Portfolio Boris Popma 2014

Boris Popma selected projects 2009 - 2014

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résumé

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projects

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pjz zürich

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het kiel

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bouwbieb

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the ketel

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haven sauna

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tabula sublism

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light up the pub

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publications and references

Oliver Lütjens - ETH

Marijn Mees - SeARCH

prof. Nanako Umemoto - EPFL

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résumé

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boris popma

born

27 - 07 - 1990, Amsterdam

boris.popma@gmail.com +31 6 215 737 62 Jacob van Lennepkade 4 / 3hoog 1053 MJ Amsterdam, the Netherlands

interests travelling

South America, South-East Asia, Indonesia, China, Japan, Gambia, the Baltic States, Switzerland nature

Hiking, swimming, camping, cycling playing guitar reading crafting playing football

skills languages

software

Dutch ( mother tongue ) English ( fluent ) French ( B2 ) German( B2 )

Autodesk AutoCad Autodesk Maya Rhinoceros Grasshopper Sketchup Pro VRay Adobe CS Microsoft Office

model making laser printer 3D printer CNC cutting

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education - aug 2014 Msc exchange (erasmus) Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich ETH (CH) feb

2013 - ... Master Architecture Technical University Delft (NL) sept

2009 - aug 2012 Bachelor Architecture Technical University Delft (NL) sept

- aug 2012 Participation international joint studio ‘Memorial Landscape’ Sendai School of Design + Tokyo University (JP) feb

- aug 2012 Bsc exchange (erasmus) Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne EPFL (CH) feb

2010 - aug 2012 Honors Program Architecture Challent TUDelft (NL) oct

2009 - aug 2010 Propedeuse cum laude Technical University Delft (NL) sept

2002 - july 2008 Gymnasium VWO, Nature&Health + Music cum laude Sint Ignatius gymnasium Amsterdam (NL) sept

work experience 2014 - ... Freelancer Rendering and other architectural visualisations jan

2012 - june 2013 Internship SeARCH urbanism and architecture Amsterdam (NL) oct

- july 2012 Student assistent professor Nanako Umemoto Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH) jan

2010 - dec 2011 High school teacher in ‘art and physics’ Wateringseveld college Den Haag (NL) oct

2009 - mar 2010 Excursion Commission Student Association Stylos TUDelft sept

2008 - jan 2009 Cashier and assistent accountmanager ING Bank several ING offices in Amserdam (NL) july

2005 - mar 2008 Interviewer market research IBT Market Research Amsterdam (NL) aug

- may 2006 Internship Duyts Construction and Engineering Amsterdam (NL) jan

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projects

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pjz zürich

police and justice headquarters

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Msc project ETH Prof. A. Caruso year

2014 program

Office School Prison Public halls location

Zürich Switzerland area

80000 m² scale

1:1000 - 1:50

The police ad justice headquarters are situated in the center of Zürich on a former military training site. The main challenge of this project was to construct an attitude towards the political, historical and social relation of the presence of police within the city.

With the use of historical references as the Acropolis and the Forum Romanum, a scheme was designed that consists of an enclosed site with two main entrances. The enclosure is achieved by a two storey perimeter office building, this is the more generic part of the program. Attached to this perimeter wall are the more specified program parts, such as the police school, the prison and the halls which are accesible by the public. These volumes are positioned in such a way that plaza’s occur, where the main entrances to these building lie.

The theme of procession is used to design and organise these large volumes. Hereby these headquarters become like a secluded quarter within the city of Zürich, like a city within the city. By using different teints of brick for the exterior facades, a monolithic whole is created, contrasting with the monochromic white brick and concrete interior halls and entrance portico’s.

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pjz z端rich Msc project ETH

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pjz z端rich police and justice headquarters

fourth floor 15

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pjz z端rich police and justice headquarters

model shot central plaza 17

SOCIAL HOUSING KIEL

Studio Comp

storage

collective roof terrace

apartment

collective atrium

out-in brick water-tight vapour open membrane insulation lime sandstone vapour proof membrane stucco apartment

entrance hall

storage

entrance hall

elevation distorted grid-modules-entrance-passage-roof terrace

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het kiel

social housing - collective atria

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Msc project TUDelft Prof. K. Kaan year

2013 program

Housing Urbanism location

Antwerp Belgium area

60000 m² scale

1:1500 - 1:5

After a thorough research of Renaat Braemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s post war social housing project built on the same site, the goal of the project was to reinterpret his ideas on society and collectivity on the scale of housing as well as urbanism.

The strip with superimposed housing slabs serves as a barrier to cut off the site from the adjacent high speed road.

Within this strip a great variety of program is combined, varying from commercial to collective. On top of the strip, social housing Kiel, Antwerpen in between the slabs, collective roof gardens facilitate recreation for the inhabitant of the apartments.

The floor plans of the slabs have been carefully designed to, on one hand, provide a unique apartment lay-out that fits with the size and culture of the inhabiting families, and, on the other hand construct spacious double height winter gardens for collective use.

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het kiel Msc project TUDelft

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het kiel social housing - collective atria

site plan 21

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Studio Complex Projects: Kiel, Antwerpen Boris Popma

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typical floor plans housing slab - roof terrace

SOCIAL HOUSING KIEL

HOUSING KIEL

Studio Complex Projects: Kiel, Antwerpen Boris Popma

het kiel Msc project TUDelft

collective roof terrace

apartment

collective atrium

out-in brick water-tight vapour open membrane insulation lime sandstone vapour proof membrane stucco apartment

storage

entrance hall

vertical detail 1:20

cross section apartments-collective space-storage-passage

facade detail

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het kiel social housing - collective atria SOCIAL HOUSING KIEL

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

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fifth floor plan collective atrium

apartment

out-in brick water-tight vapour open membrane insulation lime sandstone vapour proof membrane stucco

horizontal detail 1:20

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT out-in brick water-tight vapour open membrane insulation lime sandstone vapour proof membrane stucco

out-in brick water-tight vapour open membrane insulation lime sandstone vapour proof membrane stucco

apartment

apartment

horizontal detail 1:5 Studio Complex Projects: Kiel, Antwerpen

Boris Popma exploded axonometric showing collective spaces in between apartments

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bouwbieb

TUDelft architecture faculty library

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Bsc project TUDelft year

2011 program

Libray

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Delft Netherlands area

2000 m² scale

1:500 - 1:50

Due to space limitations, the faculty of architecture has decided to place the faculty library in a new building.

3 areas are designated for a possible extension, the parking area, the square at the main entrance and the westside court. I have chosen the main etrance to design the new library. The square has a great potential with its monumental facade and entrance, but also as the center of the building and as the program’s center of gravity. The area however offers a lot of limitations in terms of possible volumes, foundation construction and light.

The library’s shape is the key part of the design. With its narrow and transparant footprint, the square on eye-level has hardly changed, but its space is borded to define a clear court in front of the entrance. On the library’s ground floor an espressobar is located to stimulated the activity within the court.

The bookcase is the center of the new library and is an integrated structure 3 stories high. The rest of the program is placed around this center bookcase space. The compact division of the different spaces allows the volume to stay as smal as possible and thereby balance with the large monumental university building

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bouwbieb Bsc project TUDelft

basement - first, second, third, fourth floor plan 28

bouwbieb TUDelft architecture faculty library

ground floor plan - entrance plaza 29

bouwbieb Bsc project TUDelft

model shots 30

bouwbieb TUDelft architecture faculty library

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the ketel

dredging museum

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Bsc project TUDelft year

2010 program

Museum location

Ketelmeer Netherlands area

1200 m² scale

1:500 - 1:100

The Ketelmeer Museum houses a permanent exhibition about the dredging and the history of the Ketelmeer and the Ijsseloog. The exhibition shows and explains the dynamic and tense relation between clean water and the dredge residu resevoir. The museum emphasises this tense and dynamic balance by its rotating and shifting gesture, balancing on the dike slope and slipping in the Ketelmeer. Its geometry is a reaction to the circular reservoir, whereas the texture, opacity and color correlate with the continuous and reoccuring patterns given by the clouded skies and wrinkled water surface. The surrounding geometrical and textural elements have been combined to come up with this specific mass.

The inside offers a sort of scaffolding from which, through the facade with changing opacities, new perspectives of the surroundings are offered, from each specific place inside.

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aerial image of surrounding landscape 33

the ketel Bsc project TUDelft

model shots 34

the ketel dredging museum

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haven sauna

Rotterdam harbour sauna

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Bsc project TUDelft year

2011 program

Sauna Parasitic structure location

Rotterdam harbour Netherlands area

400 m² scale

1:500 - 1:5

Haven Sauna is a parasitic building which uses the concrete construction of an old cotton warehouse in the harbour of Rotterdam. The parasite also uses the shelter given by the old warehouse from rain and wind.

The goal of the project was to find a suitable function to add to the warehouse and design it entirely, from construction to facade detailing to climate design. I chose to house a sauna. This choice was mainly inspired by the surroundings of the building, which are the opposites of comfort and relaxation: traffic, pollution, concrete piers and chilly salt waters. These elements could make a clear contrast and thereby a sort of balance with the addition of something smooth, organic and comfortable. The result is a paradoxical experience.

The Sauna building is mainly inside the old warehouse but pops out through the concrete facade now and then, to provoke a realisation of the strong contrast by users inside, but also outside the building. The pop outs correlate to the strict sauna ritual inside as well.

As core of the program and the sauna ritual, the sauna itself differentiates with the wooden structure. The concrete box that is the sauna radiates left over heat and by its texture, refers to the grey and chilly outdoors.

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lounge with view over harbour 37

haven sauna Bsc project TUDelft

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haven sauna Rotterdam harbour sauna

second floor plan; sauna tradtion procession 39

haven sauna Bsc project TUDelft

sauna detailling 40

haven sauna Rotterdam harbour sauna

lounge detailling 41

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tabula sublism

flood resilient landscape design

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Msc project EPFL Prof. N. Umemoto year

2012 program

Housing Agriculture Infrastructure Landscape location

Sendai plain Japan area

6000 km² scale

1:10000 - 1:1000

The proposal consists of a series of intensive, almost geographical, measurements made in the landform of the Sendai coastal area. Measurements made to act in a more resistent and preserving way for the existing types of land use. The aim of the design is not to protect a certain economy and culture, like a dike or a breakwater wall. But rather to create a living ground in which it’s land use, culturally, agriculturally and economically, and it’s infrastructure, is adapted to function in a mountainous landscape, which protects a percentage of the land use with it’s elevated grounds. These elevated grounds serve as preservers of the coastal use, as a seedbank of all the fragments of this coastal society, avoiding the chance of a tabula rasa.

The inundation zone from the previous tsunami is used as a starting point from which a transformation of the landscape gradually merges into it’s adjacent topographies or urban, more built, conditions. Through determining high and low points, ridges and valleys, the grounds in between these two occured as an inevitable reaction of the mesh we used to manipulate the landscape. With this method a multidirectional or perhaps non-directional pattern of ridges and valleys was created, partially influenced by external forces, as the river flows, main infrastructure and breakwater positioning, and partially influencing the smaller stream directions, secondary transport networks and marshland occuring.

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tabula sublism Msc project EPFL

The hills are populated using a threefold division of the existing area land use. The three categories are organised and clustered to be able to function as an independent unit. But at the same time serve a larger network, spread out over the entire area, to supply overproduction to the adjacent, such as Sendai. This organisational idea is based on the Igune, the traditional farming community present on the site. Protected by a wall of trees, this unit is selfsufficient by producing rice, growing vegetable and keeping some cattle. The agglomeration of the three types of hills can be seen as an Igune XL, whereas the small family community has been extrapolated to a large village scale, overproducing rice as well as energy, heat and potable water.

The three types of hills designed, all serve a specific program and have their own performative ambition, which results in an equally specific architectural expression. The greenhouse hill is a hotspot for rice production using a hydropnic system to boost the efficiency. Cuts in this hill that serve as lightshafts for the stacked rice boxes, create hot air collecting atria which make this hill a significant heat resource for itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s neighbours. The second hill is also a hybrid, with a water collecting bassin on top, combining habitation, traditional rice terraces and water treatment.

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tabula sublism flood resilient landscape design

The third hill, with it’s irregulary terraced surface, provides a ground for more urban conditions, on which housing blocks, connected to form entangled strips, create a diversity of left over spaces as courtyards, pockets, alleys, tunnels and bridges, all to serve the circulation of this village and the disclosure of it’s housing, by that becoming a complex structure of public spaces. This hill stores heat in it’s internal water reservoir, but mainly houses the workers of the surrounding industries.

The scale of the design proposal is determined by this hill agglomeration unit. The slight hierarchy present within this unit, is absent in the overall plan. This plan is a combination of a mountainous landscape, made accesible by a partly bridging infrastructure network, to which all hill agglomeration units are connected, merging with it’s adjacent natural or urban conditions. For this reason the scale of the overall plan is undetermined and can be continued along the entire coastal area, to function less as a local solution, but more as a national coastal strategy.

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tabula sublism Msc project EPFL

model shot 46

tabula sublism flood resilient landscape design

design parameters 47

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light up the pub Competition first prize

type

Competition first prize year

2012 program

Bar interior location

Delft Netherlands area

160 m² scale

1:100 - 1:5

The Bouwpub is a fantastic place to have a drink with fellow students. But the atmosphere and style of the interior of this facultybar can still be improved. In our opinion not much is wrong with the floorplan and the materialisation in bare wood. The possibilities to redesign lie in the vertical space. The high ceiling offers the Bouwpub a lot of potential for spatial quality. But the ragged ceilings and lack of ornaments does not invite people to look up. The open area between the visitors and the ceiling is dull.

Our solution is to hang a huge lighting fixure in the open space. This element works as a false ceiling and has the effect the space feels more compact and comfortable.

Nevertheless, the open structure makes it possible that people can see between and through the fixture. This way, the experience of the high ceiling remains, but the space as a whole is upgraded.

This winning competition entry was done in collaboration with Max Hart Nibbrig and Clemens van der Linden

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publications and references

First prize competition 2012

Project published in EPFL news 2012

Project exhibited at Tokyo University 2012

Project presented by prof. Umemoto at Sendai school for design 2012

Project published by the Chair of prof.

K. Kaan at TUDelft 2013

Project published by the Chair of prof.

A. Caruso at ETH 2014

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June 6, 2012 To Whom It May Concern: It is my pleasure to recommend Boris Popma. He is pursuing a Bachelor of Architecture at Technische Universiteit Delft and will graduate in July 2012.

Boris was an outstanding student in my spring 2012 advanced graduate design studio “Tabula Sublimis” at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. The studio responded to a call by Tohoku University to develop lowdensity programming (such as parks, memorials and low-rise housing) at the site of the 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake.

The students’ projects addressed these concerns as minimal expectations on the way to a more ambitious largescale urban vision that synthetically combined infrastructure, landscape and building within one coherent assemblage.

Boris‘s comprehensive strengths immediately became evident, as this studio is a good measure of a student’s capacity to balance research and design. His project raised many challenging and interesting issues relating to the development of an urbanism combined with infrastructure, and rather than addressing the issues in a conventional manner he always returned to his original research and uncovered novel solutions.

His proposal utilized a field of sculpted landforms, comparable in scale to the mountainous regions situated inland from the Japanese coast. Running in a multi-directional pattern along the coastline, these new landforms acted both as protection from future tsunami threats and also as the framework for a new urban condition. The overall landscape redistributed existing networks of water distribution, agriculture, and infrastructure, creating selfsustainable urban clusters whose performance was inspired by traditional Japanese farming communities (Igune).

Industrial, agricultural, and residential programs were housed within each grouping of ridges and valleys.

Strategically placed local infrastructure created a symbiotic relationship of program within each community, while larger infrastructure connected the settlements to each other and the broader region of Sendai. The flexible scale of the proposed plan could not only function as a local solution, but also as a national coastal strategy.

His solutions advanced his previously known methods of program deployment and encouraged new ways of thinking about coupling infrastructure with agriculture, housing and cultural programming.

During the studio site visit to Japan, Boris emerged as an organized leader of his peers. He is an open and engaging individual who contributed much to the overall success of the studio through his attention to detail, hands-on approach, participation in discussions, and in his constructive criticism of his colleagues’ work. His strengths lay in his persistence and strong willful manner.

In closing, I would unreservedly express my support for Boris. I am confident that he will distinguish himself as a top student in future classes, as he did in mine. If you have any questions I would be delighted to speak on his behalf.

Sincerely,

Nanako Umemoto Visiting Professor, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL, Spring 2012 Principal, Reiser + Umemoto, RUR Architecture, PC

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