Powerhouse Company

The Netherlands Dance Theater, Music Conservatory, and Royal Orchestra are currently located in an assortment of outdated facilities throughout The Hague.  They put on an international competition for a single building of 360,000sf in the heart of the city to pull the disparate groups together.  Of the 20 invited first round proposals, we were selected for the second round along with Zaha Hadid and Neutelings Reidijk.  The building operates on the idea that there are two types of program in the building: performance space, and support space.  The private serving space is the rectilinear white volume to be as efficient and economical as possible, while the performance space is made up of curving wooden bands to provide a grand experience for the public users.  I was part of the 3-man team that created the first round proposal and I led the 6-man team in the second round.  I created the building in Archicad for sections and plans, was responsible for the 3D model for renderings, worked on the final imagery, developed the concert hall interiors, contributed to the presentation movie, made drawings for final model fabrication, and helped with the final boards.