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Monolab is an ambitious studio for advanced research and design in urbanism and architecture, founded in 1999. Simplicity (mono) is linked to experiment (lab)

mission
Monolab is specialised to deliver advanced and integrated projects through simple and crystal clear concepts with high heartbeats. Monolab projects handle complex present and future issues and are fully integrated in their context and in our contemporary culture.

commissions
Monolab deals with large and small-scale projects. The practice obtains commissions in a wide field: from furniture design to villas, from residential projects to urban schemes, from stations and city centers to distribution hubs.

process
Clients demands are taken very seriously. Commissions are opened up, analysed in wide perspectives and in-depth, in order to reveal all issues behind. Monolab invests a surplus of energy during the intense conceptual phases of the design process, the phases in which the most important and determinant decisions are made. High complexity fuels the design process over and over again.

office
The office is lean and mean as the manpower fluctuates with the quantity of work. Fast operating teams move forward in research and 3D design. At all times monolab is ensured of backup in technical issues and cost & planning controll through co-operating engineering firms.

...We are living in an era of interlace. In our present society, life patterns have become increasingly dynamic. Living, working and leisure are blended more and more. This requires a flexibility from everything and everybody that can be generated and fully powered through density, fusion and parallelism. These are our design instuments: Density is bringing together functions in concentrated layouts. Fusion or interlace is the co-operation and/or merging of previously separated functions. Parallelism is the accessibility to several functions at the same moment in the same place....

for further information please contact ir J.W. (Jan Willem) van Kuilenburg.
Principal of Monolab. Head of final projects at the Fontys Academy of Architecture and Urbanism in Tilburg. Member advisory committee contribution programme architecture and research and design Programme, The Netherlands Architecture Fund, Rotterdam.
Jan Willem graduated with distinction in 1989 at Delft Technical University, Department of Architecture. He worked as an architect for OMA in Rotterdam: one year leading the design team Euralille and two years leading the design team Congrexpo (Grand Palais) in Rotterdam and Lille. Later he worked at: NS-architects in Utrecht (renamed Holland Railconsult, now StudioSK), KAW-architects in Groningen and the Architect association (renamed AA architecten) in The Hague. He taught at Delft Technical University and the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urbanism and currently teaches at the Tilburg Fontys Academy of Architecture and Urbanism and is regularly lecturing in Holland and abroad.