Project Manager Rocky Hendrix of the Municipality of Heerlen explains the plans around the Roman Quarter during IBA Parkstad’s Open Day. Maurer United created the design of the public space in this area, which was a Roman settlement 2,000 years ago. The design is currently being realized.
Last Friday, Nicole Maurer gave a presentation at the IBA conference ‘Regiopolitan Rumble’. Maurer United’s SUPERLOCAL project is an IBA Parkstad best-practice project. It was a conference with inspiring contributions from Francesco Veenstra, LOLA Landscape Architects, and Christa Reicher, among others.
Today, European Commissioner Frans Timmermans – responsible for the European Green Deal – visited the SUPERLOCAL project. Low energy consumption, circular building, circular water system and social cohesion: are aspects, which have been addressed in this project in an integral and pioneering way.
In February, the SUPERLOCAL apartment block was completed and occupied. This project by Maurer United has 114 social housing units and already received the National Construction Award during construction in 2019 . Click here for a first impression of the new residents of this circular project.
Nicole Maurer Lemmens (NL,1969) was born in Southern Dutch Limburg. She grew up in a border region, located between Aachen (Germany), Liège (Belgium) and Maastricht (Netherlands). She studied architecture, urban planning, and building science at the Eindhoven University of Technology. She graduated cum laude in 1998. Her thesis on the relationship between identity and spatial environment, which was nominated for the National Archiprix. As a lecturer, she teaches at various academies and universities in the Netherlands and Germany. Since 2020, she has been a research associate at the RWTH Aachen Chair and Institute for Urban Planning. She is a member of several advisory committees and boards. As director, she leads Maurer United, with projects in regional planning, urbanism, public space, architecture, interior architecture and exhibition design.
Marc Maurer (NL,1969) was born in Eindhoven and grew up in Germany. After high school, he moved to his hometown in the Netherlands. He studied architecture, urban planning, and structural engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology. In 1995 he received a master’s degree for his thesis on the relationship between architecture and ‘urban culture’. His thesis was awarded a nomination for the National Archiprix and a nomination for the NPS Culture Award. In collaboration with graffiti artists ZEDZ and Boris ‘DELTA’ Tellegen, he received the National Millennium Culture Prize. He co-founded initiatives such as Baltan Laboratories (Eindhoven), Dutch Design Exchange (Maastricht), and Stichting Street Art (Heerlen). As a director, he manages Maurer United, with a special interest in architecture, fine art, sampling, and typography.
