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| Playful housing concept with glazed surface |
| Haiko Meijer of Onix Architects made some singular choices in his design for the Student Cloud in Utrecht. He started with a poem. From that emerged the cloud theme, which became the basis for a playful housing concept. The hybrid interior has been given a unique skin comprising prefab façade panels composed of glazed tile strips. It evokes a cloudy Dutch sky. Koninklijke Tichelaar Makkum bought a special kiln for the purpose, and played an active part in conceiving the execution of the job. Everyone is up in the clouds. |
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| Onix makes architecture ‘super-personal’ |
| Onix seek out limits and allows the uncertainty factor into the collective mission to add quality and value to the environment we live in, while respecting the existing context. Whether it is a large housing complex or a garden shed, it’s all about open and hospitable architecture based on a highly-developed sense of proportion, in harmony with the surroundings. |
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| ‘Controlling the uncontrollable’ |
| A new market segment, a new application, a new kiln. In short, a completely new challenge: creating clouds with glazed rectangular tiles. To be assembled into prefab construction panels. Dreams become reality at a temperature of 1,100°C. 230,000 glazed strips, all with specific codes, will clad a façade with a surface area of 7,000m². |
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