ARCHITECTURE
2015 | 16
ANNUAL
ARGUS Architecture Master Student Association ARGUS Education Committee Members 2015 I 16: Floor Hoogenboezem Aidan Conway Kevin Westerveld Lina Peng Leonie Boelens InĂŠs Hemmings Margot de Man Book editors: InĂŠs Hemmings Margot de Man Book Print: Kontrast Delft Edition 01 Special thanks to: Kees Kaan Dick Van Gameren
Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment
Table of Content
Introduction
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ARGUS
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Monthly Papers and Events
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Selected Projects:
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Architectural Engineering The Architecture of the Interior Complex Projects Design as Politics Dwelling Explore Lab Form and Modelling Studies Van Gezel tot Meester Heritage and Architecture History of Architecture and Urban Planning Hyperbody Methods and Analysis Public Building Veldacademie The Why Factory
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Sponsors
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The Delft Faculty of Architecture distinguishes itself from many other schools of architecture by its large number of students and teachers. At a first glance this might seem a considerable disavantage, but in the end the contrary is true. The size of the school allows for the kaleidoscopic presence of a large number of professional and theoretical positions within the educational programm. Not a grey overall average, but very distinct approaches and design methods have been characterizing our school for decades, expressed in fierce debates and sometimes the inevitable academic clashes. As a student, you have to find your way in this maze of positions. You might feel lost in the beginning, but the result is that you are forced to explore these different paths, and finally to choose your own way ahead. As a school we have the obligation to keep these debates going, and to make the different profiles and positions of chairs and studios explicit and clear. The great initiative of Argus to make a design studio yearbook and an accompanying exhibition of student work will be a very important tool for students and teachers to understand these positions and bring new life to the debates. It has the promise to become an important guide for our future students in exploring our school. I hope this annual will be the first of many to come, and want to express a loud thank you to ARGUS!
Dick van Gameren Chairman Department of Architecture
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Complex Projects Cities are increasingly renewed by large projects rather than by long-term visions and subsequent Master plans. Public-private partnerships are organized to engage strategic sites, resulting in complex developments. These developments are comprised of multiple and often times, conflicting interests which have to be negotiated simultaneously. The traditional tools of architecture and urban planning are simply not equipped to deal with the conditions that arise. This critical condition will be the focus of Complex Projects.
AGORA Madrid, Spain, Alessandro Arcangeli, Filippo Fiorani Complex Projects, AR1CP010, Msc1, Aldo Trim, Stefanos Filippas
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Library
Babel Library perspective section
Working space
Coworking space perspective section
Parliament Agorà Axonometric Section
In the ‘80‘s, remarkable skyscrapers were built in Madrid’s Azca
we want to reverse the idea of the skyscraper, giving back the tower
complex which was longly considered the ‘Manhattan of Madrid’.
to the public. Functions and spaces thus interact, rather than co-
Alas, the monofunctional program, labyrinthic internal spaces and
exist, the street flipped and daily spaces arranged vertically. The
hidden infrastructure led to a problematic area during off hours. As
design is based on connection within public and private spaces:
an uban entity it isolates itself from the otherwise lively city. How via
the former distributed along three dimensions of the tower, the latter
redesign of the towers that mark AZCA, can a more dynamic and
literally re-invented. Here a new flexible working space is based on
integrated complex be created?
human/spatial interaction: sharing services, workforce, and ideas.
The Skyscraper is the XX century’s Babel tower. Assuming that
The building is conceived as a spiritual and social path, from the
every spatial choice is political, and every political choice spatial,
crowded arena, to the spiritual, intimate, religious labyrinth.
Parliament perspective section
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Heritage and Architecture The Heritage and Architecture section focuses on the design projects of the built heritage. Heritage is interpreted in a broad sense and is separate from a particular object’s or ensemble’s monument status. In all design projects in an existing context, the past will play a more or less important role. The Heritage & Architecture section focuses first of all on those design projects in which the past will strongly determine the further development.
BLURRING BOUNDARIES Maastricht, The Netherlands, Audrey Loef Heritage, AR1AR011, Msc1, Ir. M. V. de Jong, Ir. F. Koopman
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CITY
CULTURAL INTERACTION
PARK
An old industrial site, The Sphinx Factory of Maastricht, changed
as starting point of the route through culture. In every scale, all
through time and by now lost its function. As being closed to its
elements are pulled apart with a sensory transition of space. Along
‘outside world’, the urge for intervention raised. Finding the balance
with the play of light, you will become part of the cultural interaction.
between architectural heritage and its context of being part of the stories of Maastricht has to be valued and implemented on every level. It will shape its heritage based development. Blurring Boundaries - center for cultural interaction – is the entrance of Maastricht by the Heritage of the Sphinx site. It provides tours and information and connects the city and nature of the town