I used a geometrical pattern out of the Alhambra in Spain as the basis for making this architectural world. In mathematics this is called a 'tessellation': an infinitely repeating shape without overlaps.

By using this method I add an extra dimension to the original historic pattern. This work tries to form a bridge between our contemporary society and the historical culture on which we have built through the ages. We are standing on the shoulders of giants.

Searching for harmony in geometrical shapes is like searching for the holy grail. Intuitively I know that the ultimate beauty lies within it, but the road that leads to it I have yet to find.

Max Tegmark, a renowned Swedish-American Professor in Physics and Cosmology at MIT,  wrote a book called "Our Mathematical Universe" in which he posits that reality is in fact a mathematical structure.

Maybe with this work I can reveal a glimpse of the mathematical base structure behind our reality.

It is an ideal in architecture to find as much harmony as possible by designing each smaller element as a reflection of the bigger whole. This way these tessellations could be the ultimate harmonious architecture.

World Device II


This artwork is inspired by the work of Etienne-Louis Boullée, the French architect and theorist from the 18th Century. One of his best known works is his design for a gigantic 150 meter tall monument for Isaac Newton.

This building has never been built, but the concept was very interesting: it is a place where people can have a physical experience of the construction of the universe. Boullée pays homage to the rationality and enlightenment of the 18th Century. He sees knowledge as a form of divinity.

Some of the greatest evolutions of our time are artificial intelligence, 3D (nano)printing and the new virtual and augmented realities. All these evolutions have the capacity to shake our society to its core.

If a monument would bare the changes of our times, what would it look like? My work tries to give a glimpse on how the line between fact and fiction may disappear in the future.



Form follows fiction



This is a new type of installations which I name ‘Mathematical Universes‘.

This first one in the series is called Panoptica I, as a reference to the societal model that was developed by Michel Foucault as a reaction to a new type of concentric prison invented by Jeremy Bentham.

The installation tries to create a bridge in between the nano-, micro- and macro-world. I show an infinite geometrical world, as it also exists on the scale of an atoms and microbiological life.

The evolution of the sciences supports the belief that our reality is completely mathematical. Do we live in a deterministic universe? Are we the the captain of our own ship?

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