ordos villa by office kersten geers david van severen

opening on march 5th is office kersten geers david van severen's 'seven rooms'
exhibition at desingel, antwerp, belgium.

the architectural firm, founded by kersten geers and david van severen in 2002, has
assembled a singularly varied portfolio in a very short time. it includes the building
of a solicitor’s office (antwerp, 2006), a summerhouse (ghent, 2006), a bridge
(ghent, 2008) and the belgian pavilion for the architectural biennale in venice (2008).
at present they are also concentrating on projects such as that for a villa in ordos (china),
a tunnel in turnhout and an urban planning design for a new town in south korea.

in ‘seven rooms’, their first retrospective, office will be showing about twenty buildings
and projects in a specially designed spatial setting that links leon stynen’s architecture
to the present as a sort of echo. in the eighty-metre-long corridor, office sets white walls
at right-angles to the existing building. this creates a sequence of seven rooms, each of
which is given a different thematic accent: the boundary, the villa, the city, repetition,
and so on. here is a preview of what will be exhibited.

http://www.officekgdvs.com
http://www.desingel.be


'cite de refuge', study for a reception centre for the rotterdam architectural biennale, 2007


'cite de refuge', study for a reception centre for the rotterdam architectural biennale, 2007


new administrative capital, south korea, first prize, 2005 (in association with dogma)


'after the party' belgian pavillion at the venice architectural biennale, 2008
photo © bas prinsen