20 research outputs found
AHA - In Practice : A Travelogue by Leeke Reinders
No full textpeer reviewedThis fifth volume of the In Practice series opens its pages to the work of the Brussels-based architectural practice AHA, led by Aurélie Hachez. In contrast to preceding volumes, in which a single project took centre stage, this book delves into AHA’s design practice as an ecology, examining three simultaneous projects. The anthropologist Leeke Reinders, a former colleague of Aurélie at TU Delft, literally takes the readers on a summer road trip through these recent projects
Harde stad, zachte stad: Moderne architectuur en de antropologie van een naoorlogse wijk
Get PDFThere is something irrevocable in architecture. In contrast with a painting or a musical play, one cannot alter an architectural work of art other than by blowing it up or pulling it down. Streets, buildings, squares and parks are part of the hard, physical environment in which we organize our lives. But why conceptualize architecture as a finished product? What happens when the plans have been drawn, the buildings completed, the public space decorated and the pictures taken for design journals and marketing advertisements? How does the ‘hard’ city of architecture and urban planning relate to the ‘soft’ city of residents and users? How do people appropriate the planned city and make it their home? The thesis ‘Hard city, soft city’ is an anthropological study on the role of images and symbolic representations in the social production of urban space in Nieuwland, a post-war neighborhood of Schiedam, which is undergoing a process of large-scale restructuring. A central theme of the book is the intersection between planned and lived space. That is, between the city as object of planning and policy and as an object of everyday identity formation. The architecture and urban structure of post-war neighborhoods have been subject of numerous publications, but it is striking how little we know about everyday life that has unfolded in the years after completion. The book sets out to approach urban space not only from a physical and architectural point of view, but also as a social and cultural domain which is claimed by various groups and institutions. This is examined through the images, symbols and stories used by professionals and residents to give form, meaning and substance to urban space, such as in branding and narrative cartography. Using the philosophical work of Michel de Certeau and Henri Lefebvre, the book examines how an anthropology of urban space contributes to our knowledge on the city, as a political object of policy, architecture and planning and as an everyday living environment
Framing Atmospheres: A journey through Rue du Faubourg du Temple
No full textThis graduation project finds its origins in my fascination for cities and its atmospheres, which are endangered by the process called gentrification. Gentrification is the effect in which urban areas are renovated and upgraded causing for lower-income classes to be abandoned towards the outer city. Living in the inner city becomes only affordable for higher income classes who have all the same needs for their living environment causing for the cities to change to these needs and loose their authentic spirit. Dealing with gentrification is difficult since it’s a process that slowly starts without noticing and ones its there there’s no way back. Therefore for my graduation project I developed a new strategy on how to deal with gentrification. I experimented with this new strategy using architectural design as a tool.Since the overpopulated inner city of Paris is rapidly changing due to gentrification I focused myself on this location and in particular on the street Rue du Faubourg du Temple. For my strategy it’s important to be ahead of the gentrification process and while visiting Paris I found out that this street still possesses its authentic character. I immersed into Rue du Faubourg du Temple and used all my observations to create a design that is enhancing and exaggerating the important qualities of the identity of the street, hoping these will resist gentrification in future.Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Explorela
Erosion for Betterment: Designing with Erosion to improve well-being | a case study of the Volta Delta, Ghana
No full textErosion for Betterment is a graduation project within the Landscape Architecture master track at the TU Delft. The project examines an underdeveloped coastal area in Ghana that is sadly facing severe erosional threats due to previous unfortunate human activities. It offers an unexpected direction in handling issues as such by proposing an inventful and sustainable way of living profiting from the originally presumed risks. Architecture, Urbanism and Building Science
Gender Walk Design: Tapping the potential of the collective knowledge as a research and design tool in the (multicultural) *Kiez, Berlin-Neukölln
No full textThe graduation project ‘Gender Walk Design’ investigated genderwalks as a method for knowledge gathering in planning and design. Because gender based differences and inequalities are present in cities, the work towards understanding and reacting to them is very relevant for urbanists. However, intersectional gender aware design is extremely complex and the right approach can be difficult to distinguish. The project looks to utilize the potentials of walking - in its simplicity and effectiveness - as a responding strategy. For this purpose, the potentials and limits of the method were tested through a transparent design process of the method, through the conduction and documentation of genderwalks in Berlin Neukölln and through an analysis of the findings that lead to design proposals
Garden in the Machine
No full textThis project incorporates a wide range of cultural and historical references, using the archive footage of the construction of the Flevopolder, the Venetian polder landscape, Robert Smithson’s work on territories and mines and Roman mythology to construct a narrative about new towns, and new beginnings. Situated on the threshold between the machine landscape of industrial agriculture that is the Flevopolder, and the neo-liberal free-for-all development of Oosterwold, the project provides a communal space for the prospective agricultural communities around the site. The agricultural cooperative which would manage the project, would work together with a research institute experimenting with alternative methods of farming, and would form a council with representatives of the city, the institute and the forestry department to make decisions on the land use of the commons, and thus gaining agency. The project presents itself as an urban image in the countryside, and announcing itself as a new beginning of sorts, the start of a new history in which we are able to re-establish our relationship to the land. As the community works together with the city and the institution to practice and experiment with alternative forms of agriculture, there is an opportunity to undo the damage of modernised agriculture, introducing new minor rhythms into the landscape that make space for wild plants and animals.The building serves to represent thenatural histories of the territory, allowing the community to engage in a dialogue with the land, and being represented in their relationship to it.The first times of the city of Almere, and the fictions and histories of its territory can thus be understood in dialectic relationship, so that this project can indeed become a concrete utopia, and a new city, or at least a prototype of it.Architecture, Urbanism and Building Science
Soft City: Endaring people and space
No full textDue to the strong increase in densification in cities worldwide and the takeover of infrastructure, the public domains in the city often lose their intrinsic tranquility. In a bustling working city like Rotterdam, the public quiet and social places are under pressure. The focus of this graduation plan lies on the urban neighborhoods Bospolder and Tussendijken, characterized by many different nationalities, ages and backgrounds, which often causes mutual misunderstanding and frustration among residents. From the field analysis and research it emerged that there is a lack of quiet social meeting places in the neighborhood. In this graduation plan a distinction is made between the hard and the Soft City. The Soft City is characterized by soft architecture that invites its users to appropriate the space and in this way enters into a relationship with its users. The hard city shows itself in the entire planned city; the almost inhuman city. The focus of the graduation research and design is on the 'Soft City': a changeable intermedia between people and architecture. The addition of a new soft elements, based on the idea of 'the Soft City', could strengthen the identity, peace and connection amongst citizens of the districts and thus offer a solution to the mutual misunderstanding, feelings of insecurity and frustration among residents. The design assignment will result in three interventions of public quiet meeting places at different scale levels in the urban fabric of Bospolder/Tussendijken.Architecture, Urbanism and Building Science
Ten Geleide
No full textTegen de toen heersende opvatting in beweerde Ton Kreukels eind jaren zeventig al dat planning geen exclusieve overheidstaak of -bevoegdheid is. Vijfentwintig jaar later, bij Tons afscheid als hoogleraar, heeft dit idee steeds meer terrein gewonnen.
In dit boek houdt een aantal prominente plannende wetenschaps- en praktijkmensen dat gedachtegoed scherp tegen het historisch én actuele daglicht. Dit boek is daarmee niet alleen een must voor diegenen die een goed overzicht van de actuele perikelen van planning willen krijgen, maar vooral ook voor die studenten, jonge planologen en mensen van de praktijk op zoek naar houvast voor komende planningtijden.
Dit liber amicorum voor Ton Kreukels, voormalig hoogleraar planologie aan de Universiteit van Utrecht, bevat bijdragen van Wies Sanders, Luuk Boelens, Tejo Spit, Len de Klerk, Willem Salet, Bart de Jong, Leeke Reinders en Bart Wissink
Planning zonder overheid, een toekomst voor planning
No full textTegen de toen heersende opvatting in beweerde Ton Kreukels eind jaren zeventig al dat planning geen exclusieve overheidstaak of -bevoegdheid is. Vijfentwintig jaar later, bij Tons afscheid als hoogleraar, heeft dit idee steeds meer terrein gewonnen.
In dit boek houdt een aantal prominente plannende wetenschaps- en praktijkmensen dat gedachtegoed scherp tegen het historisch én actuele daglicht. Dit boek is daarmee niet alleen een must voor diegenen die een goed overzicht van de actuele perikelen van planning willen krijgen, maar vooral ook voor die studenten, jonge planologen en mensen van de praktijk op zoek naar houvast voor komende planningtijden.
Dit liber amicorum voor Ton Kreukels, voormalig hoogleraar planologie aan de Universiteit van Utrecht, bevat bijdragen van Wies Sanders, Luuk Boelens, Tejo Spit, Len de Klerk, Willem Salet, Bart de Jong, Leeke Reinders en Bart Wissink
