Carve is a design studio that creates playable, multifunctional, and adaptable public spaces. They designed two skate parks - one in Hoofddorp that was influential but is now gone, and one in Utrecht. They also designed a community garden in Amsterdam inspired by self-reliance and social interaction between users. Their most recent project, Dream Hamar, aimed to create an immaterialized public space through minimal intervention.

2. kortenaerplein 341057 ne amsterdam
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carve
play as catalyst for change
21 October 2014

4. design
carve
Elger Blitz
Thomas Tiel Groenestege
Marleen Beek
Hannah Schubert
Mark van der Eng
Lucas Beukers
Thijs van der Zouwen
Jasper van der Schaaf
engineering

5. bisschopsplein, utrecht
adaptation and flexibility

6. sculptural

7. identity

8. playable

9. multifunctional

10. raadhuisplein, hoofddorp
permanently temporary

11. 1999

12. 1999

14. In 1997 the skatepark in the centre of Hoofddorp was the first concrete
skate facility of its kind in the Netherlands. In 2008, the Raadhuisplein was
nominated for the Architecture Prize Haarlemmermeer.
From the jury:
"The skate facility works as a generator of activity on the formerly
deserted city square. It was one of the best skate tracks of the
Netherlands at that time. It is also a wayward and ‘stubborn’ object:
the formal square became the domain of the youth.”
... 10 years later

15. ... and 15 years later

16. lucas community garden, amsterdam
inspired by self-reliance and conviviality

22. enkele tafel
mogelijke objecten
dubbele tafel
enkele tafel
dubbele tafel
enkele bak
enkele tafel
dubbele tafel
enkele bak
dubbele tafel
enkele bak
dubbele bak
enkele bak
dubbele bak

23. zit element
betonstaal trellis
zit element
betonstaal trellis

44. dream hamar, norway
immaterialised space