Jacques Brelsteiger Zeebrugge
2007 | In commission of ZJA, Michel Heesen worked on the architectural design of a wooden pier in the city of Zeebrugge (Belgium). Instead of ending the pier with a...
Greenhouse dwellings
2007 | Michel Heesen made an urban and landscape design concept for greenhouse dwellings in the Westland greenhouse area. 3rd prize in the Casanova 2007 design competition.
Roundabout and wildlife crossing: 1st prize ‘Rond de Rotonde’
2007 | Michel Heesen is one of the winners of the architecture competition Rond de Rotonde (‘around the roundabout’). The design turns an existing roundabout across highway A27 into a...
Floating community center Rotterdam
2007 | Michel Heesen, Thomas Gillet and Kobbe Nouwens have made a design for a floating community center/ office/ dwelling in Rotterdam.
Urban design former wetland area
2007 | Michel Heesen and Thomas Gillet have made an urban design concept for a former wetland area in Amsterdam. The concept is based on water retaining and high density...
Tower with roof terrace The Hague
2007 | In commission of Bouwfonds MAB development, Michel Heesen, Thomas Gillet and Kobbe Nouwens have made a preliminary design for a tower with 55 apartments, a bicycle parking, dental...
Unsollicited: Public square The Hague
2007 | Michel Heesen, Thomas Gillet and Kobbe Nouwens have made a design for the public space at the crossing of Hengelolaan and Leyweg in The Hague. The new design...
Design specification A4 Amsterdam – Antwerp
2006 – 2007 | In commission of ZJA/ Okra, Michel Heesen has been working on the design concept for the international highway A4 Amsterdam – Antwerp. The A4 is a...
Office blocks harbour Rotterdam
2004- 2007 | In the Rotterdam harbour area Waalhaven ZJA designed four office blocks. The buildings are linked by means of a ‘red carpet’: a pedestrian route made out of...
Appels op Zuid: a green urban strategy for Rotterdam Zuid
2006 | Michel Heesen and cameraman/ photographer Hans Stakelbeek have made an urban strategy for the public green in post-war areas in Rotterdam-Zuid. Instead of offering a top-down Masterplan, the...
Nomination Nieuw Tij Zeeland
2006 | Michel Heesen and Thomas Gillet have been nominated for the architecture competition Nieuw Tij Zeeland. Heesen and Gillet designed a building with 1,000 dwellings underneath an elevated highway.
Prize winning urban strategy Rotterdam
2006 | The Ministry of Economic Affairs has rewarded architect Michel Heesen and cameraman/ photographer Hans Stakelbeek with an honourable mention. The team made a spatial strategy for an industrial...
Unsolicited: holiday house above sea level
2006 | Michel Heesen has made a design for a zero-energy, autonomous holiday house in Almere, a city close to Amsterdam Almere was build on the bottom of a former...
IN/OP wins Bouwfonds MAB competition
2006 | Michel Heesen, Thomas Gillet and Kobbe Nouwens are the winning team of the Bouwfonds MAB designprize 2006 young architects. The team designed a tower with 60 apartments in...
Elevated highway in Amsterdam
2006 | In commission of ZJA/ Strukton, Michel Heesen has been working on a design concept for an elevated highway in Amsterdam. The design offers an alternative for the controversial...
Footballstadium AZ Alkmaar
2000-2006 | UEFA semi-final playing football club AZ Alkmaar urgently needed a new stadium. A large triangular plot of land, alongside the A9 national highway at the southern entrance to...
Nomination Bouwfonds MAB
2005 | Michel Heesen, Thomas Gillet and Kobbe Nouwens are nominated for the Bouwfonds MAB designprize 2006 young architects. Their first stage is a generic urban concept for the design...
Club Cinema Motel Rotterdam-Noord
2004 | Large scale infrastructure, such as highways, railways and canals, often cut off urban tissue, leaving strips of undefined public space. Michel Heesen made an urban and architectural design that...
Urban strategy Heidestrasse Berlin
2004 | Michel Heesen has made an urban design for an abandoned industrial brownfield site in Berlin. Instead of offering a Masterplan, the concept is a strategy based on defining...