Peterine is an architect who has been practicing since graduating from the Technical University in Eindhoven. After working for several offices in Amsterdam, she became an independent architect in 2012 and founded her own practice, Studio IJsberg. Her focus now lies mainly on residential buildings, modernising, renovating, and expanding existing homes. She also does work on monument renovation projects and is currently completing a course in Monument Restoration, which also focuses on making monuments more sustainable.

In 2019, Peterine began taking ceramics courses. Ceramics offers her a way to work with her hands, get out of her head, and work away from her computer. She loves the balance that working both as an architect and with ceramics gives her.

She has had a studio at Contact for around three years. After becoming self-employed, she started to missed the day-to-day contact with others and the creative exchange that comes from working in a shared space. Contact offered not just community, but also access to tools and opportunities to try new things. Though she is here only a few days a week, she loves the opportunity to be surrounded by people who are also creating.

At the moment, Peterine is working on a complex extension project for a home in Haarlem, while also preparing for an upcoming ceramics exhibition. Her Monument Restoration course is nearing completion, and she will soon receive her certification.

She draws inspiration from many sources. Nature inparticulare, is a central influence in her ceramics, along with contents such as films, books, and exhibitions. In general, Peterine finds inspiration of everything that she sees around her.

One of her favourite projects is “Pollen,” her most recent ceramics series, which will be featured in an upcoming exhibition. In her architectural work, the renovation of her own home is a particularly meaningful project. Her and her husband, who is also an architect, customised the house from the base. They did all the work from the plaster to the finishing. In so doing, they have created for themselves a space that is personal and represents their shared ideas.