The three structures of this project add an extra layer to the deeply felt landscape of memory and transformation of Terschelling, one of the Dutch Wadden Islands. Sited on an imaginary line running northward from the bay at West-Terschelling to the beach at Pole 8, they are to function both as workshops for theatremakers and as 'landscape display points' for theatregoers, seaside visitors and residents of Terschelling. Although they were designed as a set, each of the three points is site-specific in its own right. Each is assembled from three architectural elements - wall, floor and routeing - that together as implanted structures put each place 'on display'. This can be seen as 'exposing' the current essence of the place on one hand and as 'colouring up' the meaning of that place on the other. Theatremakers on location at the island's Oerol Theatre Festival now have a site and a space in an architectural structure that presents that place instead of representing it. An intensified route leads the visitor-on-the-move to another kind of encounter with an 'island' feel to it. The transformations that landscape and timber structures undergo over time is at the same time an attraction for the islanders themselves.

Flatwalk
A line emerging from the polder shoots across the dyke to the mud flat and the thrust of the waves where it abruptly ends. Out of the mud flat, against the low horizon, rises a rear wall and backstage. Against it lies a sloping stage with catwalks that breaks up, fills up and empties out with the flow of the tides.

Woodstack
At the place where the edge of the wood changes direction stands a tall stack of loges, boxes for people, looking out over the moorland and held in place by a ring of trees. The existing route along the edge of the wood is incorporated in the stack as a circuit from below to above which then descends through the trees to ground level - a journey from root to crown and back again.

Dunesluice
This sluice, added to ease the transition from the broad to the narrow dune path, follows the direction of the prevailing northwesterly wind. Rows of walls resembling theatre wings stand at right angles to the wind direction and the slope of the dunes, playing a game with the drifting sand. It remains to be seen whether sand or structure will eventually determine the shape of the design.

Place of education: TU Eindhoven
Specialization: architecture
Tutors: Jos Bosman, Miranda Nieboer, Bert van Schaijk, Jeroen Boomgaard