Böcke & Bären – Virtual sgraffito


View of Somalgors74 project space façade. Photography Curdin Thones.

Title Böcke & Bären (Rams & Bears)
Year 2019
Technique  To be viewed through smart phone or tablet
Programming Jan Robert Leegte

Alpine project space Somalgors74  (village of Tschlin, canton of Graubünden, Switzerland) developed an application that allows the experience of virtual sgraffito.

The project aims to give a new impuls to this visual tradition by what is going to be an ongoing series of proposals bij various artists and designers. After a visit to Tschlin and the area summer 2018, the first design was made by me spring 2019.

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July 16th, 2019
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Flyways Open


Flyways, my project for the Noord/Zuidlijn is now open! Photography Q Kunst.

Title Flyways
Project Design for subway station platform
Client Gemeente Amsterdam, Dienst Metro en Tram
Location NoordZuidlijn, station Noord, Amsterdam
Size L 130 x W 13 meters
Technique Inlay of ceramic tiles cut by aquajet

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July 22nd, 2018
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Flyways – realization


Watch timelapse of making the floor (middle section) by photographer Gé Dubbelman.

Title Flyways
Project Design for subway station platform
Client Gemeente Amsterdam, Dienst Metro en Tram
Location NoordZuidlijn, station Noord, Amsterdam
Size L 130 x W 13 meters
Technique Inlay of ceramic tiles cut by aquajet

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April 19th, 2018
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Flyways – Cutting tiles

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Flyways final design detail: the blue dots mark the space that should stay clear. This is crucial in order to avoid small ceramic splinters that make cutting and placement of the floor components extremely difficult.

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September 15th, 2015
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Flyways – Final Design

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North: aurora borealis, summer in the Arctic

Title Flyways
Project Design for subway station platform
Client Gemeente Amsterdam, Dienst Metro en Tram
Location NoordZuidlijn, station Noord, Amsterdam
Size L 130 x W 13 meters

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August 30th, 2015
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Noord/Zuidlijn work in progress

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Working hard on my design for the floor of station Noord, one of the stops of the new Amsterdam Noord/Zuidlijn…

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August 4th, 2014
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Proposal for Noord/Zuidlijn Selected

(Working)Title: Vogelperspectief/ Bird’s Eye View
Applied art on platform inside Station Noord, part of the Noord/Zuidlijn

Client: Gemeente Amsterdam, Dienst Metro
Project coordinator: Véronique Baar, QKunst

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May 16th, 2013
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Berenklauw – Proposal for Parking Nieuwegein

Title: Berenklauw
Project: Applied art inside parking garage P6, Stadsplein Nieuwegein
Project: Proposal (sketches for invited pitch), September 6, 2010
Client: Gemeente Nieuwegein
Advisor: Lia Gieling

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September 6th, 2010
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Light of Science – Proposal for Visual Story Rijngouwelijn

In the public mind, ‘Het Groene Hart’, a green, open, agricultural space offering atractive views. Riding the test-train/tram from Gouda to Leiden, looking at all new business ‘parks’ and residential areas under construction, it becomes crystal clear things have changed a lot.

What we think is nature in the Netherlands has actually been moulded by human hands for centuries. This is not necessarily a bad thing. But with a population of almost 17 million people, whatever is left of green space, and it’s diversity of species, is under heavy pressure.

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October 14th, 2009
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Sailors of the Highway – Proposal for Parking Nieuwegein

Title: Sailors of the Highway, Graphic art inside parking garage P4 and P5, Stadsplein Nieuwegein
Client: Gemeente Nieuwegein
Proposal: Sketches for pitch on invitation, October 5, 2009
Advisor: Lia Gieling

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October 5th, 2009
, Posted in Work in Architecture