37 research outputs found
Rossi, Ungers and Koolhaas: Three positions on the relation between Architecture and Planning
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Anne Lacaton: Visiting Professor 2016-2017/ Chair of Heritage & Architecture
No full textAnne Lacaton has been a visiting professor at the TU Delft Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment during the Fall Semester 2016-2017, hosted by the Chair of Heritage & Design. In the professional field of Heritage & Design the starting point for design is not just a functional brief and a blank sheet of paper but the challenge of an existing spatial setting and cultural-historical context. It is a dynamic and innovative field in architecture that deals with the architectural re-interpretation, adaptive reuse and restoration of historic buildings.This book reports on her workshops and studios during her time at TU Delft. It presents re-use projects at different scales, in different situations and with different programs. These projects generated reflection along with pertinent and inventive ideas that made it possible to overturn the situations in a positive manner, to change the approach and bring forth interesting solutions, a new situational intelligence and a new intelligence towards thinking about architecture and the urban situation.In these projects, what is initially seen as obsolete and as a constraint or restriction through an opening of the mind and a change in outlook and approach, becomes an opportunity, a chance and an asset. If you look at a situation without a frame or filter and with an open spirit, a building that no longer has a purpose and is a hindrance becomes a liberty.The students adhered to this specific approach: No longer looking at something existing as imperfect, constraining, obsolete, not beautiful etc., but instead as a resource, a component, a stratum/layer and a basis for creativity.The idea of drawing value from everything existing, producing richness with less money but with the greater means and parameters offered by existing situations. Extending the story to do better and more of it. A process of regeneration, extension, adaption and re-use rather than replacement. This way of seeing, thinking, projecting is not really widespread. Making new, remove and replace, restarting from the empty remains mostly the way of doing; whereas the superposition, addition, combination, overlapping, infiltration, appear accurate, contemporary, rich, innovative. Therefore, with regard to this work of the semester and to conclude the guest invitation, I think it’s important to collect and publish these ideas and positions by students and teachers involved with the semester’s work.We hope that this booklet will leave a trace and a lasting material for reflection and discussion.Heritage & Desig
Everyday Heritage: Identifying attributes of 1965-1985 residential neighbourhoods by involved stakeholders
Get PDFIn improving the sustainability of our built environment, European institutions emphasize the importance of protecting and advancing cultural values. As most of the stock is not listed, nor is its heritage significance assessed, future sustainable developments risk neglecting present attributes, causing the loss of resources and their significance. This problem applies to 1965-1985 Dutch housing, comprising over 30% of the stock, with no clarity on its heritage significance. This thesis aims to reveal significant attributes of residential neighbourhoods, built in The Netherlands between 1965-1985, as identified by involved stakeholders. A research framework integrating attributes, stakeholders and scales, is used to examine case studies in Almere Haven and Amsterdam Zuidoost. The identification of attributes results from open-ended questioning by multiple participatory methods. A process of inductive analysis, classifying and relating attributes revealed categories, chains, and networks of attributes, representing a shared neighbourhood narrative. Results show that attributes can be identified on successive scale levels in tangible and intangible categories. Participants convey significance to attributes originally intended and to attributes added or changed later, to attributes specific to 1965-1985 neighbourhoods and to more generic ones. Different stakeholder groups and individuals do not disagree in their assessments but focus on different attribute categories and scale levels. By combining a broad definition of heritage and participatory methods to identify attributes, this thesis bridges the gap between listed heritage and everyday neighbourhoods. Further developing and applying this approach can support the sustainable development of our built environment, informed by heritage significance, regardless of heritage status
Flexible or not?: The Renovation of Centraal Beheer
No full textCentraal Beheer is a representative building of structuralism architecture. It was very groundbreaking back at that time. But now, after half a century, many problems appear. In this renovation project, I use the strategy of making variation and hierarchy to explore its flexibility, turn the old building into new usage.Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Heritage & Architectur
Revitalisation of the gallery apartment building
No full textThirty-one percent of all the energy used in the Netherlands is used by households. Considering the fact that it is technically easily possible to built energy neutral dwellings this quite big percentage. But with the speed we are currently constructing houses, we will build less than 10 percent of the currently existing building stock in the next 20 years. Even if all these new build dwellings will operate completely energy neutral it will simply take to long before our entire building stock is energy neutral. On top of that you need to consider the energy losses if an existing building is torn down and replaced by a new build one. Based on these facts it makes perfect sense to renovate existing dwellings towards energy neutral ones.This thesis is focussed on the renovation of gallery apartment buildings. Due to their height, repetition and other building characteristics there are great opportunities in the renovation of these buildings that are not fully exploited yet. The climatological opportunities and energy potentials of the gallery apartment building are mapped and calculated.If a building becomes energy neutral or even energy delivering, the energy it costs to build the building or renovate the building becomes all the energy it uses and therefore normative. This embodied energy is explored upon and calculated for the final renovation.Not only the building itself has influence on the energy usage, the inhabitant also has a big influence on the total energy usage. The effect of the inhabitant on the energy usage is researched. Design proposals are done to reduce the negative influence an inhabitant could have on the energy usage of the dwelling and a proposal is done to influence the inhabitant positively to reduce the energy usage. The renovation of the gallery apartment building is also a great opportunity to improve the quality of life of the inhabitant.Zero Energy Refurbishmen
Relink: Leiden University: Rising above the existent
No full textThe Project is located in Leiden University’s Humanities Campus (Leiden, Netherlands). Specifically, this project is about intervening on two Structuralist buildings, PN van Eyckhof and Matthias de Vrieshof designed by Joop van Stigt in 1982; the brief calls for their regeneration and adaptation in today’s society, while focusing on one of the two clusters. Although the buildings do not fulfil the criteria to be considered as monuments they have a significant value due to the movement they represent, making their preservation an obligation for our generation’s architects. Starting of through an analysis at the scale of the city, context and buildings, allowed me to understand the architect’s original intentions and investigate which of these were actually realised. Through this analysis I found the architect’s initial ambition of creating an open building that would be linked to its context, to be the most intriguing aspect. Those bold differences between the architect’s ambitions and the realized proposal were also the ones that defined my project’s research question, “How can I re-link the cluster’s buildings with each other, the university as a whole and with the wider context, Leiden and its inhabitants?”. My intervention’s aim is to fulfil the architect’s ambitions; achieving this aim could be done using two types of interventions, programmatic and architectural. Regarding the Programmatic Interventions, following the tendency of educational facilities to be associated with the professional environment from early stages, the introduction of an entrepreneurial hub to the university, would become an innovation for the University of Leiden, giving a new essence and spirit to it Leiden and engage it with the society of Leiden. A series of well-considered architectural interventions, including the replacement of the original top floor, glazing of the courtyard, introduction of the tower, and others, have resulted to a project which fulfils my initial aims, respects the existing building and is a contemporary translation of van Stigt’s design. Talking about the value of my proposal for specifically the Humanities faculty and its context, through my proposal my aim is to positively affect the development and regeneration of the university and its context though programmatic and architectural (form & image) alternations, strengthening the Humanities Buildings’ position both in the university and the wider context. That being said, throughout any decision I took during the design process, my aim was to always respect van Stigt’s ambitions and values in his building and at the same time consider how users currently experience the building and what are their needs. Looking back at my proposal and reflecting to its quality both in programmatic and architectural language terms, I believe that my intention to respectfully adapt my proposal to the original design, and at the same time giving a new essence and revitalizing the historic composition and its context, has been achieved. Through my proposal, I have managed to show that despite being hard to intervene on such historic buildings due to all problems that underlie them, a deep preliminary study, together with concrete reasons for every decision an architect takes considering the values of the existing composition, can lead to innovative ideas and results, showing new ways to intervene on Structuralist monument
House as a Mediator
No full textThe post-war mass housings in the Netherlands were built under the modern principle of Light, Air and Space, but the passion for establishing the ideal society has been eclipsed by the individualistic ideology of contemporary world. Intervam housing in Overvecht area is a typical example that shows the conflict of old and new context. The dilemmas were taken into account in the design process to bridge the gap between two different time periods
Rehousing of Intervam Flats at Camera Obscuradreef , Overvecht
No full textThe transformation focuses on facade zone (window, balcony, entrance, garden) aiming to construct the physical environment with all sorts of signals to clearly identify the existence of territories at various scales (borders, entrance and areas), to bridge the missing link between the urban public and private dwelling and to support the group of residents to regulate their interaction with others
Ons dagelijks erfgoed: Conflicten en kansen bij renovatie van monumentale woongebouwen
No full textIn the Netherlands there are few people who build their own homes. The majority of the population lives in a house that was built in the past. Designed and made with different ideas, for families with different wishes and habits to ours. The adaptation of homes for current times is therefore normal and necessary, and is a continuous process. In his book How to Make a Home, Edward Hollis compares the way in which people occupy a house with a cuckoo’s habits.1 This bird has made a speciality of taking possession of another bird’s nest and adapting it to its own needs. People alter, decorate and furnish in order to turn the house they encounter into a personal little nest.
However, other rules apply when this concerns a special ‘nest’. If a dwelling or residential building is listed as a monument, it is protected in the public interest because of its cultural-historical value. A home with a monumental status cannot simply be altered to meet contemporary residential preferences without further ado; the building (or sections of it) are ‘frozen’ in the past. This seems to be incompatible with the human desire to modify and appropriate a home. Does protected status stand in the way of habitation?Er zijn in Nederland maar weinig mensen die hun eigen huis bouwen. Het merendeel van de bevolking bewoont een woning die in het verleden is gebouwd. Ontworpen en gemaakt met andere ideeën, voor gezinnen met andere wensen en gewoonten dan de onze. Het aanpassen van woningen aan de huidige tijd is daarom normaal en noodzakelijk, en is een continu proces. In zijn boek How to make a Home vergelijkt Edward Hollis de wijze waarop de mens een huis bewoont met een koekoek.1 Die heeft het tot zijn specialiteit gemaakt om bezit te nemen van andermans nest en het aan te passen aan zijn eigen behoeften. De mens verbouwt, decoreert en meubileert om van een aangetroffen huis een eigen nestje te maken.
Wanneer het echter een bijzonder ‘nest’ betreft, gelden er andere regels. Als een woonhuis of woongebouw een monument is, wordt het in het algemeen belang beschermd vanwege de cultuurhistorische waarde. Een woning met een monumentale status kan dan niet zonder meer aangepast worden aan hedendaagse woonwensen; het gebouw (of delen daarvan) worden ‘bevroren’ in het verleden. Dit lijkt strijdig met de menselijke wens om een woning aan te passen en zich eigen te maken. Staat bescherming bewoning in de weg
