Our office is located in the transformed national monument A11 on the Hembrug site, which carries a long narrative. A narrative that we have continued to write.

Part of which is our office interior, which consists of three chapters:
The terrazzo floor made from ground tombstones,
the CLT interior built from an Audi pavilion,
the wall covering made from residual wool.

The terrazzo floor made from ground tombstones.

We discovered that tombstones from cleared graves are treated as waste.
Waste that ends up buried beneath highways.
This struck us as both absurd and disrespectful: precious natural stone and cultural heritage reduced to rubble.

We managed to acquire 25 tons of discarded gravestones for free.
After we had ground them into pebbles we could give the tombstones a new meaning.

The pebbles had to be sorted for the terrazzo. 4-10 millimetres. Not too big nor too small.

Shifting through the crushed tombstones was a reflective and moving process.

Then we started experimenting.

With the help of terrazzo maker Markus Schulze, we laid the entire terrazzo floor.

The CLT-interior built from an Audi-pavilion.

In 2023, A&A Expo built Audi’s most innovative pavilion to date.
It stood in the center of Munich during the International Automobile Exhibition (IAA).
Which lasted four days.

We bought it and sawed it using their CNC machine.

After dismantling the pavilion, A&A listed the used CLT wood on Marktplaats, where we found it.

In such a way that we could stack them like legos.

The wall covering made from residual wool.

In the Netherlands, over 1.6 million kilos of sheep wool are produced each year.
Only one-eighth of it is used, the rest is burned.
The Hollands Wol Collectief processes this surplus into felt, which we used for acoustic wall panels.

An undervalued residual product gains a new worth.

The integration of these three narratives creates a harmonious and unique working environment in which every surface tells a story of circularity, craftsmanship, and life cycles, adding meaning to the everyday use of space.