WHIM architecture

Profile of WHIM architecture

Business Name

WHIM architecture

Location

Netherlands

Services

Architecture

Website

http://www.whim.nl

Ramon Knoester

Principal(s)

Ramon Knoester (born 1975)

• M.Arch, Academy of Architecture and Urban planning, 2002
• B BE, University of professional education Rotterdam, 1998

Philosophy

WHIM Architecture (originally named as Bateman Architecture) is an international architecture firm, set up in Rotterdam (NL) by Ramon Knoester in 2004. The work is a combination of design and research.

Design

Dimensioning and relations between programmatic elements is essential to the practice. Each building design results in a unique sculpture; a carefully studied form generated by these interrelations. Further, in realizing the built form, these conceptual elements are fully refined into the detail.

Research

Where society changes, architecture should adapt. Much time is invested in researching this manifesto on how society changes and on how to react on it by architecture. And also, on the way in which this adapting architecture can feedback into the society that created it.

Background

• Founded: 2004
• Offices: 1
• Design team: 1

Key projects

• 2008 - Villa Siga Siga; Villa; Peloponnesos
• 2001 - Villa Zebra; Childern's museum Rotterdam; Netherlands

Key publications

• 2008 - February; Future 10 New York City; Parachute Pavilion competition
• 2007 - September; Alzheimer, forgotten projects; Competition Lima, Peru
• 2007 - 1000x European Architecture; CasaNova
• 2006 - September; Architectuur NL; Work of WHIM architecture
• 2005 - December; DDesign; FAR OUT, competition FAR 8
• 2005 - October; L'Arca; Parachute Pavilion competition
• 2005 - September; Wettbewerbe Aktuell; Parachute Pavilion competition
• 2005 - July; New York Times; Parachute Pavilion competition
• 2004 - January; Taiwan Architecture; Natural working environment
• 2002 - December; Detail; Kinderkunsthaus

Key awards

• 2007 - GRANT 2007; FBKVB; Amsterdam, NL
• 2005 - GRANT 2005; FBKVB; Amsterdam, NL
• 2003 - Job Dura Prize; Job Dura Foundation; Rotterdam, NL