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As part of the research project Renewal of Urban Renewal the master specialisation Hybrid Build-ings2 launched several Design Research Graduation Studios proposing as main theme of investigation the role of architecture in contemporary urban renewal. The research project is starting from the observation that most urban renewal approaches until now have been focusing very much on the scale of the housing block, concentrating on the relationships within the neighbourhood itself. Considering the Dutch scene, despite a rather convincing renewal of the housing stock, this neighbourhoodbased approach does not seem to deliver the desired results. In addition, this subject deserves particular attention in the current postcrisis period, in which the official authorities too are clearly switching their position, from a leading role to almost an undefined player seeking new operational strategies and opportunities. Therefore, starting from the acknowledgment that urban renewal is no longer driven by a predefined economic, social and spatial agenda, the Renewal of Urban Renewal research project propagated the need of finding new balance, consensus and perspectives in the approach to urban transformations. Instead of massive restructuring processes characterising the first urban regeneration flow, nowadays reality argues for a more bottomup driven urban renewal, for more limited interventions involving facilities, infrastructures and/or public space, in short, for new challenges and opportunities.
As part of the research project Renewal of Urban Renewal the master specialisation Hybrid Build-ings2 launched several Design Research Graduation Studios proposing as main theme of investigation the role of architecture in contemporary urban renewal. The research project is starting from the observation that most urban renewal approaches until now have been focusing very much on the scale of the housing block, concentrating on the relationships within the neighbourhood itself. Considering the Dutch scene, despite a rather convincing renewal of the housing stock, this neighbourhoodbased approach does not seem to deliver the desired results. In addition, this subject deserves particular attention in the current postcrisis period, in which the official authorities too are clearly switching their position, from a leading role to almost an undefined player seeking new operational strategies and opportunities. Therefore, starting from the acknowledgment that urban renewal...
As part of the research project Renewal of Urban Renewal the master specialisation Hybrid Build-ings2 launched several Design Research Graduation Studios proposing as main theme of investigation the role of architecture in contemporary urban renewal. The research project is starting from...
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2013 International Building Exhibition (IBA), Hamburg
Competition by invitation, 2010
First prize in the Smart Price Houses category Commissioned by SchwörerHaus Oberstetten Programme: six dwellings with garages
Size: 1,100 m2 (gross area)2013 International Building Exhibition (IBA), Hamburg
Competition by invitation, 2010
First prize in the Smart Price Houses category Commissioned by SchwörerHaus Oberstetten Programme: six dwellings with garages
Size: 1,100 m2 (gross area)2013 International Building Exhibition (IBA), Hamburg
Competition by invitation, 2010
First prize in the Smart Price Houses category Commissioned by SchwörerHaus Oberstetten Programme: six dwellings with garages
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Design: East
Client: Western Investments
Program: 84 aparthotel rooms, 7 residential units, café/community space, rooftop viewing pavilion, garden
Size: 5,000 m2 (netto)
Start construction: September 2014Design: East
Client: Western Investments
Program: 84 aparthotel rooms, 7 residential units, café/community space, rooftop viewing pavilion, garden
Size: 5,000 m2 (netto)
Start construction: September 2014Design: East
Client: Western Investments
Program: 84 aparthotel rooms, 7 residential units, café/community space, rooftop viewing pavilion, garden
Size: 5,000 m2 (netto)
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Design: De Smet Vermeulen architecten
Call by the Chief Architect of Flanders (2005) Master plan (2006): Technum, De Smet Vermeulen architecten, Architecten de vylder vinck taillieu, Tom Thys architecten
Commissioned by Antwerpen Lerende Stad, Antwerpen Zorgbedrijf, THV IGLO
Programme: children’s daycare centre, residential care centre, service flats and shops on the square Completion: 2014Design: De Smet Vermeulen architecten
Call by the Chief Architect of Flanders (2005) Master plan (2006): Technum, De Smet Vermeulen architecten, Architecten de vylder vinck taillieu, Tom Thys architecten
Commissioned by Antwerpen Lerende Stad, Antwerpen Zorgbedrijf, THV IGLO
Programme: children’s daycare centre, residential care centre, service flats and shops on the square Completion: 2014Design: De Smet Vermeulen architecten
Call by the Chief Architect of Flanders (2005) Master plan (2006): Technum, De Smet Vermeulen architecten, Architecten de vylder vinck taillieu, Tom Thys architecten
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Design: 51N4E
Client: City of Kortrijk / AGB Buda Program: artists’ studios, exhibition and event facilities
Size: 4,240 m²
Design period: 2005 (competition)2007 Construction period: 20102012Design: 51N4E
Client: City of Kortrijk / AGB Buda Program: artists’ studios, exhibition and event facilities
Size: 4,240 m²
Design period: 2005 (competition)2007 Construction period: 20102012Design: 51N4E
Client: City of Kortrijk / AGB Buda Program: artists’ studios, exhibition and event facilities
Size: 4,240 m²
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Design: Dogma
Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2013 Living/working Unité d’Habitation for 1600 inhabitants
Design: Dogma
Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2013 Living/working Unité d’Habitation for 1600 inhabitants
Design: Dogma
Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2013 Living/working Unité d’Habitation for 1600 inhabitants
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In November 2013 the Faculty of Architecture of Delft University of Technology hosted the exhibition Dogma: 11 projects + 1, which presented the first decade of research projects produced by the Rotterdam and now Brussels based architectural office led by Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara. The exhibition was originally held in the beginning of 2013 at the Architectural Association in London and accompanied by the publication of a catalogue that included texts by the authors, an introduction by Brett Steel and a critical essay by the Italian scholar Gabriele Mastrigli.
In November 2013 the Faculty of Architecture of Delft University of Technology hosted the exhibition Dogma: 11 projects + 1, which presented the first decade of research projects produced by the Rotterdam and now Brussels based architectural office led by Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara. The exhibition was originally held in the beginning of 2013 at the Architectural Association in London and accompanied by the publication of a catalogue that included texts by the authors, an introduction by Brett Steel and a critical essay by the Italian scholar Gabriele Mastrigli.
In November 2013 the Faculty of Architecture of Delft University of Technology hosted the exhibition Dogma: 11 projects + 1, which presented the first decade of research projects produced by the Rotterdam and now Brussels based architectural office led by Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino...
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Understood as a conceptual tool for the management of information, layers are ubiquitous in our days. In computer graphics, they are a standard, basic feature: image editors for still or motion pictures, computerassisted drawing (CAD) programs, and of course geospatial information systems (GIS) – as well as most of their useroriented applications –, all of them use layers in one way or another, often in so essential a manner that they constitute their very raison d’être. As a consequence, the catchy word layering that so much pervades current architectural practice seems to designate something that everyone knows, a procedure that is practically taken for granted and yet has given rise to comparatively little research. In relation to architectural design, this may be particularly baffling, considering that layering has provided the backbone for singular projects that have become a methodological breakthrough and an inexhaustible source of inspiration for subsequent practice – one needs only to think of Koolhaas’ influential proposal for Parc de la Villette, Eisenman’s recurrent lucubrations, or the recent Serpentine pavilion by Herzog de Meuron and Ai Weiwei.
Understood as a conceptual tool for the management of information, layers are ubiquitous in our days. In computer graphics, they are a standard, basic feature: image editors for still or motion pictures, computerassisted drawing (CAD) programs, and of course geospatial information systems (GIS) – as well as most of their useroriented applications –, all of them use layers in one way or another, often in so essential a manner that they constitute their very raison d’être. As a consequence, the catchy word layering that so much pervades current architectural practice seems to designate something that everyone knows, a procedure that is practically taken for granted and yet has given rise to comparatively little research. In relation to architectural design, this may be particularly baffling, considering that layering has provided the backbone for singular projects that have become a methodological breakthrough and an inexhaustible source of...
Understood as a conceptual tool for the management of information, layers are ubiquitous in our days. In computer graphics, they are a standard, basic feature: image editors for still or motion pictures, computerassisted drawing (CAD) programs, and of course geospatial...
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Cor Wagenaar
Town Planning in the Netherlands since 1800
Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2011Cor Wagenaar
Town Planning in the Netherlands since 1800
Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2011Cor Wagenaar
Town Planning in the Netherlands since 1800
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Eddy Verbaan
De woonplaats van de faam.
Grondslagen van de stadsbeschrijving
in de zeventiende-eeuwse Republiek Hilversum: Verloren, 2011, 366 pp.Raingard Esser
The politics of memory: The writing of partition in the seventeenth-century Low Countries Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2012, 365 pp.Eddy Verbaan
De woonplaats van de faam.
Grondslagen van de stadsbeschrijving
in de zeventiende-eeuwse Republiek Hilversum: Verloren, 2011, 366 pp.Raingard Esser
The politics of memory: The writing of partition in the seventeenth-century Low Countries Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2012, 365 pp.Eddy Verbaan
De woonplaats van de faam.
Grondslagen van de stadsbeschrijving
in de zeventiende-eeuwse Republiek Hilversum: Verloren, 2011, 366 pp.Raingard Esser
The politics of memory: The writing of partition in the seventeenth-century Low Countries Leiden/Boston:...