Name: Jakub Nowak
Track: Architecture
Studio: Interiors Buildings Cities
Year: 2025/ MSc3/4
Type: Graduation Project
Tutor: Jurjen Zeinstra, Matthijs Klooster, Amy Thomas, Daniel Rosbottom, Sam de Vocht, Susanne Pietsch
Description:
Following up on the intentions and brief of a failed competition for the VAi's new archive. The project aims to rethink possibilities of the institution's development through the scope of their current situation and position as part of De Singel Cultural Campus. Aiming to reuse and transform the existing spaces of the complex to accomodate growing needs of the institution. Creating an environment which would align with values and position of the institution itself. Negotiating the use of shared spaces in light of its public responsibilities and proposing new built volume based on study and reinterpretation of material culture as found on site. The aim is to create an archive that serves not as mere repository of knowledge, but engages in its production. Through inter-institutional collaboration remaining receptive of ongoing cultural discourse.