DOM HANS VAN DER LAAN

tartan-lessons 4 architects

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lesson 1 of approx. 200 ;)

architects! watch what your wearing

lesson 2

architects! choose your colors carefully

lesson 3
architects! choose your pattern
unlike previous this is
prince de Galles

lesson 4
architects! this is simple Yarmouth

small bench

2011-11-14T01:31:00.001-08:00

furniture

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if this isn't multi-funcionality in all dimensions..

shigemori expo kyoto

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VdL

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Vaals Autumn

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de Bossche school

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church Almelo Carmel NL arch Nico Van der Laan

church Gennep NL arch G. Wijnen
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tuinmuur afwerking boven wildverband

kroonlijst afwerking

pastorij Wevelgem arch J. Lietaert

achterzijde klokkentoren Wevelgem

atelier beeldhouwer Claesen

woning achitect Dejong

VdL @ work 1974

2009-04-22T08:52:00.001-07:00

Moederklooster Mariazusters van Fransiscus

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Lesser known convent in Waasmunster Belgium
by Dom Van der laan completed in 1985

square

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try to divide a square in tree different size parts with the same proportion
you will see you'll need 0.7548² or proportion 4/7

if you are a minimalist you can do it with 3 times proportion 1/3 same size. I'll leave that to Donald Judd.

I preferre the more complex but not less ordened complexity of the first solution
A.M = O.C
Aestetic Measure (the 'beauty') is an equal balance between Order and Complexity

Total order means just nothing more then an empty white page
Total chaos is pure randomness like Pollock

both can be exquisite

I preferre "the middle way"

letterdesign alphabet

2008-06-30T03:50:00.001-07:00

urban block

2008-06-30T03:08:00.001-07:00

urly cardboard model

later wooden model

thematismos

2008-06-30T01:49:00.000-07:00

bi-annual mag on VdL
available here
http://www.architext.nl/thematismos.html

Furniture

2008-06-28T03:15:00.000-07:00

Wijnbergkerk

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Wijnberg Church in Wevelghem Belgium
now confirmed to be by the hand of Dom Van der Laan
in collaboration with Josef Lietaert (Brugge)

http://paola.erfgoed.net/sdx/inventaris/toon.xsp?id=71115&base=objekt&qid=sdx_q0&p=1

dom hans van der laan

2008-03-03T13:12:00.000-08:00

architectuur modellen en meubels

2007-12-26T03:40:00.001-08:00

Rosenberg Waasmunster

2007-12-17T09:02:00.001-08:00

The Books

2007-10-24T09:30:00.002-07:00

Article about his furniture

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in French

The Padovan Series

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1 2 2 3 4 5 7 9 12 16 21 28 37 49 65 86 114 151 200 etc ad infinitum

named after Richard Padovan

series of 4 1st and 2nd = 4th
series of 6 6th - 5th = 1st
series of 5 1st till 5th = 10th
series of 9 9th - 7th - 5th = 1st
series of 8 1st + (2 x 5th)= 8th

etc ad infinitum
(so much more complex then the Fibonnaci series where the only relation
between the numbers is 1st+2nd=3rd)

+xn=x(n-p)
n= 1 p= 2

x³-x-1= 0 or 1+x=x³

spiraling equilateral triangle generate the series to

The Plastic Number Le Nombre Plastique Het Plastisch Getal

2007-10-24T08:11:00.000-07:00

how it is found
the human eye can see a difference of 3% between different squares
take 8 times 3% and you get 24% which is approximately 25%
or 1.3247 (1/4) or 0.7548 (3/4)

the second Morphic Number whe know after the Golden Number
wiki agreed "the silver number"
(not counting root 2)

Psi = 0,754877666246693
1/Psi = 1,324717957244750

tree and leaf

2007-10-24T07:58:00.000-07:00

fractalistic examples in nature

made this to check his statement

it isn't obvious for all trees but for many

my studymodels

2007-10-24T07:35:00.000-07:00

Model 19 etc

my morphotheek or formbank
and the pebble experiment

Wijnbergkerk

2007-10-17T08:31:00.000-07:00

Church in Wevelgen Belgium supposedly designed bij Joseph Lietaert with D VdL

Resembles very much te design for Martinique by D VdL

i'm looking for the plans... can u help me?

thematismos

2007-09-21T06:18:00.001-07:00

Thematismos & Model 19
3d model available

2007-09-21T06:14:00.000-07:00

basic proportions 1/1 3/4 4/7 3/7 1/3 1/4 3/16 1/7
deducted proportions 6/7 2/3 1/2 3/8 2/7 3/14 1/6 1/8
we need no more than these 16 proportions to create a house, a town, a world...

blokken platen staven en blanke vormen
blocks slabs sticks and white forms

The Formbank or Morphotheek

Sint Benedictusberg Vaals

2007-09-21T06:01:00.000-07:00

the forbidden library

revised model (3/8 > 3/7) and 3d model (available on request)

Abbey Sint Benedictusberg in Vaals the Netherlands

2007-09-21T05:34:00.000-07:00

Dom Hans Van der Laan

*Leiden 29 december 1904 + 19 august 1991