Practitioners Interviews

Practitioners Interview Series | Christina Eickmeier

Christina Eickmeier is architect and co-founder of CHRITH architects in Zaandam. CHRITH architects is specialized in circular and ecological designs. Their vision on ‘circular thinking’ was formed during a study trip to Uzbekistan. What they noticed was that in the rural part, almost all building materials come from the plot itself or from the direct surrounding. People think in cycles of several generations. And so they posed the question: what can we learn from this practice in the Netherlands? 

Interview with Christina Eickmeier

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Photos courtesy of CHRITH Architects

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Kim Sinnige
Kim Sinnige
Architect

Ir. Kim Sinnige has been working for the Circular Impulse Initiative within the CBE Hub since 2022. She graduated cum laude from the faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at TU Delft in 2023. Her master thesis explored the embedding of circular values into a Waste-to-Energy plant through storytelling, Material Flow Analysis and design. She completed her bachelor with honors at the faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at TU Eindhoven in 2018. Between her degrees, she has worked in architecture offices in Utrecht and Arctic Norway.

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