Welcome to Episode II. The second episode. The one where the pilot was found good enough for a whole season. This is our current situation, yours and ours. Our cities, parks, streets and landscape are ready for the next episode, the next step, the extra layer.

We are urban designers and architects. We love to work with new and old media – digital and physical. We thrive in diverse and interdisciplinary teams. We love to try things differently and challenge old habits. We believe in experiments, romance, not style. We believe in people, their excesses, love, lust, creativity and sorrow.

Contact

Episode II
Essenburgsingel 102A02
3022 EG Rotterdam
info @ episodeii.eu
NL: 0031 6 20 95 94 42

C.V. Paul van den Bergh

Publications / Lectures

  • Design Studio Tutor, Lecturer, Visiting Critic: Academy of Architecture Rotterdam
  • Visiting Critic: Academy of Architecture Amsterdam
  • Workshop tutor: Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague
  • Visiting tutor: Sexperience workshop, Fontys Tilburg
  • Online publications: ArchiNed, Failed-Architecture, Archinect
  • Magazines: Architectuur en Stedenbouw, CompetitiOnline
  • Lectures: Woodcongress Ljubljana, Pecha Kucha Hilversum

Selected projects:

  • Office reconversion to apartments, Netherlands
  • Antichambre – Club NOMI, research project, Netherlands
  • Europan 14 – Mill Town Tragel
  • Europan 14 – High Street Trädlyckevägen
  • Private development, Antwerp, Belgium
  • The Cannon, Houston, innovationcampus
  • META, Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • Guesthouse, Polsbroek, Netherlands
  • Private dwelling, Naaldwijk, Netherlands
  • Europan 13, Streefkerk, Netherlands, in collaboration with Julio Gil en Elisabet Barcelo
  • Lost Spaces, Calgary, Canada, in collaboration with Maarten de Haas en Bastiaan van der Sluis
  • Tokyo Parks, Japan,in collaboration with Maarten de Haas en Bastiaan van der Sluis
  • Hacking the Built Environment, Research project
  • PinArchitecture, Designcompetition, Editor’s pick
  • Maak Oostkousdijk, Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • Spaces2Gain, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Consulting for Binst Architects as urban designer, architect and project leader within different teams in the tender, masterplan, concept and design phase:

  • Opwijk masterplan and beeldkwaliteitsplan (urban designer, project leader, commission, Binst Architects, 2019-2021)
  • Kampenhout masterplan (urban designer with urban team, commission, Binst Architects, 2020)
  • Mixed use masterplan Haren (urban designer with urban team, commission, Binst Architects, 2020)
  • Mixed use masterplan Machelen (urban designer with urban team, commission, Binst Architects, 2019-2020)
  • Housing masterplan Vilvoorde (urban designer with urban team, commission, Binst Architects, 2020)
  • Vier Fonteinen, De Molens, Masterplan (urban designer, projectleader, commission, Binst Architects, 2019)
  • Place d’Argent Luxembourg masterplan (urban designer, commission, Binst Architects 2018-2019)
  • Housing Van Marcke Bruges (urban designer, architect, masterplan competition, 1st prize, Binst Architects, 2019)
  • Citizen Brussels (vision-document, selected, Binst Architects, 2019)
  • Herfstvreugde Genk (architect, architectural competition, Binst Architects, 2018)

Architect and urban designer for jvantspijker (now JVST) and CULD

  • Gufunes Urban Fertilizer, detailed partial materplan competition, 1st prize, JVST, 2021
  • Gufunes Urban Fertilizer, masterplan competition, 1st prize, jvantspijker, 2016
  • Best Masterplan of Iceland (Vogabyggd), jvantspijker, 2016
  • Kodrina, Kosovo, masterplan, competition, 2nd prize, jvantspijker/CULD, 2016
  • NHTV, Breda, campus masterplan, competition, 1st prize, jvantspijker/CULD, 2015
  • KennisAs Ede-Wageningen, masterplan, competition, 1st prize, jvantspijker/CULD, 2014
  • World Food Center Ede masterplan, competition, 1st prize, jvantspijker/CULD, 2014
  • Reykjavik Vogabyggd, masterplan, competition, 1st prize, jvantspijker, 2014
  • Kronenburg businesspark, Amstelveen, competition 1st prize, jvanstpijker/Felixx, 2014
  • Nordic Built Challenge, Finland, competition, honerable mention, jvanstpijker, 2013

Career

  • Episode II, Founder, NL/BE, 2015-
  • Archined, editor and curator, NL, 2021-
  • De Chrononauten, Contributor, NL/BE, 2021
  • Binst Architects (former Crepain-Binst Architecture); Project leader urban design, Architect, BE, 2018-2021
  • Academy van Architecture Rotterdam; Teacher and visiting critic, NL, 2019-2021
  • OneBuild; quote calculator on project basis, BE, 2018-2019
  • Jvantspijker UAR; Designer, project leader, Rotterdam, NL, 2012 – 2017
  • CULD; Designer, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, NL, 2011 – 2017
  • Hacking the built Environment, precursor of Episode II; Writer, Rotterdam, NL, 2013 – 2015
  • Studio Sputnik, 3D-modeling, Rotterdam, NL, 2011
  • HVN Architecten B.V., Draftsman, Hoensbroek, NL, 2010

Education

  • Rotterdam Academy of Architecture (RavB), Master Architecture, NL, 2011-2018
  • Surviving Distruptive Technology, University of Maryland, USA (MOOC), 2013
  • Zuyd University, Built Environment: Architecture and Engineering, NL, 2007-2011