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Architecture functions as a research-driven practice in which spatial interventions emerge from observation, experimentation, and iterative design.
Emotional, social, and ritual dimensions of a site are explored and translated into spatial forms, allowing spaces to carry human presence, narrative, and interaction.
bruggestraat61 was my grandmother’s house. When it was demolished a few years after her passing, I realized that a place filled with memories could suddenly disappear.
Just before the demolition, I managed to take photographs of empty rooms, worn-out walls.
The house was no longer as I remembered it, and yet the emptiness brought back forgotten memories and feelings.
I felt the need not only to document, but also to give meaning. I made an audio recording in which I spoke memories aloud, as if the house itself were telling them.
Documenting became a ritual, and the ritual became a way of mourning.
The recording grew into more than a memory. It allowed me to experience how a creative process can transform emptiness into presence, and how architecture and design encompass not only physical structures, but also the immaterial layers of memory, loss, and transition.
slowmedown centers on an enlarged, tilted chair. Not for sitting, but for leaning. For pausing. For looking.
The tilt directs the gaze - not towards the open park, but towards a wall. What first felt like a boundary became a mirror, a gateway to reflection.
The work grew from a practice of deep listening: exploring the site without plan or solution. From this emerged a simple frame — the object, the tilt, the view. A button activates headphones with voices, human and more-than-human.
makemefeel begins with a personal question: how can space hold emotion, memory, and transition?
The project took root in the parental house of a blacksmith and his wife, transformed into a living lab. Through phases of intuition, exploration, mourning, imagination, and connection, the house became both subject and collaborator. A site where film, photography, and installation trace the intangible layers of loss and renewal.
What emerges is not a monument, but a practice of presence: spaces as companions in grief, places as carriers of memory, architecture as a gesture of care.
makemefeel opens a search for how artistic practice can accompany moments of farewell, and how from what disappears, something new can unfold.
