Monumental Education: creative learning environment in the centre of Maastricht

The transformation of the former convent "Maison de la Miséricorde" shows how this building complex with a variety of qualities, historic values and different building parts can be redeveloped into a coherent whole.

Borderscape: Increasing the level of permeability in between land and sea (in Northern Netherlands)

The sea dike is a spatial interim in the dialogue between human at land and natural forces at the Wadden sea. Standing on the dike gives me a feeling of conquest but also of separation. It stands out as a green wall between two worlds and stretches in the wide, open landscape as far as my eyes can see. This narrow edge has once been marshlands,...