Sketching Riga: Study area Vec Riga, Andrejsala and Petersala

In order to communicate my graduation project to a Dutch audience who are unknown with Riga I made a sketch of the area, and will illustrate with photo's the important buildings, public spaces and atmospheres.

Overview Sketch:

My graduation project is located north of the old center, Vec Riga

Presentation techniqs: ceci n'est pas un magritte

Two years ago I had presentation techniqs at the Academy of Architecture. We had to learn painting using oil-based paint. Subject was free to choose but the thema was the new and old. I choose Magritte's painting 'Dangerous Liaisons' and to replace the mirror by a Philips LCD-tv.  I like the surreal paintings of Magritte a lot. His intention was to make observer think. Like with his most famous painting 'ceci n'est pas une pipe' where he wanted to say it's not a real pipe, it is a painting.


Ceci n'est pas une Magritte




The Hague - Leeuwarden: Slow Urbanism and High Speed Train connexions

Today I had to go to my native Leeuwarden for a family visit. By car I get there within 2 hours. By train it takes almost 3 hours! And I did go by train. So I had all the time to think about this problem.

Finally, after much thinking, I got to Leeuwarden!

Slow Urbanism promotes public transport within the city. In case of the Netherlands this also means public transport in between cities as we don't have one big city. We are a country with a network of small interconnected cities. The strength of cities is it's own attractiveness and it's connectivity to other attractive cities. The trainstation environments themself have become attractive places.