On Cornelis Lelylaan, a street in Amsterdam, I have projected between the railway and the A10 highway a work-tower. It is part of a development scenario for compacting and urbanizing the zone around the western segment of ring road. The issue underlying my proposal is whether there is a point in distinguishing between work time and leisure time, each with its own particular amenities, and how work and experience might complement each other in a work-building. The subjects 'time-place' and its derivative 'route-space' constitute the link between 'work' and 'experience'. These are the building's principal themes.

An experience is personal and one-off. Creating experiences that remain with us and become part of our conscious or subconscious minds, is the challenge facing composers, chefs, filmmakers as well as designers of space. This last-named group offers the users of its creations the opportunity to guide the experience themselves by choosing between routes and spaces and determining their own time and place.

Work is changing dramatically, with ICT in particular forever loosening our ties with the permanent workplace and fixed hours of work. The work-tower provides a flexible framework containing space for a wide variety of work activities. It is divided into segments whose character alternates between that of an urban square and that of a park. Voids ensure spatial continuity within each segment, thereby consolidating the programme's continuity. The fleshed-out work-tower is part of an urban masterplan in which several towers can be plugged into a basement whose deck is the interface between old and new. Contours in the development scenario show the positions, if not the urban programmes, of the other towers.

Place of education: AvB Amsterdam
Specialization: architecture
Tutors: John Bosch, Chris Scheen & Kirsten van den Berg