ZUS [Zones Urbaines Sensibles]

Kristian Koreman founded ZUS [Zones Urbaines Sensibles] in 2001 with Elma van Boxel. For their cross-disciplinary approach and their constant reflection on the division between private and public space, the duo received the prestigious Maaskant Prize for Young Architects in 2007.

Realized projects include the landscape design of the Dutch Pavilion for the Shanghai World Expo 2010, the Central Park on the World Expo, the Printemps park at Grand Bigard Brussels and the exhibition pavilion Spiegelzee on the Dutch coast. ZUS is also involved with a number of large-scale urban plans, such as Almere Duin, a multi use coastal district in the Netherlands that is about to go under construction. ZUS was also involved in the transformation of the Schieblock—a vacant office block in the middle of Rotterdam—into an urban laboratory.

Their critical research focusing on urban politics of the contemporary city has resulted in books and articles including Laboratory Rotterdam: Decode Space, and Re-public, Towards a new spatial politics Their work has been exhibited at architecture biennials in Venice, São Paulo, Rotterdam and Christchurch and urban design exhibitions in Mumbai and Moscow, and it is part of the traveling exhibition Architecture of Consequence curated by the Netherlands Architecture institute.

Koreman has been involved as an instructor at the Delft University of Technology and Wageningen University and was a member curatorial board of the 5th International Architecture Biennale
2011.

Van Boxel and Koreman are members of the curatorial team for the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam 2012 and have been selected as team members for the BMW Guggenheim Lab New York. In 2011 they cofounded Inside, a Master's program for interior architecture at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. Van Boxel and Koreman were both members of the Rotterdam Board for Spatial Quality.

Elma van Boxel founded ZUS [Zones Urbaines Sensibles] in 2001 with Kristian Koreman. For their cross-disciplinary approach and their constant reflection on the division between private and public space, the duo received the prestigious Maaskant Prize for Young Architects in 2007.

Realized projects include the landscape design of the Dutch Pavilion for the Shanghai World Expo 2010, the Central Park on the World Expo, the Printemps park at Grand Bigard Brussels and the exhibition pavilion Spiegelzee on the Dutch coast. ZUS is also involved with a number of large-scale urban plans, such as Almere Duin, a multi use coastal district in the Netherlands that is about to go under construction. ZUS was also involved in the transformation of the Schieblock—a vacant office block in the middle of Rotterdam—into an urban laboratory.

Their critical research focusing on urban politics of the contemporary city has resulted in books and articles including Laboratory Rotterdam: Decode Space, and Re-public, Towards a new spatial politics Their work has been exhibited at architecture biennials in Venice, São Paulo, Rotterdam and Christchurch and urban design exhibitions in Mumbai and Moscow, and it is part of the traveling exhibition Architecture of Consequence curated by the Netherlands Architecture institute.

Van Boxel has been involved as an instructor at the Delft University of Technology and Wageningen University and was a member curatorial board of the 5th International Architecture Biennale
2011.

Van Boxel and Koreman are members of the curatorial team for the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam 2012 and have been selected as team members for the BMW Guggenheim Lab New York. In 2011 they cofounded Inside, a Master's program for interior architecture at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. Van Boxel and Koreman were both members of the Rotterdam Board for Spatial Quality.