© Lourdes Jansana . Published on June 08, 2010.

The Borneo project is a large scale intervention, in the central harbor at Amsterdam. Our houses are a very small part of it.

© Lourdes Jansana . Published on June 08, 2010.

We depart from the existing planning conditions;a house on each side of the street.

© Lourdes Jansana . Published on June 08, 2010.

We transform it into a single long house that faces both streets.

© Lourdes Jansana . Published on June 08, 2010.

The first hypothesis is the abstract planning.

© Miralles Tagliabue EMBT . Published on June 08, 2010.

a single long house from street to street.

© Miralles Tagliabue EMBT . Published on June 08, 2010.

Then, the small street that existed in the planning becomes an empty house.

© Miralles Tagliabue EMBT . Published on June 08, 2010.

We’d like to investigate the Dutch tradition about single room constructions.

© Miralles Tagliabue EMBT . Published on June 08, 2010.

From this abstract hypothesis, a much more intuitive way of working with living conditions is developed.

I like to play with abstract dimensions that later will become living conditions.

CREDITS

ARCHITECTS: Enric Miralles, Benedetta Tagliabue

IN COLLABORATION WITH: De Architekten Groep, Bjarne Mastenbroek, Dick Van Gameren.

CLIENT: SMIT’S BOUWBEDRIJF B.V.

PROJECT TEAM: Elena Rocchi, Marc de Rooij

COLLABORATORS: Cristian Kronhaus, Sabine Neubert, Annamaria Tosi, German Zambrana, Jan Koettgen, Prisca Bellinger.

MODEL: Fabian Asunción, Annamaria Tosi, Sabine Neubert, Silvia Sanmarzano