Möhn+Bouman BV
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The Netherlands


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Möhn Bouman Architects was founded in 1998 and works on a wide range of assignments. Before setting up their bureau Andrea Möhn and René Bouman worked for several bureaux such as Mecanoo, van Berkel and Bos and Kees Christiaanse. Apart from their bureau both have been active as visiting lecturers at the Technical University in Delft and Stuttgart. At the moment, they are teaching at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam and Brookes University in Oxford.

employees till 2012

Joeri Aulman, Estelle Batist, Monique van den Berg, André Boucsein, Jeroen Caderius van Veen, Eva Engele, Martin Gutekunst, Bernard Heersche, Charitas van den Heide, Henk Jan Imhoff, Kolja Janiszewski, Birgit Jürgenhake, Bettina Komminoth, Mariëlle van LoonMichel Marzal, Wilco van Oosten, Marie Prunault, Santiago Ribas Gonzalez, Manuela Santarpia, Amanda Schilperoord, Katrin Schmücker, Britta Schott, Katrin Schwarz, Anja Verdonk, Stephan Zemmrich

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client:
Port of Rotterdam

design:
1997-1999

status:
project

Confronted with the need for a sign marking the entrance of the Rotterdam Harbour, we withstood the urge to compete with the vast size of the surrounding landscape. Instead, our design proposed placing a 30 m.high object on the dike, inclined at an angle of 45º. Together with it's reflection in the water the image of an arrow resulted, which colour was varying depending of the angle of perception.

client:
Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau

in co-operation with:
Frank-Heinrich Müller (photographer) and Nikol Dietz (Landscape designer)

design:
1998

This invited competition was related with the flooding of an old open pit mine in the former DDR. On site we discovered a system of platforms, left behind by the process of mining, each with it's own stadium of spontaneously developing nature. We decided to document these hidden landscapes and proposed a temporal touristic route throughout the mine with stops on each platform, ending at a visitor centre on the shore, which will finally remain once the flooding of the mine is completed.

client:
Vidomes Delft

design:
1999-2001

realisation:
2002-2003

area:
6750 sqm

51 row houses had to be designed in a newly developed, featureless, "Vinex"Area. Due to the low budget, a quite standard typology was applied, albeit with subtle improvements. The openings of each façade were then combined in one large one, shared by the various rooms. The resulting cost savings were used to increase the size of these windows to a great extent, resulting in light, pleasant dwellings with 40 percent of the façades in glass.

design:
1997

status:
case study

area:
210 sqm

To prevent the shore of the Bosporus being spoiled by uncontrolled building, the city of Istanbul was on some spots allowing no buildings higher than one metre. This inspired to design a sunken patio-house. The glass wall between the linear house and the patio contained a large horizontal mirror, which formed a periscope in conjunction with a 1 metre high mirror above ground. Thus the view on the patio was mixed with a superb view of the Bosporus.

client:
Emmen municipality

design:
1999-2001

realisation:
2001-2002

This parking facility forms the urban face of a € 125 million city-renovation. This was the reason to pay special attention to it's design. Conditions were complicated by heavy logistic traffic as well as a bridge with irregular supports crossing the site. A seemingly simple plan with long strips, densely planted with birch trees resulted. By varying the width of the strips all supports and further events could be incorporated in a smooth manner.

client:
Multivastgoed

design:
2000-2001

status:
preliminary design

area:
5500 sqm

Site of this project is the heart of a former village which since the war rapidly grew into a medium-sized city. The building is surrounded by big oak trees and an old, beautiful zoo. Ground floor façades are completely glass, suggesting public space to continue in the department store which can be found here. Above ground floor, hovering between the tree-tops, is an organically shaped volume, clad with thatch, containing 33 luxury dwellings.

client:
German Oceanographic Museum

design:
2001

area:
17.000 sqm

status:
project

Combining fluid organic shapes of water and functional contemporary design, the Oceaneum museum is placed on the waterfront of the harbour area. The interior reflects the soft, plastic form of the exterior, creating the basic structure of the exhibition spaces. Part of the building is located in the water creating spectacular transition between the building and its suroundings. The project proposes to intensify the nature of water into a vital component in the urban landscape.

client:
Alphons Ariëns housing corporation

design:
2003-2004

status:
project

area:
2185 sqm

These 17 apartments are situated on the site of a former farm in the heart of a village. The region is famous for it's fruit trees as well as it's brick production. Hence a sculptural volume was developed, materialised in brick, detailed in a radical manner. Hart of the sculpture is a collective outdoor space, which forms the transition towards the public space. This space is linked with the building, materialized in the same brick and planted with cherry-trees.

client:
City of Apeldoorn

design:
2003

status:
study

area:
74.000 sqm

Like many of Holland's post-war city extensions, Apeldoorn's district of Anklaar is suffering problems of wear, obsoleteness, and social tensions. To generate and facilitate improvements we were asked to make plans for redevelopment of it's commercial and service-centre. Our proposal suggests a gradual intensification of program and services, morphologically and infra-structurally fully merged in the existing urban structure.

client:
Wooncom Emmen

design:
2004-2005

status:
completed (2007)

area:
4100 sqm

This building consists of 35 apartments for the elderly, combined with a parking garage and a large atrium with a garden. There is a subtle difference in the height of the terrain and the building balances in between. To ensure a strong image, the window frames are combined into horizontal strips that stretch along the building. Where a closed facade is needed, prefabricated concrete elements are applied. The concrete is mixed with small pieces of the same brick that is used for the rest of the facade, combined with splinters of glass.

client:
Stichting Ipse de Bruggen

design:
2006

status:
completed (2009)

area:
1280 sqm

This daycare Centre for mentally disabled people, occupies the last island in row. The row of islands forms the spatial backbone of a newly developed city expansion. The single storey building melts with it's roof and facade shape with the island. A very clear orientation, the use of colors and light helps the clients to use the building.

client:
Stichting Ipse de Bruggen

design:
2006

status:
completed (2007)

area:
1780 sqm

The project concerns the extension and renovation of an existing daycare centre for mentally disabled, situated in a natural wetland area near Delft. The complicated limitations of the patients make the sensory and tactile quality of the building a key issue in the design process. The emotional wellbeing of this specific group and their ability for orientation is greatly determined by the building, both in shape, lighting and the use of materials.

client:
private

design:
2006-2007

status:
project

area:
180 sqm

The project concerns a single-family house within the "Blauwe Stad", a newly developed, very spacious housing area in the north of the Netherlands. Situated at a lake-side, the ground floor is built and detailed as a wooden board-walk.

On top of it sits a simple box containing bedrooms, coloured to be hardly visible against the sky. To achieve this, an abstract detailing combining polymer concrete with plaster was developed together with suppliers

client:
Kaliningrad Foundation for Development

design:
2007

status:
international urban design workshop

The aim of the project is to connect the seperated parts of Kaliningrad to one city. A few interferences should connect the South with the North. These inteferences will generate a centre, which makes the connection stronger and revaluates the urban features.

The following problems were handeled: the solution of current major problem, the traffic, connecting North-South, East-West and create a new and attractive city centre

client:
Adriaan van Erk bv & Stichting Ipse de Bruggen

design:
2008

status:
completed (2011)

area:
1750 sqm

Aim of this housing facility for mentally disabled is to offer a more socially integrated life for the inhabitants. Therefore the building is situated in an existing neighbourhood. Entrance and supporting facilities at the corner of the building are having a public character.

The rest of the building has a dark façade behind a screen of white birches, forming a subtle filter between the neighbourhood and the inhabitants of the building.

client:
Kristal Projectontwikkeling

Stadswonen Rotterdam

design:
2008

status:
study

area:
9000 sqm

This project investigates the possibility for situating a large complex of student's housing with 300 apartments near the entrance of the Rotterdam Erasmus University.

Shape and position of the volume are based on a the idea of an articulated slab, appearing from behind a row of trees to evolve into an icon marking the university along one of Rotterdam's main access roads. On the three lower levels, the building's infrastructure is connected seamlessly with public roads.

client:
private

design:
2008-2009

status:
completed (2010)

area:
180 sqm

This single-family house is built upon a plot within a redeveloped harbour area. The ground floor has an open character and contains a big kitchen along with a working space. The private part of the house is conceived as a volume, built of prefabricated wooden elements, hovering over the ground floor.

As contrast of the wooden interior, the exterior of this volume is finished with plaster in an abstract detailing.

client:
HEVO projectontwikkeling & Stichting Ipse de Bruggen

design:
2008-2010

status:
under construction

area:
8700 sqm

The KKL project is divided in three parts, housed in two seperate buildings. The program involves a school, kindergarden, sport facilities, medical centre and dwellings. The two buildings are materialised in brick and slate and are designed in unity with the landscape.

client:
Architectural and Urban Planning Department of Kazan

design:
2008

status:
international urban design workshop

area:
5036 ha

One has to know Kazan to see its beauty. Typical urban activities as shopping, leisure and sport are taking place in malls and facilities spread over the entire city. Like islands of urbanity in a stirred-up substance.

The redeveloped areas should act as an impulse to stimulate development of the surroundings. In order to succeed, the establisment of proper connections is vital and is a major theme in our work.

client:
Orangerock bv

design:
2009-2010

status:
in design

area:
1320 sqm

Untill recently a historical farm could be found right in the heart Emmen, as a residue from the past. In 2006 however the major part of the building, the barn, burned down. The resulting design could be considered as a modern interpretation of the former barn.

The building will be composed of solid wooden elements, factory-cut by means of computer controlled machines. The entire volume will be clad with thatch using a sophisticated detailing.

client:
Stichting Ipse de Bruggen

design:
2010-2011

status:
in design

area:
3600 sqm

Situated on the transition between an industrial and residential area, this compound for housing and working picks up the scale of the industrial buildings to create a protected housing environment, centred around a roof garden to be situated on top of the ground floor-placed working centre.

The concept is compact, hence saving money as well as space, leaving room for outdoor space and improved spatial connections with its surroundings.

client:
Woonbron Projectontwikkeling

design:
2009-2011

status:
in design

area:
2500 sqm

This project concerns social housing for a group of Indonesian Elderly in Spijkenisse. Twenty one apartments are divided across 4 floors. A communal room is located on the ground floor, as well as the storage facilities.

Polycarbonate panels and slate are used as cladding. In close cooperation with the suppliers, a very minimalistic detail has been developed where the toughened glass windows are fitted within a nearly invisible frame.

client:
Stichting Ipse de Bruggen

design:
2009-2011

status:
in design

area:
1120 sqm

Daycare centre Woutershof provides daycare for a large group of both physically and mentally challenged adults. Two volumes -clad with slate- overlap each other, resulting in a large roof-light above the main corridor. The corridor is oversized in order to allow activities to take place within this large space.

The shape of the building plays an active role in the use of sun and shadow. The warm colour of the cladding embeds the building in it's natural environment.

client:
TCN Properties?

design:
2010

status:
in design

area:
21.300 sqm

A somewhat rundown, huge warehouse building has been developing over the years towards a new function as a data centre. To steer further development, a radically new and highly innovative technical installation along with a new spatial infrastructure will be introduced.

The resulting building will be using just a fraction of the energy usually needed for a data centre, and aims to set standards as a highly ecological and representative building, unique in its kind.

client:
Orangerock Projectontwikkeling

design:
2010-2011

status:
in construction

area:
0 sqm

The client requested a temporary solution in order for his new office to endure five more years before demolition of the complete site. Instead of renovation for esthetic purposes, Möhn+Bouman designed a Cortensteel screen that masks the old building.

Rusty water from the screen is guided to a gutter to prevent staining the glass. The gutter ends above a massive rock, gradually coloring it orange over the years.

client:
Rotterdam Municipality

design:
2010

status:
in design

area:
5600 sqm

An empty plot of land on 'Katendrecht' will be used as a temporary playground, located on the south bank of the Nieuwe Maas where large ships are passing continuously. An old ship is placed and adjusted for children.

It is important that children gradually develop the skill of risk assessment, and a completely safe environment does not allow that. This playground -without the standard certified equipment- is a step towards a balanced approach to risk.

client:
Hezenberg - center for pastoral care

design:
2011

status:
completed 2012

area:
93 sqm

A renovation of a chapel, where selected materials, designed furniture and work of art complement each other and create a peaceful and inspiring atmosphere.

Harmonious and timeless shaped furniture is made from massive oak, reflecting the trees in the environment. Work of art is 84 transparent color pieces slowly moving in the space and creating meditative reflections on the wall. Copper elements are hand made.

client:
Ipse de Bruggen

design:
2011

status:
in design

area:
1460 sqm

An existing daycare centre for mentally handicapped will be renovated and provided with high grade wooden terraces on all sides. The building and its terraces will then be wrapped in a wooden screen. The screen emerges from the existing treestructures on the site and will be constructed from chestnut paling fences. Where the screen touches the building it is penetrated by highly sophisticated elements of printed glass and stainless steel, thus forming a contrast with the natural screen.

client:
Ipse de Bruggen

design:
2012

status:
in design

area:
3000 sqm

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client:
Ipse de Bruggen

design:
2012

status:
in design

area:
30 sqm

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participants:
Andrea, René, Henk Jan, Monique, Eva, Anja

date:
February 2010

status:
completed (2010)

area:
30,370 ha

In the architecture of the historic centre of Riga examples of all architectural styles characteristic for the Northern Europe, from Gothic to Modernism, are found.

The regular building of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries is characteristic for the planning of the historic centre, oriented towards the direction of main streets in the Old City, which emerged approximately in the 14th century.