Maxwan architects + urbanists

Profile
Maxwan architects + urbanists are based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. They are an international practice dedicated to contemporary architectural and urban design. Working on a broad variety of subjects, Maxwan have designed widely recognized projects such as the “Saw Tooth Tower (Nuilding)” in Rotterdam, the “Office Building F&I” (Maastricht Aachen Airport) and “50 Bridges” for the City of Utrecht. Maxwan have made a name for themselves internationally with innovative proposals for the new town of Leidsche Rijn (75’000 residents and a hidden highway), the 10’800 houses Master Plan for Barking Riverside, the Master Plan A101 for a new city of 300 000 inhabitants on the fringes of Moscow, the master plan for 2000 houses in the Dnepr River Delta, Kiev Ukraine the urban design for the Waalhafen Zone in Rotterdam with its centre piece “Skill Bill” a new building typology reconnecting the harbour with the city and most recently the master plans for the Central Station areas in Rotterdam and Leiden, the third and fifth largest transport hubs in the Netherlands.

Maxwan encourages collaboration between clients, colleagues and specialist consultants. In each of their projects, Maxwan seek to merge cultural, technical and esthetical influences into an inextricable and beautiful whole. “Considered among the most important offices to emerge from the Netherlands in the last ten years, Maxwan have distinguished themselves as architects who design innovative urban town plans and as urban planners who make beautiful, intriguing buildings.” Michael Speaks, design intelligence 7, A+U 393a.

Maxwan has a core staff of 15 designers and team leaders charged with 5 to 10 young talents of various design professions. We collaborate with consultants in sustainability, building engineering, structural design, cost management, civil engineering, process management, traffic flows, etc. It is with this broad range of talent and perspective, experience with design, and love for design, that we would like to convince you that we are capable of designing original, beautiful and feasible plans for almost any request you could possibly have.


Biography

Rients Dijkstra
1961 The Netherlands
Rients Dijkstra has a scientific design mentality yet loves the inexpicable. He loves maths, astronomy and new technology. Rients is continuously hungry for design innovation.

Rients is founder and design principal of Maxwan. He has an extensive track record ranging from strategic regional planning, infrastructure design to large scale urban planning. Rients knows how to behave and operate in politically sensitive environments. Since 2012 he therefore became the Dutch State Advisor for Infrastructure and City.

Rients is in charge of the domestic and european business development of Maxwan and lectures regularly throughout the world. Rients is content driven, extremely direct yet ultimately visionary.

Hiroki Matsuura
1973 Japan
Hiroki Matsuura was born, raised and educated in Japan. Profesionally he matured in Holland. As an aesthetic engineer Hiroki cooks eastern Zen and Dutch Pragmatism into innovative designs.

Hiroki is design principal of Maxwan since 2004. His extensive track record and expertise ranges from large scale urban design to architecture. With engineer precision he reveals complexity and turns this into smart simplicity. His approach results in contemporary, societal relevant design solutions our clients highly benefit from.

Hiroki is in charge of the international business development of Maxwan and lectures regularly throughout the world. Hiroki has a hands-on mentality, he is direct yet informal and very collaborative.