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A substation you can take apart
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The workCo/Lab Circular Energy Grid (Alliander with Rademacher de Vries), on the Dutch Design Week 2026 programme ddw.nlImages, slide by slide
- Slide 1
- A small building-sized model clad in vertical strips of wood in different tones stands in a dark hall, a visitor with a backpack at its cornerPhoto: B. Bollmann/Dutch Design WeekMuseum or journal record
- Slide 2
- A printed floor map in greens and browns with the words Energiegebruik and Landbouw, a visitor's shoe stepping onto itPhoto: B. Bollmann/Dutch Design WeekMuseum or journal record
- Slide 3
- Facade samples side by side on the model: gray tiles, pale and dark wood boards and wavy relief tilesPhoto: B. Bollmann/Dutch Design WeekMuseum or journal record
- Slide 4
- Close view of facade tiles with deep wavy ridges in brown and orange, set in a grid beside flat gray tilesPhoto: B. Bollmann/Dutch Design WeekMuseum or journal record
- Slide 5
- An older woman with white hair and a green scarf runs her fingers over the ridged tiles of the facade, another visitor beside herPhoto: B. Bollmann/Dutch Design WeekMuseum or journal record
- Slide 6
- Visitors stand around the substation model and its tall white information stand on a green printed floor in the Klokgebouw hallPhoto: B. Bollmann/Dutch Design WeekMuseum or journal record
- Ring frame
- Model of a lifeboat on a launching cart, c. 1768, Rijksmuseum (NG-MC-946)Frame: Rijksmuseum, PD, croppedMuseum or journal record