Evelien van Veen
(Drost + van Veen)
 Evelien van Veen and Simone Drost trained as furniture designers before completing their architectural education. This is reflected in their design process, through multiple models and alternative approaches. The work of Drost + van Veen is carefully composed, well-crafted and playful. They take cues for their projects from the immediate surroundings, incorporating volumes, roof shapes, materials and colours as they see necessary to ‘fit’ with their neighbours without ever resorting to historical pastiche or cliché. The work is rigorous, intelligent and sensitive. In a parkland project the roofs have been constructed of thatch, drawing inspiration from the neighbouring thatched roof houses. In Rotterdam, each of their designs for a series of water taxi pontoons along the river Maas, responds to its immediate location in chameleon-like fashion, and in a recent day care centre project, they have taken cues from the old farmyard setting, but created something that appears familiar yet is totally new. |
