Sited on the Waddendijk on the island of Terschelling, 'Plaat' consists of a music recording studio, a private house and a guest-house. The design seeks the closest relationship between building and landscape around. To this end a study was done into coastal morphology and another into the geology and settlement patterns. The design itself is predicated upon patterns of currents on the sea bed, the accretion and subsidence of land and elements of local landscape.

• Tidal action has thrown up a row of dunes beyond which is land where people dwell, and want more than just to dwell: on the lee side of the island now stretches a polder that caters to that need.
• The polder offers space for industrial development on the island, densely packed in the triangle as a clear counterweight to the empty expanse of the meadows. The boundary doubles as an axis that marks the site.
• The polder continues the bay elevation of the harbour to the peninsula which it proclaims as a place for looking back and summing up.
• In the polder there rises a wall with beyond it floors where people dwell; snuggling in the shelter of the house is the studio behind the screen where those concerned can concentrate on music unhampered by noise or surging tides.

The bay window juts through the wall - just as the wall juts through the dike and the polder beyond the island through the tide - yet forms an indispensable exception to the rule.

The light shaft juts through the wall between inside and outside, between somewhere and nowhere, just as the studio does between sea and land, so bringing contact between (and identity to) contrasting elements.

A lamella is a strip of terrace, floor, polder, ground, that brings out the quality of the setting.

Place of education: TU Delft
Tutors: Gunnar Daan, Peter Lüthi & Evert Kleijer
Specialization: architecture