PATTY GROOT BLUEMINK
Proposal Patty Groot Bluemink
Title Bird Office
Dimensions 6 x 6 x 13 meters
Material concrete
Location in between office complexes, exact location negotiable
Technical advice Monadnock, Job Floris Architect
Website www.aboutpatty.nl
‘The area known today as Zuidas was once a green zone. Now it is being transformed into a prestigious business centre. Trees, plants, and the occasional animal have been introduced here and there, but they make a modest impression.
I want to build an office tower for swifts. These birds do not cause any nuisance in terms of noise, keep the area around their nests clean and mainly live their lives on the fly. With this efficient stack of bird-holes I am also offering an elegantly designed location for a natural element. But in the un-designed air, swifts are free. Their movements and cries testify to that.’
