LMNL office

We are Erica Chladová and Robert van der Pol, and our studio LMNL office [for architecture and landscape] is located in The Netherlands. We met while completing our Masters at TU Delft. As Architects and Landscape Architects we work mainly on projects in which we can design both buildings and their environments. We prefer to first to test out ideas on ourselves, self-funding projects that touch on topics we wish to research. Our practice focuses on sustainability, material research, climate adaptation and technical feasibility. The work we produce encompasses several types of projects across several scales: the first being sustainable and healthy bespoke homes and gardens, the second being larger scale urban studies, and the third is being hands on in our experimental home base, where we are considering the future potentials of rural living and horticulture.

We believe in designs where the built form and living landscape benefit from and interact seamlessly with one other. Our goal is to design that interaction between architecture and its landscape to create more playful, powerful and liveable places with a look to the future. Our built work consists of several award-nominated homes, including both renovation and new build projects which bring sustainability and biobased materials to the forefront. We hope that our work inspires clients and other designers to use healthy materials in their projects so that they become more mainstream - materials like clay, earth, wood, hemp, lime and thatch from local sources. Winning and receiving an honorable mention in Europan 15 in our ex-hometown of Rotterdam keeps us interested in addressing challenges faced by our urban environments. As we no longer live in the city, our focus in the meantime has shifted to Dutch rural spaces and the multitude of pressures facing them. We work approximately 40% of our time on transforming a two hectare agricultural plot into a bio-diverse and climate proof cultural landscape.