KAPKAR / VD-560Border Chapel in the heart of the Schengen area Border Chapel, in the heart of Schengen Area with exact one leg = 50% situated in Germany in Hommersum and the other leg = 50% situated in the Netherlands in Ottersum. This Border Chapel honours and...
A mental and physical framework For 1000 years the sound of thumping hands resounded on many city gates. An announcement on the line between landscape and city, safe and unsafe. Residents, traders and travellers knocked on the door, strange and familiar faces looked...
KAPKAR / B'A-L11CUrban Shelter The architectural shelter KAPKAR/ B'A-L11C is based on the footprint of the Bao'An Airport by Fuksas and transformed into a new entity. With it's futuristic appearance and blue lights it speaks about new and playful ideas. The shelter...
In the gently rolling Brabant landscape just to the west of Sint-Oedenrode lies the hamlet of Rijsingen. Close by, at a spot where the Dommel River has cut through the sandy soil since time immemorial, stands the KAPKAR/TO-RXD landscape observatory. It forms part of a...
In conversation with 'Oude Willem' In a transitional phase, the installation connects a visual story of man’s monumental efforts to cultivate and to question the use of land. At the beginning of this century, after poring over its maps, the province of Friesland...
A social space for multifunctional hospitality Shenzhen is a city that was founded only 40 years ago, the area however has been inhabited for hundreds of years and has a military history of more than 600 years (1394 A.D.). This awareness should be much more part of...
KAPKAR / GTO-B10Urban Surveyor KAPKAR / GTO-B10 is looking for new places within the urban fabric that could be of importance in the development of the city. It unfolds evolutionally from the second dimension to the third, from one of the first buildings in the area,...
Communication beacon Challenged by the commission of the district Corpus den Hoorn in Groningen to design a public art work in the park I developed a permanent utility sculpture that serves as a chat house. The work is located against the dike along the Noord Willems...
Marshalling yard hut Een zwevende slaapplek in de draaicirkel van het rangeerterrein in de Spoorzone, het centrum van het dorp De Vlek. Wie durft hier een middagdutje in te doen? Het Huttenfestival De Vlek gaat over bouwen in vrijheid en de romantiek van het bouwen,...
An object usable for all Exhibition space for contemporary art De Bewaerschole in the tourist village Burgh Haamstede, asked me to develop an autonomous object in the front garden that would attract the gaze of the passenger as goal to enter the garden and thereby the...