NEW GENERATIONS. FABRIC

Itinerant Office presents a new interview for their project New Generations, now is the turn of FABRICations, a studio located in the Netherlands formed by Eric Frijters and Klijn Olv.

IABR Makingcity. For the Architectural Biennale in Rotterdam. Urban & Strategy project in Sao Paulo.

FABRIC is a knowledge intensive design practice, which is conducted by Eric Frijters and Olv Klijn. Their involvement in architecture, urbanism and research results in FABRICations, which appear in a large variety of media ranging from actual buildings to visual representations and written texts.

FABRIC concerns testing. Thinking while doing rings our motto, whereas a hands-on approach ultimately leads to knowledge based designs.FABRIC is a design practice in contemporary architecture, urbanism, and planning. As a research studio and think tank we operate beyond the boundaries of architecture and urbanism as long as spatial issues are involved.

"Our aim is to challenge our clients into a joint adventure. The goal is to find innovative solutions during a common process in which the client is seen as a partner in the project."

In each project FABRIC largely invests in research to expand the available knowledge. We belief that this is necessary to widen the amount of possible solutions.

FABRIC won the Prix the Rome 2010 for architecture, which is the most prestigious prize for young architects in the Netherlands that is awarded once in four years.

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LDGK- Landgoed de Groene Kamer. Green, Ecological and Sustainable Masterplan. Image courtesy of FABRICation.

Glimpses. Research about mobility and future in the south area of Amsterdam. Image courtesy of FABRICation.

Kust Kwaliteit. Research on spatial consequences and opportunities of coastal defense strategies. Image courtesy of FABRICation

Prix de Rome. Slabs Fabrics Open Space- competition 2010, winner. Urban and Architectural redevelopment of an existing area in Amsterdam. Image courtesy of FABRICation.

Artcampus. Urban and Architectural development for a Campus. Image courtesy of FABRICation.

Streets in the air. competition in Madrid 2010, honorable mention. Social Housing Block. Image courtesy of FABRICation.

EEN- Green Collective Space. Or how to use in a sustainable, green, biodiverse and public way the space under the power lines. Image courtesy of FABRICation.

Taichung Tower. Competition 2010, Open core tower that investigates new living possibilities in the skyscraper model. Image courtesy of FABRICation.

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OLV KLIJN

Olv Klijn graduated Cum Laude at the faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning of the Technical University of Eindhoven. He started writing articles for several architectural magazines during his career as a student.

As an artist in residence he stayed at the Canadian Banff Centre, where he has done study into the impact on the process of urbanisation at the American west coast.

After that Klijn worked as a junior architect at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam. In 2004 he started to work as a independent architect and founded OK-studio.

ERIC FRIJTERS

Eric Frijters graduated from the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning of the Technical University of Eindhoven. He also studied architecture at the relevant Faculty of Architecture of the University of Karlsruhe and philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam.

During his years of published articles in various architectural magazines as Archis, AWM and De Architect.

After completing his training as an architect conducted the research with Alterra and the Netherlands Institute for Spatial Planning. He was the author of several publications such as "Farmtycoon" and "Tussenland". Later acquired experience as an architect and urban planner in several architectural firms.