Jan Korbes
Location: Netherlands/The Hague work on any location worldwide (if travel is covered)
Genres: Recycling Architecture and Interdisciplinary Art
Languages: German, Dutch, English, Italian, Lithuanian (in progress)
Creative re-use of found or rest materials
Operating on the borders of architecture, engineering, art and design
Origin for designs are material, its history, and interaction with the context
Social and 3dimensional troubleshooting
Turn everything into new contexts and functions
Research, development, procuction
Found material is alive
Listening to the object
The context provides everything necessary
Inventivity lies on the streets
'Garbage architects Denis Oudendijk and Jan Korbes provide a second life for found or thrown-away objects. They operate on the borders of architecture, engineering, and design and create new products from old materials. Origin for designs are found in the material itself, by listening to its own composition, history, or local and social context.
In this way recovered harbour poles from Scheveningen -after being Amazonas‘ giant trees and 50 years duty in harbour waters- turn into furniture and other modules. Or survival capsules from scandinavian drilling rigs -no longer complying to recent safety regulations- become a floating hotel in dutch waters.
Besides they research give workshops on waste material streams and creative recycling in various countries.'
Bio:
Born 14.09.1969 in Düsseldorf, Germany
Nationality German
Languages German, Dutch, English, Italian, Lithuanian (in progress)
1987 High School in Plymouth, Michigan, U.S.A.
1991 civil service in children's HIV dept at Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf
1993 Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany
1995 Universitá degli studi di Firenze, Italy
1998 RWTH University Aachen Germany, diploma ingenieur architecture
1997 lectures and seminar CAD, Lehrstuhl Tragwerklehre, RWTH Aachen
1998 Bos Rosdorff Wiebing architencombinatie, The Hague, Netherlands
1999 van Mourik Vermeulen architecten, The Hague
2003 complett.nl, start own studio, The Hague
2003 cooperation with 2012 architects and Denis Oudendijk, Rotterdam
recent projects:
2004 Eend op Eend, Dordrecht
educative and protecion wall for ducks in a nature parc
construction material are re-used wooden harbour poles of 8m length,
cut into blocks and built up with lego-like system, reinforced by metal bolts.
cooperation with anke wijnja, stefan de graaf
2004 Stairs Schloss Wiesenburg, Berlin
stairs in the shape of add-on boxes supporting itself as a constructed, empty beam
materials are recovered antique floor wood and construction wood from the castle
cooperation with judith van der meer
2004 Millegomme Culture Night, The Hague
interactive cultural event
we made several objects from tyres and let the public interact with the results.
darkness and the right amount of rain gave the performance a taste of ghosts dancing on polished rubber
cooperation with denis oudendijk, pascaline myannai, indre klimaite