The second edition of our Unité magazine is out! You can read it here (only in Dutch) and I will tell you more about the articles I worked on soon!
A few weeks ago, I travelled through Denmark with many fellow architecture students. These are my favourite photos of that trip (all of them are taken by me). Move your mouse on the photos to find out more about what’s shown in the picture.
We started our first day in Aarhus with a walk to the highest point of Denmark (Ejer Bavnehøj), which isn’t very high as you can see in the pictures. In the afternoon, we visited the Old Town, or Den Gamle By in Danish, which is the National Open Air Museum of Urban History and Culture (voor de Belgen: het Deense Bokrijk!), and spent the rest of our time sipping coffee and playing Time’s Up, which led to quite a few strange looks among the locals. In the evening , we returned to our chalets and had a great party: everyone decorated their chalet according to a theme, and made sure they had matching drinks, food and outfits. Can you guess our theme? (Tip: we had moustaches and cigars (oh well cigar cookies))
The last day of our trip, we were extremely tired thanks to the amazing party of the night before. We followed the group though, visiting the Concert Hall and the ARos museum, but the rest of the day was spent on the extremely comfrotable couches of a café where we might have taken a nap or two…
A few weeks ago, I travelled through Denmark with many fellow architecture students. These are my favourite photos of that trip (all of them are taken by me). Move your mouse on the photos to find out more about what’s shown in the picture.
On our last day in Copenhagen, we took an architectural walk with Bo Christiansen (architect for Schaledenmark). In the evening, me and my friends explored the Nørrebro neighbourhood, and visited a few lovely vintage shops. After our short shoppingtrip and a quick diner, we returned to Soupanatural, for yet another Sofa Sessions. This time we weren’t such fans of the band that was playing, but we had a great time anyway. I wish I could show you more of the cosy atmosphere at this lovely bar, but I try to stay away from exposing my friends on the internet as much as possible. But if you’re ever in Copenhagen, you should definitely stop by Soupanatural, it’s at Skt. Peders Stræde 31, in a cellar.
A few weeks ago, I travelled through Danmark with many fellow architecture students. These are my favourite photos of that trip (all of them are taken by me). Move your mouse on the photos to find out more about what’s shown in the picture.
A few weeks ago, I travelled through Denmark with many fellow architecture students. These are my favourite photos of that trip (all of them are taken by me). Move your mouse on the photos to find out more about what’s shown in the picture.
The first day of our Denmark trip was spent in Copenhagen. We took a big walk around the old center of the city, while passing some cool new buildings as well, and ended the day with a delicious dinner at BioMio.
In this old factury, originally used for retting flax, Joke Vermeulen & Francis Catteeuw of compagnie-O. architecten are working to transform it into their home. 8 years they’ve been working on this amazing project, and in a few months, it’s finally supposed to be finished. With Unité, we got a sneek peak for oursection (t)huiswerk, where we visit architects in their homes. The story behind this project is very interesting, and can be found in our first issue on page 13, although only in Dutch. It’s too much to translate (or even summarize), so I will leave you with these pictures. I hope they speak for themselves, because I’m extremely excited about this project! The view is amazing, and I love that it’s so pure and industrial, while still being one with the environment.
all pictures taken by me for Unité
So… Time has come to tell you about what has been consuming all my free time lately!
This year, I’m part of Existenz, which is a group of students from the first master of architecture in Leuven. All year, we work towards our Existenz Maximum Week: we get our hands on an abandonned building in Leuven and completely transform it into architectural heaven. During this week, we organise workshops and lectures – all of them more or less connected to architecture. (More information about Existenz (although only in Dutch) and the things we do, can be found at our website.)
2010-2011 is the 16th year of Existenz and this year, we’re taking it one step further. We’ve created a magazine, called ‘Unité’, which will be found for free in all architecture schools in Flanders. Yesterday the first issue came out, and all of us are so proud of what we’ve accomplished.
Therefor, I present you the on line version of Unité #1.
In the next few days, I will tell you more about the articles that I worked on, but in the meantime, tell me what you think of the overall look!