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Dream of a Closet @ Urban Campsite Amsterdam

Always wanted to spend the night in Dream of a Closet? Well, the award winning project is now open for reservations!
Part of an initiative to reinvigorate abandoned sites throughout the city, the pilot edition of Urban Campsite Amsterdam is now located at Camping Vliegenbos.
Here various artists and designers offer their work as a unique place to spend the night.
Within this temporary village Studio Jenske Dijkhuis has made Dream of Closet available as its contribution to this promising pop-up project.

Follow the link to Airbnb for more information and bookings.
To read the reviews and publications on Dream of a Closet @ Urban Campsite Amsterdam click on the images above.

First Prize: WoodChallenge 2007

The WoodChallenge 2007 yielded two winners. Matthijs Toussaint of the TU Delft and Jenske Dijkhuis both received the highest honor.
The prize is awarded to students or teachers who, through a remarkable achievement and innovation, improve the image of wood or its use.

Due to the wide variety of entries two winners nominated. The submission of Toussaint was according to the jury ”groundbreaking, showing courage and vision, in depth developed and cross departmental: a compliment.” The design of Dijkhuis ”triggered, urged to think differently in wood: a real Challenge.”

Read the full article @ Architectenweb, in Dutch

Dream of a Closet published in Bodyscape

Recent and new experimental designs are continuously questioning the preconceived relationship between body and space from different perspectives. This extensively illustrated publication focuses on innovative design projects in which body, design and space are smartly compounded as one creative organization. More than 90 projects in the fields of contemporary fashion, art, furniture design, interiors and architecture are compiled, drawn from a legion of both established and emerging talents.

Bodyscape
Kim, Jong-Jin
Damdi, Seoul, 2007
ISBN: 978-89-91111-27-1

Dream of a Closet published in Spacecraft

Spacecraft presents projects that meet the changing spatial needs of our modern lifestyles and that are simultaneously expanding our current understanding of architecture. On the one hand, the book features flexible, fleeting structures that only exist for a limited time. On the other hand, Spacecraft focuses on spaces that are used temporarily. Whether vacation homes, urban hideouts, art projects, pavilions or studios, all of the included work is distinguished by a playful, unconventional use of space.

Spacecraft; Fleeting Architecture and Hideouts
Feireiss, Lukas; Klanten, Robert
Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlijn, 2007
ISBN: 978-3-89955-192-1

Dream of a Closet

Dream of a Closet is an upscaled closet that one can sleep in. Based on an 17th century, Dutch ‘kuif-kast’ the shape is reinterpreted and enlarged to form an entire room.