The scheme for a 'culture cluster' in Deurne derives from an invited competition held by the municipal council to rehabilitate the local castle garden and castle ruins. The cluster draws together a number of cultural functions. 'De Wieger', the municipal museum with its extensive collection of local and regional art, will have a place in it, as will the Open Academy of Deurne which encourages amateur art. Completing the new-build is a mixed-use space which both institutions can make use of yet is also able to function independently. The culture-cluster presents a restrained addition to the parklike surroundings. Most of it is set below ground level. The peat excavations decisively influencing the region form the central theme of the plan. Thus, for example, the hollows used for storing peat serve as light courts for the spaces below ground level, lying there like surgical incisions in the park, unobstructed by elevations. Certainly in the mists of spring and autumn, it's a risky business manoeuvring between the hollows, as it must have been when turf was deposited there for personal use. In one of the two turf mounds rising above ground level the design provides an extra entrance from which to access the subterranean main space. This way the mixed-use space can indeed function independently. Various components of the scheme refer to elements still to be encountered in the local marshy peatlands of the Peel, such as canal structures, avenues, vistas and the possibility of rambling. There are no turf hollows and turf mounds to be found here. This proposal for the culture cluster constructs new ones as a remembrance of times past. The Peel in the peat-digging days was informed by a subdued air of diligent labour, from which local artist Hendrik Wiegersma drew inspiration. The subterranean museum is in perfect keeping with this ambience, and Wiegersma's paintings are returned to their original context. Institution: Tilburg Tutors: Dolf Dobbelaar & Frank Wintermans Specialization: architecture