Jun

26

Urban Vertical Mushroom Farms at ARCAM Food and Architecture Fair – 1st place Jury selection

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 […]

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May

02

WILDPOINTS: urban biodiversity network

TEAM: Jacques Abelman, Celine Baumann (celinebaumann.tumblr.com), YukaYoshida STATUS: design research competition The Wildpoints strategy creates a new form of urban green by actively seeking out new places for nature to colonize the city. The biodiversity network of found and new Wildpoints allows insects, birds, and small animal species to establish themselves in micro-habitats across the […]

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Nov

17

new directions

I am on a quest for new directions for landscape architecture. As we witness rapid changes in the physical, economic, and professional environments, what exactly can landscape architecture hope to achieve in the future? Budgets for public projects are dwindling, not to mention budgets for cultural projects, and the national frameworks for environmental projects are […]

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Dec

15

beating blue heart

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Nov

22

Ecologically Emergent Leisure Landscapes

  One of the remarkable characteristics of The Netherlands, especially from the foreigner’s point of view, is the amount of carefully protected open green space surrounding densely populated urban centers. The Dutch are extremely keen on verdant fields with placidly grazing cows and sheep always being within a bike ride away from the city, and […]

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Nov

22

EELLs project featured in new book from BRACKET

from the website of BRACKET: ISSUE #1: ON FARMING Once merely understood in terms of agriculture, today information,energy, labour, and landscape, among others, can be farmed. Farming harnesses the efficiency of collectivity and community. Whether cultivating land, harvesting resources, extracting energy or delegating labor, farming reveals the interdependencies of our globalized world. Simultaneously, farming represents […]

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Jan

04

Redesigning the urban fringe: culture + ecology = new landscape park for Utrecht’s green ring

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 […]

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Oct

20

Dunecatcher

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 […]

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Jul

07

FOODPRINT Exhibition STROOM Den Haag

I’ll be adding more texts and writing in the coming weeks. I at least wanted to get this up before I run out the door- I’m off to eastern France for a couple of weeks where the internet connection will be a bit more sporadic than downtown Amsterdam… Foodprint at STROOM architectural center Den Haag: […]

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May

25

Imagining New Venice

“Imagining New Venice” was one of my favorite visualization and rendering projects that I did before going freelance.  The competition called for the development of a parcel of land with quite a heavy program of housing, golf course, and marina. Although not as widely known as say, Dutch polders, these agricultural lands at the mouth […]

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