A new dawn, A new day.....

Bekkering Adams architecten becomes:
Studio Adams & Juliette Bekkering architecten.

After 15 years of enjoying working together on many great projects, we will continue as two independent offices.

As Bekkering Adams architects we engaged on a variety of special projects such as School Campus Peer (Belgium); Head office Esprit Benelux in Amstelveen and Schuurman Group, Alkmaar; Urban ensemble ‘Bloemershof’ in Dieren; Firestation in Doetinchem; Installation ‘Form-ContraForm’ for the Biennale in Venice (Italy) and many more.

From January 2020 Monica Adams will operate under the name Studio Adams and Juliette Bekkering will combine her work at Eindhoven University of Technology (Tu/e) with her new office Juliette Bekkering architecten.

Studio Adams Juliette Bekkering architecten

  • location: Rotterdam
  • program: Highway A13/A16, infrastructural works
  • client: Rijkswaterstaat and regional and municipal parties
  • design: 2013-2014
  • design team: Bekkering Adams architects: Juliette Bekkering, Monica Adams, Frank de Vleeschhouwer Landscape architects: Feddes/Olthof Landscape architects

 

The design for the “Coherent Strategy” for the new highway-bypass of the ring of Rotterdam: A13 / A16 was a cooperation of Bekkering Adams architects with Feddes / Olthof landscape architects. The Highway in this design has been linked to the landscape as a 'green ribbon' in a “diabolical” highway. The highway track has two characters: a polder part with a wide profile and a park-like part with an enclosed profile. The infrastructural works are planned as a 'family of structures', with a common architectural expression. An important aspect of this “family of structures” is the interplay between the design of the infrastructural elements and the surrounding landscape.

Main themes for the integration of the road in the area are "stretched landscape" and a "braiding of roads and trails”. The theme of the stretched landscapes' is about reducing fragmentation. In a "braid" of routes, the development of cycling and hiking trails is an important aspect in the design: both parallel to, and perpendicular to the highway.

The highway track contains two nodes, two turns, two aqueducts, underpasses, embankments, acoustic landscape, recreation/viaduct and a tunnel.

The existing situation of isolated green spaces has been turned into an interlinked chain of parks and recreation areas.

Architecturally the design gets cohesion, through the development of the infrastructural works as recognizable elements: on the one hand with sturdy and sculptural elements, so characteristic for Rotterdam and on the other hand an integration of the infrastructural elements in the landscape; soft and landscaped.

The “Coherent Strategy” will be further elaborated in the Draft Design HighwayA13/A16 of Rijkswaterstaat and the urban plans of regional parties.

WHO WE ARE

We are an internationally operating, dynamic and versatile architectural office, looking and working with an open mind towards our future society. Founded by Juliette Bekkering and Monica Adams, we share a fascination for enhancing the urban environment. With an enthusiastic team of architects and designers we work on innovative and sustainable projects with a strong identity, defined by expressive architecture with a tactile expression of material and detail.

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