When buildings meet, they might embrace or reject each other, or start a dialogue.
Such encounters might end up in sheer powerplay, while assimilation and appropriation might be the decent, proper solution.
How to achieve a new balance while respecting mutual intrinsic characteristics, when building up a new coherence?
The current gathering is between six epic plans. Each one has been selected because of containing a specific type of ambiguity.
We find them in a heated debate, meanwhile a new cohesion seems to arise.
Monadnock is a Rotterdam-based architecture firm. In addition to designing and producing buildings, Monadnock researches, writes and generates discourse in the fields of architecture, urbanism, interior and staging – varying in scale from the space of the city and streets to the scale of the interior. Monadnock creates contemporary buildings that embed architecture in the broader cultural production of the current generation, taking inspiration from various creative disciplines. By examining key themes, such as contemporaneity and tradition, convention and banality, constructive logic and illusory representation, Monadnock strives for an architecture that combines beauty, efficiency and the transfer of architectural knowledge.
Monadnock was founded in 2006 by Job Floris and Sandor Naus. Both initially trained as interior and furniture designers during their studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and subsequently graduated from the Academy for Architecture and Urbanism.
Monadnock has received international attention for realizing characteristic bespoke buildings. These include a beach pavilion on the River Maas, a huge temporary installation in the public space titled “Make No Little Plans,” the “Landmark,” a viewing tower in the heart of a small municipality, shortlisted for the Mies van der Rohe Award in 2017, and the “Atlas house” in Eindhoven, which received a Brick Award in 2018.
Currently, Monadnock is involved in projects on various scales, ranging from housing projects in several sizes to the design of a new visitors’ center for the Hoge Veluwe National Park, due to open in June 2019.