NIO Architecten
Watermark is a series of prototype façade panels for a cluster of buildings with divergent functions: a music hall, a national soccer museum, a fast food restaurant, a school, a wellness center and several outdoor activity shops for Middelburg, a Dutch city close to the sea. The panels are embodiments of moods that relate to leisure, crossed with various different characteristics of water: desire-whirl, arousal-cohesion, thrill-humidity, satisfaction-drop, curiosity-drifting, relaxation-rain, joy-floating, excitement-boiling, welcoming-wave, anticipation-ripple.
NIO Architecten is a design studio, set up by Maurice Nio and since 2003 also led by Joan Almekinders. Both graduated as architects from the Faculty of Architecture of the Delft University of Technology.