Graduation Weekend 2023 by Amsterdam Academy of Architecture

Graduation Projects

Graduation Projects 2022-2023

Advisory board Rosa Jonkman James Heus Madeleine Maaskant Janna Bystrykh Anna Gasco Markus Appenzeller David Keuning Communication Mildred Zomerdijk Editor Roos Bekkenkamp Graphic design Mainstudio (Edwin van Gelder, Moritz Eggmann) Printing Libertas Pascal Publisher Amsterdam Academy of Architecture Waterlooplein 213 1011 PG Amsterdam The Netherlands +31(0)20 531 8218 avb-info@ahk.nl academyofarchitecture.nl © 2023 Amsterdam Academy of Architecture All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy or any storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure accuracy, the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture does not accept responsibility for errors or omissions.

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008 Rex van Beijsterveldt (L) Water driven 012 Tale Bjelland (L) ReWeaving 016 Paula Bloma (A) Skeletons of the Future 020 Tom van Boekel (L) Radical Regeneration Amsterdam – RRA 024 Maiara Luchi Camilotti (A) Novo Candelaria 038 Magalí Sanz Casas (L) Harvesting Collective Perceptions

062 Gavin Fraser (A) The eyes are the windows to the soul

126 Bram Oude Monnink (U) Patchworking Amsterdam North

076 Jacob Heydorn Gorski (L) Burnt: A Tale of Three Fires

130 Charlotte Mulder (A) Spare Space

080 Wouter Grote (A) Greenhouse 084 Daisy Hart (A) Generation Living 088 Daan Jansen (A) Wie goed doet die goed ontmoet 092 Maria Khozina (A) Average Place

043 Roy Damen (L) 096 Garden and Gardener of Vyasa Koe (A) the Peelrandbreuk Suyaanisqatsi 046 Anouk van Deuzen (A) A Space for the Mind

100 Danny Kok (A) A place to be shared

050 Alice Dicker Quintino (A) Shelter

114 Luuk Koote (U) The City of Trust

054 Marlies Doesburg (L) Decultivate

118 Kilian Lode (U) Directing Change

058 122 Stephanie van Dullemen (A) Siân McGrath (A) Kastelenstraat 2.0 Reuse Reimagined

134 Wieger Postma (U) Archipelago Marken 138 Coen Pronk (L) More life again 152 Steve Schaft (A) Venice, An initiative for imagination 156 Valerie Smalen (A) Inside outside 160 Sharon Sportel (A) In Between Green 164 Shahaf Strickmann (L) Glory of the Forest 168 Anne Floor Timan-Wenzel (L) Moving Earth 172 Mike Wissing (U) Voorland 176 Laurien Zwaans (A) Voor Wad hoort Wad

Designing for climate change

At the time of writing the tion Catalogue, students at the Amsterdam Academy of Dutch national newspaper Volkskrant has just pubArchitecture are focused lished a newspaper article and inspired to address about the newest climate these issues in their work. report of the Royal Nether- Not at a superficial level, by patching over the symptoms lands Meteorological Institute (KNMI). According of ecological breakdown, to this report, in the most but by studying its root causextreme calculation, sea es. Many graduation level rise will amount to 17.5 projects are not only metres in the year 2300. evidence of design talent, Even more cautious calcula- but also of an investigation tions don’t offer any respite. into a systemic improvement ‘In terms of climate, we are of the design process itself, already in a very different by looking from the begintime than in 2014, the year ning at the causes of the we presented our previous problems they identify. Examples in this catalogue climate scenarios,’ KNMI include Water-Driven, in director Maarten van Aalst observed. ‘The climate has which Rex van Beijsterveldt changed significantly, with seeks to reduce the effects extremes that could hit us of climate change on the hard even now. The time Dutch river landscape, More Life Again, in which Coen when we saw climate impacts as something of the Pronk investigates how to future is over.’1 improve the water quality of The effects of climate Veerse Meer lake in Zeeland, change are already being and Moving Earth by Anne felt today. In the NetherFloor Timan-Wenzel, which lands, last summer was very is about exploring future hot and dry, with more possibilities with clean frequent and longer heat energy, new food systems waves than normal. Elseand nature-inclusive where in Europe, people production landscapes in the experienced different mining area of Hambach, effects. The tourists who fled Germany. forest fires headlong on the A second, clearly Greek island of Rhodes are identifiable line in this year’s etched in the collective graduation designs is the memory. And some of the focus on current and authors of this introduction pressing social issues that, experienced first-hand the like climate change, regulartorrential rains in Norway ly make headlines. Mental and the Alps, which turned health, especially in times of quiet streams into swirling crisis, is one such issue. With masses of water in a short ReWeaving Tale Bjelland time. introduces green spaces in downtown Oslo to improve As will become clear from reading this Graduamental well-being, while

Designing for climate change

with Space for the Mind Madeleine Maaskant, Anouk van Deuzen designs Director a place in Amersfoort Janna Bystrykh, dedicated to increasing Head of the Master’s course mental health of young in Architecture people. Alice Dicker Anna Gasco, Quintino, on the other hand, Head of the Master’s course in Urbanism aims to contribute to the recovery process of female Joost Emmerik, victims of domestic violence Head of the Master’s course in Amsterdam’s historic city in Landscape Architecture centre with her graduation 1. ‘Droge zomers, risico op meters hoger zeeniveau: dit is het nieuwe Nederlandse klimaat’, Volkskrant, 9 design Shelter. October 2023 A third clearly identifiable theme is the urban challenges of densification and redevelopment of former industrial areas. Examples include Skeletons of the Future, in which Paula Bloma researches ways to revive the shipbuilding industry of Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour through collaboration between man and machine, Inside Outside by Valerie Smalen, about the redevelopment of Amsterdam’s Waterlooplein, and Prospective Land, in which Mike Wissing explores the possibilities for densification of the Dutch city of Doetinchem. These are just some of the many graduation designs in this catalogue. All the designs you can find here testify to an engagement of our students with the problems of the world we live in. The Academy hopes that the future generation of students will further develop their professional attitudes and engage in a systemic rethinking of the processes underlying the challenges of our time, primarily climate change.

Water driven A breathing river landscape 8

Rivers like the Rhine and vision encompasses a series of water basins within the the Meuse serve as vital lifelines for both humans and river polders, each with its nature. However, with the distinct function, land use ongoing changes in climate and beauty. and the detrimental impacts of river and landscape cultivation, we’re reaching a new breaking point. This design research advocates for a transformative approach to the Dutch river region. The river area starkly showcases the extreme ramifications of climate change. Both severe droughts and heightened flood risks exert significant strain on this landscape, especially in the low-lying river polder regions along the riverbanks. These susceptible zones are crucial in devising a comprehensive strategy to alleviate the impacts of climate change on the Dutch river landscape. Such a strategy not only provides hope for nature and farmers but also demonstrates the potential when water and soil are guiding. This method addresses the adverse outcomes of climate change and an overly cultivated landscape but also aids in extensive nature restoration and introduces innovative Discipline land use forms in these new Landscape Architecture conditions. Rain and river Date exam water can be stored and 21.08.2023 later used during drought Committee through a vast and smart Mirte van Laarhoven water management system. (mentor) The outcome is a low Saline Verhoeven dynamic breathing landGerwin de Vries scape that gives and takes, Additional members Ziega van den Berk powered by an innovative water mechanism. This Roel van Gerwen

Rex van Beijsterveldt

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Room outside the river. Nature driven. Land use driven by soil and water with impact.

Water driven A breathing river landscape

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Spatial carriers - structures, land use, and waterworks. Land of Maas & Waal. A witness to the new land use.

Rex van Beijsterveldt

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Land shaped by clay. A gate formed by clay and water. A passage of water and land.

ReWeaving Improved public space for better mental health 12

With modern cities help lessen these stressors. expanding rapidly, more This project looks at the citizens than ever are inner city density of Oslo, an exposed to more industrial asphalt haven, and what its and paved landscapes. The materiality and use can standard European city has mean in terms of quality for changed drastically in the its residents. The focus past 100 years, with centres around the Aker exponentially growing river (the green backbone), populations and predictions which bisects the city and its of future growth. The need connectivity to the urban to densify, and in turn, the fabric. This project proposes common prioritisation of a new way to look at the housing over all other fragmented inner city green, functions, has become a its use, and the public space negative trend in modern leading to it as a way to society. Public green space improve the lived experience has historically been seen as in the city. a luxury, and in many ways, it still is today, as something that is not equally or adequately afforded to all city residents. Even now, parks and other green spaces are threatened by urban sprawl, and skyrocketing land worth within densely packed areas only exacerbates the problem further. These pockets of green within cities are inextricably linked with the well-being of city residents. The loss of green space, paired with increasing migration to cities and the inequitable quality of life among residents, necessitates an interdisciplinary approach to Discipline the apparent modern rise in Landscape Architecture mental illness. Treatment Date exam 4 options to combat the 26.06.2023 changing demands of Committee people should extend Dirk Sijmons (mentor) beyond medication and Ruwan Aluvihare include other factors that Machiel van Dorst influence quality of life. This Additional members is where the value of a Saline Verhoeven restorative landscape can Brigitta van Weeren

Tale Bjelland

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Site location. River comparison. Project transition.

ReWeaving Improved public space for better mental health

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Pilot project location. Visual: Street transformation. Visual: Intersection transformation.

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Visual: Zen park. Visual: Bridge transformation. Visual: Park transformation.

Tale Bjelland

Skeletons of the Future 16

My graduation presentation envisions a future of harmonious collaboration between humans and machines, where special workshop spaces known as "Skeletons of the Future" facilitate collaboration and serve various purposes. With its rich history as a shipbuilding facility, Cockatoo Island is strategically positioned to drive transformative endeavours in manufacturing and shipbuilding. The proposed project aims to revitalise the manufacturing sector, as well as address environmental sustainability. Integrating advanced technologies, particularly 3D printing, unlocks new possibilities in shipbuilding, while a versatile structure on Sutherland dock streamlines operations. The project emphasises collaboration, continuous learning, sustainability, architectural excellence, and integrating Industry 4.0 principles. Cockatoo Island is positioned as a beacon of innovation and a catalyst for transformative change in shipbuilding and manufacturing. Discipline

Architecture Date exam 4

17.07.2023 Committee

Jan-Richard Kikkert (mentor) Ben Milbourne Jason Hilgefort Additional members

Bart Bulter Ricky Rijkenberg

Paula Bloma

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Cross section drawing. 01 Level. Dry dock.

Skeletons of the Future

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Site plan axonometric drawing. -01 Level. Underwater welding facilities. Axonometric diagram. On the left. On the right.

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Sectional model of the interior manufacturing spaces. Conceptual sketch of the initial design idea. Cockatoo Island long site section.

Paula Bloma

Radical Regeneration Amsterdam – RRA

With this plan, we aim to dependence on individual address urgent challenges car travel and strive for more comprehensively and make sustainable and efficient greening a natural part of it. mobility, with pedestrians The goal is to shift the city’s and cyclists taking priority. focus from Gross National By addressing these two Product (GNP) to Gross themes, other issues such as National Well-being (GNW), climate, biodiversity, energy, with attention to measurable and the economy can be outcomes such as property integrated as co-benefits value, reduced healthcare with a strong foundation of costs, and unmeasurable greening. We aim for an aspects for the benefit of the inclusive and sustainable new generation. living environment by This plan should be part transforming housing of Amsterdam Metropool typologies, promoting a new Solutions (AMS) and mobility strategy, and demonstrates lines, points, integrating other relevant and places where all guiding themes. This not only principles can be applied. enhances diversity in While there may be more housing options but also urgent locations, they improves the accessibility, represent the guiding livability, and environmental principles. The ultimate aim friendliness of the city. is for the city to adhere to these guiding principles to enhance the Gross National Well-being. The focus lies in transforming and diversifying housing typologies and facilitating a new mobility strategy. By transforming existing housing typologies and creating diverse living forms, we can cater to residents’ diverse needs and preferences, contributing to an inclusive and mixed living environment. Discipline Furthermore, it’s Landscape Architecture important to develop a new Date exam 4 mobility strategy. This 12.07.2023 includes investments in Committee sustainable public transpor- Ruut van Paridon (mentor) tation, improving cycling Burton Hamfelt and pedestrian infrastrucGeert Timmermans ture, and promoting shared Additional members mobility solutions. The Jana Crepon objective is to reduce Hanna Prinsen

Biodiversiteit - leidende principes

1 The green, inclusive city. 2 Five times V for all: Food, Connection, Safety, Residence, Reproduction. (+Management)

Tom van Boekel

Radical Regeneration Amsterdam – RRA

Conceptschema | Slotermeer-Noordoost

RRA Slotermeer Noordoost

Legenda Fietspad (groene lijn) Fietsstraat Parkpad Voetpad Stadlus autoweg Sport- /speelfunctie gekoppeld aan functie gebouw Brettenscheg Publieke binnentuinen Publieke binnentuinen Hoofdgroenstructuur Gebrandypark Water

Boom Nieuwe bebouwing Bestaande bebouwing

N Schaal 1:2500

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Concept diagram Slotermeer-Northeast Slotermeer-Northeast RRA

Legenda Fietspad (groene lijn) Voetpad Parkpad (achterhoeks padvast) Margezone groen gebouwen Grasweide / speelweide Publieke binnentuinen Vaste Planten Skatebaan/waterbuffer/speelmeubel

Boom

Bestaande bebouwing Pergola / margezone

N Schaal 1:200

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Slotermeer-Northeast RRA zoom-in. Visual - Spot. Visual - Line. Visual - Point.

Tom van Boekel

RRA Slotermeerpark

ates an inclusive multifunctional cultural centre

Novo Candelaria The reuse of the ruins of an old Art Deco cinema cre-

The project is located in the new interventions, the the city centre of Belo building becomes part of the Horizonte, the capital of urban fabric. The inner Minas Gerais in Brazil. In the space is divided by a street, year 1897, Edison presented the Candelaria alleyway that the first movie projector at serves as a link between the the World’s Fair in Chicago. city and the two main In the same year, the first spaces; Sala da Tela (Screen stone of the city of Belo Room) and Sala da Luz Horizonte was laid and (Room of Light). These designed on the drawing spaces are created from the board by engineer Aarao remains of the film projecReis. Belo Horizonte has a tion room and the screen of long and close relationship the old cinema. with the world of cinema. This project is based on From the 1930s to the the exploration and experi1980s, the city had dozens mentation of design of notorious cinemas where methods and tools inspired the residents of the city by the film industry; script, sought their entertainment. scenography, and sets. In The cinemas served as a these new spaces, the place for meetings and historical parts of the social exchange. Since the building, together with the advent of television and, new infills lead to exciting later, the computer, many routes through the building. cinemas closed their doors, The New Candelaria is a giving place to other building full of encounters functions or becoming aban- and surprises. doned. The Novo Candelaria is a new chapter to be written while keeping the memory, unravelling and embracing this ruin. The found historical layers of the building serve as a foundation for the design. I decided to follow the traces and clues of the past, and the design settles over them like a new layer. Discipline The visible and invisible past Architecture plays an important role in Date exam 4 the project. The transforma- 08.05.2023 tion of the ruin into a new Committee cultural centre creates an Machiel Spaan (mentor) inclusive and multifunctional Jarrik Ouburg space that hosts several Aura Luz Melis cultural expressions such as Additional members film, theatre, music, dance, Raul Correa-Smith and exhibition spaces. With Tatjana Djordjevic

Maiara Luchi Camilotti

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Current situation of Cine Candelaria. Concept drawing. Masterplan and the view from the new park.

ates an inclusive multifunctional cultural centre

Novo Candelaria The reuse of the ruins of an old Art Deco cinema cre-

4 Section of the existing building with the new interventions. 5 A view of “Beco da Candelaria” (Candelaria alleyway). 6 A view of “Sala da Tela” (Screen room). 7 A view of “Sala da Luz” (Room of light).

8 New Candelaria floor plan. 9 Model as a set of the “Sala da luz". 10 Model as a set of the “Sala da tela”.

Maiara Luchi Camilotti

Rex van Beijsterveldt

Tale Bjelland

Paula Bloma

Tom van Boekel

Maiara Luchi Camilotti

Magali Sanz Casas

Harvesting Collective Perceptions

Over the past ten years, I have witnessed how Barcelona, my hometown, slowly lost its quality of life. The lack of connection with nature has been one of the main reasons, despite the city having two rivers, the sea and the coastal hills nearby. This project focuses on restoring the neglected Llobregat riverscape, one of the few natural spaces surrounding Barcelona. It used to be a dynamic, natural and beloved riverscape, but it has become an abandoned waterway that is no longer in people’s minds. Given the continuous precariousness of the public sector and the lack of cultural connection with nature, I propose to create a slow project that works innovatively, going from the bottom up. It starts with small, low-cost, and strategic interventions in different parts of the river system that slowly engage people to restore the river biotopes and ecosystem, enhance the spatial quality and create a new natural structure beneficial for the entire metropolis while creating a new bond between them. The way to work together between landscape and community is through the landscape harvest process, a circular process where people can collect over time exceeding materials from the river and give them back in a transformed way. This harvesting process links to the already

deep-rooted agricultural harvesting fests from the region. Within this Llobregat river, we propose to harvest three exceeding materials (clay, reed, and water) that, when applied to the four different parts of the river system (river Delta, the river islands, the river forest, and the river reeds), will start creating a new collective perception of this natural place and start to improve the spatial and ecological qualities of the river. Once this new mindset is established and the new concept of living with the river is embraced, these small interventions can grow in scale and complexity, becoming landscape projects that can continue to improve the entire river condition.

Discipline

Landscape Architecture Date exam 4

31.05.2023 Committee

Saline Verhoeven (mentor) Remco van der Togt Anna Fink Additional members

Lodewijk van Nieuwenhuijze Ziega van den Berk

Magalí Sanz Casas

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People’s current expectations of the Llobregat river. Riverscape potentials discovered during site visits. New aimed river atmosphere.

Harvesting Collective Perceptions

4 Slow project concept: bottom-up long term process. 5 Landscape harvesting in the Llobregat river. 6 Reed and clay harvesting process.

7 Reed islands evolving process (2024): first harvesting festivity. 8 Reed islands evolving process (2027): evolving harvesting process between community. 9 Reed islands evolving process (2035): first landscape projects to improve the river conditions.

Magalí Sanz Casas

Garden and Gardener of the Peelrandbreuk

The project starts with fault and the place I come my childhood in the village from. You could say that I am of Liessel, North Brabant, a the gardener in the story and village between dry and wet my role as a landscape landscapes, between dry architect comes to life in the forests and the peat bog garden. By diving into the area De Peel. Separated underground and rediscovfrom each other by a ering the fault line, I took a geological fault line that is position within the project of almost invisible on the waking something up surface but 350 million instead of making it, giving years old: the Peelrandtime and space, moving breuk. along with it, and literally With the garden as a bringing people into the framework of thought and a story of the landscape. spatial phenomenon in which man shapes nature, the gardener literally and figuratively searches for the fault line. The garden’s design forms a future story consisting of four garden rooms in the landscape, based on natural and social themes around the fault line: peat, wijst, groundwater and desire. Within these garden rooms, the gardener makes invisible processes visible and anchors us as humans in deep time scales of the Peelrandbreuk. The garden of Peelrandbreuk is a spatial narrative consisting of four chapters in the spatial area of the fault line. The chapters form points or moments in the landscape where geological history and cultural history Discipline intersect. The garden’s Landscape Architecture boundary is formed by a Date exam 4 person’s thoughts in the area 13.12.2022 and their dealings with the Committee soil. By the hand of the Saline Verhoeven (mentor) gardener, the person learns Paul de Kort to know the fault again. Erik de Jong Working on this project Additional members has allowed me to build a Maike van Stiphout new relationship with the Remco van der Togt

Roy Damen

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Biography of a deep past in three chapters. De Peelrandbreuk subtly visible in the landscape.

Garden and Gardener of the Peelrandbreuk

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The garden as a frame of thoughts. Chapter 1: Untamed Land, Untamed People. Chapter 2: Soil with rest awakens points to life.

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Chapter 3: Feeding with groundwater. Chapter 4: Monuments of desire. Gardener of the Peelrandbreuk.

Roy Damen

with mental problems

AA central Space for the Mind meeting place for young persons

help face? Withdrawn, A Space for the Mind is a So quiet, central meeting place for A wall so high young people with mental That hardly anyone can problems. Located in a reach. Couldn’t this have been central and recognisable location. Easily accessible. A done differently? place where you can walk in Mental complaints are for a conversation, gain an increasing problem knowledge, share your story, amongst young people. and meet peers. The choice They struggle with stress, for a closed building block in pressure to perform, loneliness and worry about the heart of the city centre the future. Many issues with means that the site is centrally locate, yet safe. By young people manifest themselves between 12 and using the different characters of the location and 27 years old. Prolonged creating different entrances stress or disruption in quality of life at this age can within the building block, it lends itself well to multiple lead to psychological complaints and, ultimately, target groups. A Space for the Mind to psychological disorders. consists of a chain of Research shows that different buildings, each talking about mental with its own role and complaints is one of the program. This is reinforced most important ways to improve mental health and by diversity in appearance and use of materials. The to provide early help. But whole offers an alternative there often is still a lot of to the traditional uniform shame surrounding this architecture and design of subject, the waiting list for institutional healthcare help is too long, and institutions are often placed institutions. It is a place that welcomes everyone and in isolated environments where everyone can feel at with little connection with home. society. I am aware that, as an architect, I cannot offer a solution to mental problems, Discipline but I can make spatial interventions that can create Architecture more openness around Date exam 4 25.05.2023 mental health. Can I contribute to young people’s Committee mental health by creating a Rob Hootsmans (mentor) Gus Tielens place in the centre of Amersfoort, the city where I Vibeke Gieskes live? Can I offer an interim Additional members solution for the long waiting Jeroen van Mechelen times that people in need of Burton Hamfelt

1 View situation – A Space for the Mind. 2 Individual buildings, each with their own style shape and program. A process, a chain of different buildings and archetypes.

Anouk van Deuzen

AA central Space for the Mind meeting place for young persons 4

with mental problems

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Different faces and entrances. Plek voor de Geest – Maaiveld

6 Tower as landmark in the city. A space to get to know the place from a safe distance.

Anouk van Deuzen

of domestic violence

Shelter An architectural typology to host women victim

According to the World ideal relationship to the city. Health Organization, The design approach “violence against women is finds inspiration in the a major human rights traditional Dutch ‘hofjes’. violation and a global public Centrally located in the city health concern of pandemic context and surrounded by proportions”. The statistics the urban built structure, the show that one-third of all hofjes enclose a fascinating women worldwide are protected inner world with subjected to violence at its own character and least once in their lives. The atmosphere, organised high majority of these around a communal garden. violence cases relate to a Inspired by this tradition, the former or current intimate site’s inner block is transpartner, which is classified formed to host women as domestic violence. When victim of domestic violence experiencing it, women are in a protective environment, in need of support, often of a while still enabling them to place to stay, to feel shelbe part of society and city tered and to heal, where life. legal and psychological As observed in diverse support is available. interviews carried out Shelters for women have during the research phase, been present in the Nether- the paradoxical relationlands since the 70s, shaped ships between seclusion by the available resources, and inclusion, and privacy possibilities and the develop- and collectivity are key ment of an approach that has notions when imagining a kept evolving in the past five shelter. The proposed decades. This graduation design creates spaces for a project consists of rethinking recovery process to take women’s refuge from an place where shared experiarchitectural perspective, ences are encouraged, with the firm belief that while individuality and spatial design decisions can privacy are preserved. highly contribute to the From arrival to departure, recovery process women a domestic environment is victim of domestic violence imagined around a sequence go through. of enclosed gardens, which Located along the edge provide a secluded reality of Amsterdam’s historical orientation regarding time centre, the chosen project and place. The gardens play site consists of an existing an important role in shaping city block surrounded by the transitional sequences diverse urban atmospheres. between city and shelter, Each of the three program- essential to enabling the matic sections of a shelter unique atmosphere of the on this site — the institution, block’s inner world, a place the living and the healthcare to feel sheltered and recover. facilities — can find their own

Alice Dicker Quintino

Discipline

Architecture Date exam 4

15.06.2023 Committee

Marcel Lok (mentor) Pnina Avidar Hannah Schubert Additional members

Susana Constantino Paul Kuipers

1 Axonometric of project embedded in the urban context; fragment models of project’s surrounding wall with varying levels of permeability connected to the private or collective character of the spaces enclosed by it.

of domestic violence

Shelter An architectural typology to host women victim

2 Ground floor plan 3 The diverse housing types designed to host varying family configurations of women in need of shelter. Every unit gives the possibility to open up and share experiences with a community or close off living introspective moments in one’s own private space. 4 Longitudinal and transversal sections illustrating

the main accesses to the shelter and sequences within one’s arrival and daily life. 5 The main access through the institutional tower, followed by the transitional arrival square that embraces an existing tree and the guests arriving for the first time. 6 The emergency beds and collective courtyard,

both gardens of paradise where the collective life of the shelter takes place in different moments of one’s stay. 7 Daily entrance in a transformed existing plinth, giving access to the shelter in a small scale, domestic, normalised manner. 8 Access to one’s temporary home through the col-

lective garden; the double orientation of the housing units enables both communal and private life. 9 Private outside spaces organised around the gardens of contemplation where one may observe the passage of time through the seasonal transformations of a centrally positioned fruit tree and the game of light and shadow on the façade’s relief.

Alice Dicker Quintino

the development of nature around Utrecht.

Decultivate A personal perspective and spatial strategy on

The well-being of current surrounding rural areas and future generations is along cultivation axes such threatened by climate as waterways and canals. change and the biodiversity Instead of focusing on crisis. The loss of plant and specific target species, I animal species can cause encourage natural processentire ecosystems to es. For this purpose, I have collapse due to human gathered landscape compoactivity. This collapse can be nents, such as adjusting prevented by changing our water levels and phased behaviour within 10 to 15 decultivation of the land. years. To contribute to this People are involved in the transition, research was con- landscape maintenance of ducted on how biodiversity the more cultivated eleand the relationship bements under the guidance of tween humans and nature a farmer. This promotes the can be improved at the city formation of new ecosysfringes of Utrecht. tems along former cultivaSince our perception of tion axes, which not only nature determines how we increases biodiversity and interact with it, an exploraspeeds up the transition to a tion was carried out to healthy relationship beidentify existing nature tween human and non-hudevelopment movements. I man nature, but also drew inspiration from the enhances the well-being of movements of ‘Rewilding - life on Earth. Neo protectionism’ and ‘Convivial conservation’ from the book The Conservation Revolution. I combined them in what I call ‘Decultivating’. Decultivating aims to balance cultivated and decultivated elements, focusing on restoring natural processes and the active role of humans. The human impact on nature does not always have to be negative; Discipline it can also contribute to the Landscape Architecture recovery and creation of Date exam 4 new ecosystems. 07.06.2023 From the perspective of Committee decultivation, a new spatial Mirte van Laarhoven model has been developed (mentor) for the city fringes of Lieke de Jong Utrecht, by adding nature Jan Maas outside existing protected Additional members areas. The rich biodiversity Jana Crepon of the city is extended to the Anna Fink

Marlies Doesburg

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Models succession. Models succession.

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the development of nature around Utrecht.

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Models succession. Masterplan. Research cultural elements.

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Research threats natural process. Visuals relation human and nature.

Marlies Doesburg

in Buitenveldert

Kastelenstraat 2.0 Transformation and densification of porch buildings 58

Kastelenstraat 2.0 shows neighbourhood philosophy the transformation and to a free-sector residential densification of a porch neighbourhood, putting block in the urban outskirts pressure on the remaining of Buitenveldert, Amsterstock of social rental dam. A neighbourhood, part housing. It is a neighbourof the A.U.P., that was once hood that calls for a new designed with the social approach to get a revitalizneighbourhood idea of ing boost after 60 years and housing large families with thus become a vibrant children but is now strugneighbourhood again with gling with social and housing that meets today’s programmatic problems. needs. Numbers show that the Kastelenstraat 2.0 neighbourhood is becoming demonstrates the potential increasingly populated by of this common porch single households, not only building by taking a buildbecause of the overall ing-wide approach and ageing problem but also offering a solution to because young people are address social issues. The becoming more individualis- solution presented re-estabtic and, therefore less likely lishes a match between the to live in couples. Large building and its residents, family homes of 80 to 90 strengthens social cohesion square meters are occupied that addresses loneliness, by single-person housefocuses on the sharing holds. This increases the culture instead of an mismatch between the individualistic existence, existing building and the contributes to the densificahousehold demographic, but tion issue by creating more also lurks loneliness and housing within the same social isolation due to this volume, and finally sets an development and the fact example for similar neighthat families are increasingly bourhoods facing similar moving out of the city. issues. In addition, more and more social apartments in the Kastelenstraat are sold to the free sector, whereby often the original program- Discipline matic interpretation of the Architecture apartments no longer meets Date exam 4 contemporary housing 13.06.2023 needs. All these housing Committee adaptations are carried out Jeroen Atteveld (mentor) by the residents individually, Milad Pallesh not collectively, creating a Hans van der Made jumble of solutions. Kastel- Additional members enstraat has changed from a Ira Koers neighbourhood with a social Saša Rađenović

Stephanie van Dullemen

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Transformation apartment block. Plinth facade street side. Plinth facade courtyard side.

Kastelenstraat 2.0 Transformation and densification of porch buildings

in Buitenveldert

4 Programmatic transformation. 5 Overview of residential programme versus collective programme. 6 Transformation facade and programmatic connection.

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Collective spaces. Transformation street facade. Living in the courtyard.

Stephanie van Dullemen

The eyes are the windows to the soul

An architectural reuse hospital architecture by approach for the care of the incorporating spaces to visually impaired and blind. escape, reflect, socialize and Situated on the water’s grieve in the backdrop of an edge of Greenock, Scotland, accessible and communal this project challenges the village. This new hospital will prescribed notions of care establish new approaches to architecture for the visually managing the treatment, testimpaired through the reuse of ing, diagnostic and clinical an abandoned complex of architecture challenges we sugar warehouses and face today. harbours within a city scarred Parallel, a new social by high rates of visually centre is created to suppleimpaired people, caused by ment the new clinical the long-lost sugar industry. approach. This new centre is Approximately 253m an experimental ecosystem people suffer globally from of alternative and physical visual impairments. Currently, forms of therapy; through care for the visually impaired providing therapies focusing focuses exclusively on the on art, music, horticulture physical visual condition of and movement, several social the sufferer. This leaves much issues associated with visual to be desired regarding the impairments can be adlitany of mental health issues dressed. These activities associated with visual manifest themselves through impairment. These issues fall several architectural interinto two primary categories. ventions: spaces for physical The first is a direct consetherapy and tuition in a quence of diagnostics, semi-private environment, testing, treatment, and coupled with highly public oppressive clinical architec- spaces for dialogue, exhibiture. The second regards a tion, performance and social more expansive social sphere, interaction within the wider where visually impaired community. Concurrent with people suffer from social the eye hospital’s relative isolation, loss of purpose, loss introversion, the social of income, the inability to program forms the public carry out basic tasks, and a face of the total plan. This loss of self. social foundation is designed This project addresses to encourage a sense of self, these current shortcomings accomplishment, and a sense by proposing a new combina- of purpose. A facet of this is tion of clinical and social the exposure of the visually responses. Through a new impaired community to the hospital architecture, the wider public and creating patient’s mental well-being is valuable opportunities for placed equal with the clinical education and financial aspects of care. To do so, this independence. project redefines how we look at the traditional eye

Gavin Fraser

Discipline

Architecture Date exam 4

05.10.2022 Committee

Elsbeth Falk (mentor) Jeanne Tan Jo Barnett Additional members

Machiel Spaan René Bouman

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Axonometric drawing of the total masterplan. Floor plan of new eye hospital. A view of a “sensory walkway”.

The eyes are the windows to the soul

4 Perspective section of eye hospital. 5 A view of a rest space and courtyard in the new eye hospital. 6 A view of a “sensory walkway”.

7 Perspective section of existing building with new social programme additions. 8 Interior image from existing building showing new intervention between the structure. 9 Axonometric of added programme within existing sugar sheds building.

Gavin Fraser

Roy Damen

Anouk van Deuzen

Alice Dicker Quintino

Marlies Doesburg

Stephanie van Dullemen

Gavin Fraser

Burnt: A Tale of Three Fires

BURNT: A TALE OF site-specific, the intervenTHREE FIRES investigates tions here offer a model for how embracing wildfire can other landscapes in the restore resiliency and create American West for a new cultural connections possible future with fire. between a landscape and its To quote Dante, we have inhabitants. It draws from found ourselves “within a the designer’s childhood forest dark, for the straightfascination with landscape forward pathway had been and fire and takes inslost.” This project offers a piration from a Dutch new path ahead, one lit by attitude towards another the light of fire. natural threat: water. The project focuses on the mountain town of Red Feather Lakes in the American state of Colorado to question dominant narratives of wildfire and offer a new path forward. The project takes inspiration from local ecology to develop three new strategies for wildfire: defensive, resilient, and resistant. Each strategy kickstarts a process based on community involvement and site-derived materials to let fire tell a different story about the landscape. In the first site, fire breaks shape how a forest burns, allowing recreants to experience the ‘terrible sublime’ of the postfire landscape. In the second site, a stream is transformed into a naturally-managed defensive buffer that mitigates the effects of Discipline post-fire flooding. In the last Landscape Architecture site, a community comes Date exam 4 together to restore a 06.12.2022 severely burnt forest. Committee Together, these three Jana Crepon (mentor) strategies reshape and Hank van Tilborg restore the ecosystem and Sarah McCaffrey use fire to create new Additional members landscape experiences and Marieke Timmermans community exchange. While Robbert Jongerius

1 A variety of forest types produce a variety of fires. 2 Community-driven maintenance creates a more wildfire-resilient landscape. 3 Cultural burning is a chance for exchange and education.

Jacob Heydorn Gorski

Burnt: A Tale of Three Fires

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6 The burnt forest becomes a patchwork landscape. 7 Let the forest regulate itself. 8 The post-fire forest is an exciting successional landscape.

Jacob Heydorn Gorski

Greenhouse A unified living environment for plant and person 80

This graduation concerns greenhouses. I anticipate a a living environment in scenario that will allow that greenhouses, which outlines area to function as a an alternative to the stand- residential environment with ard single-family home, greenhouse horticulture which was frequently built in nearby. the Netherlands at the time This also combines two (and after) the Vinex period. facets of a higher goal: The greenhouses connecting the living inspired the project in my environment of people and native village of Lent. There, plants. Because how can I often played with friends in you be in connection with and around the many nature if you are separated greenhouses that were still by a thick, concrete wall ? there at the time. This is The greenhouse as an where my fascination with alternative; traditional wall greenhouses began. At the construction and facade lead time, the vast spaces outside the project. The hope is that and at the same time inside the view of the residents’ left an unforgettable environment will change the impression on me. Unfortu- moment: nately, these greenhouses They establish a more have now all but disapdirect relationship with their peared from Lent, in favour environment. of housing development. 1. They ‘live’ together Couldn’t we have left the with plants 24 hours a day. greenhouses standing and 2. Directly together let them be part of our living with ‘nature’ and thus environment? After all, directly caring for their ‘own demolishing them and piece of nature’. rebuilding them elsewhere The project shows how no longer seems approprithis living environment can ate. Besides, the greenhouse be created through four is an interesting typology scales (the neighbourhood, that can simultaneously the neighbourhood block, form a bridge to a more the street and the house). harmonious form of housing In this way, I hope to with regard to ‘nature’. realise an unconventional Utilising densification in and wondrous living the new glasshouse area in environment that makes us the region (about 15 km reflect on our traditional north), seven ‘residential homes and inspire us to greenhouses’ will be built move towards a more between the existing harmonious form of living production greenhouses: for people and plants. greenhouses arranged and divided into houses with streets in between. In this way, houses will once again be located between the

Wouter Grote

Discipline

Architecture Date exam 4

21.12.2022 Committee

Rob Hootsmans (mentor) Dingeman Deijs Hans Hammink Additional members

Pnina Avidar Geurt Holdijk

1 1:50 model, fragment of the residential greenhouse, two streets with houses on either side. 2 1:500 model: one of the added residential greenhouses. 3 1:15 model: cross-section of house.

Greenhouse A unified living environment for plant and person

4 1:3000 scale model: added greenhouses in Bergerden, all with their own secondary function. 5 Image of house facade across street. 6 Residential street corner,10 September, 09:24 hrs

7 Outside, cycle route between greenhouses, 21 May, 21:18 hrs. 8 Lent in 1992, Lent now. 9 Floor plan of house A.

Wouter Grote

Generation Living Redefining Residential Housing 84

In my graduation project, spaces to their specific needs I delved into the world of without compromising the residential housing, examin- building’s integrity. This ing it from global to personal approach creates communal perspectives. The driving spaces like courtyards, force behind my research fostering flexibility in how was the pressing living crisis, residents shape their living exacerbated by a population environments. density of 523 persons per In essence, Generation square metre, an ageing Living reimagines residential population, and increasing in- housing by embracing dividualisation. communal living, challenging My own experiences, conventional norms, and growing up in a multigenera- repurposing historic spaces tional family home and later for contemporary living. It cohabitating with friends and reflects adaptability, innovafamily, shaped my undertion, and the acknowledgestanding of this issue. These ment that homes should experiences have become evolve with us throughout integral to my project. our lives. My research explored the evolving housing needs at different life stages, uncovering notable insights. Traditional housing markets are geared towards standard family structures. However, our society is in flux, marked by demographic shifts with the rise of single-person households and unconventional family compositions. My vision proposes a shift towards communal living, with multigenerational living at its core. For my project, I chose the Rijtuigenloods in Amers- Discipline foort. A historic building as Architecture the ideal location. My design Date exam 4 aims to demonstrate how 24.08.2023 such industrial heritage sites Committee can be repurposed for Jan-Richard Kikkert residential use, offering a (mentor) unique living experience Liesbeth van der Pol while preserving history. Machiel Spaan The heart of my design is Additional members modular units that enable Saša Radenovic residents to tailor their living Lisette Plouvier

1 Axonometry Kitchen, Bathroom and Bedroom module combination. Life phases resilient. 2 Axonometry Livingroom - With romantic inner atmosphere created by Tudor arches.

Daisy Hart

Generation Living Redefining Residential Housing

3 Buildings concept explanation. 4 Location analysis - Creating a park surrounding the building, which generates a green belt around the suburb. 5 Manual modular design method- Users guide to a tailored design.

6 In-between space, meeting places and green serenity. 7 Collective boulevard, sharing! 8 Interior impression.

Daisy Hart

Wie goed doet die goed ontmoet

With the murder of Anne also have a completely Faber in 2017, there was a different appearance. lot of renewed attention in the Netherlands for people with a TBS order (a treatment order imposed by the court on people who have committed serious crimes while suffering from a psychiatric illness or disorder). A heated discussion regarding the danger that TBS patients pose to society followed. This discussion happened in a harsh tone: the consensus often was that it is better to throw away the key than to risk recidivism from formerly violent people. My interest in this group of people as a result of the murder was initially the great anonymity of their existence and the high impenetrable walls and fences that apparently are necessary for our safety. What kind of building do we need for these ex-criminals? Are the arguments you hear on TV true, and is it pointless to proceed in this manner? Do they deserve it? Should it be different? Do the clinics currently work in the way they are designed? Through research in books, visiting several clinics, and conversations Discipline with a former client (now Architecture policy advisor to a TBS Date exam 4 clinic), I am convinced that 08.11.2022 TBS patients do indeed have Committee a place in society, but that Micha de Haas (mentor) there is still a lot to be Erik Wiersema gained before these people Laura van der Pol get a fair second chance. Additional members With my design for a clinic in Winfried van Zeeland the city, I show that TBS can Ricky Rijkenberg

1 Ground floor: Program shared between neighborhood, clinic and building residents. The inner courtyard is closed off from direct public access. 2 Common meeting areas of the clinic. The ‘living room’, the ‘village square’, and restaurant combined with apartments and housing units of the clients. 3 Second floor: Apartments combined with housing units and roof terrace.

Daan Jansen

Wie goed doet die goed ontmoet

4 Third floor: Sport facilities shared between neighborhood, clinic and residents alongside apartments and living units. Rooms for private talks with lawyers and personal guidance near the stairs. 5 Fourth floor: Bulk of living units with rooms for therapy and a second roof terrace. 6 Sections: Stacking of the main programs in combination with the inner courtyard and relationship to the public domain.

7 Courtyard: Overview of the courtyard with shared program, living units and apartments. 8 Connection: Areas right in front of the gates of the clinic and building block allow clients and people from the outside to talk and discuss. 9 Living room: Main meeting area inside the clinic. Room for clients, friends and family to gather and to see each other when visiting. Informal meeting spaces between clients and their supervisors.

Daan Jansen

Average Place Agency of Architecture in Authoritarian State 92

This project investigates Architectural Machine, a an architect’s role and formal embodiment of a architecture’s language in an social issue was conceived. authoritarian state. How can The project was not only architects use their skills and about the physical embodiknowledge to contribute to ment of architecture, but social change, and what role also about the formation of can architecture play in the questions and the search for political agenda? the right words to describe While Average Place is a architecture’s current state political issue, it also has and possibilities. Simplistic personal consequences and perceptions can lead to implications. It is about grief, homogeneity and limit the lost feeling of home and healthy development. The belonging. It is about a loss project aimed to promote of understanding of one’s diversity and expand role as an architect and awareness of reality, even if citizen within their homeformal results were not yet land. Through this project, known. the architect wants to explore how they can engender positive change by using their craft and professional role. This work is not just about traditional design methods; it’s about finding a different language of architecture that can be used to explore the possible roles of architecture and to define my role as an architect. This project began with an exploration of new relationships between architecture and power in authoritarian states. The project’s overarching goal was to explore the potential Discipline of architecture to interact Architecture with people, examining how Date exam 4 architectural tools can 26.04.2023 engage users in interaction Committee and deepen the comprehen- Marc Schoonderbeek sion of their experience. (mentor) By integrating elements Michelle Provoost from the plastic arts, the Rick ten Doeschate utilitarian nature of architec- Additional members ture, and the constraints Tom Frantzen faced by architects, the Txell Blanco Diaz

Maria Khozina

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Machine of expression. Machine of superiority. Machine of self-will.

Average Place Agency of Architecture in Authoritarian State

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Machine of different perspectives. Machine of expression. Façade and floor plan. Machine of expression. Construction principal.

7 Machine of self-will. Adaptability. 8 Machine of different perspectives. Models 1:2 and 1:20. 9 Variability of Machines.

Maria Khozina

Suyaanisqatsi Life in Balance 96

It would seem superflu- our world, a disconnect that ous to explain in great detail has since only gotten bigger. the urgency of the climate Suyaanisqatsi is a crisis for the human race, housing project in which and yet my project is so man and nature share the influenced by this phenome- right to exist, coexisting on non that I feel compelled to the outskirts of the city of state a few of the conseAmsterdam on the building quences the Netherlands site Entrada. faces as a result of this crisis. The first and most obvious of these consequences is the rise of flooding in the country and the complete lack thereof in the form of drought. These future problems are preceded by those we are witnessing today, namely a severe drop in biodiversity. As the global population continues to rise, we will experience a perpetual shortage of space, exacerbating this lack of biodiversity as the natural landscape is pushed further out of the city. The title of this project, Suyaanisqatsi - Life in Balance, is inspired by the experimental documentary Koyaanisqatsi - Life Out of Balance, which premiered in 1982. Koyaanisqatsi depicts a world in which nature and the natural landscape no longer play a significant role in people’s existence. In other words, humans and nature no longer belong together. Discipline Faced with such a reality, I Architecture cannot turn a blind eye. Date exam 4 Humanity is as much a part 29.08.2023 of nature as nature is a part Committee of us, and what’s more, we Micha de Haas (mentor) depend on nature. Even so, Pierre Jennen the Koyaanisqatsi documen- Vibeke Gieskes tary, compiled 41 years ago, Additional members shows an existence comAlex de Jong pletely disconnected from Ira Koers

Vyasa Koe

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8 Raised street where people meet. 9 A stroll with a view. 10 In front of your home.

Vyasa Koe

A place to be shared A healthy living environment where encounters happen 100

For people with physical a destination in one of the disabilities, a building buildings. specially designed around These buildings hark them can mean a lot. When back to the collective a person has a physical memory of Rotterdam. It disability, their ability to provides space, and it move is, in most cases, reminds you of the history of impaired, which often makes the monuments that are still the person less flexible in there. Partly because of the terms of mobility and spatial layout of the area and dependent on the accessibil- the functions of the buildity of an area or building. ings, they have become part You turn to a rehabilita- of the cultural axis at tion clinic for treatment and Museumpark. learning to cope with one of A meeting place where these disabilities. For not only people from the example, you go there after rehabilitation centre are wellosing a leg in an accident, come, but also people from which usually happens the surrounding area. To unexpectedly. It is a place share experiences, rehabiliwhere you are temporarily tate, recreate, and look at taken out of society; the aim the possibilities instead of is to rejoin as soon as the limitations. possible. Society around us is slowly changing. The importance of sharing and being vulnerable is becoming more and more important. People are starting to understand that they are not alone; it helps to talk about it — and confront it. My project studies the encounters between the rehabilitated and society to get rest and support during rehabilitation when needed, to remain part of and be visible to society at desired times. A mixed programme is present on the campus for Discipline the daytime activities of the Architecture rehabilitators when not busy Date exam 4 with the rehabilitation 08.12.2022 programme, but also to Committee make the area attractive for Jolijn Valk (mentor) the people from the surMicha de Haas rounding area and give them Wouter Kroeze

1 A place to come together and share stories. Archive photo of the former open-air theatre Dijkzigt. 2 Schematic representation of the rehabilitation process.

Danny Kok

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Danny Kok

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Jacob Heydorn Gorski

Wouter Grote

Daisy Hart

Daan Jansen

Maria Khozina

Vyasa Koe

The City of Trust A custom-made resilience in Amsteldorp 114

The City of Trust shows The contrast between how we can continue to the garden village and the trust each other in cities city is growing. The Amstelthat are becoming increas- dorp is the front line of the ingly dense and diverse. garden villages (Betondorp, With Amsteldorp in the lead Frankendael) of this part of role, my design seeks Amsterdam. City dwellers answers to what we share have a different conception and how we differ. of living together and trust Like all tuindorpen, or in the city. There is more garden villages, Amsteldorp space for the individual and was built out of housing need less obvious control within and as a counterbalance to the group. the impoverished city. After This project welcomes its construction, the neighhigh urbanity on the edge of bourhood is inhabited at the garden village. The once by a group that Amsteldorp is at a tipping suddenly was allowed to call point where it has outgrown itself Amsteldorper. Some its ideals. It could use an households work at the same influx of this vibrancy, factories and have children provided the transition is of the same age. The design carefully designed, and the of the neighbourhood is neighbourhood is not based on ideals that encour- disrupted. age this. Open strips of To do this, I developed my subdivision with lots of own set of tools mapping visibility in the residential these different forms of trust. streets ensure neighbours The design starts from the find each other in the front strength of the Amstel gardens. The neighbourhood Village and uses the urban meets in the small square atmosphere where appropriwith the milkman and the ate. The concept of “tailored grocer. Child-rich houseresilience” sees how holds can retreat to the back- everyone stands differently yard after all this contact. in the tools of trust and looks But much has changed at where we differ from each in the past 40 years. The other and what we share. families no longer live there, and the neighbourhood has half as many residents. Discipline Street life is gone, and Urbanism facilities and schools have Date exam 4 fallen over. The way people 13.12.2022 spend their day is no longer Committee as similar as it used to be — Tess Broekmans (mentor) the chat at the milkman’s or Lyongo Juliana the front yard is no longer a Sander van der Ham given. Loneliness, isolation Additional members and mistrust threaten to Jerryt Krombeen take over. Liza van Alphen

Luuk Koote

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Luuk Koote

Laboratory for the Symbiocene

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the region of Zwolle

Directing Change Comprehensive future perspective for

Since the advent of the ment. Only when all instruautomobile, much of our ments are harmoniously living environment in the aligned can a living environNetherlands has been ment be created that is both designed with one primary sustainable and attractive purpose: facilitating flow. for the future. Whether it’s traffic, water, The unattractive and agricultural production, anonymous urban fringe of public transportation, Zwolle clearly demonstrates cycling infrastructure, where the car has had the energy, or economic greatest impact. In my activities, all of these graduation project, I aim to interests have often been revitalise this urban fringe prioritised over the quality of into a vibrant city district our living environment. seamlessly integrated with Recent challenges facing the surrounding landscape. the Netherlands, such as This transformation will climate change, traffic introduce a high-density congestion, the housing urban environment replete crisis, and the nitrogen with essential amenities and deposition crisis, underscore the establishment of a new that not all forms of flow can train station. This new city be endlessly accommodated district will be within cycling in our living environment. distance of the cultural city Choices must be made, with centre and within walking the quality of our living distance of a diverse and environment taking precenatural landscape, enhancdence. To provide a compre- ing the quality of the entire hensive perspective to region. stakeholders, I have created a music score for the living environment. In this spatial score, spatial principles are organised by theme and location, providing an overview of the challenges for all relevant themes within the entire region. Creating a high-quality living environment requires Discipline a similar approach to Urbanism composing a beautiful piece Date exam 4 of music, where each 21.08.2023 instrument plays its own Committee melody and sometimes Jaap Brouwer (mentor) remains silent. In the region Yttje Feddes of Zwolle, the car currently Henk Snel takes centre stage and Additional members drowns out all other instru- Hans van der Made ments of the living environ- Herman Zonderland

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1 Former city border, Illustrative image of the original landscape of Zwolle’s city border. 2 Current city border, Illustrative image of the current situation of Zwolle’s city border. 3 Spatial Partition, A diagram to organise the various themes by location in the region. 4 Integral perspective for the Zwolle region, In the integral perspective map, the tasks of the various themes are translated into a vision for the city of Zwolle, the village of Dalfsen, which serves as an example for other villages in the region and the intervening landscape.

Kilian Lode

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Kilian Lode

Model of Zalné Centre

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Reuse Reimagined 122

How do we tackle the reuse of difficult structures? That architectural question inspired this project. To properly explore the full potential of reuse as a response to climate breakdown and dwindling resources, we need to consider the reuse of a range of structures, including unconventional ones. Industrial structures, for example, were not intended for human inhabitation, and their scale and articulation do not immediately lend themselves to such. How can we ensure that these large and alien forms (such as those from the petrochemical industry) are reconfigured to create psychologically comfortable environments for people? The imagination of a five-year-old is a precious resource. Young children have experienced very little of the world, so their imagination has yet to be influenced by conformity (changing our behaviour according to social norms). As a result, five-year-olds are still very intuitive in responding to certain forms, which can be studied by analysing their play. In theory, their intuitive reactions bring us much closer to more profound, more innate responses (which are masked by societal influence as we age). Tapping into these innate responses could help establish a series of

baseline principles that ensure psychological comfort at a deeper, more evolutionary level. The scope of this project may only begin to scratch the surface of exploring this hypothesis. Still, it makes a bold statement about the future of the architectural profession and how we approach design challenges. Architecture created from the fragments and relics of a reused structure can still be made in a way that prioritises human experience. To cater for human experience, we need to study human experience and understand the innate instincts that make us who we are. Perhaps, sometimes, architects need to step outside an architect’s mind and instead enter a fiveyear-old’s liberated imagination.

Discipline

Architecture Date exam 4

13.09.2022 Committee

Elsbeth Ronner (mentor) David Keuning Kamiel Klaasse Additional members

Jo Barnett Peter van Assche

1 School workshop results. 2 Analysing the design priorities of a five-year-old to create a toolbox. 3 Ground floor plan.

Siân McGrath

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Siân McGrath

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Patchworking A’dam North Improve by densifying 126

The pressure on the ties, values and amenities. It Amsterdam housing market stands for an overall has never been greater, densification and improveleading to large-scale area ment of the district, which developments popping up offers opportunities for new like mushrooms. The and existing residents alike. Amsterdam North district is It answers how existing no exception and is seeing a spatial structures, residents transformation of the port and current values are areas along the Northern IJ fundamental for new and Banks into residential future area developments in environments. The urban Amsterdam North. design of the various parts of Amsterdam North is often expressed in spatially strong identities and is often related to the zeitgeist of various urban styles. This results in great contrasts between the different neighbourhoods of the North district, giving it the originality that current residents are proud of. However, there is often a monotony in terms of the diversity of housing supply and demography, with some parts worn out and investments in the homes and public space often neglected. My graduation project, Patchworking Amsterdam North, gives a new perspective on the stalled discussion about living and developing in the North district. The focus is not on building quickly along the edge but Discipline on an urban design vision Urbanism and strategy where connect- Date exam 4 ing elements have led to a 07.12.2022 spatial integrated plan that Committee can improve the whole of Hans van der Made (mentor) Amsterdam North. This Anne Nieuwenhuijs integrated plan does justice Herman Zonderland to the existing values, Additional members whereby new incorporations Iruma Rodriguez reinforce the spatial qualiMartin Aarts

Bram Oude Monnink

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6 Pleiadesplein as a meeting point again. 7 Cornelis Douwes and Keerkeringpark as a city park. 8 Cornelis Douwesweg as a city street. 9 Green seam as axis in the Cornelis Douwes.

Bram Oude Monnink

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Spare Space For an innovative energy campus 130

Spare Space concerns the transformation of a sloping and park-like business estate in Arnhem. While searching for a new and suitable function for both the site and the buildings, the concept of ‘Spare Space’ inspired me at various levels. This inspiration has led to the development of an innovative energy campus with various laboratories for students and start-ups. The buildings on the site were built for a specific function, which expired following the departure of KEMA, the former user. The buildings have unique shapes and characters, often with large empty spaces that I consider Spare spaces. The location of the new program is determined on the basis of the landscape qualities and contextual elements of the existing environment. In particular, the stream, high-voltage network and the sloping landscape play a role. For each building, I make use of the Spare space and carry out an intervention to make it suitable for a new function. In my own way, I continue KEMA’s philosophy of allowing existing buildings to grow. The new interventions are designed in such a way that they grow with the existing and subtly form a new layer of time. There is a great need for innovations within the energy transition. The energy campus offers

space for collaboration between start-ups and students to inspire and strengthen each other. Various buildings are assigned as test locations for different forms of energy, such as solar and wind, aquathermal, and new forms of nuclear power. Nuclear energy is rapidly developing, but it is also the most controversial. This form of energy has the biggest impact, which is why I am working on the development of a Small Modular Reactor (SMR) as a potential new use for existing buildings. The process of an SMR is divided into three parts, each housed in an existing and suitable building on the site: cooling, the steam transformer and the nuclear reactor. Around the energy interventions, there is space for additional facilities in each building, such as study and office places and laboratories. The new program for an innovative energy campus adds a suitable time layer. Both the site and the buildings are resilient and provide space for new developments. The result is an energy campus where encounters, education and innovation are stimulated in order to strengthen collaboration between students and start-ups.

Charlotte Mulder

Discipline

Architecture Date exam 4

23.08.2023 Committee

Machiel Spaan (mentor) Jarrik Ouburg Bram Breedveld Additional members

Pnina Avidar Rogier van den Brink

1 The new Energy Campus on the former KEMA site at Arnhems Buiten. 2 The city’s ‘spare spaces’. 3 The time layers of the buildings.

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4 Master plan for the new Energy Campus. 5 Three buildings, three new time layers. 6 Three buildings on the site with a new interpretation for an energy generation process.

7 For each building, the empty ‘Reserve Ruimte’ is used for a new suitable use. 8 Cooling building. 9 Transformer building. 10 Reactor building.

Charlotte Mulder

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Archipelago Marken The Nature and Urban Symbiotic 134

We Dutch are praised for our water management knowledge and beautiful water cities, as well as the building of cities as hydraulic constructions, the polders, and our Deltaplan. For centuries, we faced the consequences of cultivating below sea level - consequences that we were able to manage. Today, we face new issues: housing shortage in an area threatened by ongoing sea level rise and nature threatened by heavy urbanisation and civilisation. What’s our next step, and what do we need to counter the quest? My thesis offers a new way of thinking about building a new landscape with the organic feature of water to serve both nature and urban needs. A new Dutch water city isn’t just a steady construction but an organically growing landscape where the symbiosis of nature and urban typologies leads to new design principles and spatial qualities. As technology shortens distances, we can sway with the pace of water. Archipelago Marken is our next step. Our need for big interventions, digging fertile soil to serve growth. Our need to rethink the organisation of property and ownership. Not steady, but fluent. Our need for water as it’s our source. Growing up in the Frisian lake disctrict, I know what qualities water has to

offer. In the end, water is our friend – so let’s cooperate!

Discipline

Urbanism Date exam 4

17.11.2022 Committee

Eric Frijters (mentor) Fransje Hooimeijer Huub Juurlink Additional members

Hans van der Made Martin Probst

Wieger Postma

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Wieger Postma

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More Life Again Revival of the lake of Veere after a silent death 138

The water quality in the and agriculture arise due to Netherlands is substandard the salty conditions. The and does not meet the different landscapes that are requiries. The lake of Veere present each have a in Zeeland also has signifidifferent character and their cant problems with water own circumstances. This quality. There is even requires crops that match spoken of a “Silent death of this and make the landscape the lake of Veere”. more diverse and futureThe first symptoms of proof. oxygen deficiency are The landscape is already visible three metres accessible via the existing below the water surface. At and new dikes. These dikes a depth of six metres, there often border two different is no longer healthy life. This landscapes, so a visit is is mainly due to a lack of never dull. Here, you can oxygen that occurs in the experience the life of the summer. Stratification lake of Veere at various occurs in the water, creating points. a warm and oxygen-rich upper layer and a cold and oxygen-poor lower layer. Due to a lack of life on the bottom, no organisms can break down the organic material. This creates a sludge layer that requires a lot of oxygen for decomposition, causing more oxygen deficiency. The downward spiral can be broken by reconnecting the Veerse Meer with the surrounding waters. The salty conditions are embraced, and oxygen-rich water can reach the lake. In addition, the water starts moving, which is vital for mixing the water layers. To Discipline capture the nutrient-rich Landscape Architecture polder water, purification Date exam polders are added between 28.08.2023 the pumping stations and Committee the lake. Products are grown Jorryt Braaksma (mentor) here that absorb nutrients. Mirte van Laarhoven Ecology will have more Mark van Heukelum space to bring the systems Additional members back into balance. New Jana Crepon opportunities for recreation Remco van der Togt

1 Dynamic delta systems have been fixed in place over the years. 2 Salty conditions are embraced, and the landscape behaves according to natural conditions. 3 The water system changes along with it.

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4 The landscape around the lake of Veere becomes dynamic again, characteristic of the Zeeland delta. 5 The landscape during low tides. 6 The landscape during high tides. 7 Twice a day the purification polder will be flooded.

8 During low tides, water flows out so oysters and other products can be harvested. 9 There are places along the dikes and routes where people and nature are connected.

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Danny Kok

Luuk Koote

Kilian Lode

Siân McGrath

Bram Oude Monnink

Charlotte Mulder

Venice, An initiative for imagination

Venice. A unique city imagination run wild and use with beautiful buildings, but the network in their own the city also has a complex way, allowing the possibility relationship with the water of different future scenarios and the tourists. Water has for the city. always been vital to the city, but it also causes floods several times a year. The Venetians have adapted their lives to it; it has not only become part of the city, but a part of their life. The water poses a threat that will only increase due to rising sea levels. During my graduation, I researched what the opportunities could be in the rise of the sea level and the decay of the city that’s part of it. I am not trying to conserve or maintain the city with my project. I accept and embrace the water and the decay. My project ensures that parts of the city can continue to exist and develop further, but also that parts of the city will become obsolete. Experiencing this decay is an integral part of this. My project consists of a network that connects parts of the city. By doing this, they remain accessible and there is an opportunity for Venice to develop further. The higher the water rises, the more relevant the Discipline network will become. The Architecture city will form around this Date exam 4 network, and other parts will 15.02.2023 mostly experience decay. Committee This project is an Bart Bulter (mentor) initiative where I influence Gianni Cito where I place the network Bruno Doedens and how it looks, but have Additional members no influence on how it is Ricky Rijkenberg used. Everyone can let their Bastiaan Jongerius

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My graduation project building not only houses focuses on the redevelophomes but also theatres, ment of Waterlooplein in shops, and restaurants, Amsterdam. The goal is to making it an integral part of restore the historical the urban fabric. significance of this location This project emphasises and create a vibrant and respecting existing strucinclusive community in the tures, maximising flexibility, heart of the city. This is and sustainability. It aims to achieved by preserving and activate emotions, both in renovating the existing the form of dance and buildings, rather than music, and in human demolishing them, promot- interaction. It represents ing sustainability and innovative thinking within respect for history. architecture and aims to The project retains the positively impact users and original structure of the society while preserving and building, including corridors strengthening the rich and elevators, which is not history of Waterlooplein. The only cost-effective but also project also highlights the preserves historical value. importance of working with New homes and a theatre existing buildings as a new section are added to breathe approach to urban developnew life into the location and ment. create a lively community. Outdoor spaces such as a rooftop terrace and waterfront promenade are created for residents and visitors to enjoy the beautiful views of the city and water. The project includes 540 homes in 15 variations, making it accessible to a diverse audience. It combines existing and reused materials such as brick and concrete with sustainable wood to create an engaging facade that reflects the Discipline history and future of the Architecture location. Date exam 4 The redevelopment 28.08.2023 restores the historical Committee significance of WaterWouter Kroeze (mentor) looplein, once a major Rogier van den Brink crossroads in Amsterdam, Stephan Petermann by reintroducing the Lange Additional members and Korte Houtstraat and Micha de Haas creating public spaces. The Anna Zań

1 Emotion model inspired by microscopic images, captured in three-dimensional forms. 2 Memories of the vanished residential district of Waterlooplein: the street plan of the current City Hall and National Opera and Ballet. 3 Construction model for investigating size, rhythm, and structure.

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7 The facade tells the story of old and new through the difference in reused materials. 8 Urban planning solution for a currently sealed and isolated building. 9 The new building is for everyone, where beautiful spaces are used both inside and on top of the building.

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In Between Green Past, present and future of Jerusalem’s No-Man’s Land 160

Between the neighbour- serve as a facade finish. hoods of Musrara and Bab Thus, municipal regulations a-Zahara, north of Jerusafor new construction do not lem’s Old City, lies the In additionally deplete limeBetween Green project. This stone resources, yet recycling facility, folded Jerusalem’s urban facade around a new pedestrian retains its light sand tones. route from the streetcar to The tactility of the plastic is the bus station, uses urban in the texture and mass of themes in which the the tiles on the pedestrian differences between East bridge, which also accompaand West Jerusalem are ny the collection of rainwavisible. The resulting ter in the winter months to in-between area of the the catch basin for waste former Green Line becomes cleaning processes. a gradient between the two The state owns and neighbourhoods through operates the recycling and that which still visibly water treatment plant, and divides: waste regulation in users of the bridge to the Jerusalem. bus station can choose to Differences at the watch the process. Users neighbourhood borders are can choose to be involved in visible on a small scale, with the process by depositing sometimes abrupt district plastic waste in the divisions. These maintesemi-public section below nance and sanitation the sorting areas. The department divisions are installation is deliberately indicated on municipal maps visible between the two corresponding to the 1948 neighbourhoods but boundaries of the former operationally not experiGreen Line and the in-beenced: the public space puts tween area defined as comfort first, and the No-Man’s Land. machine adapts as such. Using the former The state as waste and No-Man’s Land as an water treatment manager is intermediate area as a imagined as a transparent gradient between Musrara and involved party amid and Bab a-Zahara, it social streams of use in becomes a general place Jerusalem. The state where no domain can form, becomes both the bearer and neighbourhood bounda- and provider and puts the ries spill over into this transformation in the in-between space. The contested ground where the pedestrian bridge simultaresource is transformed into neously becomes an an equal social good. intermediate station for recycling Jerusalem’s plastic waste. Various plastics are processed into pure colour panels of recyclate and

Sharon Sportel

Discipline

Architecture Date exam 4

25.10.2022 Committee

Bart Bulter (mentor) Micha de Haas Marc Schoonderbeek Additional members

Wouter Kroeze Daria Naugolnova

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Axonometric model 1:500. The new Jerusalem Stone. Longitudinal section. Bridge HDPE construction details.

8 Basement level for disposal underneath the bridge. 9 Purification clarifier and basin. 10 Transparent purification process.

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Glory of the Forest 164

Many cities in Israel have design, I integrate different been developed in ways that sustainable water manageoften damage natural ment solutions. The forest processes and ignore not only contributes to landscape systems, such as hydrological and ecological ecological networks, water solutions, but it also has systems, and biodiversity. In social and economic recent years, cities have benefits. The idea is to been facing the effects of cli- accommodate nature in the mate change. They suffer city and reconnect people to from unusually warm their landscape. In this weather in summer and project, I present an ideal exurban floods in winter. At ample of a climate adaptive this pace, we may wonder design approach in the whether people can live in Israeli urban environment. Israeli cities in the future. In my project, I deal with this challenge and give climate-resilient solutions to urban developments. I focus on the development of the city Hod HaSharon, located in the centre of Israel. My main research question is: how can Hod HaSharon become a climate-resilient city? Hod HaSharon has many open spaces under the pressure of developers who want to build large numbers of buildings on these grounds. My goal is to balance the various urban layers while concomitantly creating a sustainable, healthy and attractive city for people and animals. My project proposes an Discipline integral strategy for urban Landscape Architecture structures that deals with Date exam 4 the challenges of the urban 22.12.2022 landscapes in the city and Committee offers a climate-resilient Jana Crepon (mentor) living environment. The Roel Wolters concept is to restore the Lodewijk van vanished forest of Hod Nieuwenhuizen HaSharon and to use it as a Additional members vital element of the city’s Thijs de Zeeuw structure. In my urban forest Cees van der Veeken

Shahaf Strickmann

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Moving Earth Laboratory for the Symbiocene 168

All over the world, us future possibilities with open-cast mines damage clean energy, new food ecosystems and cause soil-, systems, and a nature-incluwater- and air pollution. sive production landscape. Many are being closed and Paleobotanical species replaced with renewable found in the mine serve as energy landscapes. What bio-accumulators for heavy remains are water-filled, metals and bring past worlds toxic scars in the landscape. to life, like time layers. Its history sealed and erased Like the Earth itself, the forever. Laboratory is always My aim was to preserve moving. Mining machines and repair these scars by move water down- and proposing an alternative upward, becoming more way to restore the water abundant in time, cleansing table, and water and soil the system; they move soil quality through natural to create new landscapes systems. At the same time, I and manage succession; am striving for co-existence vegetation develops over in an integrated production time. landscape; to give back lost Together, they create a land to the people and biodiverse and inclusive non-humans. place, a new destiny for For this experiment, I humans and non-humans. chose Germany’s largest brown coal mine: The Hambach mine, just across the Dutch border. The site is so beyond human scale that it was hard to grasp. I experienced the Sublime landscape: impressive, terrible and beautiful at the same time. The mine became a symbol for transformation: the first Laboratory for the Symbiocene. ‘Symbiocene’ stands for a future era where we reintegrate ourselves Discipline with nature, where positive Landscape Architecture impacts will heal the Date exam 4 negative ones. 11.07.2023 Staring into a 405-metre- Committee deep hole means staring into Joyce van den Berg (mentor) deep geological time. The Bruno Doedens terraces have uncovered the Paolo Picchi story of the brown coal’s Additional members origin, climate changes and Roel van Gerwen the elements. It also teaches Willemijn van Manen

1 Gateway To The Symbiocene: The former coal bunker forms the entrance into the transformed mine; as soon as you arrive, you immediately enter the past. 2 "Symbiotic Farming’: Integrated landscape of nature-inclusive farming systems. 3 ‘Rising+Falling’: Landscape of moving earth plates, at the time border of the Quaternary and the Tertiary era, 7,24 million years ago, looking out over the Miocene worlds.

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4 ‘Mycelium Marshes’: Miocene wetland forest, bioluminescent fungi and mycelium constructions as wayfinders. 5 ‘Turning Tides’: Miocene dune landscape; ‘Solar kites’ and Earth batteries as sustainable energy sources. 6 ‘Primordial Soup’: algae nursery at 200m below sea level.

7 ‘Origin of the Future’: deepest point of the mine at 399m below sea level; start of the new water system. 8,9 Length profile of the entire mine, transformed into the Laboratory for the Symbiocene.

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cities in the hinterland

Voorland About the spatial chances for

On the outskirts of the and sustainable. A city Netherlands lies the city of where there is still space for Doetinchem. Capital of the the development of busiAchterhoek region, situated nesses and where residents by the Oude IJssel river. A still have influence in their city with a fascinating living environment. amount of undefined and In my design, I propose a unused space. This design resilient future for Doetproposal outlines the spatial inchem, with a focus on the opportunities that await in development of the station densifying cities that lay in district. Through compact the hinterland. urban planning and the The densification of the stacking of functions, there’s major Dutch cities is room for urban agriculture, increasingly facing challeng- nature development, water es. In high-density areas, storage, housing, businessunaffordable housing is es, schools, and recreation. being constructed in places The design showcases the with noise pollution, poor air potential quality enhancequality, and strained ment for the entire city and infrastructure. We have been the surrounding region — focusing on the densification transforming a decaying of cities in low-lying areas of industrial zone into a vibrant our river delta that are not green urban district. In the resilient to the effects of design, Doetinchem regains climate change. This has its connection to the Oude made us vulnerable. IJssel River and becomes At the same time, cities well-integrated with the like Doetinchem have not surrounding landscape. proportionally benefited The design proposal from our general prosperity. inspires a dialogue about the In these cities, amenities are growth of our cities. Where decreasing, and livability is is densification responsible under pressure. Residents and sustainable? How can feel unheard and are spatial policies contribute? gradually disengaging while Additionally, the design the need for housing rises. challenges similar cities to For this reason, I plead in contemplate their future. my design proposal for the Dare to look ahead as a city. densification of cities in the Dare to take a step forward hinterland: cities in outskirt in time and scale to realise locations, where densifica- higher ambitions in the long tion can lead to a societal run. The opportunity lies boost. Densification can help ahead to become a frontrunrevitalize these cities. In ner in developing sustainatowns like Doetinchem, ble and livable cities: to see there is still space for nature these cities and regions not development and housing as a hinterland anymore, but on a human scale. A city as the Voorland. where you can live healthy

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Mike Wissing

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Urbanism Date exam 4

07.06.2023 Committee

Herman Zonderland (mentor) Iris Wijn Eric van der Kooij Additional members

Riëtte Bosch Daryl Mulvihill

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6 The market harbour as the heart of the new district 7 Sectional view of Missetlaan 8 Sectional view of Oeverpark 9 Development scenario

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Voor Wad hoort Wad Building on reciprocity in aquatic ecosystems 176

Twice a day, the Wadden ance of mussel beds and the Sea changes from wadecline of salt marsh ter-landscape to land-land- landscapes. My research scape. I love the Wadden into human and wild and as an avid sailor, I enjoy builders, structures, techthe beauty of the Wadden. niques and materials in the Voor Wad hoort Wad shows mudflats has shaped the a vision of nature-inclusive mudflat works. I draw building with and through inspiration from ‘bio the Wadden ecosystem. Due builders’ such as mussel to rising sea levels, these beds, seagrass beds and salt water ecosystems will marshes. For the mudflats, I become more and more have tested materials and vulnerable in the future. The developed new materials, current way of designing such as cockle shell comand building needs to posite. consider the interaction My design method between architecture and provides tools for building the water ecosystem with and for aquatic ecosyssufficiently as an architectems in the future, reciprocitural context. ty being the key. Here, the My vision of building in dynamics of the landscape the Wadden Sea and my become part of the design. iterative design method led In this way, architecture can to the design of three enrich landscape and nature, mudflat works connected by and vice versa; nature can a mudflat walking route help shape architecture. The from North Groningen to use of natural, local and Schiermonnikoog. The biodegradable building wad-works are experimental materials ensures this gardens for new collabora- transience. Reciprocal tions between humans, land- architecture thus contributes scape and nature. They to the aquatic ecosystem: stimulate the mudflat "Voor Wad hoort Wad". ecosystem to increase biodiversity. The mudflat walk route offers visitors the opportunity to experience this beautiful landscape and the mudflat-works and make Discipline them aware of the dynamic Architecture mudflat ecosystem. Date exam 4 The wad-works are 13.12.2022 designed in three distinctive Committee landscape types; salt marsh, Maartje Lammers (mentor) gully and mudflat. With Machiel Spaan these mudflat works, I Bart van der Salm intend to address three Additional members problems; the extinction of Pnina Avidar seagrasses, the disappearDingeman Deijs

1 The Bio-builder are part of the building process they form important nurseries to increase the biodiversity. 2 On top of the boardwalk in the salt marsh ‘’Kwelder’’ with a view towards the low tide Wadden sea, at the starting point of the Wadden walking route. 3 The Sediment trap in the salt marsh ‘’Kwelder’’. The wall contour is formed by shellcrete blocks and natural reinforcement by twigs.

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4 The Mussel bank in the tidal area of the current. Constructed from shellcrete blocks and twigs to provide the perfect hard substrate base for mussels to grow and hold on to. 5 The boardwalk cuts the landscape like a cross-section and guides the visitor along the different landscape typologies. To which one can relate as an anchor point in the highly dynamic landscape; scale 1:100, 1:20, 1:5

6 Shellcrete sample made from cockle shells. Local and 100% biobased material developed with the purpose to erode over time and blend into the Wadden landscape.

7 Float buoy for the ultimate sailor experience; falling dry on the bottom of the Wadden Sea. The buoy consists of wooden portals that together form a wedge, with an air chamber in every base of each wedge. Visitors can bridge a tidal cycle on the buoy and find shelter from the elements of the Wadden Sea. The double wall staircase space brings the visitor to three different height leveled decks and provide a beautiful view over the seagrass fields on the sandbank.

8 The Sediment trap in the salt marsh ‘’Kwelder’’; model scale 1:100 9 The Seagrass field on the sandbank; cross-section and site plan.

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Wieger Postma

Coen Pronk

Steve Schaft

Valerie Smalen

Sharon Sportel

Shahaf Strickmann

Anne Floor Timan-Wenzel

Mike Wissing

Laurien Zwaans

2022-2023

Academy of Architecture Amsterdam