The offices of Steven Broekhof and Bas Schuit, architect are now merged into Broekhof Schuit Architecten. After working together on several projects, Bas and Steven decided to join forces at the start of 2022.
Find the updated website with new projects and contacts at: Broekhof Schuit Architecten
Back at NOU: Iris Wijn
NOU made maps for Ton Schaap's book ‘Real Urbanism’.
text Architectura & Natura:
Real Urbanism is a book for and by lovers of cities. Eleven authors wrote the stories of places in the world that may be considered to be examples of successful urban planning. This large volume book contains work in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, New York, Tokyo, Sao Paulo, Venice, Barcelona, London, New York, Edinburgh and Saint Petersburg. Four young urban designers made the drawings to each chapter. New photography by Theo Baart and the graphic design by Irma Boom leads to a unique presentation in book form.
Submission Open Call Redevelopment Entrance and forecourt AMC - Amsterdam Medical Centre
with Felixx Landscape Architects & Planners
In collaboration with Immanuel Fäustle - Studio Fäustle
*Runner-up position, Open Call Family Apartments Rotterdam 2016
With this plan, NOU offers young families and other households an innovative living concept that is suitable for all stages of life. Leading for this plan is the idea of the 'circular house'. Family apartments that are suitable for different phases of life with the spatial qualities of a villa, in a vertical green neighborhood with a view of the port of Rotterdam. Unique because of the preservation of privacy despite the extra attention to social interaction.
The starting point in the design of this housing type for several generations is the family. Precisely because it is the most dynamic in terms of the space requirement. The design provides room for both parents and children in their own domain. One circular family apartment consists of three to four split-level domains that can be accessed separately. Each domain has its own entrance, making the house particularly flexible to use and privacy is preserved in the event of subletting. Elderly people, friends or a student can therefore easily be taken into the home in a changing family situation.
The block consists of four stacked neighborhoods. Each neighborhood consists of a maximum of eight households and forms a collective. They each share 3 meters wide galleries, a double-high covered wind-free outdoor space and a garden. The entire block consists of 25 homes ranging from 85 to 160 square meters.
In collaboration with:
Sander Sparenberg (Buurtperspectief)
Frans Joseph Drehmanns (Pro-Ondernemer)
Danja Raven (Danja Raven tekst en journalistiek)
Erik Verbruggen (Vink Bouw)
Peter Mensinga (Arup)
Simon Snoek (Pieters Bouwtechniek)
Bieke Van Hees (Tuin- en landschapsarchitectuur)
In Never Neverland, NOU investigates a living environment in which the city, inside and outside the Amsterdam ring road, is attached together. It offers a new perspective on the Ring and shows what the added value can be if city and infrastructure are properly coordinated. Never Neverland is a depiction of the ring zone that is unexpected and questions the existing dogma of the city inside and outside the ring. A city that responds to the possible changes of tomorrow without limiting them to one possible vision: A city pushed from the ground by imagination which can only been found when looked for: Never Neverland. In other words: a city created by imagination. Source: Peter Pan
Never Neverland is an exploration of how this transformation of the ring road can lead to an integrated quality improvement in the city. Because capital no longer needs to be used for widening roads, Rijkswaterstaat can use this budget differently and serve a broader social purpose. The ring zone can eventually transform from the back to the front of the city.
*Part of the Young Innovator program 2016.
Young Innovators is a program in which the Board of Government Advisers links young talented colleagues to spatial and social organizations tasks from the CRa agenda.
Publication: click here
With: Immanuel Fäustle - Studio Fäustle
The extraordinary landscape of Groningen proves out to be its savior
A story on how ‘Living on the edge’ made the area become alive again
- The New York Times, March 5th 2055
Yet again Groningen has been saved by its unique landscape. From grain in the 19th century, to peat, to gas; it fed all the Dutch, kept them warm and even kept their feet dry from the water by financing the Delta Works. At one point however the prosperous future of Groningen seemed to be doomed by the gas. Over forty years ago the extraction of the gas created earthquakes and soil subsidence. People were leaving the area, could not sell their houses anymore. The situation seemed to be futureless. But the Dutch being Dutch, they found a way to make Groningen meaningful again.
BACK TO BASIC
By looking at the basic conditions for people to settle down, you can understand why people were leaving the area. Safety, freedom, equality, substantiality, self-reliance, honesty. This area was no longer safe, free, equal, reliant nor honest. It needed a drastic shift. No longer the feeling like you are at the end of the world, but at the beginning of imagination.
SAFELY LIVING ON THE EDGE
So the Groningenveld became a nature reserve. All people who used to live in the small towns in this area, moved to existing villages on the edge. The edge where they were safe, because the existing and maintained primary dikes protect them from the water and the (new) houses are made shock proof. The edge where they have a view of where they used to live: now an area where the soil had subsided, the water has risen and the meadow blooms. On the edge there is a possibility to explore new natural energy sources. Freely available to inhabitants of the edge. A place that is extremely well connected, infrastructural and by super high speed internet connectivity. All these elements make people self-reliant again. Free, equal and safe. Values that are so essential to the Dutch, they can be considered core values of living both low- and high pressure.
One of those Dutch that moved to the edge is Sarah. Sarah (66) has been working as a geologist for Shell all her life and has also been involved in local politics. “Seven years ago I moved to Ganzedijk from Amsterdam. I used to travel all around the world for my job, so I was never really at home, but at one point I also no longer felt at home in Amsterdam. The city is so vibrant and dynamic, really contagious. But somehow it changed from a stimulus into a pressure to succeed. Despite all the people around me, I felt alone, unconnected and always in a rush.”
AN UNDERGROUND TREASURE
“I first heard about the Groningenveld in university, it has intrigued me since then. It’s an underground treasure that has been created by the earth in over 350 million years time. When Europe and America were still one continent, there was a primeval forest. Then 300 million years ago there was a desert. All these layers have been well preserved by the North Sea thanks to a deposition layer of salt. The shift of the continents then made the layers break and transformed it into a unique mountain landscape 300 kilometers deep in the ground. Isn’t that extraordinary? If you look out my window you see the beautiful salt marshes and terps of the Groningenveld and you have no idea that you’re actually also looking at an underground mountain area like the Alps. It’s the only place on earth like this. Some new information kiosks along the dikes and recreational routes tell this story.”
I WANT TO LIVE THERE
“During one of my business trips I bumped into an old friend from university. He told me he never left the Groningen area and recently moved to the edge. He told me what living there was like and I instantly knew I wanted to live there too. I feel so connected to nature here, but also to the people that live in this area. I can help them adapt to changes, give them a voice. And they help me to feel safe, free and no longer rushed. It’s easy for me to stay in touch with people in Amsterdam too, online and offline. Just perfect.”
Sarah’s neighbour Harm (45) was born in the middle of Groningenveld. His father Jannes used to have his farm there. “For over six generations my family has had a farm in Slochteren. It was a tough life for my ancestors back then, there was always fear of the rising water, later on the industrialization, shrinkage of villages and then of course the earthquakes and soil subsidence. That’s probably what caused the need to the formation of the water authorities in this area back in the 11th century, these water authoroties are the base of our political system today. People really needed each other for protection and development of the land. I think that’s what made the decision to move to the edge so hard for my dad. Leaving all that history behind. He doesn’t talk about it that much, but we go to the old farm quite regularly. It’s really beautiful to see how nature has embraced our history.”
A CHOICE
“The move was mostly beneficiary for me. It was easier to go to college in Groningen and still be able to help out at the farm. Going to school in Slochteren when we still lived there was not that much. Just a few kids in school, hard to find good teachers and nowhere to go but home after school. For my kids it’s so different now. They get to choose where they want to go to school on the edge, have proper education and have fun with friends after school too. It’s nice to see that people still need each other. Life doesn’t change that much, does it?”
HERITAGE
“What I like about living on the edge is that I still get to see the heritage of my family. My dad lives with us now and he always has his morning coffee while looking out the window over the Groningerveld. A landscape very true to the identity of it’s inhabitants. Every once in a while the water rises to provide the farmers with fresh water in times of drought, water retention and to support the complete watersystem of the IJsselmeer. I imagine how that must look like from the sky: the living on the edge around the water. Must be quite the sight.”
*Submission Prix de Rome 2018 - low pressure
NOU regularly teaches different studio’s and lectures at the Academy of Architecture in Rotterdam and in Amsterdam:
- Rotterdam en de strijd om het Poortgebouw
- Studio BXL
- Lambertus Zijlplein
- Studio Bypass
- My home in Leeuwarden
- Urban Typologies
- Design Aid
©images: Rotterdamse Academie van Bouwkunst
Amsterdam will densify on a large scale in the coming years. One of the locations where this happens is the Sluisbuurt. Here 5,500 homes, a college, shops and businesses will be built in an area of 400 by 800 meters. The high density, more than 200 homes per hectare, faces the municipality with new challenges. One of these is accessibility: this substantial increase in housing is accompanied by an increasing demand for transport. The municipality of Amsterdam therefore has the task of ensuring that the Sluisbuurt and other future construction locations are easily accessible. The municipality considers it important that the Sluisbuurt is well connected with other parts of the city. At the same time, the mobility plan must be in line with the core values that Amsterdam stands for as a city: safety, health, sustainability, employment, inclusive and quality of life.
During the Atelier Sluisbuurt, Atelier NOU and a group of experts from different disciplines looked at the municipal mobility plan in an integrated way. The question to the experts was: where does the added value of the Sluisbuurt lie? In other words: how can the construction of the Sluisbuurt and the mobility plan contribute to the formulated core values?
The question is how urbanity in this area can be safeguarded without the presence of the car. How can the connection between the modalities and its users be optimally organized so that the neighborhood becomes part of the larger urban network?
The excess in public space created by the absence of the car is an important element for the design of the Sluisbuurt's layout. A design that responds to this can contribute to the identity formation of the neighborhood and the appropriation of the streets by residents.
This panorama offers a view on a possible future of the various Drechtsteden. What will this area look like when companies move away and employment falls? What are the threats and what are the opportunities?
The Drechtsteden consists of six municipalities that are geographically related and form a region with a strong maritime history, but which is characterized by distinctive traditions, conditions and mentality.
Panorama Drechtsteden is committed to a future as a smart assembly line: a showcase of innovation in the various sectors that make up the maritime cluster. A scenario that focuses on a combination of all possible future scenarios, one that connects with and offers opportunities for the adjacent living environment and offers an attractive business climate for other sectors and companies. For example, the focus is on a broad, varied and sustainable economy and living environment.
Client: Province South of Holland, region Drechtsteden, municipality of Rotterdam, MRDH and region Alblasserwaard-Vijfheerenlanden and Vereniging Deltametropool.
With: Ubbels & Langerak, Vereniging Deltametropool, Defacto Architectuur en Stedenbouw, Mauro Parravicini, Openfabric, NOHA, Kartonkraft, Movemobility
online publication: https://issuu.com/deltametropool/docs/publicatie_update
newspaper publication: https://www.dropbox.com/s/gryuqqsvnsykc61/KRANT.pdf?dl=0
In April 2016, Chief Government Architect Floris Alkemade presented "The Agenda of the Chief Government Architect". Included in the Agenda is the Strategic Atlas, which maps the spatial dynamics of the Netherlands from various angles.
NOU researched and drew the map material for this atlas (in collaboration with Bureau Zwirt, Carolien Ligtenberg).
Maps have been made of vacant real estate, economy & mobility, population, liveability & facilities, unused labor potential, new economy & digitization, energy and finally, landscape dynamics and use. Resulting in revealing surprising spatial patterns.
Download the agenda: https://www.collegevanrijksadviseurs.nl/adviezen-publicaties/publicatie/2016/04/21/de-agenda-van-de-rijksbouwmeester
With: Bureau Zwirt - Carolien Ligtenberg
The Future Exploration Maritime Cluster Zuid-Holland is aimed at developing knowledge about the possible future development of the Maritime Cluster in the Drechtsteden, thinking through the possible consequences of those developments and identifying challenges that arise from this. Possible futures for the Maritime Cluster in South Holland are being worked out by means of scenario development.
With the representation of the scenarios, the force field of the maritime sector becomes visible. In addition, NOU depicts the Maritime Cluster as a network of residents / employees / companies / city & delta landscape. NOU represents the consequences and possible opportunities for these different networks of the 4 scenarios.
Client: Province South of Holland, region Drechtsteden, municipality of Rotterdam, MRDH and region Alblasserwaard-Vijfheerenlanden and Vereniging Deltametropool.
With: Ubbels & Langerak, Vereniging Deltametropool, Defacto Architectuur en Stedenbouw, Mauro Parravicini, Openfabric, NOHA, Kartonkraft, Movemobility
Een park + een bos van asfalt en beton
Sloterdijk is een plek die een steeds belangrijkere positie inneemt binnen de Metropoolregio Amsterdam. Tegelijkertijd is de openbare ruimte en functionaliteit van de plek aan vergaande herziening toe. In plaats van de huidige situatie van leegstand en lege ruimte te problematiseren, is onderzocht welke functies en ruimten nodig zijn om de plaatswaarde van Sloterdijk te verhogen, een stedelijk weefsel met 3.000 woningen te realiseren en aanhechting met de omgeving te creëren. Om Sloterdijk te kunnen ontwikkelen van knooppunt tot bestemming is de focus gelegd op lokale verbindingen, openbare ruimte en specifieke oplossingen voor wonen in een utilitair gebied.
Om Sloterdijk te kunnen ontwikkelen van knooppunt tot bestemming is de focus gelegd op lokale verbindingen, openbare ruimte en specifieke oplossingen voor wonen in een bestaand utilitair gebied. Hierbij worden de leegte en leegstand in dit gebied, plus de overdimensionering van de infrastructuur niet als problematisch beschouwd maar als kansen gezien.
De interventies in dit ontwerp haken aan bij projecten en/of belangen die in het verleden al zijn voorgesteld en waar financiële reserveringen voor zijn bij verschillende instanties. Voorbeelden hiervan zijn: het stationsplein, het station, de cruiseterminal, herstel van de scheggenstructuur van Amsterdam, ontwikkeling van Haven Stad, woningbouwopgave Metropoolregio Amsterdam, verbinding tussen Nieuw West en Sloterdijk en afwaardering Haarlemmerweg.
Archiprix selectie 2015
Iris Wijn
Guest teacher and lecturer at the Academy of Architecture in Rotterdam and Amsterdam (2014 - present)
Young Innovator, ‘College van Rijksadviseurs’ (2016)
Archiprix selection (2015)
Maps book ‘wereldsteden’, transformatie - Ton Schaap
(publicatie gepland 2018)
Illustrations yearbook ‘Commissie Welstand’ (2015)
Candidate Longlist Prix de Rome Architecture (2014)
Diverse images/animation development (with Posad for various media and ‘Ministerie van I&M/EZ’) (2013 - 2015)
Jury Selection, Emerging New York Architects 2010, AIA New York Chapter i.s.m. architect Zachary Aders (V.S.)
Workexperience:
2011 - 2013 Posad
Delta Programma
Ontwerp dorpsplein Nazareth, België, winnaar Open Oproep
Animatie Biennale São Paulo, Brazilië
Veennet- Prijswinnende inzending Eo Wijersprijsvraag 2011
2010 - 2011 .FABRIC
Prix de Rome 2010, Olv Klijn: ‘Slabs, Fabrics & Open Space’
Gebiedsagenda Zuidvleugel
Brainport 2020
Quickscan Nederland
2009 - 2010 Urban Think Tank, Caracas Venezuela
SlumLab, Columbia University
Mobility Research MetroCable
Housing Sao Paulo
2007 - 2009 Gemeente Almere Schaalsprong 2.0
Olympiakwartier
Kustzone
NB. this is a selection of projects
Steven Broekhof
Guest teacher and lecturer at the Academy of Architecture in Rotterdam and Amsterdam (2014 - present)Exhibition Volksvlijt 2056 “future of metropole amsterdam”, commissioned by Zef Hemel and Municipality Amsterdam took place in the Public Library Amsterdam (2016)- ‘Operation Bypass’ (collab. studio dvmb)
Competition Exhibition Space, Studio’s and Residencies ‘Crosswise’, Amsterdam (collab. Creating Unites) (2015)
Lecture ‘Right Under Your Nose’, Ss. Cyril & Methodius, Skopje (with Vlado Danailov - Studio 90) (2015)
Exhibition ‘Dwelling as an Act’, EME3 international architecture festival, Barcelona (with Vlado Danailov - Studio 90) (2015)
Talks + movie Biennale Venice ‘Welcome to the Jungle’, (with Arjen Aarnoudse, Donna van Milligen Bielke, Michiel van Driesche, Anne Dessing, Gidus Hopmans en Niels de Jong) (2014)
Competition ‘Reinventing Dharavi’, strategy slum, Mumbai(with Felixx, IHS Institute for Housing & Urban Development Studies, Erasmus University, Nasvi-National Association of Street Vendors of India, UN-Habitat en Studio OXL) (2014)
Work experience:2011 - 2018 Felixx Landscape Architects & Planners2016 Mei Architects & Planners2014 - 2015 Studio Aa (Studio Ard Hoksbergen)2011 - 2012 De Zwarte Hond2009 - 2010 ANA architecten2008 - 2009 HVDN architecten (studioninedots)2007 - 2008 Hans van Heeswijk architecten
