Design of three wooden pavilions in the new landscape garden for Wonderryck, part of the Provincial Museum of Natural History Natura Docet in the eastern part of the Netherlands. The museum's aim is to help people experience new things in the local environment and landscape of the Twente province. While the museum building was renovated by SeARCH and LOLA architects laid the basis for the overall park design and redesigned the garden. A trail between the museum and the park leads visitors across a diversity of natural and cultivated landscapes.
The three frameworks are variations on the park bench that is expanded with additional functions. Each has its own significance in enhancing a certain wildlife experience as a bees hotel, a living bridge or an 'indoor' biotope. This last edifice stands on a roundabout and connects Natura Docet and its wild garden geographically with the old country estate Singraven. This 'indoor biotope' has the form of a house for humans, but is in fact intended for animals and plants only, humans are kept out with beams that block the doorway. Any flora and fauna that is eligible as a perfect roommate for symbiosis may enter and occupy the wooded bank expansion. Their private little house on the prairie is furnished with a mix of grasses, shrubs and a fruit tree which together have a year round blooming. The bee tower is relevant to education in many ways. It provides the local beekeeping association with a space for their new practice and for a large colony of bees. The living bridge extends across a small fen and functions like a sort of 'study diorama' which frames the visitors view to, unlike most watchtowers, emphasize some of the details close by. The bridge is supposed to become completely covered with plants.