At AvH we are passionate about the potential of architecture to invoke a sense of belonging.

Spaces that are able to move a person in such a way that one feels rooted in place and time. As if something within them belonged there, even when they had not been there before. Feeling part of the very moment surrounding us.

Before I became involved in the profession of architecture, I experienced that some spaces were able to move me profoundly, as if I had deeply come home, beyond being at home.

Places where time doesn’t tick, but where it moves gently through the space. Where my eyes follow dust in the sunlight. 

Something in the way the light falls in such spaces can touch me instantly, like a piece of music.

Such places are hard for me to leave.