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4 weekly periodical | october 06, 2008

interview with Alan Berger

also in this issue:

charting the territory new library

What about flex space?

and much more

Faculty of Architecture

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Delft21 University of Technology

content 2-3

interview Alan Berger

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Ania Molenda

on flex-space

‘We all know what we had, not what we will get’ Marten Dashorst

What can we lear

over de bibliotheek

‘Het papier zegeviert... maar digitaal blijft belangrijk’ Joost Panhuijsen

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interview with Filip Geerts ‘Charting the Territory’ Janita Han

10-11 graduation project ‘Building Farm’ Janita Han

Alan Berger: Learning from Drosscape

introduction by Tom AVERMAETE

12-13 flexwerken FAQ

On October 15th 2008 Alan Berger will be the speaker in the yearly Designers of the Future lecture at the TU Delft. If last year a detailed and nuanced architectural approach was the main point of attention of the talk of Adam Caruso (Caruso St John Architects, UK) then this years lecture will focus on a completely different issue: important changes in our urban landscape. The Mikmak foundation has invited professor Alan Berger of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, USA) to offer his viewpoint on one of the most important challenges that architects and urban planners are facing in the near future: the design and reuse of deindustrialized landscapes.

‘De ultime keuzevrijheid’ Flex Team

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Berger has a long research record of investigating sites that result of our consumptive lifestyles.In his recent publication Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America (Princeton Architectural Press, 2006) he documents the relation between mass production and consumption, and the emergence of particular landscapes, urbanization, and waste in ten metropolitan areas (Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, and Phoenix). Berger illustrates how our consumptive lifestyles result into different types of ‘land waste’ including particular forms of suburban development, excessive infrastructure and contamination. His study Drosscape illustrates how large parts of our urban landscapes are composed of waste and a massive collection of things that have lost their value. Berger’s investigations can be read as a critique on the failure of planning and zoning and especially on the lack of knowledge or concern about the contamination of the environment.

‘The Flex Solution Is Not Suitable for All of Us’

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16-17 news

bk relocation

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One of the most remarkable characteristics of Alan Berger’s research is that it illustrates that our new urban landscapes can not be understood by using traditional approaches. Berger’s work is an investigation into new instruments and methods of analysis. Low-angle aerial photography, maps, and other graphic methods are applied to uncover the logics and trends of landscape waste throughout the world —from abandoned mine pits to vacant land, military installations, and places associated with low-density urbanization. But Berger does not halt on the level of the analysis. He also investigates how these sites are cleansed, valued and considered for adaptive reuse at local and regional scales. These processes of ‘reclamation’ are according to Alan Berger one of the main challenges for future architecture and urban planning. However, he emphasizes that reclamation is not the same as restoration: “Reclamation acknowledges that the landscape can’t be returned to its original state. Instead, it turns into a third state - the reclaimed landscape.”

Diederik Fokkema Marten Dashorst

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Berger’s work can be characterized with the slogan ‘Learning from Drosscape’. After all, it not only exemplifies the link between our consumption of natural resources and destruction of our landscape, but it also provides insights on how to proceed with designing sites for productive use and achieving more sustainable outcomes. *Tom Avermaete is an Associate Pfofessor at the chair of Public Buildings at the Faculty of Architecture TU Delft and one of its representatives at the Foundation Board of Wouter Mikmak Foundation.

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Q: Why do you think you were asked to lecture in this series – do you consider yourself a designer of the future?

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A: “I believe I was asked to lecture in this series because my research and work over the past 15 years has revealed extensive value in the landscape, which otherwise would never have been documented or discovered. My teaching and practice is a futuristic endeavor by definition; my clients do not even exist until I construct them. Moreover, I have frequently vocalized my opinion regarding the overvaluing of ‘history’ in design school education, which often absorbs more power than it deserves. Designers impact the future, not the past.”

Editorial Board Marten Dashorst Daan de Leeuw Ania Molenda Joost Panhuysen Marcello Soeleman Editorial advice Otakar Máčel Tessa Wijtman-Berkman Danielle Ten Veldhuis Beata Labuhn Violette Baudet Print Druk. Tan Heck, Delft

Q: Could you explain what do you understand under the terms ‘drosscape’ and ‘reclaimed landscape’, what kind of landscapes do they refer to?

Cover photo Photo from ‘Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America’ by Alan Berger Contributors Tom Avermaete, Janita Han, The Flex Team, Mick de Witte, Anthony Fuchs, Christina Ampatzidou, Thomas de Bos, Stylos

A: “‘Drosscape’ is a term I invented to break down the binary structures positioned around humankind and nature. In the last section of the book ‘Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America,’ there is a chart of the term’s etymological origins and a diagram of values. The binary opposition between what is deemed ‘natural’ and ‘artificial,’ or ‘humanmade’ and ‘organic,’ is a principle concern in all of my research. You may also recall my first book, ‘Reclaiming the American West,’ which posits the idea of a ‘Post-Technological Landscape.’ Today the physical landscapes falling under and between all of the aforementioned binaries are indistinguish-

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able and we need to accept this as part of the collective condition. Moreover, in both my book ‘Reclaiming’ and my newest book ‘Designing the Reclaimed Landscape’ there are lengthy descriptions of these terms. The most important point is that both terms refer to reusing waste that is naturally produced through city-making and human needs. The designer’s task on these landscapes is to set new trajectories of time for environmental systems to rebuild (true sustainability) and be reprogrammed for human use, not go back in time to recover something permanently lost (false sustainability).” Q: You are sometimes called ‘anti-Ansel Adams’ – do you agree with this comparison? A: “This wholesale comparison is not precise. I think Ansel Adams carefully manipulated, scripted, and post-rationalized the final aesthetic of his images, leading to a select visual consumption of landscape for his audiences. I do not script, nor do I heavily edit imagery. Where we may have similarities is in the art of documenting a condition in the environment through photography and fieldwork, and selecting a view to reveal a story. He shot from the top of a car; I shoot from the bottom of clouds. People have more recently been comparing me to Edward Tufte, but this is also not accurate. I think Tufte’s work is aimed at simplifying information for graphic readability. I am interested in layering data in ways to produce new associations and cross-reading, in essence adding complexity to the resultant graphic to produce

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measurement and meaning unforeseen—sort of a landscape ‘Freakonomics’ approach to data and geospatial information.” Q: Over the years you have worked on the notions of waste in urban environment at many different universities - have you noticed a growth of interest in the issues you research? A: “Huge growth. The global rise in environmental awareness was long overdue and spawned from the work of many people and natural resource crises (think of another Al Gore). I’d like to think my work catalyzed greater interest in waste and reclamation in the urban world. Sadly, the design professions are often too slow, and even skeptical in adapting curricula and practice for taking on pressing global challenges. I blame outdated, bureaucratically motivated professional accreditation structures for this, not the true talent in the field and in higher education.” Q: Your work on ‘Drosscape’ started with the series of pictures you did for ‘Reclaiming the American West’ and did not intentionally plan to use. Is photography always the starting point of your projects? A: “Quite the contrary. Arduous and extensive research is done before any fieldwork is initiated. The photography is only done to check the real conditions of the analytical work and search for physical evidence to complete the argument. I do find it

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rn from waste?

interview with Alan Berger by Ania Molenda Brand new ish. Everything is new nowadays. We have a new building, new chairs, another new autocad (!) and even a new B_Nieuws. And a new editorial. Although the semester has been underway for a good couple of weeks now, with new people everywhere starting an amazing new period of their lives, filled with new impressions, new friends and new ideas, my life here is almost over. I am 6 weeks away from my graduation, and ready to take on a new challenge. The past 7 years in Delft and at this faculty have been packed with stress, excitement, disappointment and appraisal, but most of all with an enormous feeling of growth. Intellectual and emotional growth, and even a little physical growth - 2 centimeters to be precise. I’m sure I won’t be missed here, but that’s no big deal. It’s more important that I will miss this place. And now, without an actual space to function as place, it’s become clear to me that it’s the people that make up this place called Bouwkunde. After 7 years I couldn’t imagine I would still meet new people here, but I did. They’ve told me new things, and I told them things that interest me.

quite ironic that the ‘wasted’ or ‘leftovers’ from my first book eventually led to an inquiry to my second book, which is all about waste and leftovers.” Q: In your research you use aerial photography, graphs, maps and diagrams to represent the changes you observe in the landscape – what is the importance to have such a wide and top-down overview of the sites you work on? You can certainly see more from above, but can you see better? A: “You can’t see regional landscape systems, and their relationships on humans, neither from a ground level perspective, nor from a Google-Earth plan view. I find the low aerial oblique angle best for seeing how human and environmental systems interact across large landscapes.” Q: What does systemic design mean and how does this approach differ from the traditional one? A: “The answer is one of relevance and scale. If you want your work to have a larger impact than the immediate site then you should consult the underlying and regional scale systems running through and around it. Unlike the previous generation of regional planning (in the 1970s), which used systemic analysis to conclude how to act (sort of an outside-to-inside process), I promote using the new tools of analysis to expand site program and strategy outward, adjusting and feeding back small scale issues based on large scale logic all the

way through the design process. The resulting design is smarter and more sustainable (able to live without expensive, infinite inputs) if larger scale logic is embedded in the small-scale solutions.” Q: Your work is to large extent a response to the outcomes of consumption on all different levels – is there a possibility that we will ever learn to design better or will we always have to clean the damage political and economical processes will continue to produce? A: “Your question precisely points out the differences in my position as compared to others who deal with waste and sustainability. Political and economical processes do not create damage that needs to be cleaned up; rather, they naturally create waste that is our (designers’) opportunity to reuse. A cradle-to-cradle world is not only impossible, but also naive. Industrialization, city-making, or any other long-term complex process cannot plan for an airtight existence with full-loop feedbacks and zero energy loss. If we know anything about industrialization, city-making, etc. it’s that these processes require large amounts of waste to exist. My position simply states that it is more ‘sustainable’ for planning and design fields to invest in rethinking waste (which we know will accumulate is large amounts), rather than devote all of our resources to eliminating waste through comprehensive planning (which typically fails at large scales).”

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This B_Nieuws is about people. But also about place. Here, on the space of this page, you can read an interview with Alan Berger, this year’s Designer of the Future. I haven’t read it - shame on me! But hey, 6 weeks - but I do know that this man has an amazing insight into the world around us. Not the built world, but the natural world, and how it is actually not even that natural.

Q: How do you understand the role of sustainability in design?

Again we have something on flexworking, or, as the official English word goes, hot desking. There is a serious concern amongst a number of employees of the faculty that this is not a good thing for an academic environment, but as a student who’d been convicted to hot desking ever since day one, I can only say that it is about the most academic kind of office use there is. It challenges you to become adaptable. And we all know, hard times bring out the best in people. What a gazillion departmental shuffles and ambitious programs could not accomplish, the ‘ontschotting’ of the faculty, I’m pretty sure the new building at the Julianalaan will do; in a pleasant way.

A: “In addition to my earlier answers, I think sustainability is a globally shared value, and it varies from place to place by scale. So, for example, sustainability in a slum in Bombay means recycling everything you can find of disvalue to others, even excavating the city to reclaim, recycle and reuse everything in a productive way: it’s another economy based on reusing waste. Sustainability and economy become the same in this extreme example if for no other reason than mere survival. Places like the United States have a different scale of sustainability, where inner regions, perhaps even continents become part of the conversation.” Q: You say systemic design can change the world - can design, being so dependent on economy and politics, change the world at all?

We have an extensive article on the workings of the Territory studio, which ventures well beyond the traditional borders of an interview. Who asks the questions and who answers them?

A: “If you don’t think that design can change the world you should leave design school, or come to MIT where changing the world is a way of life.”

As I start a new paragraph, I would like to warn you, dear reader: from now on B_Nieuws will be 4-weekly. We have decided to do this in order to not bring you the freshest of the freshest, but to bring you more of yourself. And a little bit of us.

Q: What do you think is the most important thing we can learn from waste? A: “That it is natural.” <b

enjoi. Marten Dashorst

HOT DESKING:

Last B_Nieuws' article about the plans for flexible workspaces - "flex working: getting the maximum out of the minimum" - created some controversy amongst employees. Abstract numbers like a maximum of 1 meter 20 shelf space per person and no fixed workspaces don’t exactly sound like things to look out for, especially given the fact a lot of employees already feel somewhat forgotten after the fire. The history of flexible workspaces is, however, quite a successful one. B_Nieuws spoke with people within the faculty already experienced in flexing, and discovered a much more nuanced future, too.

a conference table in the Interpolis office

“we all know what we had, not what we will get” by MARTEN DASHORST The fire of May 13 did not only destroy our building and most of it in it, it also was - as we see now - the end of an era. In the new building we will have no separate rooms anymore, no 'schotten' anymore. General facilities will be concentrated, and we will have to learn to clean up our desk at the end of the day. But does this also mean we have to spend hours to look for a place to work every day, as some people believe, and warned for in Delta? Experience Christian van Ees, secretary of education at the faculty, thinks this is a very unlikely future scenario. From the early 90s until last year, he also worked at the spatial planning office of the City of Amsterdam (DRO), where he helped to set up similar flexible workspaces. "The reason we developed the concept there was mostly related to the building we were located in: it was rapidly becoming too small for the expanding organization, and we were unable to find extra office space nearby. We had to 'reinvent' the space we had." It was the second half of the 90s, Interpolis had just completed a flexible office centre in Tilburg, designed by Veldhoen & Co and NL Architects; flexible office spaces, together with the 'paperless office' were all of a sudden generating a lot of buzz. Over a period of multiple months, van Ees, who had become part of the project team, visited offices with flexible workspaces, organized meetings for all employees and supervised the selection of an architect. Coincidentally, Fokkema Architecten, the same office now working on the Julianalaan building, was selected for renewal of the DRO offices. Contrary to what most people believe, Fokkema did not start his assignment by calculating the occupation rates of the offices; instead, he began with making an inventory of all the different kinds

of activities in the office. Support work for example, such as administration, secretaries and others, has a very high occupancy, and needs to be approachable and accessible at all times: it would have been very inconvenient to force them to use fully flexible workspaces as well. For all other employees, from interns to managers, a wide array of possibilities was designed: small meeting corners, open or closed, special 'quiet cells', lounge spaces and coffee parlors. Since the DRO is quite similar to an architect's office - they work with large-size drawings a lot - specially designed standing-height tables, complete with drawers for drawings, were set up all over the domains. Small mobile closets - "they were referred to as chemo trucks or rollators" - became the personal elements in the office. "People could decide whether to move them around wherever they went, or just leave them in their docking stations - what most people did in the end." Desks were put together in groups of four, two facing two. "We tried three facing three as well, but being the middle person turned out to be not really pleasant." The secretaries and planners would be located at the entrance of every floor or domain, functioning as social epicenters and information points. And although moving your workspace around through the building was easy, most people would eventually stay within their own domains. "If you don't have your own room or place, the level of comfort and luxury of the flexible space becomes an important factor," van Ees explains. One of the major concerns during the project phase was the possibility of noise. "By outfitting the ceilings and the shelves that separate the smaller desks with noise absorbing materials, we managed to almost completely eliminate any hinder through noise." Next to that, the architect managed to create a sense of protection, scale and privacy without making actual rooms using various sizes of cupboards, shelves and seats.

Oorstoelen, designed by Jurgen Bey, function as informal meeting places in the Interpolis office in Tilburg

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a flexible workspace in the new DRO office, with the personal containers in the front.

the high tables used to discuss drawings on.

don't take it too literal John Westrik, associate professor at the Urbanism department, also has experience with flexible workspaces. Next to Bouwkunde, he works at DS+V - Rotterdam's urban planning office. "When the flexible office was introduced there, everybody was told to cooperate with it. My function however - being the principal responsible expert on planning issues - required me to have a fixed workspace after all. I tried to work with the system for a while, but eventually I decided to set up my space in the library." Where people were initially unable to locate him throughout the building, now everybody knew where to find him. Westrik believes it is important to consider the full impact of making an office completely flexible. "Although the office concept at DS+V is still officially considered flexible, most people only move around a small number of desks, now." He doesn't think people will have difficulties finding a place to work too often. The most important aspect of creating a flexible office is to have plenty of facilities. "Compact workspaces alone aren't enough. Additional facilities, such as meeting rooms, need to be strictly regulated, to prevent people from double-booking, or simply not finding a room to have a presentation or such."

and all will have plentiful facilities to accommodate the various kinds of work people have to do during the day.

a highly efficient office. “I like to call it ‘deconcentrated bundling’; we took apart all separate functions and concentrated them in specific designated units, rooms and areas – desk islands, meeting rooms of various sizes, pantries, ‘hangplekken’ with bar stools to hang about, mail boxes, cloak rooms, small cells for reading and writing and some privacy - and gave them a quality unlike anything before in the old office.” Next to that, since there are no longer any walls compartmenting spaces into cabinets and cubicles, there is no need for hallways anymore. "The whole room basically becomes both a circulation and an occupational space." And indeed, most flexible office spaces seem to be unusually spacious. And as the plans of the new Bouwkunde have already shown, we don’t have to worry that departments will be spread all over the place. All departments will be housed in ‘domeinen’, again centered around the secretaries,

The fact that in the Julianalaan building, people will “no longer have their own bed”, is something we’ll all have to accept. What we get in exchange, van Ees says, is “a house”. Given that there is a workspace for every FTE, it will probably not be too big of a problem to find a desk when you arrive late. And where the cabinets in the Berlageweg building enabled a lot of people to create a place with a bit of warmth and a feeling of home - something pleasant in the rather sober and brutalistic architecture of Van den Broek and Bakema - the new building already has more of an air of comfort. “It may be a rather strict building at first sight”, van Ees says, “but walk around there at dusk, when the lights go on, and it emits a feeling of shelter

and sensibility.” it's all about the words All interviewees agree on the fact that the anger amongst some of the faculty's employees has to do with the lack of attention some received after the fire. As the dean has stated on multiple occasions, getting the education off the ground again had been the number one priority all the time. Whilst that successfully worked out, a feeling of neglect started to surface amongst a number of employees. They were, after all, much more personally involved in the building. Unlike students, who perhaps lost a few models at most, a lot of researchers and professors lost all the work they had acquired over the years and decades. Now that the new building is slowly being put into use, and they are being told not to count on a room for themselves, with their own desk they can pile up paper on, the unrest is perhaps understandable. "I do believe we started too late with spreading information about the plans," van Ees admits. He also understands the skepticism and feelings of neglect some employees voice. But, he says, it's easy to be critical now. Now that the students have a place to work, employees will follow soon. "We all know what we had, not what we're going to get." He blames most of it on the fact that there simply hasn't been the possibility of a clear transition period. "At DRO, we had a three-month period of information meetings, excursions and office-wide discussions before we implemented the new concept. The team that was considered to be the most chaotic, were the first ones to change their workspaces, and they were very enthusiastic about it." So enthusiastic, that people still give tours to guests and family, today. All the slogans and hype surrounding the implementation of the flexible plans can make people feel uncomfortable as well, he explains. “We are not forcing anybody to drastically change their behaviour (apart from the Clean Desk Policy).” One could see the the new building at the Julianalaan - BK City - as ‘a dynamic research and education landscape’, where social interaction will be part of the daily routine, a place where the feeling of home will go beyond your desk. <b

Flexible workspaces are a good concept in theory, but people are almost never as flexible as planned, Westrik says. We need to pay special attention to the scale of the spaces - too many people on one table just doesn't work, as van Ees stresses as well - and to the quality and quantity of the facilities. Westrik remains slightly sceptic however. "At my chair we used to have 20 meters of documentation. Although that is all lost now, I don't believe 1 meter 20 will be sufficient for most people." It is important to realize however, that instead of highly fragmented libraries and archives, there will be plenty of space for these books and papers at both the departmental secretaries and in the main library. It all comes down to the collection frenzy of people on the one hand, and the willingness to build an archive in another place than your desk on the other hand. Van Ees, on the work environment in the old style DRO office: “Besides two or more desks most old style office cubicles each had their own coat racks and their own small conference tables - usually covered in paper, not unlike the old Bouwkunde rooms.” When you were sharing a room with other people, and you had to meet somebody, you would have to go out and sit somewhere else anyway - very often a space that wasn’t too comfortable either. By bundling all similar functions in separate spaces, e.g. a cloakroom for all instead of individual coat racks in each room, you create

Christian van Ees - “the office spaces in the Julianalaan will become this dynamic research and education landscape.”

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Eind november beschikt Bouwkunde weer over een eigen, grote bibliotheek. Op het middengedeelte van de eerste etage van BK City is de constructie verstevigd om alle boekenweelde te kunnen dragen. Ook de Kaartenkamer krijgt er een plaats. En nu er voldoende begrip lijkt te bestaan voor het unieke karakter van deze faculteitsbibliotheek, hoeft niet meer te worden gevreesd voor totale digitalisering of voor het verbannen van delen van de collectie naar een depot elders in het land. door Joost Panhuysen

van een geïmproviseerde faculteitsbibliotheek in de centrale vestiging. Straks kunnen ze binnenlopen bij de bibliotheek in BK City. Die is met een oppervlakte van 640 vierkante meter noodgedwongen zo'n 100 vierkante meter kleiner dan de vorige faculteitsbibliotheek. Dat scheelt 400 strekkende meter in kastruimte. En dat terwijl de bibliotheek juist hard toe was aan een uitbreiding van zo'n honderdvijftig vierkante meter.

Voor menige student en medewerker vormt de bibliotheek het academische hart van de faculteit. De plek waar je misschien op een dag onverwachts tegen dat ene boek aanloopt dat je visie op architectuur ingrijpend zal veranderen. Groot was de opluchting toen na de brand de collectie (40.000 boeken, 230 tijdschriftabonnementen en enkele grote en unieke collecties stoelen, kaarten, prenten, maquettes en bouwmaterialen) grotendeels ongeschonden bleek en niet onder het sloperspuin hoefde te verdwijnen. Dankzij de inspanningen van de TU Delft Library konden medewerkers en studenten van Bouwkunde de afgelopen maanden gebruik maken

Maar de 'tijdelijke' bibliotheek mag dan wat kleiner zijn, ze is wel slimmer opgezet, zo stellen Dion Kooijman, voorzitter van de Bibliotheekcommissie, en Anke Versteeg, account manager van de TU Delft Library. Versteeg: "Omdat een deel van de collecties nog enkele jaren elders gehuisvest moet blijven, is er nu ruimte om vakbibliotheken op te zetten rond thema's als bouwtechnologie en

Vakbibliotheken en nieuw zoeksysteem

Het papier zegeviert... maar digitaal blijft belangrijk

stedenbouwkunde." Die vakbibliotheken zullen uiteindelijk zorgen voor een flinke aanwas van het aantal boeken.

om ontwerpinspiratie op te doen. De bibliotheek is meer studiecentrum dan uitleencentrum, constateert ze.

Nieuw zoeksysteem Ook in andere opzichten legt de 'tijdelijke' bibliotheek een basis voor de ruimer opgezette bibliotheek in het nog te ontwerpen nieuwe gebouw. Een overzichtelijkere rubricering moet het zoeken vergemakkelijken. Het in december te lanceren zoeksysteem Discover stelt bezoekers in staat om met één muisklik gelijktijdig in het digitale en papieren deel van de collectie te zoeken. Afgescheiden ruimtes om te kopiëren en te scannen moeten geluidsoverlast voorkomen. En vitrinekasten in de brede gang maken het mogelijk om bijvoorbeeld toch iets van de tijdelijk elders ondergebrachte stoelencollectie te laten zien.

Uit de online-enquête die Van der Laan hield onder bijna 400 medewerkers en studenten van de faculteit blijkt dat een ruime meerderheid tastbare boeken niet graag naar de marges van de bibliotheek ziet verdwijnen. Tweederde van de respondenten geeft bij een boek de voorkeur aan een papieren versie. Voor 'e-only' beleid (slechts een papieren versie van een boek aanschaffen als er geen digitale versie bestaat) voelt de meerderheid weinig.

Misschien nog belangrijker is dat de faculteitsbibliotheek als zodanig kan blijven bestaan en zelfs weer een eigen team baliemedewerkers zal krijgen. Een paar jaar geleden verzette de bibliotheekcommissie zich hevig tegen de nieuwe strategie van de centrale bibliotheek. De leden waren bang dat op lange termijn de eigen bibliotheek zou verdwijnen en dat de digitalisering zo ver zou gaan dat de collecties niet toegankelijker, maar juist onaantrekkelijker zouden worden. Die angst lijkt verdwenen. Anke Versteeg spreekt van een 'constructieve samenwerking' tussen bibliotheekcommissie en TU Delft Library. "Zeker na de brand is het wij-en-zijgevoel verdwenen." Dion Kooijman beaamt dat. "We werkten tijdens de herinrichting van de bibliotheek in het vorige gebouw al goed samen. De TU Delft Bibliotheek beseft dat boeken voor Bouwkunde nog heel lang belangrijk zullen blijven. De boeken in onze collecties zijn vaak lastig te digitaliseren: te duur en te tijdrovend. Bovendien levert het vaak problemen met het beeldrecht op." Uitgevers van boeken op het gebied van architectuur en stedenbouw brengen zelden digitale producten op de markt, weet Kooijman. "En E-books zijn nog lang geen volwaardig alternatief."

een muur met namen van architecten die ook boeken schrijven.

Scriptie Ook Lianne van der Laan, onlangs afgestudeerd aan het Instituut voor Media en Informatie Management van de Hogeschool van Amsterdam, adviseerde in haar afstudeerscriptie dat de TU Delft Library in het geval van Bouwkunde moest durven afwijken van de al eerder gekozen strategie van zoveel mogelijk digitaliseren. Van der Laan onderzocht wat de faculteitsbibliotheek uniek maakt, en hoe de bibliotheek zich verder zou kunnen ontwikkelen. Hoe vind je bijvoorbeeld de juiste balans tussen digitale en papieren bronnen? Het onderzoek van Van der Laan werd door de brand van 13 mei even in de war geschopt. "Een aantal geplande interviews ging niet door omdat de medewerkers te aangeslagen waren." Maar haar leesbare scriptie vormt een aanzet tot een toekomstig business model: zowel Kooijman als Versteeg kunnen zich in de conclusies vinden. Het unieke karakter van de bibliotheek heeft niet alleen met de omvang en de bijzondere karakter van de collecties te maken, maar ook met de wensen van de gebruikers, zo ontdekte Van der Laan. Ze noemt de 'bladercultuur' op Bouwkunde, waarbij studenten grasduinen in architectuurboeken

een impressie van de nieuwe bibliotheek.

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Tegelijkertijd zijn er interessante verschillen waar te nemen. Onderzoekers en docenten blijken sterker dan studenten geneigd om digitale bronnen zoals digitale tijdschriften te gebruiken. Onder studenten is het raadplegen van een database met vakinhoudelijke informatie veel minder populair. Van der Laan: "Studenten zoeken liever via Google en Wikipedia. Bij zo'n literatuur-database missen ze een gebruikersvriendelijke interface." Van het virtueel kenniscentrum, een faculteitsportal die toegang biedt tot relevante digitale bronnen, heeft 70 procent van de studenten nog nooit gehoord. Anke Versteeg: "Docenten zijn beter bedreven in het digitaal opsporen van interessante informatie. Studenten blijken ook minder goed de relevantie en de betrouwbaarheid van digitale informatie te kunnen beoordelen." Kooijman wijst op een opvallende conclusie na een recente onderzoeksvisitatie: het wetenschappelijk niveau van de meeste bachelor-scripties ligt te laag. Kooijman: "Dat heeft ook te maken met de tamelijk eenzijdige manier waarop studenten nu naar informatie zoeken. Als docent merk ik dat de literatuurlijstjes die studenten inleveren bij de masterscriptie nogal armoedig zijn. In het onderwijs moet weer meer aandacht komen voor wat in het jargon 'informatievaardigheden' heet. Een beetje architect moet in staat zijn om af en toe bronnenonderzoek te doen." Van der Laan ontdekte ook dat sommige medewerkers met weemoed terugkijken op de tijd, nog niet zo lang geleden, dat baliemedewerkers nog over inhoudelijke kennis beschikten. Ook bleek dat het meubilair in de bibliotheek aan de Berlageweg voor sommige bezoekers een bron van ergernis is geweest: te oncomfortabel. Versteeg: "Bij het samenstellen van een nieuw balieteam en bij het kiezen van meubilair voor de nieuwe bibliotheek is met zulke klachten rekening gehouden." Boek Veel aanbevelingen van Van der Laan geven de richting aan waarin de bibliotheek zich de komende periode zal ontwikkelen: van het behouden en ontsluiten van de bijzondere collecties en het uitbreiden van het studiecentrum tot het plaatsen van grote tafels waar bezoekers tijdschriften kunnen lezen. Haar afstudeerscriptie lijkt daarmee meer impact te hebben dan menig TU-commissierapport. Natuurlijk heeft Van der Laan niet op elke vraag een pasklaar antwoord. Waarom sinds de reorganisatie van de faculteitsbibliotheken een daling in het aantal uitleningen heeft ingezet, en waarom die daling bij Bouwkunde het minst sterk is – ze kan er slechts naar gissen. "Misschien speelt een rol dat men bij Bouwkunde zo gehecht is aan het fysieke boek." <b

CHARTING THE TERRITORY A LOOK AT ONE OF THE PUBLIC BUILDING STUDIOS - TERRITORY IN TRANSIT

The Territory Studio is one of the enigmas in our architecture school: a terrain of unchartered waters, ventured by the rare few adventurous enough to walk where few have dared to go. Overshadowed by the notorious Border Conditions and the ponderous Public Realm, it is little wonder that this gem of a studio goes unnoticed amidst giants. The cloud has lifted for me after having graduated with the studio. My satire about this studio in B-Nieuws issue 06 is true: it deals with the megascale and you would definitely be intellectually challenged. I did however mention that one could only graduate decently in three years. Happily I did it in one. I had an interesting chat with Filip Geerts, the main tutor responsible for the Territory studio which he teaches together with Stefano Milani and Olaf Gipser. JANITA HAN

What is the Territory studio all about? “When the bachelor-masters structure was introduced, there was an opportunity to become more specific within the structure and to develop a theme and become experts about it. Before the bachelor-master structure, when it was still a five year course, you ended up doing your final project with a professor which you selected and you would propose your final project. Some of them tended to be ambitious large-scale projects because it was the interest of the student to transcend just making a building for your final project. So you had these holistic integral proposals for your final project which were ambitious, and ambitious literally on the large scale. After the change to the bachelor-master structure, it was not possible anymore to make these large complicated projects which you would see in the 90s, because no studio offered the framework for it. So the studio was, in a banal way, to facilitate this, because that was what interested me on the level of a final project.”

So Territory is synonymous with the large scale then. “In that sense, yes. The other thing was that the territory theme came out of certain discussions in the Design Methods department, triggered by the study of the Tandenza discourse (Italian NeoRationalist movement in 1960s) of Rossi and Grassi etc., and to me it was also interesting to deal with Gregotti’s Il Territorio dell’ architettura; it was not referred to much, simply because it wasn’t translated. Gregotti tends to explore the limits of what a territory as a scale could be, but also more figuratively speaking the territorial limits of the discipline of architecture. So it is a constant search for both those things.” How would this studio then compare with urbanism? In essence urbanism is dealing with the city and with the large scale. “We are not so much dealing with the city as a thing in itself- the city is just one of the particular realities of territory. And we do not celebrate it naively as the only possible site for architecture.

In urbanism there is a planning side to it which becomes speculative and theoretical, but they deal with this in function of producing urbanists. So there is also a role which is related to it. And this is the role of the planner. In Territory we can just be architects.” I guess then in the role of the Planner is to make the city work when intervening in the large scale. The directive is always to saywe want to make the city a better place“What urbanism still has is a sociological undertone. This is what we particularly want to avoid in Territory, not because we want to be antagonistic about it, since this could theoretically produce good urbanism, but it definitely does not produce good architecture. This is not just a truistic statement. I think the problems of territory, as opposed to the problems of city, which also need to be solved, are much less just a sociological problem. They involve other things. So maybe there is even a bit of sociology into it, but that is within the realm of other very real, very concrete problems. And then sociology becomes a more nuanced situation. Then it

also becomes interesting to respond to it with design. In the Dutch condition, there is on one hand an interest of architects in the large scale as well essentially in the 90s architectural offices were dealing with that. If you compare it for example with Swiss architecture, it is very different- there is a clear limit where you start to make a fool of yourself if you deal with it.” What about the Survey-Systems-Things research methodology that you set up for the studio? “Territory is synonymous with known reality, which is what Andre Corboz calls the palimpsest. It is a very postmodern Name of the Rose kind of idea of having to look at it as an ancient document. It is this kind of complexity which the survey-systems-things try to analyse first of all, by dividing it to a number of parts which can be studied. The analysis attempts in a few weeks to create a common method and to stress the importance of that method for a studio, to work on a method together, and also to consciously try to destroy the kind of vagueness surrounding the topic of territory. The goal after a few weeks is that students establish an interesting question that they can solve with the project through dealing with the territory in question, in finding it, in defining the limits, and finding a way of describing it by means of a drawing. The first step is a survey- to make a link to geography, to an almost primordial ancient sense of measuring the land and to make that a part of what that architectural problem should be. That is where the large scale and small scale relate to each other. This is different from the kind of mapping done by Border Conditions, which is subjective in a neo-situationist kind of way; it is a critique of modernist empiricism driven by changing reality.” Subjective reality as well. “The critique of wanting to be subjective about reality, and showing reality, since the 60s, and finding it interesting before any attempt of design is made. Our experience is a bit different because we are also interested in reality but not in a “pick-up-the-thrash-and-do-things” artistic kind of way; we still agree on our distance with the material, and our being pragmatic about it. We do not want the design to become a poetic one-liner.”

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Survey, by Ilmar Hurkxkens

System, by Daniel Carvalho

One criticism of the survey that the Territory studio does is that it is very much dependent on other people’s survey that you don’t survey the land yourself.

How about the Systems research?

“We have a naïve trust that established documentation systems are very good and very interesting. We don’t suffer from a lot of paranoia regarding the power structures which produce these maps. We also don’t tend to go to the Ukraine or some weird conflict situation where this might be the case. It is great that the geographic institutes of Europe are there and they produce these maps. But also we should find the limits of these maps, especially for architects. This gives you the incentive to draw new material.” What do you think about surveys drawn from Google Maps and Google Earth? “Well obviously, it is a tool not to be ignored. It is a very strange reality depicted in Google Earth because the pictures are taken at different times. And you get a kind of unique one experience suggested for something which could temporally be very different. The act of drawing is a reduction of that kind of reality because reality itself is impossible to grasp. The whole idea of doing something first hand by not using material made by others is one which I do not really understand. I think that is what research is about, and the whole kind of wanting to be original is a really pathetic idea.”

“Systems looks at the large scale through an operational-functionalist lens: as something which also works, which also has input and output, and then also to question this kind of lens. And we try to keep it at a concrete level, that something is added to the knowledge of that territory. Also it is specific; the idea is not to find the function of the territory which you could have of every territory.” The analysis of Things is a bit more abstract. “Things is the more difficult one because people then tend to think that’s where the architecture starts. It is a discussion about the problematization of the object, accepting that kind of problem and finding that an interesting problem to deal with. The reason why this part of the research is called Things is to make it as primordial as possible, and to know that there is this entity, Thing, which is going to be the most architecturally defined element in that larger scale.” Because of the methodology, a lot of students would pick up on infrastructure. Do you see this as a problem or limitation in the method? “There is a problematic side to it, that infrastructure has become something which is outside the direct involvement of architects. In that sense it is a bit externalized reality- first of all people need to learn how to deal with it, to deal with it specifically, if not it merely becomes reality surveyed- something which makes a drawing look interesting or look worse.”

Well not wanting to be original, but wanting to experience something first hand. If you do a survey of your site then there is an attachment to it.

What does that mean, to make a drawing look interesting or look worse?

“You have to attempt to get as much experience yourself- if it means going to the site, it means going to the site. But often at the scale we are working on, you can only experience first hand a part of the site. I think it is important also to use material of others, either to oppose yourself to it, or to get informed and to find direction. You treat material with a healthy amount of suspicion, but nothing more than that.”

“Often architects don’t deal with infrastructure. It is there. Hence pictures of overlapping highways in Shanghai are cool and therefore they are in the magazines. I think on a much more fundamental level we have to remind ourselves that infrastructure, until things got more specialized, was integral to the concerns of those who wrote architectural

Thing, by Joost Maatkamp

treatises. For example Francesco di Giogio Martini who made the (star-shaped) fortifications, infrastructure was part of reality to be constructed and to be given form, yet not something which is completely driven by an empirical absolute system; it is something where architectural judgment is essential, and this has been forgotten sometimes.” Going back to the method-oriented approach (Border Conditions, Territory) vs a set programme approach (Interior), the challenge for students in the methodoriented approach would it be that there are many decisions you have to make with regards to how you frame your final project? In terms of a studio experience and learning experience could you talk about this approach. “I think the final project is the moment for this. It is obviously very important in the whole didactic process to do one project after the other and think you are learning. But at the end of this line there should be a final project where there are a lot of calls you have to make yourself. It is a unique opportunity of a final project. It should not be the case where half of the calls were essentially decided by a teacher who would like to see fifteen variations on a theme. In a sense this is also a possibility – people in ETH Zürich graduate like this. There is maybe one program, and four different sites possible. So it is like one big architectural competition. The very fact that the whole year is busy doing that is probably a very nice moment and very conceptual to see the same site models, and this is happens to also be a very much shorter final project. However, I find this a missed opportunity for a final project more than anything else. Regarding the intellectual rigour of the studio, when you have seminar moments, how does it come together with design? Does the seminar restrict the freedom of the students to think creatively? I find that the seminars give a very serious tone to the studio. “I think there is not a one-to-one relationship to design. A seminar wants to do what a seminar in general wants to do. Seminars are basically mo-

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ments of learning and growth of knowledge and tend to influence people without it being very explicit.” But it does set the tone for the studio. “If it does that is a good thing. A seminar should work as a discussion, and everything put on the table can go different ways. But it is important that everyone becomes aware of the kind of discussion and problem statement of the studio. Seminar is literature you put on a table because you have to write a paper. By this the seminar opens the door to other sources which were not in the seminar. It is kind of a chain reaction of books and texts which start at the moment of the seminar and make the student go into some kind of a research experience through text and through material.” Talking about research, let us compare the TU Delft structure of research-oriented studio system vs Columbia Bartlett tutororiented studio system. I see a lot of flexibility in the tutor-oriented system, where studios are built around certain tutors instead of a body or research. “You’ve been claiming this.” The freedom is there for the tutor to set up new studio propositions at any moment. “Maybe everything you said about this is correctone point to make is that probably the school, since you’ve said this, has evolved completely into something where research and didactic are getting split again. When the bachelor-masters system was first introduced, there was worry about the level of research produced and this has infiltrated into how the masters program was defined. If one is doing research about exactly the same thing that one is teaching, one is then trying to put research experience into the teaching. In my opinion one system is not necessarily more flexible than the other. If a school wants to be flexible it is flexible. It has nothing to do to what extent design studios are informed by the research.”

There is more choice for the students in the tutor-oriented system.

What is the position of Territory in the current architecture discourse?

“Then the school should offer more choices in the research programs. It is good to have an informed background to studios. If someone teaches a studio he has to direct some effort for the research related to it as well.”

“On the one side it picks up on some of other things which other people are dealing with this large scale as an architectural problem is not limited to Territory at all.” OMA? Say something about Rem.

Design studios do not necessarily have to have research behind it- a design studio can be research-less in my opinion. They just have to have a new direction, a new way of designing, or a new methodology. “I know this is done but then you can better go to Columbia. And see how it is there. I don’t know. Research creates the commitment of people who are teaching which goes beyond the studio being a self-promoting branch of the office. The beehive idea of the AA is definitely very interesting from the perspective you are saying, because in a way, in an architecture school where nobody has tenure is probably a good thing. But then to have that kind of system does not mean there should not be any continuity to the school. There has to be some kind of lineage and continuity.”

“That Dubai is large?” That S,M,L,XL is large. “I don’t know anything about OMA now, I know S,M,L,XL. Everything that was in there I know. But OMA has changed and I don’t find the pseudogeopolitical turn architecturally interesting. It is too difficult for me to follow this. The things which are produced are not as interesting as they were before. I hope it is a momentary malaise. With regards to the current architecture discourse, I think there is a case to be made for “architecture an sich ”- a call to deal again with architecture itself. We want to evacuate the kind of ballast of what we should be doing. On the other hand we could revisit experiences of certain stuff of the 60s

and 70s. There is an ambition of some to again marry architecture itself with other complexities, to a certain type of problem or commission, which existed already in the past, that is large scale projects which as a node tried to solve a number of different things. In this sense you see Pier Vittorio Aureli at the Berlage. He won a competition in Korea to design a new city. They could be interlocutors for the studio sometimes. When it goes into a more political drection I am not always interested in dealing with it. Also someone like Alexander D’Hooghe from MIT. He also won a competition in Korea to design a new city, another competition. I also remember meeting someone from New Jersey Institute of Technology who is also dealing with a similar area of interest. And maybe some landscapers. This approach has also to do with location. In the Netherlands, there is a consciousness which gives you a lens to look at the site as an artifact, as something man-made and therefore designed.”

“On different fronts there are possibilities. There is constant revolution in Delft. What I think is interesting is the proposal to introduce a landscape degree. A Dean facilitating this is a good thing. That is a nice development. I hope it would allow for interesting things to happen even in the margin. I think they should capitalize on this. The idea is really fundamental that it should be THE landscape degree. This is something what Delft was missing; the people were always there. We as a studio are dilettantes in landscape, but they would definitely be interesting interlocutors for our studio, also because of some of the noise coming from landscape urbanism. Maybe what is interesting is to have a platform to debate certain interesting issues. Other than that, I don’t think this world today is a place for a grand clearly defined future. Everybody speculates on this.” <b

As an architecture school we are starting up a new phase- do you think there are new questions or new trajectories a school could take with regards to its future at a moment like this?

Tradition.

Background picture: Survey, by Raoul van Herwijnen

“No, not tradition, but as an antidote against hysteria! ADD.” Attention Deficit Disorder. “Against people shouting on stages that the New Way is coming. It sounds like a unity that is preached on the level of the entire school, when in fact there is none.” Going back to the reality of the school that is not having a united physical presence in TU Delft, how do you think this affects the direction of the school? “The thing which is on my mind in relationship with what you are asking is that the school is very big. We had a big school, and you automatically experience that bigness every day. It being there in that enormous bunker machine made it interesting and also bearable because you were part of the size. Right now the school is still as big. There is the same amount of students, the same amount of staff, but they are kind of exploded- particles in a nuclear fallout. We are a diaspora of bouwkunde waiting for new premises, where things will be different and we have to get used to it. It is like going to a new school at that level. And I don’t know to what extent things have changed or not. It is just a new reality.” Would you incorporate this event, or would this affect the teaching of the studio in any way? “I don’t think that our studio is the most fit to deal with it. I don’t want to over-psychologise the event. Initially I don’t want it to influence anything. The second instance, it is a kind of sobering event, but I don’t know whether we need to make it productive. This is related to the fact that I am of the opinion that we should stay in the renovated main building if possible and there would be no need for a fancy new architecture school because the main building would be the fancy new architecture school.”

Filip Geerts (on the left)

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BUILDING FARM A C&D waste recycling factory and storage on railway wasteland in East Berlin

Janita Han Graduation studio: Territory In Transit Tutors: Filip Geerts, Stefano Milani, Olaf GIpser “Cities are like organisms- sucking in resources and emitting wastes. When archeologists of the future look at the deposits of the last quarter millennium, they will find a biological discontinuity as big as any in the past. They will expose a richness not of fossils but of plastic bags and other human refuse.”

It sits in a marginal area near the Berlin Ostbanhof station, hemmed in by the many suburban relicsthe hypermart, handy stores, convenience stores with only one route out of the site.

Cities accumulate material and the disposal of excess material becomes a problem of logistics. By creating temporary process and storage strips on an abandoned site, the project makes a commentary about material consumption of cities.

The buildings are temporal occupants on the land, to be taken down after 10 years. As cities develop the pressure on land will be increased. By designing with deconstruction in mind, the temporal nature (circa 10 years) of the building is a deliberate design move to engage the material cycle of the city. The notion of temporality is particularly relevant to a city like Berlin, whose devastation led to piles of rubble designated to landfills in the city.

The site starts out as a terrain vague - empty, unoccupied and vacant. It is an incidental condition left behind by the shrinking railway site. The city is no longer an ensemble of harmoniously grouped and cohesive elements but rather a structure of fills - densities, voids and absences. A space defined from a functional periphery and manifested as a void to be conquered

The proposed intervention deals with the matters of concern by creating temporal process and storage strips on an abandoned site, and allowing the public to access the area. The imprint of the building left on site, the extent of site modification, the material and programmatic phasing of the project are issues that are dealt with.

- Sir Crispin Tickell, Introduction for the book Cities for a Small Planet by Lord Richard Rogers .

Tutor’s statement: This project was completed under the Territory in Transit studio, where a small group of committed architecture students tackle ‘the large dimension’ of territory through the lens of architecture. The ‘territory’ is both the context the studio operates in and the material at hand for research and design. This project, situated in East Berlin, is the result of an attempt to reposition architecture as a productive force in the material processes of the territory, rather than a fancy material obstacle sprung from an expedient gesture. The concern with the temporary relevance of buildings and the permanence of materials lead to the modification of an abandoned and residual

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terrain in a productive site recycling the materials left behind by the complex processes in the city. Instead of marketing the general interest in sustainability in the banal way too often observed, this project managed to frame the concern for sustainability within issues of the material, temporariness and the public relevance of architecture in a convincing way, stretching the limits of what architecture is able to do. It is a sobering thought that this ambitious investigation of architecture-itself, has crystallised in a project for a recycling centre on an abandoned railway site.

De ultieme keuzevri Tekst: het Flexteam

nilever, Microsoft, Interpolis, Shell en het Rijkskantoor in Haarlem. Het zijn slechts enkele voorbeelden uit het almaar groeiende rijtje van organisaties die flexwerken reeds hebben ingevoerd. Ook universiteiten in binnen- en buitenland denken na over de nieuwe manier van werken. Niet alleen voor stafmedewerkers, maar ook voor wetenschappers. Meer samenwerking en ‘community building’ (het wij-gevoel) zijn belangrijke uitgangspunten. De vele deeltijdaanstellingen, de lage bezetting van werkplekken en het gebrek aan ruimte voor concentratie en overleg zijn de meest genoemde redenen voor verandering. Want afgezien van het kostenplaatje dat aan inefficiënt gebruik en leegstand hangt, past de oude manier van werken niet meer bij de hedendaagse ’netwerkuniversiteit’.

Ook de faculteit Bouwkunde worstelde in het oude gebouw met een werkomgeving die niet meer paste bij de doelen van de faculteit. Met ruim 800 medewerkers, veel deeltijdaanstellingen en de behoefte aan meer interactie – tussen afdelingen maar ook binnen afdelingen – was de noodzaak groot om de werkomgeving anders in te richten. Zo presenteerde Bouwkunde in januari 2008 al plannen voor meer ‘activiteitsgerelateerd’ werken. BK City Julianalaan biedt de kans om deze werkomgeving op grote schaal te introduceren. Ook omdat de structuur van het gebouw de oude manier van werken - in cellenkantoren – simpelweg niet kan ondersteunen voor zoveel werknemers. Een veranderingsslag die aanpassingsvermogen vraagt van de medewerkers, maar hen tegelijkertijd veel vrijheid biedt. De vrijheid om - alleen of samen – een ruimte te kiezen die op dat moment het beste past bij de activiteit. Flexwerken – een activiteitsgerelateerd werkplekconcept - is een verandering die door de brand eerder is ingevoerd dan gepland, zeker op deze schaal. Een ondoordachte beslissing is het echter niet geweest. Bij de ontwikkeling van het concept is aan iedere soort medewerker gedacht. Van onderzoeker en hoogleraar tot ondersteunende medewerker. Er is gesproken over alle soorten werkzaamheden die bij Bouwkunde plaatsvinden. Om ervoor te zorgen dat niemand buiten de boot valt en iedereen zijn of haar plek vindt. Niet meer op een eigen plek, maar op een plek die eigen is. En nog steeds werkt dagelijks een team, samengesteld uit medewerkers van diverse afdelingen, aan het concept. Om het flexwerkmodel in BK City bij te schaven en te verbeteren. Dat we gaan flexwerken staat vast. De manier waarop bepalen we samen!

Flexwerken

De afgelopen maanden

De Herhuisvesting van zoveel mensen (ruim 3000 studenten en ruim 800 medewerkers) is ongekend. Wat is er ook alweer gebeurd? 1. Mei: de brand, bijeenkomsten voor studenten en medewerkers, inhuizing in andere faculteiten, bergingsactiviteiten, onderwijs in tenten, besluit voor BK City aan de Julianalaan 2. Juni: Start van project organisatie, ontwerpteam, programmateam en contractonderhandelingen met Vitra. Start vergaderingen en overleggen met: stuurgroep, projectgroep en afdelingen. 3. Juli: Presentaties vlekkenplan 4. Augustus: Flexteam van start om Bouwkunde te verhuizen 5. September: Start Presentaties flexwerkconcept voor medewerkers van alle afdelingen, inventarisatie zorgen, gesprekken voor inhuizing, bijschaven flexwerkconcept: totaal 210 extra kasten voor meer bergruimte

FlexTip: Spreek met studenten af buiten de domeinen, bij de pantry’s, in ‘de Straat’ of in het Ketelhuis. Zo stoor je collega’s niet. Door ‘op zaal’ of in de ateliers te zijn, creëer je rust in het domein.

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rijheid FAQ: W

1. aarom is er gekozen voor de Julianalaan?

Direct na brand zijn twee mogelijkheden onderzocht. De glazen stad: BK City op het rugbyterrein en BK City in het voormalige hoofdgebouw van de TU Delft aan de Julianalaan. De glazen stad vroeg erg veel voorbereidingen. Het terrein zou eerst bouwrijp gemaakt moeten worden en voorzien van kabels en leidingen. Het was daarnaast aanzienlijk duurder en in procedurele zin was het plan zeer onzeker. De glazen stad was leuk op het plaatje, het risico was echter te groot. De Julianalaan daarentegen was direct beschikbaar, goedkoper en de uitvoering beduidend zekerder. BK City Julianalaan kon op korte termijn worden gerealiseerd. Daarnaast is het nieuwe BK City niet zomaar een gebouw. Met de hoge plafonds, ruimtelijke indeling en het ergonomisch vormgegeven meubilair ademt het Bouwkunde.

2. aarom gaan we ook alweer flexwerken?

Om alle medewerkers in BK City onder te brengen en voldoende ruimte te bieden voor concentratie en overleg, bleek flexwerken de beste optie. Naast het ruimtegebrek, is een belangrijk doel van de invoering van flexwerk: het voorkomen van een lage bezettingsgraad van de kantoren en meer ruimte maken voor ateliers. Uit diverse onderzoeken en tellingen bleek de lage bezettingsgraad aan de Berlageweg. Een aanzienlijk deel van de medewerkers is voor zijn of haar werkzaamheden een groot

geschikt was voor alle uiteenlopende soorten werkzaamheden en processen. Studenten liepen binnen op plekken waar anderen zich wilden concentreren; mensen telefoneerden daar waar collega’s juist wilden overleggen. En plekken stonden leeg terwijl elders medewerkers dicht opeen zaten. Met de invoering van het flexwerken komt er een open en transparante omgeving waar mensen efficiënt kunnen werken op de plek die het best past bij de werkzaamheden.

Feiten:

- BK City is van top tot teen voorzien van sprinklers en voldoet aan alle eisen van de brandweer; - Alles voldoet aan de Arbo eisen. Er is volop daglicht, de omvang van de ruimten is goed, er is zeer praktisch en fraai meubilair dat eenvoudig instelbaar is. Daarnaast zijn de werkplekken uitgerust met RSI sets.

3. oe zijn de medewerkers in het proces betrokken?

Bijna direct na de brand zijn de afdelingsvoorzitters en bestuurssecretarissen geconsulteerd. Zij hebben de belangen van hun medewerkers verwoord. Er waren echter grenzen aan de manier waarop wensen en eisen ingewilligd konden worden. De snelheid van planvorming en uitvoering en de structuur van het gebouw dicteerden de randvoorwaarden. Eenpersoons kamers waren geen optie, gezien de uitgangspunten en de mogelijkheden van het gebouw. Vaste plekken ook niet behalve dan voor de secretariaten die een centrale plek binnen de afdelingen vormen. Met de mogelijkheden van het gebouw als uitgangspunt, is er in overleg met de afdelingen gezocht naar de beste oplossing voor iedere soort functie en alle verschillende werkzaamheden. En nog steeds worden de afdelingsvoorzitters en bestuurssecretarissen geconsulteerd en betrokken bij de verdere ontwikkeling van het concept en de uitvoering. Zodat niemand zich buitengesloten hoeft te voelen. Flexwerken doen we samen! 4. s er op drukke tijden een plek voor iedereen?

leg. Er is dus altijd een plek voor iedereen. Zelfs als iedereen wel tegelijkertijd komt!

Als

5. k wil iedere dag aan hetzelfde bureau zitten. Kan dat?

iedereen op dezelfde dag komt, zijn er in totaal ruim 800 medewerkers in BK City en circa 160 gastdocenten. Om met de gastdocenten te beginnen: die zijn veelal ‘op zaal’; daar is ook gelegenheid even een laptop aan te sluiten. In het theoretische geval dat alle 800 vaste medewerkers op hetzelfde tijdstip in het gebouw willen werken, vinden ze een plek op de bijna 470 standaard werkplekken en op de circa 350 extra werkplekken; in de bibliotheek, workbenches, huiskamers, vergaderzalen en informele overlegplekken. Het zal echter sporadisch voorkomen dat zoveel

Het is heel aannemelijk dat je heel vaak op dezelfde plek kunt zitten. Je kunt ook gerust als vanouds bij elkaar gaan zitten in een domein van de afdeling. Je zult echter de ene keer tegenover en de andere keer naast die ene collega zitten. Maar voorkeursplekken ontstaan ook bij flexwerken. Is de plek vrij dan belet niets je om daar iedere dag te gaan zitten. Onthoud wel: het is niet jouw eigen plek. Bij vertrek of bij afwezigheid langer dan twee uur maak je dus altijd je werkplek leeg. Ben je naar cursus of een lezing, geef je college, zit je in vergadering, werk je thuis, ben je op vakantie of ziek, dan moet een ander de werkplek kunnen gebruiken.

6. oet ik in BK City slepen met boeken en laptop?

Bij de centrale ingangen komen in totaal 1600 lockers om spullen op te bergen. Daarnaast heeft iedere medewerker in het eigen domein één kastplank (1,20m) in een afsluitbare kast waar hij of zij een sleutel van heeft. Men deelt die kast met twee collega’s. Voor collectieve opslag zijn er verschillende mogelijkheden: in de zogenaamde huiskamers staan boekenkasten voor gezamenlijk gebruik. Magazines en boeken kunnen hier worden neergezet: efficiënt en sociaal. Tevens heeft iedere afdeling extra kastruimte om te verdelen. Laptops kunnen behalve in de lockers of in de kast, ook – voor korte afwezigheid - worden vastgelegd aan de kabel die je krijgt tijdens de migratie. Slepen met spullen hoeft dus niet. 7. deel van de werktijd niet op de werkplek, maar is buiten de deur, in overleg of werkt thuis. Een derde reden om te gaan flexwerken is dat de situatie met de traditionele werkplekken niet

medewerkers tegelijkertijd in het gebouw zijn. Deeltijdwerkers van de verschillende afdelingen komen niet allemaal op dezelfde dag en daarnaast zijn mensen veel buiten de deur, op zaal en in over-

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Moet alles nu ineens alleen maar digitaal?

Scripties en lopende afstudeerprojecten bijvoorbeeld wil je veelal op papier lezen en van commentaar voorzien. Echter zodra het statisch begint te worden, moet het naar de kelder of worden vernietigd.

Je kunt alles afdrukken en meenemen, maar je hoeft niet alles te bewaren op papier. Vergaderstukken die je ook digitaal hebt, kunnen na afhandeling gemakkelijk weg. Andere documenten als onderzoeksvoorstellen of papers kunnen ook gezamenlijk worden opgeslagen op plekken die de afdeling daarvoor kan aanwijzen.

8. lexwerken is toch niets voor academici?

het bijzonder academici hebben behoefte aan concentratie, overleg en teamresearch. Het flexibele concept kan al die taken optimaal ondersteunen. In het alternatieve, traditionele groepskantoor stonden werkzaamheden op gespannen voet met elkaar. Bellen, overleggen, concentreren, alles moest hier op één plek samen gaan. Het flexwerkconcept ondersteunt alle werkzaamheden en geeft de ultieme vrijheid om te zitten waar jij het beste je werkzaamheden kunt uitvoeren.

9. oe ben ik vindbaar als ik flexwerk?

Ten eerste zijn de domeinen niet zo groot dat mensen niet snel te vinden zijn. Het secretariaat kan de agenda’s inzien dus je bent in principe vindbaar als je dat wilt. Tevens heeft iedereen een mobiele telefoon van de TU Delft en is dus in principe altijd bereikbaar. Vaste plekken zoals de huiskamers kunnen goede meetingpoints zijn voor je collega’s.

FORUM The faculty needs to pay more attention to the needs and behaviour of the people that will use the Julianalaan building, 31 BK-researchers state in an open letter. The Dean’s reaction: just wait and see.

Q. Reference: Gladwell, M. (2002) The Social Life of Paper. Looking for method in the mess. In: The New Yorker, March 25, 2002 p. 92-96 [Online] Available at: http:// www.gladwell.com/pdf/paper.pdf

“The flex solution is not suitable for all of us” The fire on 13th May was a terrible event for all of us. The efforts of the support team in facilitating temporary solutions in the short term and providing good facilities for students have been outstanding. The teaching is running according to schedule. However, a focus on the faculty’s academic staff – the ones who give lectures, supervise student projects, carry out research and and/or run a research team or a section in a department – has been missing so far in the response. The fire not only destroyed our whole workplace and offices containing memories from our past working life. We also lost our own libraries with old and recent books, our teaching and research material, handwritten notes, reports from students, and archives of texts built up throughout the years. This enormous loss has been poorly mentioned in the process after the fire. For many of us, part of our homes have gradually transformed into offices. Currently, we gather most paperwork – the material we need for the lectures, the research projects we are involved in, the administrative archives, the books, journals, congress proceedings, etc. – at home, or scattered in the different places where we work. We then bring it back and forth when we need it in the campus or at home. Loads of documents and papers are carried from meeting to meeting. We are aware that this is a temporary situation and have managed to develop our work under these difficult circumstances. However, deadlines for consultancy and research projects – such as EU funded projects involving partners from other countries – have to be folYours Sincerely, Ir Andrew Borgart, Ir Luki Budiarto Ir Francisco Colombo Dr Ir Ana Maria Fernandez-Maldonado Ir Anthony Fuchs Ir Hein de Haan Ir Bas Hasselaar Dr Edward Hulsbergen Dr Ina Klaasen Ir Iwan Kriens

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lowed. Funding proposals and scientific publications must be submitted in time. Lectures and tests have to be prepared - and marked. All this needs a suitable working space with appropriate electronic means, but also with proper space and furniture, and with secretaries and colleagues around. The loss of our workspace made clear how much we need the work group. In the meantime, we are very worried that the plans for the Julianalaan building, specifically the flexible workplaces, have not contemplated the functional requirements for the development of the work of part of the academic staff. On the contrary, we are afraid they might make the present situation something permanent. Our demands are not unreasonable. We would like an office with a fixed desk, to have the freedom to pile up our books and papers. This is not a capricious wish: research in cognitive psychology and ergonomics has shown that paper facilitates highly specialized cognitive processes which cannot be achieved with other means (Gladwell, 2002). We also require desks, chairs and screens according to the ARBO requirements; something difficult to achieve with flexible workplaces. We need enough bookshelves for books and archives (not only one meter). It would be nice to have wall space to personalize our workplace with pictures and posters. We are sure the new plans will provide us with enough daylight, fire security and nice colleagues around to share ideas and jokes with. But we also want privacy when we need it.

of space because – we recognise – not all staff want the same thing. The flex solution is suitable for the way some people work, but not for all of us. There is no such thing as an ‘average’ academic. Varying forms of academic work suit different forms of working. This demand is more urgent from those who are working on complex research projects that involve a lot of written material and who need a permanent base to conduct research, bid for external funds and produce publications. But it also applies for part of the teaching activities. As users of the building we expected (and still expect) to be consulted for the plans for our workplace. We firmly believe that with proper consultation and a careful evaluation of our spatial needs and the time we spend in the faculty an adequate spatial and functional organization can be achieved without consuming a lot of space. After all, our job as faculty staff is precisely to teach and research how to organize space; something that cannot be done without paying attention to the needs and behavior of the users. If flexibility is the motto of the new building, it should then be flexible enough to accommodate our needs. We are all eager to contribute to the resurgence of our faculty in the short term. We believe that the best way to do it is to produce high quality teaching and research, for which we need suitable facilities. We are sure they will lead to an inspiring, productive and well-functioning working environment.

The good news is all this does not require a lot Dr. Lei Qu Ir Maarten Meijs Dr Akkie van Nes Ir Lau Nijs Ir Andrea Peresthu Dr Ir D.C.Kooijman Yulia S.Rashevskaya MSc Dr Ir Stephen Read Dr Roberto Rocco de Campos Pereira Dr Ir Remon Rooij Drs Herman Rosenboom

Invitation Beste briefschrijvers, Ga eens kijken op de Julianalaan! Ik hoor wel. Groet van Wytze Patijn Decaan Bouwkunde

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Ir Jeroen van Schaick Dr Ing Thorsten Schuetze Dr Diego Sepulveda Ir Egbert Stolk Dr Ir Paul Stouten Dr Ir Arjan van Timmeren Ir Lidewij Tummers Dr Ir Fred Veer Dr Ir Liek Voorbij Dr Ir Karel Vollers Dr Ir Gerard Wigmans

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lems in our education, but also solutions, then this committee might be a great way to do something about it! We will keep a close watch at the developments in BSc and MSc education.

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Pantheon// The Pantheon// is Stylos' bimonthly architecture magazine. In this magazine you can do research, write your own pieces in Dutch or English while learning how to put together a great magazine. SteeOwee The SteeOwee is Stylos' orientation weekend for new BSc students of our faculty. Maybe you were at the SteeOwee and think you can organise it even better for the upcoming year? Then join us!

The 115th Stylos-year has started! This will be a very special year for the Architecture faculty and therefore also for Stylos. Our faculty is spread all over the Campus. Since we don't have a central building with a Stylos "hoekje" we try to be visible in another way this year. We chose red as our colour to stand out among all the "Delfts blauw" and TU blue. In the following months you can get the best overview over Stylos activities by checking our new webpage (stylos.nl). Board members can report activities and each committee gets its own space to announce things. You can find photos of Stylos activities and you may set up your own profile. We want to give students from different semesters and international students the possibility to connect to each other. Another aim is to broaden the Stylos activities. Whereas the last years the emphasis was on architecture, this year we want to give more attention to urban planning, building technology and housing. We want to explore museums, the theatre and other cultural events. This is the perfect opportunity for you to meet other students and get inspired! And of course we will, as every year, be active for you. Until we will be installed in the new "Straat" in the Julianalaan you can find us in the very end of tent 4. Just hop by if you have difficulties with your studies, but also if you are looking for â&#x20AC;&#x153;gezelligheidâ&#x20AC;?.

Students Talk In Students Talk students exhibit and discuss their projects in a casual setting with one another to get different perspectives on projects through discussion outside of the normal curriculum. Additionally, we'd like to create an internet-database of student projects. Stylos Reis Every year Stylos organises a great trip to a foreign country. The challenge is to make this study trip as interesting as possible for the least amount of money, so every student has a chance to join. wants to include urbanism and cultural excursions as well. If you are interested in organising trips to various locations in, and near the Netherlands, you might consider this committee. InDeSem In the International Design Seminar committee you will be responsible for the entire seminar which includes lectures, an international workshop for 80 students and the pre and after publication. Jaarboek Because of our 115th anniversary we will have a special yearbook edition in which we write about Stylos activities and other events. You will have the freedom to choose the way of publishing; it could be a book, or something com-

pletely different. Lectures & Debates If you are interested in organizing lectures with varying topics such as architectural theory, design and arts and want to get in contact with international and Dutch lecturers from different fields, you should join this committee. MZN Do you like to organise parties? Maybe the Mid Summer Night committee is a perfect fit for you. You will be in charge of booking the bands and DJ's, make sure everyone has something nice to eat and getting enough personnel behind the bars. Onderwijscommissie If you not only see prob-

Workshop Would you like to coordinate a workshop? Subjects may vary between arts, working with materials or whatever other subjects your committee might come up with. FotoCo The Stylos activities are cool and interesting, but not everyone knows this yet. Are you interested in photography and would you like to take great pictures of Stylos activities? Join the FotoCo! Visit us at tent 4, our bookshop bus or at stylos. nl for more information. Come and join us for the committees to make it a spectacular Lustrum year!

This year's Stylos committees: Lustrum During one week in February 2009, starting Friday the 13th, Stylos celebrates her 115th anniversary! Do you want to support us with organizing lectures, excursions, workshops, a big lustrumparty and maybe even a gala? Bookshop The Bookshop offers a wide variety of architectural literature during the lunch hour. In this committee you will determine the selection on offer and help with promotion and sales. Conference Committee In the Conference Committee we will be working with a different approach to sustainability as our topic. The committee will be structured in 3-4 seminars during the year and an international conference in September 2009. Eerstejaars Commissie In the "Eerstejaars Commissie" (First Year Committee) you will familiarise yourself with Stylos and organise different kinds of activities, including excursions, workshops and parties for all of the first year students of our faculty! Exchange Committee In the Exchange Committee we will get in contact with universities and firms all around the globe which will help us create lasting exchange programs for BSc and MSc students alike. Excursion committee This year the committee

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van de studie adviseurs Van De Studieadviseurs/Academic Counsellors 1. Campagne Tijdgebrek In week 47 (17 tm 21 November 2008) vindt op de TU Delft de campagne Tijdgebrek plaats. In samenwerking met het kenniscentrum handicap+studie wordt zoveel mogelijk aandacht gevraagd voor de problematiek van studeren met een functiebeperking. De campagne richt zich zowel op docenten als studenten. Onderliggend doel is om bij de onderwijsgevenden en examinatoren meer begrip te kweken voor de situatie van studenten met een functiebeperking en studenten te wijzen op hun rechten. Contact opnemen met ons? Voor vragen, opmerkingen en het ontvan-gen van de nieuwsbrief kunt u contact opnemen met: Website: www.functiebeperking. tudelft.nl Piet Jonkheer Studenten decaan 015 278 75 37 p.c.t.m.jonkheer@tudelft.nl Dirk Smallenbroek Project medewerker 015 278 88 27 h.s.smallenbroek@tudelft.nl 2. Protocollen Studeren met functiebeperking Bijeenkomst klankbordgroep Studeren met een functiebeperking De klankbordgroep bestaat uit studenten die een goed universiteitsbeleid op het gebied van studeren met functiebeperking belangrijk vinden. Iedere 6 weken is er een bijeenkomst waarin voorstellen voor activiteiten of beleid worden besproken. De eerstvolgende bijeenkomst is op 9 oktober met een borrel in het TU Delft Sportcafé. De borrel begint om 16.00 uur. Alle geïnteresseerden zijn van harte welkom! Om een eenduidige TUbrede aanpak te kunnen hebben voor het toekennen van voorzieningen (zoals aangepaste tentamens, exibele studieroosters en nanciële ondersteuning) wordt er gewerkt aan standaard protocollen. Hierin wordt stapsgewijs per functiebeperking de te volgen procedure omschreven. Conceptversies van de protocollen zijn voor studieadviseurs te vinden op de PlaSa Blackboard-site. 2. De Kunst van het Studeren Wil je je studiemethode een impuls geven? Student & Career Support organiseert onder meer de workshops Mindmappen en Studiekeuze en sStuderen met Dyslexie Voor het volledig overzicht en data oktober en november zie www.smartstudie.nl. 3. For workshops and trainings concerning your career and study See: www.smartstudie.nl 4. Open spreekuur Studieadviseurs/ Open consulting hours Academic counsellors Dagelijks/daily: 10.00 -11. 00 Email: studieadviseurs@bk.tudelft.nl

In Venetië Biënnale-dagboek van Mick de Witte

Donderdag 11 september 20.00 Na de hele dag gereisd te hebben zetten we de koffers in de hotelkamers en schuiven we aan lange tafels in een typisch Italiaans restaurant. Het wijnrankendak toont ons her en der een flonkerende ster aan de heldere hemel. Zo nu en dan komt er een bord voorbij maar de focus ligt vooral op de documenten op tafel. Secretaris Herman Schoffelen komt voorbij met een schema waaruit de verhoudingen van fte en geldstromen op te maken valt. Zo wordt inzichtelijk hoe het onderwijs in elkaar steekt en hoeveel de afdelingen opbrengen. De decaan en opleidingsecretaris Krik van Ees komen ook langs alle tafels en steeds krijgen we stof tot nadenken en/of opdrachten waardoor er aan elke tafel verhitte discussies volgen. Is er overlap in vakgebieden? Heerst de monocultuur? Doen de afdelingen te veel hun eigen ding? We moeten iets verzinnen om de samenwerking te promoten. Misschien moeten we meer richting een netwerkorganisatie en de thema’s laten leiden? Wytze Patijn komt langs met de vraag: Wat zijn de helden van deze tijd? Studenten hebben vaak idolen en helden, weten wij die? Hij staat weer op om naar de volgende tafel te lopen en laat ons verbaasd achter... weten wij die? We maken een lijst. Elke tafel heeft een rapporteur die aantekeningen maakt. Tijdens het dessert komt de decaan nog langs elke tafel om ons allen te vragen of wij de boot van 08.45 wel halen? We gaan gauw slapen.

(Marketing & Communicatie)

Vrijdag 11 september 08.45 We staan met zijn allen op de ponton nog de slaap uit onze ogen te wrijven. We kijken uit over de lagune, de zon is reeds vurig aanwezig. Overal waar je kijkt meeuwen, gondels en veerboten. Wij stappen aan boord van de Vaporette, deze brengt ons naar een desolaat eilandje: Isola San Servelo. Op dit eilandje is voor ons een vergaderzaal geregeld en daar brengen we de ochtend door. De rapporteurs van de avond ervoor brengen elk hun verslag. Opnieuw wordt er gesproken over de structuur van de organisatie, de opleiding, het samenwerken, de keuzes voor studenten, de positie van Bouwkunde, etcetera. De ramen staan wijd open. Venetië lonkt, maar inspireert ook: er worden afspraken gemaakt voor de toekomst. De werkbespreking is pas afgelopen als de drie watertaxi’s voor de steiger liggen om ons terug te brengen. We sluiten af met een late lunch aan de kade, tot het begint te onweren. De obers op het terras pakken de parasols gehaast in en dan rent ieder voor zich naar een bestemming om te schuilen. Een spannende ontlading. Die avond ontmoeten we elkaar weer voor een diner. Dit was niet opgenomen in het programma maar een initiatief ter plaatse. Iedereen kon gerust zijn eigen plan trekken, maar men verkoos toch om bij elkaar te zijn. 18.00 Opening van het Nederlands Paviljoen op de Biënnale. We delen de flyer uit voor de ideeënprijsvraag, terwijl het Nederlands Paviljoen volloopt met bezoekers. Een enorme opkomst en de bezoekers pakken de flyer gretig aan. Zaterdag 13 september 09.00 Opbouwen stand voor de prijsvraag in het Nederlands Paviljoen, stickers plakken, flyers uitpakken, laptops aansluiten en alles klaarzetten voor de lancering. De minister arriveert om 10.00 voor een rondleiding. 13.00 Lancering van de ideeënprijsvraag door Minister Ronald Plasterk in het Nederlands Paviljoen. Na toespraken van Minister Plasterk, Wytze Patijn en Dirk Jan van de Berg is het zover. De ideeënprijsvraag wordt gelanceerd met een druk op de knop (noot van de redactie: er zijn een kleine twee weken later al meer dan 200 aanmeldingen!). Zondag 14 september 07.00 Veel van ons staan vroeg op, er is nog zoveel wat we niet gezien hebben van deze prachtige stad. 12.00 We ontmoeten elkaar allemaal bij het busstation. Tijd om naar huis te gaan.

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workshop CSI.NY

Wed 5th – Thu 18th April, 2008

City Space Investigations - Parallel Worlds – New York City

The first City Space Investigations (CSI) workshop took place in the beginning of April 2008 in New York with the over-arching topic ‘formal vs. informal processes’. Within the framework of this pilot-workshop emphasis was given to the participatory approaches. Students were asked to develop their own ideas and critical position towards the aim, methods, and ways of representation with the minimal guidance of the tutors. Particular importance was given to the development of individual mapping techniques and production of alternative forms of visual representation. As a consequence the projects of the students turned out to be as diverse as challenging. Due to the tragic event of the 13th of May the initial display of the workshop results scheduled in two weeks after the fire at our faculty could obviously not take place in the way as once imagined. The general consensus to continue our endeavor to make the workshop results accessible to a larger audience culminated in a virtual exhibition, following the exact layout of the former physical one. To see the exhibition visit the link: urbandetectives.com/projects/csi/ny/bestof/ We would like to thank the Chair of Design Informatics (TOI) providing their three dimensional model of the former Bouwkunde for this project.

CSI.SP

Fri 5th until Sat 18th of April, 2009

City Space Investigations - Parallel Worlds – São Paulo

The driving question of this workshop will be to investigate possibilities of a specific favela to cope with the ongoing processes linked to urbanization of the 21st century. Setup: 16 students from the TU Delft are invited to join the CSI.SP project to work collaboratively with 16 professionals of different backgrounds on one specific area in Sao Paulo. During the first week in São Paulo, excursions with and lectures from experts of the municipality, universities, NGOs, local communities and architects will provide the needed background knowledge to elaborate on visions and concepts during the second phase. The results should challenge both methodological approaches to urban complexities and ways of representation. Workshop Facts Selection of participants in December / Lecture series every 2 weeks in February and March / Onsite Workshop scheduled from 5th to the 18th of April / Exhibition in São Paulo in April / Exhibition in the Netherlands in June Estimated Costs: 550€ For further information check our site: http://www.urbandetectives.com/projects/csi/sp/ Interested students are requested to send an email to obtain regular updates: info@urbandetectives.nl

City Space Investigations Project The Parallel Worlds Program is the workshop agenda of the CSI projects. Within yearly held workshops in megacities of our world, new concepts and methods are sought for to better our understanding of ongoing urbanization in the 21st century and its implications on daily life patterns. Based on an incremental ideology the scope of each year’s event will grow towards integral cooperation of academia, different professions and politics. Plans: After the CSI.NY (April 2008), CSI.SP (2009) we are planning to investigate the twin city of Brazzaville and Kinshasa. Agenda: Unfolding the complexity of the 21st century urban environments, earning from Megacities, their problems, potentials and approaches of instances of power. Context: The world of the 21st century is urban, the one in the 22nd will be experienced and shaped in megacities. Currently 1bln people live in slums, prognoses show an increase up to 2bln by 2030. Instances of powers will need to seek for new answers (the success of hard and strong planning tools is highly doubtful). The increasing specialization of the service sector renders interand trans-disciplinary communication very difficult as common grounds are missing. Advances in IT unlock new potentials to seize issues of great complexity. Organizers: Anthony Fuchs, Jaap Klaarenbeek, Jasper Moelker

The City Space Investigations of 2009 will focus on the Megacity of São Paulo and offer a two week workshop to seek for new concepts of sustainable urbanization in the 21st century. São Paulo is the biggest city in the Southern hemisphere embedded in the fifth largest urban agglomeration in the world with a total population of almost 19 million. Officially Brazil is a third world country, but de facto Brazilian economy holds the 8th global rank. The major share of money passes through São Paulo, the financial capital of the South, but the distribution of this wealth greatly differs from egalitarian societal models like the Dutch one. Brazil is one of the countries with the highest Gini coefficient - a measurement of (un)equality. These differences materialize increasingly in São Paulo’s urban spaces. Over the past decades spatial segregation in São Paulo considerably increased. In almost Parallel Worlds population of haves and havenots live side by side within enclaves of global capital and local poverty. In this urban environment struggles of everyday life are fought in favelas in direct vicinity of 5 star hotels and glazed headquarters of global firms.

excursie Excursie FORUM:

Oostelijk Havengebied Amsterdam Op 22 oktober organiseert FORUM een excursie naar IJburg en het Oostelijk Havengebied te Amsterdam. Deze excursie is gelegen binnen het onderwijsprogramma voor Bachelor 3 studenten. Hiertoe zullen verschillende projecten worden bezocht en zal door deskundigen toelichting worden gegeven bij de planning en vormgeving van deze gebieden en gebouwen. De kosten voor de excursie zijn 10 euro wanneer je niet lid bent van Forum of 5 euro voor de Forumleden. (Lid worden van Forum kost 5 euro voor studenten en is dus in feite gratis bij deelname!) Deze excursie is niet alleen open voor Bsc 3 studenten, echter hebben deze studenten wel voorrang wanneer het maximaal aantal deelnemers bereikt wordt. Op de site www.forum-vhv.nl is meer informatie te vinden en kun je je inschrijven voor deelname aan de excursie.

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1st steps

debates

Introduction

Graduating is a long and complicated process,

Urban Meetings

usually a process through which students search

Urban management meets urban design

to define what to do next in their life. A more

The world has reached an invisible but momentous milestone. For the first time in history, more than half of the human population is living in urban areas. The issue of how to run a city is becoming increasingly important. Rapid urbanization is having a strong impact on communities, cities, economies, urban ecologies and policies. Where: Zaal Staal. Entry free, language English. Reservations recommended: info@airfoundation.nl more information: ihs.nl / airfoundation.nl / iabr.nl With: Jan Pronk (Oct 8), Jaime Lerner, Arjan Dikmans, Floris Alkemade (Oct 14), Anthony Williams, Ivo Opstelten, Kees Christiaanse (Oct 28), Lydia Fitchko, Aad Meijboom, Arjen Littooij, Elma van Boxel, Kristian Koreman (Nov 13), Francisco Maria Orsini, Dennis Kaspori (Nov 20), Han Entzinger, Nadia Jellouli-Guachati (Nov 26)

the first steps after school and most of the times,

practical or theoretical approach in one’s graduation project can become the starting point for we tend to identify ourselves with our project, making the process of graduating really long and demanding. But life after graduation is not less complicated. As I recently had to deal with the adjustment in the after-school reality, this column is meant to present a few aspects of this recent experience and show that some small steps need to come before the bigger ones. Trust me! Before searching for a job, take a break on your long forgotten bed! Step #1: Getting back in touch with your bed It is very common that architects measure their efficiency and are really proud of the hours they spent sleepless in order to finish a project, to make it before the deadline, to render the mod-

Zaal Staal, World Trade Center Rotterdam

els; in a few words there is always an excuse to

annoucements Medewerkers gezocht voor informatiecentrum Den Haag Nieuw Centraal

lose your sleep. Unfortunately, we all know deep down that good architecture can not be measured in the hours you spent sleeping on your desk or not sleeping at all. Still, this is a real phenomenon, which gets even worse during the last semesters of an architect’s study. Graduation means that you identify with your project, you think in lines and hatches, you walk in the 3d model of your building, you see it right there in front of you, you accept to eat the crappy cafeteria food, not to loose time for cooking and of course you

Bij het Centraal Station in Den Haag is een groot bouwproject van start gegaan onder de naam Den Haag Nieuw Centraal. (denhaagnieuwcentraal.nl) Pal tegenover het station, in de Rijnstraat wordt zeer binnenkort een informatiecentrum geopend waar vragen van bezoekers over alle in gang zijnde werkzaamheden kunnen worden beantwoord. Het informatiecentrum wordt bemand door een coördinator. Omdat we veel bezoekers verwachten willen we graag in contact komen met studenten civiel dan wel bouwkunde, die circa 10 uur per week kunnen assisteren bij bovengenoemde werkzaamheden. Voor de nodige continuïteit gaat de voorkeur uit naar een vaste groep studenten die elkaar kunnen afwisselen dan wel aanvullen. Heb je hiervoor belangstelling, neem dan zo snel mogelijk contact op met: Bea Laport, coördinator informatiecentrum, bealaport@kpnplanet.nl

work as hard as possible to convince your mentors of the qualities of your design in the same way you see them. This also means that probably you haven’t been home for some time. Yes, yes, the school is your second home these days but I mean your real home with the nicely smelling shower, the soft bed, home cooked food… This home you need to get reacquainted to. You graduate and then? You have your presentation, your teachers look at each other, they move to the next room and after those dramatic moments of agony they invite your black circles to give them this paper for which you have been struggling all this time. Your parents have no black circles but tears in their eyes and you look like a ghost in the pictures!!! After a good party, you end up home completely drunk and you just can’t wait to get back to bed. You feel very proud of yourself that you can still remember where your

BouT wants their members back

house is and how a bed looks like. But your bed is waiting for you with the same bed sheets for the last two months, full of open books, drawing

After the fire, all the BouT members personel information was lost, this is a special request for all our associates to send us an email to: info@praktijkverenigingbout.nl including: current address, telephone number, email, current job (if applicable), start up studies year

paper, pens, colors, and old sketches. How did all these things get up there? It is too late to think about it – the last months are already out of your head – you throw everything on the floor and get a good long all night [and possibly all day after] sleep. You wake up happy that you don’t have to go to school and there is actually nowhere else to go! You take another hour to stay in bed and

If you know any other BouT members let them know. Lets keep BouT alive!!!

relax. A good coffee, a nice book, some time with friends but later there is always the time you want to go back to your bed, change the sheets, get

jigsaw

the soft pillow under your head and dive into the sweet land of dreams. It is a valuable time that

One day not so long ago a number of small dwarf-like houses landed in the BKCity. Nobody knows where they come from, nobody knows why they came. But they seem peaceful and the population of the BK Campus gets slowly accustoed to them. If anybody know why and how they appeared? If somebody saw their arrival please let us know: b_nieuws@bk.tudelft.nl

will not last for long. Working is usually the same as studying: sleepless hours to finish projects, to make it before the deadlines, to render the models, in a few words there will always be an excuse to stay away from your bed. by Cristina Ampatzidou

BK relocation TU Bibliotheek Tijdelijke faculteitsbibliotheek

Julianalaan BSc1 studenten Onderwijs en ontwerp ICTO & Plotters Vanaf 3-11-2008 in de Straat

Faculteit TNW Decaan & Team vleugel D, 3e verdieping

Faculteit CitG Vormstudie & CAMlab - Stevin I Maquettewerkplaats - Stevin II Afstudeermaquettes - Stevin II Printen & Plotten Boekwinkel (begane grond)

Studie-adviseurs Stevin I, kamer 107, 113, 119

ICT Support voor BSc1 studenten

Ondersteunende diensten Onderwijs

Servicepunt & ICT Tent 4 Waltman Bouwshop ma-vr, 09:30 - 16:30 Bouwpub di, 17:00 - 20:00 do, 16:00 - 22:00

DCT, Kluyverweg 6 Ontwerpstudio’s HBO schakelsemester

OTB, Jaffalaan 9a International Office Kamer A2.280 Spreekuur: 15.00 - 16.00 Onderwijs- en Studentenzaken Kamer A3.180 E-Point foyer

TU Delft buildings

Ontwerpstudio’s MSc

DW, Drebbelweg 5 Ontwerpstudio’s BSc 5 & 6

BK locations

BKCity Julianalaan

restaurant het ketelhuis

Het ontwerponderwijs voor BSc 1 vindt plaats op de tweede verdieping van het gebouw aan de Julianalaan. Aangezien de verbouwing hiervan nog tot 2009 duurt, is er slechts een entreeroute beschikbaar, de entree bij het ‘rode’ trappenhuis.

enter here

Voor meer informatie over het gebouw: bk.tudelft.nl Voor informatie specifiek over BSc 1: david.struik@gmail.com of persian2persia@ gmail.com

staff BSc 1

Dates of presentation and moving Many of you are already aware of the dates on which you will be informed about the new situation as well as the dates of the moving to the new building. For Rmit the date of moving has been moved to the 6th of October. The faculty is looking forward to see you all at the presentations in which the flexible BK City work environment will be explained. And off course we want to welcome you all to the new building, BK City.

Department

Presentation lecture hall B

Moving to Julianalaan

Architecture Media Sciences Rmit Building technology Real Estate and Housing Urbanism Hyperbody History Form and Modelling studies DSD/ Factory Extra presentation

18th of September, 11.00 hrs 18th of September, 11.00 hrs 16th of September, 11.00 hrs 7th of October, 9.00 hrs 7th of October, 11.00 hrs 7th of October, 13.00 hrs 7th of October, 15.00 hrs 9th of October, 8.30 hrs 9th of October, 12.30 hrs 9th of October, 14.00 hrs 13th of October,15.00 hrs

22nd/ 23rd of September 26th/27th of September 6th of October Week 46* Week 46* Week 47* Week 47* Week 47* In December* In December*

B_Nieuws 01 | october 06, 2008 | rehousing scheme

Behind Glass

Diederik Fokkema is the founder of Fokkema Architecten, and working on the renovation of the Julianalaan Building. He graduated from What does your house look like? Unsuspicious white, at a small lake but in the middle of the Bouwkunde in 1987 and has city as well. Every day vacation. worked with Trude Hooykaas and Richard Meier. He believes architecture should be state of the art, but evoke emotions just as much.

Your favorite website? Weather Wengen, always checking for fresh snow…

Who or what do you dislike that much that you take a d-tour?

What was/is your favorite toy?

If so, I probably wouldn’t take a detour.

A ball, any ball.

What is your best and worst quality? Best: doing family shopping early Saturday morning. Worst: always forget half of the shopping.

what is your biggest irritation? I think it’s waiting in a line

Your favorite movie?

I hardly see any but I have special memories for: Once Upon A Time In The West

Who do you admire for his or her style? Grace Kelly, probably partly because of her name…

What is the most beautiful building for you?

I really wouldn’t know. There are so many with a special meaning to me. Maybe in the end I would say our tent in the mountains near a lake with fresh snow all around.

B_Nieuws 01 | october 06, 2008 | behind glass

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

october MON 06.10 lezing Architectuurcafe Amersfoort

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Verdichten: benauwend of verrijkend? Een lezing door TANGRAM Architecten. 2000h / De Zonnehof, Amersfoort €0

On the 15th of October Alan Berger will give the lecture ‘Systemic Design Can Change the World’ within the annualy held lecture series ‘Designers of the Future’. Alan Berger is researcher and Associate Professor of Urban Design and Landscape at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the founder of MITP-REX (MIT Project for Reclamation Excellence), a multidisciplinary research effort focusing on the design and reuse of deindustrialized landscapes worldwide. By addressing the issues of managing large scale projects related to reclamation of landscapes he calls for a thinking about robust and real sustainability, that accepts waste as a natural product of growth. Alan Berger will give an hour long lecture that will be followed by a response by Dirk Sijmons. This event is organized by the Wouter Mikmak Foundation together with TU Delft and Stylos.

Zaal Staal / Beursplein 33 Rotterdam / 1500h / english spoken / reservation recommended / € 0 airfoundation.nl ihs.nl

TUE 14.10 WED 15.10 debate lecture Urban meeting: Sus- ‘Designers of the tainable Cities Future - Systemic Lecture about ‘the Secret’ Jaime Lerner will speak Design Can Change to life, success, progress about the Brazilian city of the World’ and everything else worth to be a secret. Don’t tell anyone! 2015h / Speakers / Delft /€0 speakers.nl

october MON 20.10 workshop DSD workshop for researchers with M. Christine Boyer Talks

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on the City: filming, writing, mapping, networking, crossing, remembering. dsd.footprintjournal.org/ workshops

Check www.dutchdesignweek.nl for more information

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THU 16.10 debat Ontwerp Voorop

FRI 17.10 werving Open Dagen BSc

TUE 21.10 workshop DSD workshop for researchers with M. Christine Boyer

WED 22.10 workshop DSD workshop for researchers with M. Christine Boyer

THU 23.10 workshop DSD workshop for researchers with M. Christine Boyer

excursion FORUM: IJburg en het Oostelijk Havengebied Amsterdam

debat ‘Versterken stedenbouw en regionaal ontwerp’

congres Integriteit in de bouw 930-1715h / Delft

TUE 28.10 debate

WED 29.10 THU 30.10 dance debat ‘Urban Meeting: Lead- ‘Aphasiadisiac’ Les ‘Herbestemming en ing Cities’ Ballets C. de la B. / Herontwikkeling’ Former Washington DC Derde debat naar aanleiTed Stoffer

SAT 18.10 / SUN 19.10 exhibition

Dutch Design Week The opening lecture will be given by Alberto Alessi. Sat Oct 18 / Design House / Eindhoven dutchdesignweek.nl

theater

‘Het temmen van de feeks’ Succesvoorstelling met Halina Reijn en Hans Kesting terug als Topstuk Rotterdamse-Schouwburg Sun 18 Okt / 2015h rotterdamseschouwburg.nl

FRI 31.10 colloquim ‘Trans_Thinking the City’

SAT 01.11 / SUN 02.11 colloquim

WEEK 43 ‘Dutch Design Week’ 18-16 Oct

exhibitions

‘Yayoi Kusama - Mirrored Years’, Boijmans Van Beuningen, till 19 Oct ‘La Biennale di Venezia - Out There: Architecture Beyond Building’, Venice, until November 23 ‘My Public Space’, NAi Rotterdam, until November 9 ‘Experimentadesign’, Various Locations, Amsterdam, until November 2 ‘‘Meisjes van de fabriek’, Kunsthal Rotterdam, until Novermber 23 ‘Vrije Ruimten Zuidas 2008’, Platform 21, Amsterdam, until November 2

Op zoek naar de tropenstijl Jan van Dummelen spreekt over het leven en werk van prof. ir. C.P. Wolff Schoenmaker, IndoEuropees architect. NAi Rotterdam / Sun 12 Oct / 1400H / reserveren aanbevolen / € 0 www.nai.nl

SAT 25.10 / SUN 26.10 concert

1st colloquium in the mayor Anthony Williams Rotterdamse-Schouwburg ding van de Architectuseries Trans-Thinking will speak about his city. Kleine Zaal / 2030h urnota ‘Een cultuur van the City: Practices and Respondents: mayor Ivo rotterdamseschouwburg.nl ontwerpen’ en de manifes- Perspectives Opstelten (Rotterdam) tatie ‘Maak ons land’ ‘Architecture & The Mind: and Kees Christiaanse NAi Rotterdam / 2000h the bio-politics of the (KCAP). € 5 (reductie € 3) / reserv- mental’ 2000h / Staal Zaal eren aanbevolen dsd.footprintjournal.org/ Beursplein 33 / Rotterdam nai.nl workshops reservation recommended €0 airfoundation.nl ihs.nl

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SAT 11.10 / SUN 12.10 lezing

FRI 24.10 workshop DSD workshop for researchers with M. Christine Boyer

Tweede debat naar aan€ 5 for members / € 10 for leiding van de Architectuurnota ‘Een cultuur van non-members ontwerpen’ en de manifeswww.forum-vhv.nl tatie ‘Maak ons land’ NAi Rotterdam / 2000h / € 5 (reductie € 3) nai.nl

drinks Deutsches Bierfest

The other former Bouwkunde student turned musician gives a concert in Rotterdam’s newest venue and the world’s ‘first sustainable danceclub’. Watt / Rotterdam doors open @ 1900h € 15 watt-rotterdam.nl

www.ibr.nl

Curtiba. 2000h / Staal Zaal Rotterdam airfoundation.nl ihs.nl

hele dag op de Julianalaan / zaal A opendagen.tudelft.nl

MON 27.10

tural departments of ETH Zürich and TU Delft. Aula TUD / College Room D / 1230-1700h bk.tudelft.nl

Eerste debat naar aanlei- hele dag op de ding van de ArchitectuJulianalaan / zaal A urnota ‘Een cultuur van opendagen.tudelft.nl Lecture by Alan Berger As- ontwerpen’ en de manifessociate Professor at MIT tatie ‘Maak ons land’. ceremony 1730h / Julianalaan 132- 2000h / NAi Rotterdam Rotterdam€ 5 (reductie € 3) 134 / Zaal A Maaskant Prize reserveren aanbevolen designersofthefuture.nl award ceremony nai.nl This year’s award is for Adri Duivesteijn, former director of the NAi and currently alderman for the city of Almere. City Hall Rotterdam 1730h

werving Open Dagen BSc

october

THU 09.10 FRI 10.10 symposium concert ‘Research by Design’ Pete Philly and PerOrganized by the architec- quisite

Voor de 7de keer alweer organiseert de Bouwpub het Duitse bierfeest. Proost! Bouwpubtent, 1600-1900

MON 13.10 lezing The Secret door Jurgen Deleye

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The seventh Dutch Design Week opens on October 18th, with a lecture from renowned designer Alberto Alessi. Nine days filled with lectures, workshops, product launches, exhibitions and other events, held throughout Eindhoven on over 50 locations. About 1500 designers from Holland and abroad showcase their work, ranging from product design, textiles, fashion and graphic design, to industrial art and applied art; to make a connection between designers, companies and public, and` to exchange knowledge and information.

1500h / Aula TUD

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You can find more information on the website designersofthefuture.nl as well as in this issue of B_Nieuws, p.2-3

Dutch Design Week

WED 08.10 debate Urban meeting: are (Housing Quality & Proc- cities more imporess Innovation) tant that countries?

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Designers of the Future

TUE 07.10 intreerede by Henk Visscher

B_Nieuws 06 | B_Nieuws january 07,01 2008 | september | report 29, 2008 | agenda

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Wordsound Night: Sensational (us) + Spectre (us) + Kouheikyoxen (jp) hiphop/hyperdub/bassterror - exclusive NL show! Sun 26 Okt / doors open @ 2030u / aanvang @ 2100 / € 7 agenda.wormweb.nl

‘Trans_Thinking the City’ dsd.footprintjournal.org/ workshops

theater

‘Woyzeck’ RO Theater Gerardjan Rijnders regisseert eigenzinnige klassieker. Rotterdamse-Schouwburg Grote Zaal /Sun 2 Nov 1630h rotterdamseschouwburg.nl