortel
2008
8 Apartments for senior citizens in Heteren
2008
A new business building for 2 entrepreneurs in Kesteren
2008
When the design of Retro Space was finished, we needed a matching website.
Because of the presumption that Retro Space could become a hit on the internet, we tried to make the website as small as possible. We did not want the website to crash on bandwidth problems.
Matching the style of the retro games, the website is designed in pixel art. All elements except some product shots are GIF images in 4 colours. It's just like the early years of internet when bandwidth was scarce.
Modern arcade cabinet for home use
2008
Entry Europan 9 Martijn Koch and Wendy van Rosmalen
2007
An abandoned commercial plot in the centre of Heteren had to be filled with 19 apartments. Contractor Kuijpers had moved to the city limits and the housing corporation "Woningstichting Heteren" had 4 outdated senior-citizen houses on the adjacent plot at the Rozenpad street. The combined plot connects a traditional village street with a seventies extension to Heteren. The housing coorporation asked me to design the modernist block fitting the seventies area.
I designed this appartment block as employer of Bouwkundig ontwerp- en adviesburo van Zeist BV
A design for a new metro map for Copenhagen
2006
Veranda extension to house in Beek en Donk
2006
Concept for a modern picture story based on Cinderella
2005
The avatar Wanda Wanders was born in a chatconversation with Margot Scheltens. Wanda wanders around the World and shares her sharp opinion on various topics.
I created the website both technically and graphically. Many of the articles are written by me too.
Wanda Wanders is a registered Benelux trademark.
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For most tourists the city of Faro in southern Portugal is nothing more than an entrance by plane to the Algarve. Which is a pity. The biggest city of southern Portugal is probably the only one giving room to creativity. You will not see kitsch appartment blocks for Dutch and Germans, but subtile shaped private houses for the Portugese themselves. You will see images that remind of modernists like Gerrit Rietveld, Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier. You will wonder wheter MVRDV got inspiration here, or if Portugese architects checked out work of the Durch architecture firm.
Photographs of Detroit
2005
The lamp is a joke. I had no space to place the Big Shadow Lamp by Marcel Wanders. I also liked the idea of the Fake Lamp by Sophie Krier, but not its shape. I mixed them and created the Fake Wanders. Definitely not for sale.
Hong Kong has little room to built. There is a small piece of land to build on between the water and the mountains. The only option to house the millions of citizens is to use efficient towering blocks. Some area's have a FAR (floor to ground area aspect ratio) of 5 to 10.
Portrait of the Brandevoort city extension of Helmond
2004
Office building for the Dutch Tax Administration
2003