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Mahaut Dael & Michal Dlugajczyk

MD2

https://www.md-2.eu/

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands
md-2 architects, a Rotterdam-based practice founded in 2019 by Mahaut Dael and Michal Dlugajczyk describes material and non-material layering of urban and architectural spaces being the departure point for spatial and architectural design. A multinational melting pot of traditions and cultures that operates within its frame of reference for the discovery of site specific character as a counterpose to obsolescence within the build environment, as well as aiming on augmenting its existing values.

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Building Epiphanies


Description by Design

Building Epiphanies


Description by Design
The method opens new horizons to enriching underestimated late XX century urban environments.
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Type of project
  • Site-specific cases

'Building Epiphanies : Description by Design' explores a design method based on a case study located in the heart of Rotterdam. The method embraces and reveals the identity and the ambivalence of the place; investigates alternatives on current building dynamics and builds a parallel reality in today’s saturated world, hence 'Rotterdam Epiphanies'.

Like designing archaeologists, we dig discovering the stratification of the location and present it to the user of the space through the design of interventions and moments of epiphanies where the user realises the intrinsic values and layers of the existing place.
The architecture appears capable of a sudden, short-lived, performative experiences in which a sensory element can be perceived in the ordinary, everyday reality.
The method possesses an integral vision on sustainability, in which present, past and future of places are interconnected, and tackles the overabundance of building operations of our contemporary city centres.



collage symbolic of discovering the medieval character (surrealist) within the postwar architecture of the centre of Rotterdam

atlas of the 'medieval' elements within the 'purely modern' context of the heart of Rotterdam

the isometry of the 'central landscape' of the city

the exemplary dig-move around model of an staircase element constructing one of the moments of epiphanies

zoom in isometry into one of the moments of epiphanies

Building Epiphanies


Description by Design

Building Epiphanies


Description by Design
The method opens new horizons to enriching underestimated late XX century urban environments.
File under
Type of project
  • Site-specific cases

'Building Epiphanies : Description by Design' explores a design method based on a case study located in the heart of Rotterdam. The method embraces and reveals the identity and the ambivalence of the place; investigates alternatives on current building dynamics and builds a parallel reality in today’s saturated world, hence 'Rotterdam Epiphanies'.

Like designing archaeologists, we dig discovering the stratification of the location and present it to the user of the space through the design of interventions and moments of epiphanies where the user realises the intrinsic values and layers of the existing place.
The architecture appears capable of a sudden, short-lived, performative experiences in which a sensory element can be perceived in the ordinary, everyday reality.
The method possesses an integral vision on sustainability, in which present, past and future of places are interconnected, and tackles the overabundance of building operations of our contemporary city centres.



collage symbolic of discovering the medieval character (surrealist) within the postwar architecture of the centre of Rotterdam

atlas of the 'medieval' elements within the 'purely modern' context of the heart of Rotterdam

the isometry of the 'central landscape' of the city

the exemplary dig-move around model of an staircase element constructing one of the moments of epiphanies

zoom in isometry into one of the moments of epiphanies


Idea by

Mahaut Dael & Michal Dlugajczyk
MD2
ROTTERDAM
Netherlands
md-2 architects, a Rotterdam-based practice founded in 2019 by Mahaut Dael and Michal Dlugajczyk describes material and non-material layering of urban and architectural spaces being the departure point for spatial and architectural design. A multinational melting pot of traditions and cultures that operates within its frame of reference for the discovery of site specific character as a counterpose to obsolescence within the build environment, as well as aiming on augmenting its existing values.