Villa Escamp
2009
assignment realized for RAAM, office for social architecture, The Hague
design of the garden room
www.villaescamp.nl
The assignment of RAAM was to create a 'gardenroom' for Villa Escamp in The Hague.
Villa Escamp is a space designed by the architects Korteknie/ Stuhlmacher.
For this gardenroom I tried to create a portrait of inhabitants of this area Escamp by collecting plants which have a story behind it. This plants and its stories were presented on a socket.
"After 33 years I had to say goodbye to my house.
It was meant to be demolished.
So I also had to say goodbye to my favorite tree.
I hit my arms around the trunk of the tree and felt the warmth of it.
It seemed as if the tree knew that this would happen to him.
Yes, I saw the tree cut down, crude and disrespectfully.
I cried, reviled, I felt the pain, because I felt no respect for nature.
I have pruned some branches.
Its leaves I dried so they that the tree will not be forgotten.
Now the tree may, with its rotting branches honorably stand on a pedestal.
And you know, again I can see how my favorite tree in all its pride and proud 50 years old again warms my heart."
- Puck van Veen, Zweeloostraat
