INFORM Architecture | Urbanism | Reseach Portfolio | Peter Botz
Before you lies my Portfolio, INFORM. A symbolic title which can be read in one or two words. Besides the usual portfolio information it accentuates the essence of [my] architecture; form. Form that follows but can also be leading, archetypical or a-typical, form arising from the mass or from the void. In any case, a form that is clear and understandable. In my projects I’m always looking for a powerful simplicity, a naturalness that primarily results from studying and [re]defining the program, in stead of merely facilitating it. Leading to a tailored solution rather than to linger in confection. Therefore in my eyes design and research reinforce each other and my presented projects show my interpretation of this. Peter Botz
Working experience
collective individuality:
social housing competition madrid
facade and cross section of the building
modular construction with interchangeable floor plans
Despite the limited means that characterizes social housing design, we’ve realised an apartment complex that offers a maximum experience of luxury and individuality. Because of the interchangeable residential modules between the structural frame of the building, a personal involvement from the residents is made possible. So various dwelling types above and beside each other can easily be realized. A large passage opens the backside area and connects the opposite schools with the residential neighborhood.
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groundplan of a typical floor
From a variety of plans, there can be chosen for a living room with an exceptional or more conventional shape and experience. The spacious adjacent balcony enhances the perception and extends the living space to the outside. Images are property of .FABRIC
Hotel Mozaic / concept / renovation / redevelopment Hired by Urban Affairs to work on this assignment I was closely involved in the redevelopment of the The Hague City Hotel Mozaic. Two old mansions in the Archipel Neighborhood in use as a hotel, but not organized as such, have been renovated on the in- and outside. In short the assignment was to improve the internal organization, defining a typical room concept and renewal of the rear facade. The first challenge was to make a logical and functional room distribution within the limits of the existing bearing walls. Strategic passages and a two-story room created the space to qualify for the 3 star standard.
concept image
Final result: 1 tower chamber / 2 Photowall / 3 bathroom module
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Facade Transformation: 1 before / 2 model / 3 after / 4 window variety
The next challenge was to break with the standard, neutral hotelroom principle. Unexpected bathroom configurations surprise and break with the standard layout. The rooms gain character by bringing the outside in. The atmosphere of the neighborhood reflects on the storyhigh photo impressions on the wall. Because of the new internal reorganization, the backside could be stripped with emergency exits and decorated with typical viewing windows, which characterizes the individuality of the rooms and give a view at the neighborhood.
Images are property of Urban Affairs
Images are property of Urban Affairs
Prix de Rome
Through a comprehensive process of research and design, FABRIC formulated a new design position. In which local bottom-up initiatives are linked to global top-down trends and are converted into opportunities that accommodate short-term wishes and long-term targets within a flexible design. Given shape at and around the August Allebéplein in Amsterdam West, in the form of strategic densifications for entrepreneurship. And a public domain of characteristic squares responding to environmental, social and infrastructural wishes and challenges.
43% 40%
38%
Aandeel allochtonen bron: IISG amsterdam
Einde Gouden Eeuw
Bloeiende cultuurstad
800.000 825.000
Economie
23%
Grote armoede onder de bevolking
25%
Handelscentrum hout en graan
900.000
875.000
27% Sterfteoverschot in de 17e eeuw
700.000 700.000 730.000
768.000
540.000
Diamantindustrie
bron: www.beurs.nl, www.rtl.nl
850.000
825.000
680.000
320.000
Handel met bier & haring
120.000
60.000
30.000
12.000
224.000
200.000
175.000
220.000
Inwoneraantal
1649-1780 Nederlanders naar verschillende koloniën Omvang: Onbekend Motivatie: Bewonen handelsposten/kolonisatie
bron: O+S Amsterdam
1490
1500
1510
Vrede met Spanje Verovering Antillen
Contrareformatie
Reformatie
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1530
1540
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1560
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1590
1600
1610
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1630
1640
1650
Koninkrijk der Nederlanden Einde VOC
Verovering Suriname
1660
1670
NederlandsIndië
VOC en oprichting van de beurs
1680
1700
1690
1710
1720
1730
1740
1750
1760
1770
1780
1790
Immigratie
1570-1610 Vluchtelingen uit Zuid-Nederland Omvang: 150.000 Motivatie: Vlucht voor Spaanse overheerser
1810
1820
1830
1840
1580-1700 Joden uit Portugal Omvang: 25.000 Motivatie: Vlucht voor antisemitisme
1630-1770 Intellectuelen uit Frankrijk en Engeland (Descartes, Rousseau, Hobbes, e.a.) Omvang: Onbekend Motivatie: Tolerante omgeving voor andersdenkenden
1580-1750 Joden uit Oost-Europa Omvang: 25.000 Motivatie: Vlucht voor antisemitisme
1850 Strohoedenmakers uit België Motivatie: Markt 1790-einde koloniën Nederland, Nederlands-Indië, Suriname en de Antillen Cirkelmigranten en verlofgangers
1680-1720 Hugenoten uit Frankrijk Omvang: 55.000 Motivatie: Vlucht voor Lodewijk XIV
1600-1780 Zeelieden en soldaten uit Scandinavië en Midden-Europa Omvang: 550.000 Motivatie: Veel werk bij VOC en marine 1680-1820 Trekarbeiders uit Duitsland Omvang: Onbekend Constante komst en vertrek
Amsterdam 1625
1850 Paraplumakers en gouvernantes uit Frankrijk Motivatie: Markt
1850
1860
1870
Kunstveiling in Amsterdam
Amsterdam 1660, ontwerp 4e uitleg
Ontwerp kerk Reguliersmarkt 1684, niet uitgevoerd
migration history of Amsterdam
Gouvernantes
Emigranten naar VS 19e eeuw
1910
1920
1911-1940 Zeelieden uit China Omvang: Onbekend Motivatie: Markt
1850 Winkeliers uit Duitsland Motivatie: Markt
1917 Vluchtelingen uit Rusland
1870-1912 Diensters uit Duitsland Omvang: 75.000 Motivatie: Markt, slechte economie Duitsland
1900
1890
WO I
1900-1945 Mijnarbeiders uit Slovenië, Italië en Polen Motivatie: Markt Geworven migranten
1914-1918 Burgers en soldaten uit België Omvang: 900.000 Motivatie: WO I
1870 Zigeuners Hongaarse ketellappers Bosnische berenleiders
Rembrandt
1880
1933-1938 Joden en politieke vluchtelingen uit Duitsland, Oostenrijk Omvang: 75.000 Motivatie: Nationaal-socialisme
AEX vanaf 1983 2000Vertrek Nederlanders Omvang: Onbekend Motivatie: Economie
1970-1989 Gastarbeiders Italië en Spanje Omvang: 70.000 Motivatie: Retourmigratie
Herziening Vreemdelingenwet
1930
Sloterdijk en WTC 9/11 Val Muur
AUP
WO II
1940
1950
1960
1970
1980
1990
2000
2010
2020
2030
2040
2050
2060
1993Gastarbeiders uit Polen, Roemenië en Bulgarije Omvang: Onbekend Motivatie: Markt 1967Antillianen Omvang: Onbekend
1982Asielzoekers uit Joegoslavië, Somalië Omvang: Jaarlijks 25.000 Motivatie: Oorlog
1970Familieleden uit Turkije en Marokko Omvang: Onbekend Motivatie: Gezinshereniging en -vorming
1951-1975 Gastarbeiders uit Italië, Spanje, Turkije, Marokko, Joegoslavië en Portugal Omvang: 225.000 Motivatie: Markt
1920-1940 Verpleegsters uit Duitsland Omvang: 75.000 Motivatie: Markt, slechte economie Duitsland 1925-1948 IJs en terrazzo specialisten uit Italië Omvang: Onbekend Motivatie: Markt
1965-1990 Indische Nederlanders Omvang: 160.000 Motivatie: Retourmigratie
Onafhankelijkheid Suriname
Aanvang Plan Zuid
Industrialisatie
1945-1965 Joden naar VS Omvang: 5.000 Motivatie: Einde WO II
1940-1975 Naar VS, Australië Nieuw-Zeeland, Canada en Zuid-Afrika Omvang: 350.000 Motivatie: Onbekend
1925-1955 Belgen Omvang: 100.000 Motivatie: Einde WO I
1850 Schoorsteenvegers uit Italië Motivatie: Markt
1815-1909 KNIL-soldaten Omvang: 24.000 Motivatie: Geworven migranten
Descartes
Amsterdam 1554
1935-1958 ‘Reguliere’ vluchtelingen Omvang: 90.000 Motivatie: WO II
1e Vreemdelingenwet
Afscheiding België
1850 Stukadoors uit Duitsland Motivatie: Markt
1680-1820 Huurlingen uit Duitsland, Zwitserland, Frankrijk Omvang: Onbekend Motivatie: Leger was vrijwillig en lage lonen
1500-1770 Ambachtslieden uit o.a. Duitsland Omvang: Onbekend Motivatie: Wanderschaft
design principal
1800
1815-1909 KNIL-soldaten Omvang: 151.000 Motivatie: Uitzending Nederlands-Indië
1850 Pottenverkopers uit Duitsland Motivatie: Markt
bron: IISG amsterdam
Amsterdam 1300
Oliecrisis
1800-1910 Land- en industriearbeiders naar Duitsland, België en VS Omvang: 750.000 Motivatie: Relatief slechte periode tijdens 19e eeuw
1675-1830 Zeelieden naar Scandinavië en Midden-Europa Omvang: 75.000 Motivatie: Retourmigratie
Emigratie
240.000
200.000
180.000
1978 Vluchtelingen uit Chili, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Turkije, Afrika en Midden-Oosten Motivatie: Oorlog
1955 Zeelieden uit Kaapverdië Omvang: Onbekend Motivatie: Economie, dekolonisatie 1945-1979 Indische Nederlanders Omvang: 300.000 Motivatie: Onafhankelijkheid Indonesië 1947-1948 Displaced persons Omvang: 4.000 Motivatie: Opvang OostEuropeanen uit kampen
1959-1981 Surinamers Omvang: Onbekend Motivatie: Economie, dekolonisatie
Emigranten Australië
Gastarbeiders uit Marokko
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public domain
bazar mountain
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water management
masterplan
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Brainport 2020
Amsterdam
Londen Stansted
Warschau
Berlijn
120
Rotterdam
Londen Folkestone Calais
Playing a major role in the mapping of a vision for Brainport 2020, which presents the future development of Brainport to the national government. We’ve visualized the southeast of the Le Mans Netherlands as a landscape of People, Tours Technology and Business. The six maps show an internationally orientated region with a highly innovative economic landscape and a high quality of life.
Hannover
Helsinki Oslo Stockholm
Eindhoven
Antwerpen Lille
Brussel
90
Wroclaw
Keulen
60 240
Katowice Gdansk
Dublin
Luik
180 Amsterdam
Praag
Londen Stansted
Würzberg Neurenberg
Frankfurt
Folkestone Calais
Dijon
Katowice
Luik Würzberg Neurenberg Stuttgart
Straatsburg
München
Innsbruck
Lyon Turijn Milaan
Nîmes
Nice
Marseille
Belgrado
Pisa
Perpignan
Madrid
Pescara
Girona (Barcelona)
Zaragoza
Reus (Barcelona)
Budapest Rome
Barcelona
Napels
Alghero
Valencia
Network infrastructuur en reistijden Alicante
Innovatieve regio’s
Luchtvaart
HSL Netwerk
European regional innovation performance groups (EIS 2009) laag
HSL spoor
Eindhoven Airport verbinding Eindhoven Airport bestemming
HSL spoor in aanleg
geen data
HSL + Eindhoven Airport bestemming
internationaal spoor HSL station
Co-locatie KIC-EIT 240
Bronnen: EIS 2009; EIT; .FABRIC
Turijn Milaan
Budapest
Mullhouse
Zurich Dijon
hoog
Lyon
Praag
Mannheim
Tours
Innsbruck
Wroclaw
Keulen Frankfurt
München
Zurich
Brussel
Lille
Le Mans
Mullhouse
Warschau
Berlijn
Eindhoven
Antwerpen
Parijs
Stuttgart
Straatsburg
Hannover
Rotterdam
Londen
Mannheim
Parijs
360
60
Gemiddelde actieradius in minuten
Gemiddelde actieradius in minuten
map 1 network Belgrado
Jumbo
Intervet
8.700 fte
Sligro
21.900 fte
Jumbo
Vanderlande
Intervet
Masterfoods
Fujifilm
Bosch Ericsson
Vanderlande
Bavaria
DAF Philips NXP
Océ
55.100 fte
7.800 fte
3.700 fte
7.000 fte
1.000 fte
2.100 fte
Nedcar DSM Sabic
18.300 fte
10.800 fte
2.300 fte
ASML
DAF Philips NXP
16.500 fte
VDL
Bavaria
2.100 fte
14.500 fte
4.200 fte
4.600 fte
Atos Origin
1.800 fte
VION
16.500 fte
14.500 fte
4.200 fte
4.600 fte
ASML
1.800 fte
VION Atos Origin
VDL
2.100 fte
Bosch Ericsson
MSD Ricoh
7.600 fte
Masterfoods
Fujifilm
.900 fte
600 fte
Sligro
700 fte
Ricoh
Business bedrijven en werkgelegenheid
Océ Werkgelegenheid
Sectoren
Arbeidsplaatsen
veel
weinig
HTSM keten
veel
Bedrijven
Infrastructuur
Chemie
OEM
Abc
2500+ fte
Food
1e lijn toeleveranciers
Abc
1500 - 2500 fte
HSL spoor
HTSM
2e + 3e lijn toeleveranciers
Abc
750 - 1500 fte
Snelweg
High Tech Starters per Corop-gebied
Incubators/accelerators
weinig
Spoor
Station Intercity HSL station
Bronnen: Bureau Louter 2010; CBS 2010; LISA 2009; KvK 2010; diverse websites
map 4 business
55.100
7.800 f
3.700 f
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Battle on the Hills:
New Markets Utrechtse Heuvelrug
For the province of Utrecht, we’ve researched, visualized and presented together with DHV (consultancy and engineering) and Telos (organization on sustainable development) characteristics of the region of the Utrechtse Heuvelrug. This resulted in two thematical presentations; ‘Battle on the hills’ and ‘Route to sustainability’. Reacting on the spatial and economic strengths and challenges in this region. LIMES Majorly being involved with the prior we’ve translated the goal of upgrading the recreational potential through linking the strong presence of the ‘gaming’ industry in the province to the regions layered military history by creating a spatial lab stimulating almost unlimited crossovers between technologies, applications, purposes and users.
LAURIUM
DE MEERN TRAJECTUM FECTIO
maps of the area: 1 historical militaryMANARICIUM eras LEVEFANUM
C
CARVO
DE WAAG
GAMING +
Game industrie Almere 3 bedrijven
(MULTI)MEDIA GAMING +
NATUUR EN EDUCATIE
GUERILLA GAMES LITTLE CHICKEN GAME COMPANY PLAYLOGIC ENTERTAINMENT W!GAMES SOEPEL GAMES FLAVOUR GAMES
GAMING +
CULTUUR EN EDUCATIE
Game industrie Amsterdam 31 bedrijven | ca. 400 werknemers
Game industrie Hilversum 10 bedrijven | ca. 275 werknemers
MEDIAPARK HILVERSUM
CROSS MEDIA CAFE NATIONAAL INSTITUUT BEELD EN GELUID
36% gestudeerd aan de HKU
GAMING +
faculteit kunst, media & technologie
SPEL
GAMING +
THALES
SPIL GAMES
Game industrie Amersfoort 2 bedrijven | ca. 20 werknemers
SPORT EN WORKOUT GAMING +
Game industrie Utrecht 20 bedrijven | 160 werknemers
BEZINNING EN REVALIDATIE
RONIMO GAMES
GAMING +
GAMING +
SPEL
RE-ENACTMENT
FESTIVAL OF GAMES 2010
STICHTING DUTCH GAME GARDEN
GAMING +
NATUUR EN EDUCATIE
NBL
TU DELFT
HKU faculteit beeldende kunst & economie HKU faculteit beeldende kunst & vormgeving
DUTCH GAME AWARDS
WHITEBEAR STUDIOS
3MENSIO medical images
8% gestudeerd aan de HU faculteit communicatie & journalistiek 12% gestudeerd aan de UU
faculteit informatica en gaming
GATE (game research for training & entertainment)
TNO
GAMING +
RE-ENACTMENT EN EDUCATIE CASTRA
HERCULIS GAMING + 2 thematical laboratories / 3 precence of the gaming industry RANDWIJK
DRIEL
CULTUUR EN EDUCATIE
GAMING +
AVONTUUR
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collages Utrechtse Heuvelrug; gaming lab / 1 gaming & adventure / 2 gaming & education / 3 gaming & rehabilitation /
4 gaming & workout / 5 gaming &re-enactment
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metropolitan area
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The Bureau Zuidvleugel and the national government composed a shared agenda which describes the main spatial-physical and spatial-economic challenges which lay the base for prioritizing necessary future investments. Our challenge was to communicate this agenda in a clear and inspiring cartographic translation. Showing the infrastructural challenges in relation to economic clusters and urban developments.
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HELSINKI
North Brabant 2040 The province of North Brabant faces a double challenge, of strengthening their position in Europe and at the same time making the necessary budget cuts. Therefore it needed to form a strategic agenda focusing on core tasks serving both goals. Playing a major role in creating a method which translated global trends into local challenges, to prioritize and choose from. We’ve organized and visualized the topics by diagrams, maps and collages, resulting into a workbook during, and a final agenda afterwards the process.
OSLO
TALLINN STOCKHOLM
RIGA
VILNIUS
COPENHAGEN DUBLIN
LOGISTICS MAINTENANCE LONDON
FOOD & PHARMA WARSAW
BERLIN
AMSTERDAM
AUTOMOTIVE
BRUSSELS LUXEMBOURG
BRAINPORT
PARIS
VIENNA
BRATISLAVA BUDAPEST
BERN LJUBLJANA
BUCHAREST
SOFIA
ROME MADRID
Brabant in Europe
AGRARISCHE ECONOMIE
Evolution of the regional economy
INDUSTRIËLE ECONOMIE
DIENSTEN ECONOMIE
2025
2010
1975
1950
1900
1700
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KENNIS ECONOMIE
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MAASLAND
UNOX
WALHALLA
[MAASLAND]
HEINEKEN GREVE
VAN HAREN
CHAP LOINTS
RBV LEAF ECCO SUIKERUNIE
CSM BACKER EN RUEB DE BEYERD
AKV ST. JOOST KANDIJFABRIEK
ROUPPE V/D VOORT
DUREA
SMITS VAN MELLE FAAM TEXTIEL LAB
CHV
VAN LIER
NUTRECO
VAN GRINSVEN DMV MARS
LA TRAPPE VAN BOMMEL
KLOKKENGIETERIJ VAN THIEL
DE KROON
[LA TRAPPE]
OIRSCHOTS BIER
[BAVARIA]
BAVARIA BATA
CAMPINA
BEGEMANN
DESIGN CAMPUS
WINTERMANS
DE PLOEG AGIO
SWEDISCH MATCH DOMMELSCH [INTERBREW]
industrial map of ‘workshop’ Brabant
collage ‘workshop’ Brabant
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HSL CONNECTIE RANDSTAD
HOV CONNECTIE NIJMEGEN/WAGENINGEN
ORGANON
LOGISTICS
SHELL MOERDIJK
FONTYS AVANS METAL VALLEY HAS DSM
FOOD & PHARMA
AGRO-FOOD CLUSTER ABBOTT LABORATORIES
NIVRA
LG HI LOGISTICS
MAINTENANCE
TSUBAKIMOTO
SUPPLY CHAIN CAMPUS
IRIS OHYAMA
TFT FUJI
TOSHIBA
AVANS NHTV
RUSSELL HOBBES
EPSON
TELOS
UVT-CAMPUS
NIVRA
AUTOMOTIVE
FONTYS
MITUTOYA EUTECH
OPEN UNIVERSITEIT
EINDHOVEN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
FOKKER AVIOLANDA
FONTYS
TNO
NCOI
ASML
TNO-INDUSTRIE
BRAINPORT HSL CONNECTIE BRUSSEL/PARIJS
industrial map of ‘campus’ Brabant
TUe VDL
TNO-VEHIL
TWINNING CENTER
PHILIPS
DAF
HAIER HOLST
NIVRA CENTRE
HIGHTECH CAMPUS
HOV CONNECTIE LEUVEN/BRUSSEL
collage ‘campus’ Brabant
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Area development Clover 4 Cradle to Cradle working landscape Greenport Venlo
Zoning map 2040
Images are property of Studio Marco Vermeulen
Clover 4 is a logistics development area that based on the Cradle to Cradle principles, sustainability has as it’s starting point. Creative and strategic combinations in program including new techniques, result in closed cycles of water, waste and energy. Tradeport North, Sevenum East and the Sunrise campus are located in this area and show in different stages and scale the results of this approach. Development plan Sevenum EAst
SUNRISE CAMPUS VENLO CRADLE TO CRADLE SOLARCAMPUS
PLAN+WATERSYSTEM OF THE CAMPUS
Images are property of Studio Marco Vermeulen | GROUP A
In the design of the Sunrise campus, we have reserved space in the center for an attractive, green environment. This space could be freed by combining in a clever way essential ecosystems with the desired working environment. The central ‘biotope’ is the architectural elaboration of this and contributes actively to the C2C cycles within the area.
By sustainable design, the water and energy consumption is minimized. In addition to this, the internal cycles are optimized by integrating water treatment and power generation within the area. C2C principles of the central biotope
EINDHOVEN SUPERVILLAGE PUBLICATION & EXPOSITION
Exhibition in the MU Eindhoven Images are property of Urban Affairs
Eindhoven SUPERvillage is a study on an attractive residential environment for knowledge workers in the region of Southeast Brabant. In order to strengthen the international competitiveness of the knowledge region Brainport. During my internship at Urban Affairs we worked on the spatial interpretation of the research. The biggest challenge was to translate the findings and design principles into the final map. And presenting this map through an over 100m2 huge 3D model.
Study Projects
The urban development of Shanghai Critical mass is a residential building for in the last century has a clear turning Western expats responsive to the social point in recent decades. Historic structures isolation that comes over these people. are converted to Western models without When they resolutely swap their daily life realizing the consequences of these changes. and surrounding for an alienating and ‘Critical Mass’ [a physics term for the unfamiliar environment such as of the minimum matter needed to keep a reaction Chinese commercial cities. going] refers to the lack of this, which is By integrating public space and supporting likely to result in a critical point of no return. facilities in the apartment building I designed The design is a research for finding a method an environment which stimulates social more appropriate for an urban renewal interaction. suiting the specific historical context. The The design principles I have found in the design attempts to provide sufficient critical historic Long Tang districts are used as mass to stimulate a new way of thinking, a guideline for the social structure of the which brings more balance in the city building and are also followed to ensure a renewal. better urban integration. Fall 2008 graduation committee; dr.ir. Jos Bosman, dipl. ing Hüsnü Yegenoglu, dr. Jeroen Boomgaard
wide perspective on ground level
The building is designed so that the city continues on the inside of the building. As with the LongTangs, where openings in the district admit the unknown, my design has also a porous plinth. Traffic flows pass therefore easily through the building. By admitting the shortest route from the opposing areas on the site, there is a natural passage through the building making the public core of the building also work as such.
1 inner street & parking entry 2 Pedestrian route from opposing neighborhoods to the subway 3 North-South connection through the buiding
Within the strange environment of Chinese commercial cities, not only alienating through language and script, but also by habits, laws and scale, for several years the expat has to build up a new social circle to compensate for the one left behind. From this perspective, I have opted for a new type of dwelling / building in Shanghai designed around expats. It aims to accelerate social interaction through adding collective elements. Passively by strategic spaces and places for spontaneous meetings and actively by integrating additional facilities aiming at the expats.
Routing through the public space within
The combination of a program with facilities and housing usually has a layered structure. A commercialized plinth with separate dwelling layers on top. This creates two worlds, the public space and the domestic floors. By maximizing the tangent between these two functions an interesting public space arises. The functions are spread deeper into the building, which not only increases the spatial experience, but mostly the functionality of the public atrium.
facing the north
facing the south
facing the east
facing the west
Mixing function, the houses are blue and the facilities are green / yellow
Conventional configuration of mixed use buildings
The tangents of the various functions are intensified on four plazas in the building. (Raised) ground levels, which function as public fields in the atrium. They represent the role of street or square in a conventional neighborhood. And they unlock all the apartments and provide access to the facilities on and below the plazas. Initiated interaction with the public space is the starting point for the overall design of the building, it provides from bottom to top in moments for interaction on the crossing points of several routes. In total three different routes meet each other in different places. These specified routes serve various users, on one hand the residents of the apartments and on the other the visitors of the facilities. Similar to the movement within the LongTangs, they are direct and functional for the residents and those for the visitors revealing and wandering.
Connecting route: finally, there is a less formal route in the building which consists of various stairs and ramps. These elevation points are an alternative to elevator or escalator and make quick short cuts possible.
Visitor’s route: the route to the facilities ascends the building in smaller steps to maintain the visual connection between the functions. It consists of a sequence of escalators that climbs the building as a ribbon, and intersects the plazas.
Residential route: the shortest route, takes the elevator to the specified plaza providing acces to the apartments. Without a forced detour it still crosses interactive fields creating moments for collectivity in the route.
The four (elevated) ground levels
graduation research
REGIE without Regime Analysis portman atria
The research builds on the text “Atlanta” by Rem Koolhaas in which he criticizes the architectural interventions in the city by John Portman. According to Koolhaas, the hotel atrium becomes in Portman’s hands a capsular elements that shuns the outside world and confines visitors as voluntary prisoners. The primary objective of this study was to determine if there are capsular characteristics in the atria of Portman and, if so, what are these characteristics and through which architectural interventions are they created. Atrium of the Marriot Marquis Hotel in Atlanta.
Different ideologies, same approach, In one glance, the similarities between the ‘Capsule Tower “(1965) of Archigram and Portman’s’ Atrium Hotel” can be recognized, minimal and optimized living quarters and across from them a collective living environment. however The difference are also visible, the capsule tower forces everyone to be part of the public space, while the hotel creates an inbetween space, an empty belly, where the happy few can distance themselves from the rest. Portman designed an alternative, competing public spaces in hotels. Archigram’s Capsule Tower and Portman’s Marriot Marquis Atriumhotel.
evolution of the Atrium accessibility.
that Portman uses these atria as an alternative is shown by it’s accessibility. As in the schedule is shown, this evolved into a route where the contact with the ‘outside’ is completely deprived. This neutralizes the awareness of the “inside” by the visitor and gives him the opportunity to realise a substitute ‘outside’ through the strategic use of a number of architectural means. This turns his hotels into a capsular environment that tempts visitors to stay within the building and deprives it from it’s context.
Peachtree district downotwn atlanta Portman’s first Coordinate unit; a network of connected buidings which form a network on top of the urban tissue.
Not the experience of what is, but what isn’t there, makes the capsule. The structural incompleteness of the setting creates the base of the capsular area. A city is characterized not only by size and high densities but also by urban problems. If you are able to direct that urbanity it allows you to filter and/or exclude; terms on which the capsular is based. The space degenerates in capsularity. “it is a world of its own, with lakes, shops, restaurants and trees. The buildings are above, but in these public spaces you are aware only of the elevators.” John Portman Collages; filtering of the urban environment.
Capsular scheme; The archi-tectural structure of the hotel atrium. The scheme shows the transformation of the capsular space, the individual components are neutral, but through the combination and way of applying them, they turn into a capsular climate after a number of stages, which allows Portman to restageadirectedalternative urban environment. autumn 2006 attendants; HüsnÜ Yegenoglu/Jos Bosman
TrainSquare
RENEWED
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ON THE BUILDING t y p ologY
(IN)Security & (Public)Space s t a t i on Master Project StatioN Heerlen SPRING 2005
attendant: Theo Hauben
My vision for the new train station is based on the growing sense of insecurity in public spaces. The station area is an clear problem area in this matter, characterized by a vague no man’s land between public and private. Insecurity or fear in public space derives from both physical and psychological impulses. important factors are:
Specifically to the train station it means:
- awareness and confrontation with real threats - fear for strangers voor estrangement - Associations: vandalism / pollution / decay
concretely I came to the following conclusion: To completely get rid of the negative impulses on the experience of the visitor,
the reduction or complete elimination of impulses works against the feelings of fear and insecurity.
The new station is “resolved” in its urban context. Platforms become train ‘stops’ and typical primary and secondary stations functions get a place in the local setting.
- giving The station a non-station like look. The train station associates with chaos, rush, obscurity. factors for a defensive attitude - introducing facilities, they strengthen social control - Fear also results from suspicion of what one does not know. By confronting and clarifying the individual with his fears, his anxiety will be weakened.
T he tr a i n s t a t i on c a n not c ont i nue to e x i s t .
heerlen CURRENT situatiON & PLANNING AREA station, busSTOPS & rest AREA
TRAFFIC DIVERSION FREe PASSAGE TO THE CITY CENTER & minimIZING SCALE TRAFFIC
EXISTING TRACKS surplus of tracks BECAUSE OF industrial history
NEW TRACKS(AREA) heerlen endpoint of trajectories, tracks ARE ‘cut’ & distributeD
NEW bussTOPS reducing fragmentation OF THE area, by moving THE busstops to THE EDGE
RENEWED INFILL OF THE AREA tracks are spread over the area & overflow from city to park
SQUARESTYLES: organiC- busURBAN- & businessQUARE
URBAN plan
FOUR TRAINS, FOUR SQUARES heerlen HAS FOUR TRAIN trajectORIES. INSTEAD OF EVERY TRAIN GETTING IT’S OWN PLATFORM THEY GET THERE OWN SQUARE. MODIFIED TO THE CHARACTERISTICS OF IT’S TRAJECTORY/TRAVELER. intercity; roermond/eindhoven URBAN NATURE / SQUARE. SPRINTER; landgraaf/aachen BUSINESS NATURE / SQUARE. SPRINTER; kerkrade / maastricht loCAl NATURE, COMPARABLE TO BUSLINE / STOP. SPRINTER; geleen/sittard ROUTE THROUGH ‘parkstad’ heerlen, park SETTING.
BIRD’S EYE VIEW PLANNING AREA entrANCE on CITYSIDE WITH residential tower AS GATE. The rear area is characterized by low-rise.
supermarket & ticket window minimized window, central at the beginning of the area supermarket in the plinth of the singles apartments
Facilities can be found in the urban structure of the area and are in line with the various square ‘atmospheres’. Tickets are available at the various platforms through ticket machines. ‘hORECA’ has been given a new place in a kiosk/café and a drive-inn, who also provideS the local clientele. A supermarket is LOCATED in the planning area that provides besides the passenger also THE local residents OF basic needs. ATMs can be found at a bank.
drive-inn at bus square, the infrastructure connects to bus infra
Bank & kiosk At business square, THEY provide travelers and employees
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Museum in the City Hall of ALPEN AAN DE RIJN MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROJECT SPRING 2003
Plans of the Museum addition including the walkingroute
Identity: The City Hall of Alphen aan den Rijn has two identities. That of a glass, sliced sculpture in the front. And a massive, tilted, stone monolith at the rear. We’ve used this fact to accentuate the presence of the museum within the volume of the town hall. The entrance is next to the glass façade and the museum is designed with similar forms and material as the rear end of the building. So that the glass sculpture represents the town hall and the mass monolith the museum.
Cross-shaped Museum Integrated in the morfology of the City Hall
Space and floorarea: Requirement for the museum was that the current functional space and the surrounding buildings should be retained. By building a part of the museum below groundlevel and placing the other part in a large truss above the facility square, the current programm was minimally affected. The lost square meters were given back in an additional floor on top of the rear building and the museum volume.
Museum entrance
Museum Halls are separated by a cascade height gradient
RAMP,
F i l m h o u s e & Yo u t h c a f e i n S c h i j n d e l A u t u m n 2 0 0 2
Section A-A’
Section C-C’
Section B-B’
Section D-D’
Third floor [Projectionspace]
Second floor [Cinema+Staff area]
First floor [Entrance Filmhouse]
Ground floor [Foyer+youth cafe]
Ramp is a conflict, between Rest & Roar, between City & Village Ramp is a Compromise, between Young & Old, between Open & Closed Ramp is a Cultural Center, where it does not belong, in a quiet village surrounded by a residential area. By acoustic buffer zones, building physical solutions and an introverted architecture, Schijndel has given this tumultuous building a place in its rural setting.
The Berg in Eindhoven is a neighborhood characterized by its mix of functions and users, hidden in a niche at a side street of the Kleine Berg, houses the court house combined with a commercial gallery. The introverted nature of the court house assignment seems to evoke a conflict with the extrovert commercialism of the gallery.
CenterCou r t Winter 2002
layering through double walls and strategically placed glass makes the game of open and closed more subtle. The gallery performs more to the forefront while the house is more turned away. Without thas this schizophrenia is giving the building two faces. Both manifest themselves around the central courtyard that is illuminated through the window blinds. Introversion is remained because glimpses are impossible from the street.
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