Designs in progress
TANGIBLE DEPTHS artistically showcases Earth’s most remote landscapes through multisensory relief prints to bring the unseen and unexplored aspects of our planet to the surface, offering a unique tactile and visual experience that deepens our connection to the natural world. In the polyptych the abstract beauty and complexity of the Earth’s deepest oceanic trench is translated into six palpable relief prints.
Client: Self-commissioned
Role: Lead Designer | concept and engineering
Collaboration: Scape Agency
Location: Centrale Markhal, and BIG ART ’24 Amsterdam, NL | Temporary
Dimensions: 6 x polyptych 900 x 900mm
LUMINARY REVERIES aims to rejuvenate Breda’s historic Wilhelmina Park by creating an enchanting light installation. By day, it serves as a captivating sculpture, while at night, it becomes a mesmerizing beacon, enhancing the park’s ambiance and offering unique sensory experiences through light, audio, storytelling.
Client: Witte Rook
Role: Lead Designer | concept and engineering
Collaboration: Scape Agency
Location: Wilhelminapark Breda, NL | Permanent
End Client: Municipality of Breda
CIPHER fuses narrative storytelling with scientific analysis to chronicle the full lifecycle of a wind turbine; from inception to operation, decommissioning and beyond, revealing its multifaceted impact. Through bespoke data-paintings we reveal stories, encapsulating the narratives of wind energy in a tangible and visual form that engages intellect and emotion alike.
Client: Dutch Design Foundation – What if…Lab
Role: Lead Designer | concept and engineering
Collaboration: Scape Agency
Location: DDW ’24, NL | Temporary
End Client: Vattenfall
HYDROPHONICS transforms urban water features into hydrophonic sculptures, using water as a dynamic interface to convert noise pollution into serene sounds. These sculptures adaptively harmonize the urban soundscape, creating pleasant auditory textures and visual ripples. This project uniquely merges technological innovation and artistic expression, redefining the acoustic and aesthetic quality of urban spaces with a dual-purpose solution.
Client: Self-commissioned
Role: Lead Designer | concept and engineering
Collaboration: Scape Agency
SUPERSURFACE employs advanced nano- and micropatterning techniques to create intricate, sustainable, and highly functional surfaces. These refined designs significantly enhance user experiences, and the improved aesthetic and functional qualities confront pressing environmental and societal concerns, marking a groundbreaking shift in architectural design.
Client: Self-commissioned
Role: Lead Designer | concept and engineering
Collaboration: Scape Agency and Matter Technologies
Location: MateriaDistrict, NL, Rotterdam Climate Campus, NL | Temporary
Dimensions: 350 m2
Grant: CityLab010
Earthen Noise Barrier is an innovative solution by Terrestrial to achieve low-carbon and circular noise barriers through digitization, robotics and compressed earth. With a full-scale panel validated for ProRail, this project marks a significant step towards realizing this groundbreaking concept on a larger scale.
Client: Formwork Robotics/Terrestrial
Role: Contributor | prototype-build
Location: Innovation Strip A58, NL | Temporary
End Client: ProRail
Dimensions: 3.3 x 1 x 3 m
SHAPINGLIGHT signifies a transformative approach to the built environment. Utilizing custom-designed optical components with optical 3D printing technologies, enables the precise manipulation and efficient distribution of light. This pioneering strategy unlocks unprecedented opportunities for using light as both a functional and creative element in architectural design.
Clients: Luximprint, Jólan van der Wiel & Benthem Crouwel architects
Role: Lead Designer | concept and engineering
Location: Highlight Delft Festival, NL | Temporary
Dimensions: 1 x 1 x 1.5 m
Grants: Amarte Fonds x TU/e, Stokroos
ACCLIMATE is set to emerge as an interactive artwork exploring humanity’s impact on nature. Within a distinct circular patch of land, the rhythm of nature is amplified, stimulating the development of a unique microclimate. This temporal window effectively brings the future implications of climate change into our present reality, fostering the emergence of new conditions, interactions, and ecosystems.
Client: The Austrian Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology
Role: Lead Designer | concept and engineering
Collaboration: Wageningen University & Research
Dimensions: 200 m2
Featured Projects
GROW is a fusion of art and science, underscoring the significance of agricultural innovation through a pioneering light design aimed at enhancing the sustainability of crop growth. This visually striking installation doubles as a prototype for customized light recipes, which can bolster plant growth and resilience while minimizing pesticide use.
Employer: Studio Roosegaarde
Role: Lead Designer | from concept to completion
Location: Flevoland, NL | Temporary
End Client: Rabobank
Awards: Winner of Global Future Design Awards 2021, Fast Company‘s Innovation by Design Award, People’s Lovie Winner, World Design Awards 2021, MANA Global New Media Art, ADC Annual Awards, [d]arc Lighting Award London, Novum Design Award, and MUSE Design Award
Media Reach: A global aggregate media reach of 500 million
LEVENSLICHT is a national monument commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Auschwitz concentration camp’s liberation. Composed of 104,000 luminescent stones, it pays tribute to the same number of Dutch Jews, Roma, and Sinti killed during the Shoah. The solemn tribute serves as a public space for remembrance and reflection, using the allure of light as a symbol of life and hope.
Employer: Studio Roosegaarde
Role: Lead Designer | from concept to completion
Location: Rotterdam and more than 170 municipalities, NL | Temporary
End Client: National Committee for 4 and 5 May
Awards: Winner of Media Architecture Biennale Award, Spatial Media Art, and MUSE Design Award
SPACE WASTE LAB is a living lab aiming to visualise, capture, and up-cycle space debris into sustainable experiences. It addresses the looming issue of remnants from past space missions that are trapped in Earth’s orbit. The first phase of the project illuminates this space waste with a light performance that tracks individual pieces of debris in real time, vividly emphasizing its presence.
Employer: Studio Roosegaarde
Role: Lead Designer | from concept to completion
Location: Kunstlinie Almere, NL and Triennale Milan, IT | Temporary
End Client: Kunstlinie Almere Flevoland. ESA as supporting knowledge partner
Awards: Winner of World OMOSIROI Award, JP and Gold Award Future Mars Life competition, CN
WINDVOGEL brings to life the visionary dream of late Dutch astronaut and inventor, Dr. Wubbo Ockels. The project features energy-generating kites capable of creating up to 100 kilowatts. Equipped with luminous green tether lines, these ‘dancing kites’ create a poetic play of light in motion, drawing attention to the significant potential of this innovative renewable energy source.
Client and Employer: Studio Roosegaarde
Role: Lead Designer | from concept to completion
Location: Afsluitdijk, NL | Temporary
End Clients: The Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Province of Friesland, Province of North-Holland and De Nieuwe Afsluitdijk
Awards: Winner of the Dezeen Design Project of the Year 2018, Dezeen Lighting Design of the Year, and Shenzhen Global Design Award
GLOWING NATURE is an innovative art installation blending biology and technology, housed within a historic bunker. Visitors can interact with bioluminescent algae that light up with a touch, transforming the space with a magical glow. The project illuminates the potential for harnessing nature’s own energy solutions.
Client and Employer: Studio Roosegaarde
Role: Lead Designer | from concept to completion
Location: Afsluitdijk, NL | Temporary
End Clients: The Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, and De Nieuwe Afsluitdijk
GATES OF LIGHT revitalizes the 60 historic 1932 floodgates at Afsluitdijk, enhancing their monumental presence with a futuristic touch. Utilizing retro-reflective technology, the buildings illuminate in response to the headlamps of passing cars, bringing the structures to life in darkness. Absent of vehicles, the art vanishes, preserving the serene nighttime landscape.
Client and Employer: Studio Roosegaarde
Role: Lead Designer | from concept to completion
Location: Afsluitdijk, NL | Permanent
End Clients: The Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, and De Nieuwe Afsluitdijk
Awards: Winner of Global Future Design Awards 2020, The International Architecture Transportation Award 2019, and A ‘Design Awards Platinum 2018
BEYOND, nestled within the energetic Schiphol Airport, creates a place of wonder and identity, reflecting the celebrated Dutch light and sky. Drawing inspiration from the cloud paintings of the 17th-century Dutch Masters, this contemporary art installation employs lenticular printing technology to simulate three-dimensional depth and movement, offering passersby an immersive 3D cloud experience.
Client and Employer: Studio Roosegaarde
Role: Lead Designer | from concept to completion
Location: Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, NL | Permanent
End Client: Royal Schiphol Group
Fun Fact: Guinness World Record for ‘Largest Lenticular Mural’ – 380m²
SMOG FREE PROJECT addresses urban air pollution through a series of innovative solutions. The SMOG FREE TOWER, is the world’s largest air purifier, reducing more than 75% of fine and ultrafine dust in its surrounding area, and creating a ‘bubble’ of fresh air for public enjoyment. The collected smog particles are transformed into unique SMOG FREE JEWELLERY. Each piece purchased equates to 1000 m³ of clean air donated to the city, actively engaging citizens in the project’s growth.
Client: Studio Roosegaarde
Role: Lead Designer | from concept to completion
Location: South Korea, China, the Netherlands and Poland | Temporary
End Clients: i.a. APAP6 Triennale South Korea, China Central Government, ING Poland, Film Method Works, City of Rotterdam, Stichting Doen, Port of Rotterdam, and IABR
Awards: Winner of the Successful Design Award China, Ethics Ethical Award, Grand Award for Sustainability, BUILD Architecture Awards, Graphite Pencil, D&AD Impact, Notable Design for Social Impact Award, Core77, Design That Educates Award, Gold Award Design For Asia, Platinum A’Design Award, and German Design Award
Media Reach: A global aggregate media reach of over 2 billion
VAN GOGH PATH is a luminous bicycle path inspired by Vincent van Gogh’s ‘The Starry Night’. Composed of thousands of glowing stones that charge during the day and illuminate at night, the path is a unique fusion of innovation and cultural heritage, located in Nuenen NL, where Van Gogh resided in 1883.
Client: Studio Roosegaarde
Role: Lead Designer | from concept to completion
Location: Nuenen/Eindhoven, NL | Permanent
End Clients: Joint venture of Studio Roosegaarde and Heijmans N.V. with the support of the Province of Brabant, the city of Eindhoven, Van Gogh Heritage Foundation, and the city of Nuenen
Awards: Winner of Best Future Concept, Dutch Design Award, Accenture Innovation Award and INDEX Award Denmark
Media Reach: A global aggregate media reach of over 1 billion
PROTOSPACE serves as a multi-user physical and virtual environment dedicated to academic research and education. By merging the realms of IoT, Extended Reality, Robotics, and advanced CAD methods, it represents a synthesis of cutting-edge technology. Through means of digital real-time simulation and full-scale fabrication, PROTOSPACE endeavors to push boundaries in the architectural domain. Its design aims to intensify the collaborative dialogue among experts in a project team and propel the design process to new heights of complexity and performance.
Employer: Hyperbody
Role: Project Manager, Researcher & Designer | from concept to completion
Location: Delft University of Technology | Faculty of Architecture
INTERACTIVEWALL marks a significant advancement towards emotive architecture, transforming static spaces into dynamic, customizable environments. Comprising seven components that exhibit real-time behavior, this dynamic wall flexes, illuminates patterns, and projects localized sounds in response to a participant’s presence while simultaneously demonstrating emergent synchrony.
Employer: Hyperbody
Role: Project Manager & Designer | from concept to completion
Location: Hannover Messe, DE | Temporary
End Client: Festo
Awards: Winner of Silver DDC Award 2011, GOOD DESIGN™ Award (Robotics and Bionics) 2009, Nomination Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany 2011
Paper: Modulating Territories, Penetrating Boundaries
E-MOTIVE PLAYSCAPE blends immersive technologies with virtual experiences to reshape web-based interaction. Diverging from traditional static virtual spaces, this 3D virtual world is constantly evolving in response to user actions, offering a fluctuating, atmospheric ambiance with no defined beginning or end, and creating a rich tapestry of ephemeral associations.
Department: Hyperbody, Delft University of Technology | Architecture
MSc Thesis Project: Designer | from concept to completion
Location: Web-based | Temporary
Awards: Nomination Archiprix | 2007
Additional Works
LOTUS OCULUS is an interactive installation crafted from smart foils that react to light and heat. This responsive artwork engages viewers as it unfolds its flower-like elements enabling light to pass through. It results in a dynamic interplay of light and shadow that brings life to the surrounding architecture.
Employer: Studio Roosegaarde
Role: Lead Designer | from concept to completion
Location: Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Milan, IT | Temporary
End Client: BVLGARI
SPARK transforms the urban night sky into a vibrant spectacle of sustainable celebration, fulfilling a long-standing ambition of creating floating, immaterial lights. Thousands of light sparks are set adrift, propelled silently by the capricious winds. This mesmerizing display, inspired by the natural phenomena of fireflies, flocks of birds, and star-filled galaxies, offers a fresh, eco-friendly alternative to traditional festive illuminations.
Employer: Studio Roosegaarde
Role: Lead Designer | from concept to final prototype
Location: Bilbao, SP | Temporary
End Clients: Studio Roosegaarde in collab. with Draiflessen Collection, The Wellbeing Summit for Social Change in Bilbao-Biscay, and Media.Monks
TOUCH, an interactive installation, transforms the Draiflessen Collection museum into an ephemeral star-filled dreamscape via the simple act of joining hands. This immersive experience illustrates that even minor shared interactions can meaningfully reshape our world. It underscores the value of community and the dynamic potential of conscious collaboration.
Employer: Studio Roosegaarde
Role: Lead Designer | from concept to preliminary prototypes
Location: Draiflessen Collection, DE | Temporary
End Client: Draiflessen Collection
LIQUID LANDSCAPE instigates a playful dialogue between people and nature, underscoring our shared existence with the environment. Upon stepping on this surreal grassy terrain, visitors experience unexpected fluid movements. Situated amidst the solid Alpine landscape, the artwork represents the continuous changes in our climate, challenging the perceived solidity of our world. This artwork subtly calls for action, encouraging visitors to rethink their relationship with nature and its impacts.
Employer: Studio Roosegaarde
Role: Lead Designer | from concept to final prototype
Location: Arte Sella, IT | Permanent
End Client: Arte Sella
Acknowledgement: Unbeknownst to us, artist Zoro Feigl developed a similar work of art called Floating Fields in 2013. An unfortunate result of synchronicity of thought and invention, as acknowledged by both artists.
URBAN SUN, a world-first innovation, aims to restore our interpersonal connections in public spaces amid a global pandemic. Leveraging a unique wavelength of ultraviolet light, it substantially mitigates aerosol coronavirus within a distinct, warm yellow light circle. Unlike conventional germicidal UV lights, the prototype employs a human-safe far-UVC light, allowing for continual use around individuals.
Employer: Studio Roosegaarde
Role: Lead Designer | from concept to preliminary prototypes
Location: Rotterdam, NL | Temporary
End Clients: CityLab010
Awards: Winner Gerety Award, Architecture MasterPrize, FastCompany World Changing Ideas Finalist 2021 and finalist Fast Company’s 2021 Innovation by Design Awards Pandemic Response
Media Reach: A global aggregate media reach of 750 million
PRESENCE is an 800 m2 interactive installation that sparks self-awareness through a continually transforming landscape. This immersive art piece adjusts its form and color in response to visitor interaction. Through varied atmospheres, visitors co-design the artwork, amplifying their sense of presence in a unique, shared experience that challenges traditional art-viewing norms.
Employer: Studio Roosegaarde
Role: Lead Designer | from concept to completion
Location: Groninger Museum, NL | Temporary
End Client: Groninger Museum
Awards: Winner of Award of Merit 2020 AZ Award, 2019 LIT Lighting Design Award and 2020 Digital Dozen Storytelling Award New York
Media Reach: The exhibition received a record amount of 180.000 visitors over 6 months period
SYNC, a collaboration with BMW, reimagines the future of personal mobility by spotlighting the interconnectivity among people, places, infrastructures, and vehicles. This immersive artwork features a luminous landscape where visitors shape their own spaces and visualize their ‘sense of place’. Interaction with a flexible membrane surface brings blue contour lines to life emphasizing the beauty and necessity of connectivity in our world.
Employer: Studio Roosegaarde
Role: Lead Designer | from concept to completion
Location: Art Basel, CH | Temporary
End Client: BMW
SPACE is a public art installation that uses light and abstracted nocturnal satellite imagery to create an entrancing visual spectacle, reinforcing Eindhoven’s reputation as the ‘City of Light’. The installation showcases the interconnectedness of humanity through light. As people pass by, they experience light in a new dimension, akin to the view of astronauts orbiting Earth.
Client and Employer: Studio Roosegaarde
Role: Lead Designer | from concept to preliminary prototypes
Location: Eindhoven Central Station, NL | Permanent
End Clients: ProRail, the Municipality of Eindhoven, NS National Dutch Railways
WINDLICHT is a captivating installation that highlights the beauty of green energy through a luminous network of bright green lines linking windmills. Advanced tracking technology traces windmill blades spinning at high speeds, creating a dynamic dance of light and movement in the sky, symbolizing the power and potential of renewable energy.
Client and Employer: Studio Roosegaarde
Role: Lead Designer | from concept to completion
Location: Sint Annaland, NL | Temporary
End Clients: KPN and Eneco
Awards: Winner of Graphite Pencil Design and D&AD Awards UK
SPIEGELSTENEN commemorates the historic event of of Afsluitdijk’s final section’s closure by introducing a symbolic ‘new’ gap. The last section of running water returns as a glistening hue of blue and white in reflection of the sky. An optical illusion that works through a highly reflective metallic coating covering the old basalt rocks. This artistic tribute exists as a limited series, exclusively bestowed upon those dedicated to preserving the Afsluitdijk.
Employer: Studio Roosegaarde
Role: Lead Designer | from concept to completion
Location: Afsluitdijk, NL
End Client: Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management
WATERLICHT is a dream-like installation that underscores the power and poetry of water. Simulating a virtual flood, it visually depicts the potential water levels without human intervention, providing a collective experience that emphasizes the urgency of water innovation and the impacts of climate change.
Client and Employer: Studio Roosegaarde
Role: Lead Designer | from concept to completion
Location: Showcased Worldwide | Temporary
End Clients: Dutch District Water Board Rijn & IJssel, ING, Artichoke UK, Dutch District Water Board Flevoland, Nuit Blanche Paris, Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment, United Nations, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Jameel Arts Centre Dubai, Columbia University, Fremantle Biennale
Awards: Winner of IESNYC Lumen Award New York 2020, Global Future Design Award 2019, LIT 2017 Lighting Design of the Year USA and The Best Lighting Environment Design China.
VERLICHTING postage stamp showcase the Netherlands’ nocturnal beauty as viewed from space, revealing a network of light shaped by cities and roads. Providing insight into our societal impact on the landscape, blending the ominous with the poetic. They embody physical and mental illumination and bring a personal touch, letting you send a piece of your own country with each letter.
Client: Studio Roosegaarde
Role: Lead Designer | from concept to completion
Location: The Netherlands
End Client: PostNL
Circulation: 171.000 sheetlets
GLOWING LINES marks the inaugural realization of the ‘smart highway’ vision, transforming our perception of roads into interactive and sustainable platforms via the latest advancements in energy and light technologies. Using photoluminescent road markers that are charged by the sun during the day and emit light at night, this project ensures enhanced visibility and safety on our roads.
Client: Studio Roosegaarde
Role: Lead Designer | from prototype to completion
Location: N329 road in Oss, NL | Semi-Permanent
End Clients: Studio Roosegaarde and Heijmans N.V. with the support of the Province of Brabant, the city of Eindhoven, the city of Oss, and BKKC
Awards: Winner of Best Future Concept, Dutch Design Award, Accenture Innovation Award and INDEX Award Denmark
RAINBOW STATION transforms Amsterdam CS into a momentary spectacle of color and light. Each evening shortly after sunset this true-color rainbow arches over the semi-circular canopy, merging the station’s historic charm with modern technology. More than just a breathtaking display, this light artwork symbolizes both beauty and scientific discovery, offering travellers a transient, enchanting experience.
Client: Studio Roosegaarde
Role: Lead Designer | from concept to completion
Location: Amsterdam Central Station, NL | Temporary
End Clients: Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, NS Stations, ProRail, and Stichting Doen
Awards: Winner of LIT 2017 Lighting Design of the Year, USA
Paper: Producing true-color rainbows with patterned multi-layer liquid-crystal polarization gratings
DELFT ROBOTICS INSTITUTE website marks the initiation of an innovative research institution at TU Delft, encompassing all facets of robotics. As a comprehensive digital platform, it amasses the university’s vast array of research endeavors and encourages interdisciplinary collaboration across diverse scientific disciplines, thereby bolstering TU Delft’s position at the forefront of robotics research.
Client: Delft Robotics Institute
Role: Web Designer | from concept to completion
Location: Web (2013 – 2017)
HYPERBODY is a richly illustrated publication highlighting over a decade of pioneering research on interactive architecture by the corresponding research group. The group broke new ground in computationally driven, non-standard architecture, fostering active, component-based systems responsive to users and their environment.
Employer: Hyperbody
Role: Editor & Co-Author | Applied Research Chapter
Awards: Best Dutch Book Designs 2012
TOUCHSPACE, developed under the Interactive Environments academic minor, is a novel interactive social space, comprising of autonomously operating smart building components. This project redefines furniture through its interactive relationship with users, transcending from being a mere ‘object’ to an entity offering spatial qualifications via user-changeable soundscapes.
Employer: Hyperbody
Role: Course Coordinator
Location: TEDx Delft | Temporary
PROTOFAB constitutes a digital manufacturing laboratory committed to enhancing the design endeavours of Hyperbody research group. It underscores contemporary data-driven manufacturing methods through a focus on experimentation and design process integration, all verified via full-scale prototyping.
Employer: Hyperbody
Role: Manager and Researcher | from concept to completion
Location: Delft University of Technology | Faculty of Architecture, and RDM Campus | Rotterdam
SOETENSTEEG revitalizes a conventional three-room apartment into a vibrant, naturally-lit space with an open floor plan. The loft conversion design prioritizes practical and efficient usage, enhancing the value of the new space with custom furniture and a striking interplay of vertical and horizontal planes. This feature not only provides scale but also creates a visually impactful and cohesive modern space.
Client: Interactivist
Role: Architect and Constructor | from concept to completion
Location: Rotterdam, NL
iLITE, a creative vision on architectural lighting technologies, is an interactive installation that immerses visitors in a luminous universe of light, motion, and sound. This endless graphical landscape, populated with shifting lines and swarming dots, dynamically responds to visitor activity by intensifying its graphics and audio output.
Employer: Hyperbody
Role: Designer and Programmer | from concept to completion
Location: Showcased throughout Europe | Temporary
End Client: Philips Lighting
TRANS_PORTS is a data-driven pavilion which revolutionizes architecture through real-time shape and content adjustments. By harnessing programmability, it transcends static architecture, offering flexibility for varied uses. Its physical manifestation for the Non-Standard Architecture exhibition exemplifies this concept by integrating pneumatics with virtual control technology, pioneering a prototype for interactive architecture.
Employer: ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd] & Hyperbody
Role: Designer and Programmer | concept to completion
Location: Centre George Pompidou Paris, FR | Temporary
SWINGING LIGHTS is an interactive artwork gracefully sweeping in the wind, mirroring the elegant movement of waterside reeds. The project comprises a series of tall flexible stalks, each fitted with a computer-guided light at its apex. These lights modulate their intensity to create a visual and real-time dialogue with the adjacent office-area.
Employer: ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd]
Role: Junior Architect | from concept to completion
Location: Velp, NL | Permanent
TT-MONUMENT is a sculpture that fuses a racer and his motorbike into a singular entity, signifying the harmony between man and machine in achieving extraordinary performances. This union is a dynamic creation influenced by speed, emotion, and sensation, blurring the boundaries between its constituents.
Employer: ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd]
Role: Junior Architect | from concept to final prototype
Location: Assen, NL | Permanent
End Client: TT Monument Foundation
Awards: European Aluminium Award nomination
VIRTUAL OPERATING ROOM is conceived as a future self-diagnostic tool and auto-curing health game. Players, embodied as avatars, navigate through various bodily systems with the goal of healing their virtual self. Through interactive gameplay players gain insights into the dynamics of the complex adaptive system and experience the self as an augmented body.
Employer: Hyperbody
Role: Co-Designer | from concept to completion.
Location: Delft, NL | Temporary
End Client: Delft Science Center
Intented to be Build
WINDZICHT is a visionary project combining living spaces, nature, and renewable energy, providing a gateway to a sustainable future. Drawing attention to the often overlooked beauty and ingenuity of wind turbines within our landscapes, it underlines the importance of creating a greener future. This ‘room with a view’ shapes an enticing panorama, encouraging broader perspectives, both literally and figuratively. An unique experience designed to harness creative power, with the ultimate goal of reducing stigma and encouraging acceptance towards renewable energy.
Client: Studio Roosegaarde
Role: Lead Designer | from concept and feasibility study
Location: top of a wind turbine | Temporary
AURORA transforms the three air separation towers of the nitrogen installation into a beacon of light, symbolizing the transition to renewable energy. Key to hastening the phase-out of gas extraction in Groningen, this plant extracts nitrogen from the air to mix with high-calorific foreign gas. The artwork provides a glimpse into the beauty of the machinery driving the energy transition, creating a constantly changing ‘Northern Lights of the North’ that interacts dynamically with the atmosphere.
Client: Studio Roosegaarde
Role: Lead Designer | from concept to final prototype
Location: N2 plant Zuidbroek, NL
Client: Gasunie
AVION is an exquisite fusion of art and engineering, where purpose and simplicity culminate in beauty. This wind-powered sculpture, consisting of flying kites, is capable of harnessing the wind to generate up to 100kW of energy. Eight dancing lines of light outline this kinetic landmark, evoking the fluid contour lines of a skyscraper and creating a visually distinctive icon that embodies our new green future. The concept is inspired by an ancient tradition and serves as a wind-powered cultural landmark.
Client: Studio Roosegaarde
Role: Lead Designer | concept
Location: Hangzhou, CN | Temporary
HYDRO is an innovative tower designed to harvest atmospheric moisture and convert it into potable water. As a solution to the pressing global issue of water scarcity, this tower condenses moisture into water droplets, which are then collected for use. The tower is enveloped in a water-responsive, light-emitting skin that visually represents this seemingly magical process of creating water from air. The conductive properties of the water droplets trigger illumination in the skin; an effect so mesmerizing, it brings an experiential quality to the water collecting process.
Client: Studio Roosegaarde
Role: Lead Designer | from concept to first prototype
Location: Arid regions