dmvA

David Driesen, Tom Verschueren and Kobe Garmyn

David and Tom mutual passion for architecture led to dmvA, ‘door middel van Architectuur’ (‘by means of Architecture’). A noble goal to provide a critical answer using architecture to respond to social, economic and collective matters. The creative process doesn’t follow a manifesto, but it is expressed through experimenting in architecture: A research on form, material and sustainability… Architecture that always starts with a question, a context and a budget. The work of dmvA can be described as expressive and meticulous, achieving maximalism through minimalism. It also entails dedication to refined details and materiality. By claiming to have no defined style, the entire range of styles is in fact appropriated. This attitude eliminates all conformity restrictions and at the same time makes a statement that timeless architecture doesn’t exist. dmvA focuses on the design process and is always looking for the architectural added value while designing.

dmvA likes to act as scriptwriters: They transform a plan into a scenario, spaces into sequences and buildings into storytellers. They are always looking for a unique solution considering the client’s requests and needs of the location. Over the past 20 years dmvA has built a versatile portfolio: From public buildings to large-scale residential projects to installations & private houses.

Tom and David will be assisted in this workshop by Kobe Garmyn, who since January 2019 is a collaborator of dmvA and has been involved in several small and large-scale projects. He studied an innovative international master’s programme in (interior) architecture with a focus on adaptive reuse: exploring spatial potentialities and the poetics of the existing at The Faculty of Architecture and Arts, Hasselt University, in Belgium, and graduated with distinction in 2018.