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Bram van Vlijmen
BRAM VAN VLIJMEN
Design Portfolio Bram.vanVlijmen@hotmail.com 0643261745
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Bram van Vlijmen Bachelor in Architecture Dutch Nationality 29-October-1991 Adress: Buitentuin 60, 5301 WD Zaltbommel, the Netherlands +31643261745 Bram.vanVlijmen@hotmail.com
Educational background_ From 2013 to 2016:
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Bachelor in Architecture
From 2004 to 2010:
Karel de Grote College Nijmegen Profile Nature and Physics
From 2011 to 2012:
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen Biology (foundation year)
Relevant work experiences_ From 2010-2011:
Construction Natural stone
Languages_ Dutch: Native language English: Good German: Basic
Skills_ Autocad Sketchup Photoshop Powerframe
Indesign 3 ds Max Physical models Revit
Others_ Guitar, Drums, Painting, Cooking
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(currently following a course)
MARKET HALL GENT 06-13
Architectural projects
PROJECT OIDALAP 14-25
THREE PIECES PAVILION 26-33
MOTHER’S HOUSE 34-41
THE MOVING CITY 42-49
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External work
PAINTINGS 52-53
DRAWINGS 54-55
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PRINSENHOF MARKET HALL KU Leuven design studio: second year Bachelor - 2015 The Prinsenhof is a square in a neighborhood just outside the historical centre of the city of Ghent in Belgium. The square is currently being used as a parking space for residents of the adjecent houses, but there is a demand for a design to revive the community spirit of the neighborhood life. The market hall is made up of self-contained umbrella-like elements. This allows for great flexibility. The elements are placed on a pattern of foundation pits and are therefore removable and portable on the grit that extends over the entire surface of the square. The market hall can thus be drawn up on each designated spot on the square, that is, if the market hall is desired at all. Each element is closable, or can be opened depending on the wishes of the local residents. In open state, the elements together form a roof, under wich activities for the neighborhood and the weekly market can be held. In closed state, the elements are pole-like structures and can be used as street lights. Seen from an urban perspective the design is multi variable. The elements can serve as a Hall for numerous activities, used as street or party lights, or even be completely removed if desired.
First conceptual sketch
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Element States
Open and close The top of the central pole of each element is equipped with a solar panel, so it can change state’s motorised with the push of a button. As can be seen in the context plan, the foundation pattern extends over the whole square, whereby different Setup-options for the elements are numerous. Each element has a hollow center pole that is connected to the sewer system, so all rain that falls on the funnel-shaped roof of the hall will be discharged directly into the sewer. Also, each element contains lamps on the inside, which are provided of electricity by the solar panels. In open state the lights can illuminate the seethrough fabric roof of the hall at night and in closed state the pole-like elements can be used as streetlights because of their transparent plastic shell.
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Context Plan
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Open state
Context scale model
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Context scale model
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PROJECT OIDALAP KU Leuven design studio: third year Bachelor -2015 The E17 is a highway that connects the cities of Kortrijk and Antwerp with Ghent. Where it passes through the city, the fly-over will be rerouted underground. The vacated space will be filled in again for the city. The existing city is extended as a pattern of organic medieval-like fabric, connecting existing streets with each other, in which the entrance of the city and the nature around it are connected with each other by means of
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sight lines. On these sight lines, a sequence of public squares is placed with building land in between them. The public squares provide a green pathway through the city and connect the three large green areas. All building land in between will be covered with a 10 meter high urban roof, creating unity for the supporting buildings of the new neighborhoods below.
Joining of the old and new parts of the city
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Site indication The city of Ghent with its flyover and city entrance market in red.
Green zones The flyover connects three green zones. The green zone on the right side consists of fields, meadows, public gardens and a national forest; het geboortebos. The green zone in the under left corner consists mostly of fields an footbalfields and the deceleration lane enters the city through the Koning Alberts park.
Squares and sight lines (First conceptual sketch) The three green zones are connected trough sightlines, on wich a sequence of squares is placed.
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Connection The squares are interconnected by streets, creating building land in between.
New streetplan The streets are connected to the roads of the already existing infra structure. Creating a streetplan of medieval like street tissue centered around the sight axes.
Final design The three bigger green zones are connected through the sightlines (red) on wich the successive squares provide a green connection through the city. The ground between will be covered by a 10 meter high urban roof that coveres the underlying buildings, creating unity in the new building blocks.
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Context plan
Final design with sightlines in red.
Enlarged fragment
An urban roof coveres the grey area’s, forming united building blocks that separate the parks and squares.
The tallest buildings of each building block carry a 10m high urban roof. The urban roof creates unity for the 150 houses per hectare that can be found beneath it. The houses form clusters around gardens that lay directly beneath holes in the urban roof in such a way that the carrying buildings are spread out over the block. Each block contains smaller public roads that connect the parks and squares that it separates. Where these small public roads meet, sometimes internal squares form. Around those squares public buildings are placed. So, we distinguish the big public streets (sight lines), on which the
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Building block
Public buildings (grey) are placed around internal squares formed by crossing public. roads.
Cluster of houses
Centered around gardens beneath holes in the urban roof.
public squares provide a green pathway through the city and connect the three large green areas. These squares and parks are separated by the building blocks that have smaller public roads in them that form a second connection. A third road type, the semi public paths, can be found between the houses that form clusters around the gardens. These paths consist of gravel and forms a transition between the hard tiled public areas and soft private gardens in the middle of the house clusters. The paths are semi private because in general each cluster contains several residences.
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Context model Accentuating sightlines and squares in existing and new city tissue.
Urban roof
Elevation of the urban roof 10m above ground level
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Building block
Aerial view of urban roof. Gardens and squares are located just beneath the gaps.
House cluster
Clusters of houses form around gardens laying beneath holes in the urban roof.
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Private garden- house cluster, 3ds Max render, Photoshop processed
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Internal public square, 3ds Max render, Photoshop processed
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Public square, 3ds Max render, Photoschop processed
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THREE PIECES PAVILLION KU Leuven mixed media: second year Bachelor - 2015 In this assignment, the emphasis was not on the architectural design but on the media used to express it. In three hours each student needed to come up with a quick design for a pavillion to exhibit three pieces of artwork in the front yard of one of our school buildings. In the subsequent lessons the students were allowed to choose which media they wanted to work with to express their design. Personally, I have chosen to make a scale model and worked with programs like AutoCad, Sketchup, Photoshop and as a personal choice 3d Studio Max for rendering to express the design.
Quick conceptual sketches
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Render 3ds Max
3d model made in SketchUp
Render 3ds Max
3d model made in SketchUp
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Photoshop image
AutoCad section
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Context model, pavillion(cardboard), surroundings laserprinted
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MOTHER’S HOUSE KU Leuven design studio: second year Bachelor - 2015 In this design course, each student researched a relevant housing design of a famous 20th century architect. The design of my choice was “Vanna Venturi house”, by Robert Venturi. With the scarse drawings and photos that were to be found in library books I have made a scale model (1:20) of the original design. I then tried to translate the destinct characteristics and properties I found to be unique fort his particular building into my own design for a house. Special attention was paid towards model building skills and plan drawing with Autocad.
One of the few existing original drawings
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Vanna Venturi House is perhaps best known for its facade – a monumental gable with an oversized chimney in its centre and an assortment of mismatched windows. Traditional elements were applied in unconventional ways. Firstly, the gable has a vertical opening in its centre, and is located on the long rather than the short side of the building, completely distorting its scale. A square opening creates a sheltered doorway in the centre of the facade, yet the door itself stands to one side. Venturi chose to also include ornament in the design – something his Modernist peers had shunned. For example, the arch above the entrance serves no purpose. Inside, five rooms are arranged around a combined hearth and staircase. The living room is at the centre, with the dining space and separate kitchen on one side, the master bedroom and utility room on the other, and an attic bedroom located above. It incorporates many of the devices used by Modernist architects, from horizontal ribbon windows, to a simplistic rendered facade. By reintroducing elements traditionally associated with houses – from a gabled roof to an arch-framed entrance – but stripping them of their original functions, he laid the foundations for the entire Postmodern movement.
Low-cost scale model (1:20), made of cardboard
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Living room
Picture taken from the scale model (unprocessed)
View from porch
Picture taken from the scale model (unprocessed)
Vanna Venturi House American architect Robert Venturi designed a home for his mother in the late 1950s, he reinterpreted the archetypal suburban house as a contemporary architectural statement. Its influence was so great, it is now credited as the first Postmodern building. It is the first building to propose an ideological break with Modern abstraction at the same time that it is rooted in this tradition. The house can be seen as a child’s drawing of a house – representing the fundamental aspects of shelter – gable roof, chimney, door and windows.”
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PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
Floor plan
Plan +1
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PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
Section cut living room, AutoCad
Own design In my own design for a family house , I wanted the house to still represent the fundamental aspects of shelter, therefore key aspects of the original design stayed. For example, an oversized chimney still marks the center of the house. By the positioning of the entrance and the combined hearth and staircase, a pathway forms around the chimney, centering all life around the fireplace. The living room is a two storey high room with an arc-shaped ceiling that, in combination with the enlarged fireplace, is a reminiscent of a well-lit cave.
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Back side
Front side
The facade is characterised by a monumental two-doored entrance, carrying a storey-high window, completely distorting its scale. Also, the gable is reversed, allowing for two well-lighted bedrooms upstairs instead of one. The monumental central window above the
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Living room
front door stands out against the assortment of other mismatched windows and illuminates the corridor behind it aswell as the living room. Half of the model is finished and the other side is stripped down so that it shows only the structural elements.
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THE MOVING CITY KU Leuven Expression Manifest: third year Bachelor -2016 “Utopia”: this word was first used by Sir Thomas More in the 16th century when he started questioning the possibility of a perfect world where society would suffer no wars or insecurities, a place where everyone would prosper and fulfill both individual and collective ambitions. Yet such a perfect society can only exist with the creation of perfect built infrastructure, which possibly explains why architects have often fantasized on megastructures and how to “order” this dreamed society. In a world where people live a more mobile lifestyle than they have for centuries, cities are facing a problem they rarely planned for: their citizens move away. When jobs and resources start to decline, modern cities suffer difficult and often wasteful processes of urban contraction. Ron Herron’s Walking City is one of the most recognizible Archigram designs from the 1960s. Herron proposed building massive mobile robotic structures, with their own intelligence, that could freely roam the world, moving to wherever their resources or manufacturing abilities were needed. Due to the increasing population growth in the future, we will be exposed to food, water and energy shortages and be more vulnerable to
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climate impacts such as heat waves and flooding. The moving city, proposes a nomadic city that can move to safe locations, eighter on land, water or in the air, where work and resources are abundant. The nomadic city roams around, adapting tot he environment she encounters. However, this project expands on the Walking City by including strong proposals for green energy generation on board the city. The moving city, despite its enormous size, has much less of an impact on its surrounding ecosystem. Its mobility is proposed as a way to encourage reforestation of the static cities which it replaces, or it can clean the oceans of plastic as it moves trough them. Part of its day-to-day function is the management of its environment. Various moving cities can interconnect with each other to form larger metropolises if needed, and disperse when their concentrated power is no longer necessary. This manifest was presented as the image below (also made as a 2m interactive model). It consists of self-designed moving cities (movable in the model), as well as some existing designs, such as the Walking City by archigram and Manuel Dominguez’s “Very Large Structure.” The background represents the old world and is made up of all decaying static buildings of the past. The image is made in photoshop and exists for the greatest part of a collection of completely re-worked art work from the artist Yang Yong Liang.
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External work..
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Acrylic painting Smoking man
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Large oil painting African woman
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Tattoo sleeve
Pastelchalk, Japanese style (unfinished) A sunbeam illuminates bamboo leaves that bend together to form a name in Japanese B.vanVlijmen|Drawings|55
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