January 16th 2012
Presentations by all design teams
2.30 pm Canteen Rietveld Academie

Come and Vote!

Six design teams are currently working on their draft designs for the expansion of the facilities. The presentation of their draft designs will be held on 16 January 2012 in the afternoon, in the canteen of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, and is open to all members of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Institute community. The Board/Management Team extends a warm invitation to all students, teachers and other staff of the Rietveld Academie and the Sandberg Institute to attend this event.

On 16 January an exhibition will take place on the first floor of the Rietveld building in which the design teams show their vision for the new facilities. From that moment on all members of the organisation will have the opportunity to vote for their favourite design team. Personal invitations to vote will be sent to all students and staff members. Your vote must be submitted by Thursday January 26th at noon, 12pm. Following this, on Thursday 26 January, all the teams will present their draft designs to the members of the jury. The results of the voting by members of the organisation will serve as an advice for the members of the jury and will be taken very seriously. This advice will only be departed from if there is a strong argument for doing so.

TEAM 1: Rietveld Sandberg Parking
Bas van Beek, Jeroen Kramer, Jasper de Haan

An extraordinary parking garage that is work space also. A programmatically undetermined plan-libre that fits the present academic ambitions and facilitates future needs. Hollywood teaches us that spaces used to park cars are way more exciting, intriguing and challenging than spaces particularly designed for students and teachers. By using the length, height and grid of the old Rietveld building and the width of the Benthem & Crouwel building our proposal will merge the existing edifices into one total Rietveld/Sandberg/Parking building. Architectonical specific but programmatically free. As the X mansion: the RSP will become the school for gifted youngsters, the X-men.

TEAM 2: "Fedlev"
Paulien Bremmer, Maze de Boer, Sandra Stanionyte, Luca Carboni and Stephanie Willocx

FedLev is a multi-disciplinary cooperation of Maze de Boer, Paulien Bremmer, Luca Carboni and Sandra Stanionyte.
The compilation of our team reflects our vision. We think that the future of an art school is a much more hybrid one than the nowadays closed department based Gerrit and Willem environment. In contrary to that, we want to develop a social and inspiring environment where people meet and exchange ideas. For FedLev the assignment focuses not just on constructing a new building but much more on creating this environment. FedLev sees this as a unique project to bring together all expertise and ideas of students, teachers and staff in the academy.

TEAM 3: Rietveld 2
Pieter Elbers, Marthijn Reekers, Lotte Schröder

The best solution is often the most simple...
We like the building of Gerrit Rietveld. We relate to the building as the building relates to us. It is a building with an identity...
So, if we need more, why not build more of what we like? We will copy the most interesting parts of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and arrange them to form a lush inner terrain. You can sit around one of the two pavilions; work in one of the two common workplaces, read a book while enjoying a good cup of coffee in the new 'canteen', watch a movie in one of the 'gyms' and follow a lecture in the other. There will be 2 of a lot... Rietveld 2.

TEAM 4 "DEMB design' group"
David van der Veldt, Melina Pyykkonen, Eelco Wagenaar, Bart Theunissen
Title: YOUR ROUTE IN SPACE AND TIME

The students at the GRA are trained to position themselves in the dynamic field of art and/or design to create their own niche. We want to create amendable dynamics in the use of the building to accommodate the shaping of this niches. The path that students follow over the years at the academy is decisive for the shape of the niches. The student's paths in time and space are not static, but dynamic and unique for each student. We are investigating how to create concentrated knowledge cores, with joint workspaces to be used in a flexible way by students of different departments. This will create spaces of cross-influence between disciplines, this will stimulate the creation of the niches.

TEAM 5: What we DO

Elke Roelant, Femke Poppinga, Marieke Schoonderbeek, Rob van Houten

Every moment is surrounded by space.
Space in our minds (thoughts, dreams, understanding of the world), around us (buildings, air, people, nature) and opportunity: the chance to reach out, to move, or even escape.
We will provide space for different moments.
Berlage versus Zuidas.
Approaching the academy by bike.
From the wood workshop to your private space.
As a bachelor student … connected to the more approved Sandberg students and their horizon.

Vice versa
This naturally positions different elements and functions towards each other. The new building will exaggerate the qualities of the existing buildings and will balance the different streams of activity.
(The new situation will be)
A field of moments.

TEAM 6: Mag7

Beatrix Zingerle, Marcin Przybyla, Marina Savochkina, Ivo Clason, Jelte Eikenaar, Charlotte Vermaning, Barbara Iwanicka, Alison Killing

Mag7 would like to thank you for the public votes that let us continue this adventure. As an all student team we know best what we need: a functional building with diverse, collective working spaces to keep the spirit of the Basic Year alive, a building ready to get dirty and full of possibilities to create, install and exhibit your work. To make the best use of the creative resources of the Community, we propose a masterplan for an ongoing crowdsourcing process which would allow us to pass along the chance to contribute; for example: what would the underground parking lot look like if Graphic Design students had a chance to design it? We can't wait to find out!