Ap Verheggen

We start the first blog this year by a short return to project cool(E)motion. Bruce Parry visited Uummannaq while our iceberg with sculptures was grounded just before the island. Picture: Bruce wearing shades designed by Ap to promote Uummannaq Polar Institute. Maybe a glimpse of the sculptures in the documentary? Our Arctic Inuit Expert Ole Jorgen Hammeken adviced  Bruce and his team for their trip to […]

Yesterday we discussed with prof. Wubbo Ockels the technical challenge to build a glacier in the desert. As an example we showed him the sculpture ‘Nomad’.  

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Jan Alkemade, our technical engineer, made a graphic animation about the technical challange of the project. As you can see, even an enigineer can get inspired by Christmas.

Have a look at http://www.animatedengines.com/vstirling.shtml

Frank van der Heijden, refrigeration engineer, Director of Cofely Experts BV, joined us yesterday for dinner. It seems that our project, to build a glacier in the desert, pushes many technological boundaries. Our first idea to design some shapes, cover them with solar cells and build in an ‘ice machine’, seems a bit too optimistic.

‘It’s in Netherlands colder than in Greenland’ a quote from Ole Jorgen Hammeken, just arrived from Greenland, posted by Ap on Facebook, got the headlines next day. ( See link )

This sculpture is an abstraction of a Touareg’s desert dress inspired on http://www.thewaterchannel.org/

My good friend Ole Jorgen Hammeken, from Uummannaq, West Greenland, arrived in Netherlands. We both presented project SunGlacier in Sociëteit de Witte in The Hague. Even Sinterklaas was attending.

We are working very hard to organise the first exhibition next year. Our target is to present 10 sculptures, prototypes. Where? We don’t know. Picture 1: Shaping the sculptures Picture 2: Jan is polishing the sculptures