groundcondition

The Amsterdam Academy of Architecture awards grants or ‘Internationaliseringfonds’ for projects that build relationships internationally. Jacques has received this grant for organizing a study exchange with the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Jacques Abelman | groundcondition in collaboration with Marijke Bruinsma | de Stuurlui stedenbouw MushroomWall aims to capture a part of the urban waste stream in the form of used coffee grounds and transform it into food— delicious oyster mushrooms. At the same time, the project aims to make the process of recuperation, transformation, and harvesting […]

The essence of the “Wild Side” landscape vision is new farming methods that will transform the site into an official “High Nature Value” area. This designation describes certain types of agriculture that increase the biodiversity and ecological health of farmland. This plan has three layers. First, a network of hedgerows is re-established on existing parcel […]

8mb PDF_Jacques_Abelman_Landscape Park Proposal Project Brief from instructor Patrick McCabe ( www.redscape.nl ) Based on the classic Dutch concept of compact city, Utrecht has undergone major transformations in the last ten years. Intensification of urban areas, the realisation of Leidse Rijn (VINEX) and countless large infrastructure projects have been key steps in the city’s ambition […]

The Form Study classes at the Academy pair architecture / urbanism / landscape students with practitioners from outside their discipline in order to venture into uncharted waters of design experience. For eight weeks I had the pleasure of working with Pieke Bergmans, a dutch industrial designer with playful and sharp ideas. In this vormstudie we […]

Projects at the Academy are completed in eight weeks bursts and done mostly at night, so they require immense drive and conentration; at the end of the project period all students post their work in the halls of the school and groups of professors walk around judging the work. You are given about ten minutes […]

I recently began coursework at the Academie van Bouwkunst of Amsterdam. Earlier this summer I agonized over the decision of where to go to grad school to pursue landscape architecture at a higher level, or at least to be able to consecrate some time to learning. Here in the Netherlands their is a good choice […]