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This session of the ATHENS network will be a one-week-long brainstorm in workshop form about the (sustainable) future of our cities. An urban future that we imagine built from bottom-up by using architecture (a correct, motivated, logic and good embedded architecture) as a tool to induce meaningful urban transformations.
At the workshop a group of International students from the ATHENS netwok will join a group of Delft graduating students of Hybrid Buildings working on these same themes. The Hybrid Buildings students pre-selected a number of case-studies in the Amsterdam East study area. All together they will work at these case-studies under the guidance of invited teachers.
Daily lectures (on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday) will address the themes of the workshop. The final presentation will take place on Friday 22nd, starting at 14.00. See below the lecture programme, all at the Faculty of Architecture:
Monday, March 18th: Olindo Caso (TU Delft) > 13.45 – 14.45 > Room T
Monday, March 18th: Paul Vermeulen (TU Delft & HDSPV Architecten, Be.) > 15.45 – 16.45 > Room T
Tuesday, March 19th: Julian Lewis (EAST Architects, London) > 10.45 – 12.45 > Room T
Tuesday, March 19th: Floris van der Zee (TU Delft) > 12.45 – 13.45 > Room T
Wednesday, March 20th: Maurice Harteveld (TU Delft) > 14.45 – 15.45 > Room T
Wednesday, March 20th: Eireen Schreurs (TU Delft & SUB Office, Amsterdam) > 14.45 – 15.45 > Room T
Friday, March 22nd: Final Students’ Presentation > 14.00 – 17.00 > Room B
The exhibition has been opened on Thursday May 3rd by Olindo Caso and Esther Gramsbergen. We are happy with the positive reactions and the attendance of (among others) Karin Laglas and Salome Bentinck. The exhibition in the Zuidserre will last till May 16th.
Over Holland 10/11 has been presented on July 1st, 2011. A half-day symposium has been devoted at the items dealt with in this special issue: cartography of the Randstad Holland from the year 800 till 2000. Speakers: prof. Koos Bosma, prof Guus Borger and Henk Engel. The dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Karin Laglas, was present too.
New York- Times Square – Time Line
15 ECTS MSc2 TUD/ code:ARX034
Workshop on the Development of the City of New York over Time
18 – 30 October 2010
If you are interested in this workshop please contact us at info@terraventure.org
On location in New York City, participants will look at the developments of the Big Apple, making detailed comparative timeline analyses to investigate the evolution of urbanism and architecture. On the basis of this, students will design an intervention on Times Square, focusing on politics, history, economy, architecture and urbanism. The participants will participate in lectures, after which they will design and present a proposal, finished off by a written report.
For this workshop -that has been approved by the department of Urbanism and Architecture from the TU-Delft- we are looking for 12 skilled participants.
Note:
- for enrolment please contact us! info@terraventure.org or visit our website. www.terraventure.org.
- weekly meetings will start in September and will end in December.
Rajan V. Ritoe
The exhibition "The university and the City" (Hybrid Buildings by Building Typology) is now exposed in the ARCAM Architecture Centre in Amsterdam.
The exposition will close on March 15th.
Hybrid Buildings by Building Typology organizes two lunch lectures about the theme of the relationship between architecture and urban interventions. The traditional planning instrument of the masterplan seems to have lost in validity, due to changes in urban culture, societal relationships and economies. The current crisis amplifies this and asks for new models to design the future of urban places.
Friday September 21st > Lecture room A > 12:45 - 13.45
Paul Vermeulen (HDSPV Architekten / TU Delft) will talk about "Architecture as Bottom-Up Urbanism".
Tuesday September 25th > Lecture room C > 12:45 - 13:45
Arjan Gooijer (Van Schagen Architekten) will talk abot "The end of the Masterplan?"
Although the lectures are meant for students of the Hybrid Buildings track they may be interesting for all students/teachers/researchers as well. They are therefore open to everyone interested in these topics.
The Exhibition The University and the City presents works of the students of the Master 1 course Hybrid Buildings. Besides design projects, analysis on the relationships between the city of Amstyerdam and the University of Amsterdam are presented as well. The exhibition will last till May 16th in the Zuidserre at BK City.. Opening: May 3rd.
Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology,
The Netherlands, 16-19 October 2012
Conference brief
In the age of globalization, cities can no longer be understood as autonomous identities but have to be regarded as parts of larger networks and metropolitan areas.
As a consequence the city structure changed: for example, the priority given to the perspective of ‘time’ which tends to reduce and “consume” the traditional importance of ‘space’ and ‘place’; the overwhelming increase of logistics; the demand for a mobility infrastructure that renders a broader than ever spectrum of complementary solutions, the new role assumed by green areas. Solutions like water links, railways, highways and airlines, offer the opportunity of reciprocal and multiple connections and at the same time, prompting unexpected geographical configurations.
The conference questions the abovementioned framework to understand which kind of new urban configuration can arise from it.
Conference sub-themes
The Conference Committee invites professionals from both research and practice dealing with the built environment (architecture, urbanism, landscape architecture, planning, geography, sociology, urban history etc.) to send in abstracts for papers on one of the following sub-themes:
1. Innovative building typologies
Analytical and design studies which investigate the potential of new, often hybrid building types deriving their legitimacy from the specific conditionsof the new urban configurations and the subsequent transformation of existing settlements.
2. Infrastructure and architecture
Analytical studies which investigate the relationship between infrastructure and architecture, also focusing on the possibility of reciprocal blurring.
3. Complex urban projects
Experiments and experiences dealing with complex functional requirements, a wide spectrum of multiple requests and stakeholders within strongly layered preexisting urban systems.
4. Green spaces: the city and the territory
Analytical studies and designs that investigate the role of the landscape (verdure) as material for a new kind of urban and architectural design consideringdriving forces such as the necessity of limiting our ecological (energetically) footprint.
Further details on the conference, its organization, registration procedure etc. will be
available on the website: http://www.newurbanconfigurations.nl
Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology,
The Netherlands, 10-13 October 2012
Conference brief
In the age of globalization, cities can no longer be understood as autonomous identities but have to be regarded as parts of larger networks and metropolitan areas.
As a consequence the city structure changed: for example, the priority given to the perspective of ‘time’ which tends to reduce and “consume” the traditional importance of ‘space’ and ‘place’; the overwhelming increase of logistics; the demand for a mobility infrastructure that renders a broader than ever spectrum of complementary solutions, the new role assumed by green areas. Solutions like water links, railways, highways and airlines, offer the opportunity of reciprocal and multiple connections and at the same time, prompting unexpected geographical configurations.
The conference questions the abovementioned framework to understand which kind of new urban configuration can arise from it.
Conference sub-themes
The Conference Committee invites professionals from both research and practice dealing with the built environment (architecture, urbanism, landscape architecture, planning, geography, sociology, urban history etc.) to send in abstracts for papers on one of the following sub-themes:
1. Innovative building typologies
Analytical and design studies which investigate the potential of new, often hybrid building types deriving their legitimacy from the specific conditionsof the new urban configurations and the subsequent transformation of existing settlements.
2. Infrastructure and architecture
Analytical studies which investigate the relationship between infrastructure and architecture, also focusing on the possibility of reciprocal blurring.
3. Complex urban projects
Experiments and experiences dealing with complex functional requirements, a wide spectrum of multiple requests and stakeholders within strongly layered preexisting urban systems.
4. Green spaces: the city and the territory
Analytical studies and designs that investigate the role of the landscape (verdure) as material for a new kind of urban and architectural design consideringdriving forces such as the necessity of limiting our ecological (energetically) footprint.
Provisional schedule
May 1st, 2012
Deadline submission of abstracts
June 1st, 2012
Notification of acceptance
September 15th, 2012
First review papers
September 30st, 2012
Deadline conference registration
October 10-13th, 2012
Conference
Further details on the conference, its organization, registration procedure etc. will be
available on the website of the TU Delft Faculty of Architecture:
http://www.bk.tudelft.nl/EAAE_New_Urban_Configurations
Statement
Architectural interventions in the contemporary city are becoming increasingly complex. Globalization, scale up, individualization, fragmentation, decentralization and democratization of decision-making and European legislation, make urban projects in practice lengthy and slow. This tends to elaborate procedures and design process prior to the actual interventions. In addition, it is increasingly important to be critical with regard to existing practices in order to find the way to new solutions that better reflect today's urban conditions.
On the one hand, the design of, among other, large institutional buildings and facilities such as hospitals, multi-functional transportation hubs, shopping centres or large sports facilities, requires a different approach taking into account private and public interests. This sets major changes in the traditional roles of architecture and urban planning. The size of the programs and the uncertainty about content and financing requires a cyclic design process in which the boundary between architecture and urbanism is constantly being exceeded in both directions.
At the other hand, current issues such as economic recession or aging will set in the coming years an inevitable major claim on the agenda of future urban transformations. These issues will more often cut a reversal of the above trend and create more space for a ‘bottom up’ approach to urban interventions. There will be greater need for new buildings in which the assembly of programs appropriately reacts to the changing urban conditions. These buildings have the potential to act as catalysts, as one of the key factors to anticipate future transformations of the city.
Balance
How can design and research studies anticipate and adequately respond to the transformation and restructuring processes of the contemporary city? The search for the right balance between complex buildings and their urban context becomes increasingly important, especially as momentum for further changes and developments in the immediate surroundings.
In this context, the Capita Selecta lecture series aims to focus on a number of both 'research by design’ projects and contemporary examples from practice, where the interplay between new interventions and urban context gets another dimension.
The main goal is to give a more detailed insight into the strategies followed in urban transformations. Taking into account the current more comprehensive ideas on urban renewal, we then propose to focus on how to determine the strategic tools to be set into the designs.
Practical information
The lectures will take place every Thursday evening in the period April to June 2011 (2nd quarter of the second semester). For each lecture, a scientific staff member of the Department of Architecture will ensure the introduction and will act as moderator of the discussion after the presentation. Lectures will be introduced also by a specialist from the foundation KEI in Rotterdam.
Lectures:
21-04-2011
Henk Engel - TU Delft - Faculty of Architecture - Introduction to the theme
Endry van Velzen - De Nijl Architecten, Rotterdam
28-04-2011
Paul Vermeulen - De Smet Vermeulen Architecten, Gent, Belgium
Christine de Ruijter , AWG Architecten, Antwerp, Belgium
12-05-2011
Hans van der Heijden – bureau biq - Rotterdam
Julian Lewis – Office East – London
19-05-2011
Jean-Pierre Pranlas – Atelier Pranlas-Descours - Paris
Antonio Ortiz – Cruz y Ortiz – Seville
26-05-2011
Giacomo Delbene – SelfArquitectura - Barcelona
Toni Casamor– Baena Casamor Architects - Barcelona
09-06-2011
Kees Kaan – Claus & Kaan Architects (project Breda)
Koen van Velsen, railway state architect (project Breda)
Maps as historical source, instrument for research and means of presentation in the research of the history of cities and landscapes an important source of information is formed by the use of maps. The present possibilities to process, compare and analyse data digitally seems to make historical research easier and to make it easier to make comparisons among cities. Historians nowadays use a wide range of digital instruments for their analysis, for example the so-called GIS-system and illustrator. development of digital maps and map historical and physical processes. It is time to assess the results of all these developments and discuss among researchers, designers and map-makers the benefits of these digital methods. What contribution do historical and new drawn maps have for their ongoing research? Which methods can be useful? Which ways of presentation have been proven successful? And which methodological problems arose during the research?
Contributions
-Iskandar Pané, Arnoud de Waaijer, Otto Diesfeldt, Twelve centuries of landscape transformation in the Randstad Holland in 6 maps: ca 800, 1200, 1500, 1700, 1900, 2000.
-Leo van den Burg, A new building in an old City: an analysis of the spatial relationship between the seventeenth-century Amsterdam City Hall and the Dam Square.
5x5 projecten voor de Hollandse stad is een onderzoeksproject dat aan de afdeling architectuur van de Faculteit Bouwkunde van de TU Delft is uitgevoerd. Met dit project wil men het denken over stedelijke vernieuwing verder ontwikkelen door de samenhang te onderzoeken tussen architectonische interventies en transformaties in de stationsgebieden van vijf kleinere historische steden van de Randstad: Haarlem, Leiden, Gouda, Delft en Dordrecht.
Stationsgebieden zijn als object van onderzoek interessant. De aanleg van spoorwegen en stations vormden een belangrijk moment in de ontwikkeling van de steden. Ze markeerden een nieuwe fase van verstedelijking, maakten reistijden korter en doorbraken de lokale beslotenheid. Sindsdien zijn de steden in hoog tempo gegroeid. En ooit afgebakende gebieden –wonen in de periferie, werken en voorzieningen in het centrum- hebben zich verdicht tot een hybride netwerk van stedelijke knopen en corridors. Het netwerk van spoorlijnen is inmiddels sterk verouderd. Het leidt tot verstopping en belemmert verbeteringen in de structuur van de stad.
Vijf architectenteams maakten een ontwerp vanuit de hypothese dat het spoor in de toekomst ondergronds gebracht gaat worden. De vraag was welke nieuwe programma’s, typologieën en beeldtalen deze vrijkomende gebieden zouden kunnen omvormen tot de centra van de eenentwintigste eeuw?
Initiatiefnemer van het project is Leen van Duin, de architecten zijn Jo Coenen (Haarlem), Michiel Riedijk, Niklaas Deboutte, Kersten Geers (Leiden), Dick van Gameren (Gouda), b0b van Reeth (Delft) en Henk Engel (Dordrecht). De tentoonstelling in het CBK toont de resultaten van dit onderzoek dat tevens de aanleiding is voor het debat dat aan de opening voorafgaat.
TENTOONSTELLING IN SAMENWERKING MET STICHTING DE STAD
26-03 om 15 uur: debat
26-03 om 17 uur: opening tentoonstelling
Exposerende kunstenaar(s) / exhibited artist(s):
Jo Coenen - Kersten Geers
CBK Dordrecht
Voorstraat 180, 3311 ES Dordrecht, 078-6314689, open: wo t/m za 12.00-17.00, 1e zondag v/d maand 12.00-17.00
Expositieperiode van 27 maart t/m 2 mei 2010
