This landscape architecture design for the public space of a random patch of urban ground is premised on an existing psychological novel also chosen at random. In part one of the scheme (expressed as a theatrical production) the public space, long subjected to a conspiracy of silence, searches for its lost social and architectural identity, aided by a detective. Part two is the spatial design proper. The over-complex brief drawn from the novel - the literal and metaphorical foundations - serves as a creative impulse towards achieving a contemporary outdoor architecture.

Playing the romantic landscape architect and working within the urban force field with its high-speed, facile, modish, cheapskate, pornographic character, was a bad trip. To overbridge the flagrant opposition with the landscape - its slowness, awkwardness, inelegance, preciousness and honesty - requires patience and regard for the craft side of landscape architecture. The intention of this Dionysian rite is not to place urban force field and rural nostalgia side by side, but to invalidate our monstrous attachment to each and then unite their two extremes.

Place of education: LU Wageningen
Tutors: Dieter Boland & Klaas Kerkstra
Specialization: urban planning/architecture.