Design

Piet Hein Eek

Internship of 4 months with Piet Hein Eek in Geldrop. In this period I learned a lot about designing and producing furniture.

I designed and produced a series of oak chairs and a bench to go with the oak table that was already in production.

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And I designed and produced two small cabinets for storage of paper, made of used wood and hardboard. They can be placed next to or on top of eachother.

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I also did a lot of production work on several designs by Piet Hein Eek. And yes… that’s a picture of me way back in 1995…

Posted in Design on July 23rd, 1995 | 1 Comment »

Mutating spaces

Designed mutation to form different (living) spaces and eventually a house. This was a slightly re-written academy assignment. Instead of designing a house in a given pre-fab casco, I designed parameters for mutation of spaces and used the casco only as a location.

Some examples of parameters are: materials that can be used, amount of space that has to be formed, degrees of functionality that have to be added. The total project consists of a number of linked spaces, all built using different parameters, thus getting different results.

I made sure (through adding more parameters) that every created space has a ‘weaker’ area. This area can be used for joining it with the next evolving space. This creates a certain kind of logic in the way the spaces get connected to eachother.

This mutating process could in theory go on forever as long as you keep feeding it new materials and parameters. However, for the sake of presentation I had to stop it at some point to make drawings and a maquette of the ‘end’ result.

The image below is a presentation of layered, transparent sketches in perspex.

Posted in Art, Design on March 9th, 1995 | 1 Comment »