Rising above the rails of Zuid-Midi railway station in Brussels is this Lost and Found Office. The Office is temporarily home to items that have ended up there through lack of concern, politics or climatic circumstances - from mislaid umbrella to overthrown statue. Having been registered they are publicly auctioned, to leave the Office via the steel appurtenances housing the transport machinery that tunnels through the concrete cylinders.

The project is the outcome of observations on European history. The picture museums give of history is only half the story; history doesn't have one meaning but is open to numerous interpretations.

The vicissitudes of Europe are here expressed in the assemblages of ephemeral images - forgotten, suppressed or as good as vanished - on sale along the downward spiralling path.

Whether it is still necessary to travel to experience history is a debatable point. Besides, the everchanging history of Europe has its own candidates for the Lost and Found - treaties, statues, cast-off emblems.

The collections amassed here present a picture of the changes Europe has undergone. The Lost and Found Office is a dynamic whole at a place where many directional lines converge.

Place of education: Rotterdam
Tutors: Jan de Graaf & Herman Kerkdijk
Specialization: architecture