POR TFO LIO bruno stevens
Bruno Stevens Master of Science in civil engineering: Architecture
CONTACT architectuur@brunostevens.be +32 477/ 27.54.51 Hippodroomlaan 115 1933 Sterrebeek EDUCATION M.Sc. in Civil Engineering: Architecture - Master thesis
Summa Cum Laude
Cape Town F(r)ictions: Exploring the process of urban growth in Cape Town
M.Sc. in Civil Engineering: Architecture - Option architectural design
Cum Laude
KU Leuven
B.Sc. in Civil Engineering: Architecture
Cum Laude
KU Leuven
Safety for Operational supervisors SCC Haacht
EXTRACURRICULAR Existenz - Vice President
2014-2015
Coordinating a team of 90 members in a student organisation Recommissioning and reconverting vacant buildings in the centre of Leuven
Bouworde - Construction of a school (Indonesia)
2015
Hands on experience constructing a timber school in Indonesia
Product innovation project (PIP)
2015-2016
A multidisciplinary team assigned to develop a product to help people suffering from tremor. Focus on the creative development of the product The team got awarded with the CERA award and the product is now being developed
Youth Movement - Monitor Winner of the ‘Joyvalle’ and ‘Chiro Nationaal’ competition for best activity game on camp and published in the national journal ‘Dubbelpunt’
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AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS Nominated for Young talent architecture award (YTAA)
2016
The KU Leuven nominated our master thesis for the YTAA award
First prize ‘Team XII’ competition - publication in A+
2016
Together with Laurens Vanden Eynde, Brecht Vermeylen and Willem Vandervoort we won an idea competition concerning the refugee crisis and was published in A+
STUK centre of arts - Lecture
2016
I got selected to present my interior design of the Bacteriologic Institute at the student lecture at STUK, centre of arts in Leuven
ASRO exhibition
2011-2016
Projects that have been displayed at the yearly exhibition at ASRO: 1st year: townhouse, 2nd year: architecture school, 3rd year: housing project, 4th year: renovation of the bacteriologic institute, 5th year: interior of bacteriologic institute
WORKING EXPERIENCE Karro architects - Internship
2016
Architecture firm focusing on housing and apartment buildings Visiting construction sites and writing reports of the meetings Working on different single houses and apartment buildings
Compagnie O - Summer internship
2014
Working on a proposed design for the conversion of a military complex Visiting construction site of the newly realised topsportschool
Personal projects
2016
Designing an extension for a single family house - in process Designing (in team with Ir. Arch. Brecht Vermeylen) a renovation for a house in Perk - in process Regularisation of an extension to a house in Kraainem - finished
SKILLSET Languages Dutch - native English - fluent French - average
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Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign) Autocad LT
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Vectorworks - taking courses at design express
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Microsoft Office Sketchup PRO
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Vray Render
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Rhinoceros
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Qgis
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Cape Town F[r]ictions Period
2nd master 2015-2016 - thesis
Location
Cape Town
Promotor
Yuri Gerrits (WIT architecten) , Viviana d’Auria Bruno De Meulder
Team
Brecht Vermeylen, Laurens Vanden Eynde, Hannelore Fabri, Elena Gogeberidze, Gertie Van Den Bossch, Joran Lombahe, Bruno Stevens
Recognition
Young Talent Architecture Award nomination
Cape Town, struggling with its current and future demographic growth has been characterized by its history, which has been one of separation, inequity and uncontrolled occupation of uninhabited land. A lot of effort has been put into trying to solve Cape Town’s problems, often in the perspective of post-Apartheid. Most attention was given to providing adequate housing, occupying and forgetting the landscape. There is an ongoing fight between the landscape and urbanity. Most of the time urbanity wins, but often also the landscape shows its presence by striking back. The occupation of this land happens in a very contained cellular way. Isolated settlements, what we call archipelagos or enclaves, are developed further and further away, instead of densifying the existing tissue. There are no hybrid islands, everything is one thing or the other. We acknowledge that Cape Town is dealing with frictions between fast and slow, small and big, natural and organized. By using the landscape as a protagonist for urban growth, we will embrace these frictions by allying them. In our designs the border between landscape and urbanity will be broken open. Our story is not about one thing or the other, but about how these coexist together and that is the point when they become interesting. Small scale initiatives take over the metropolitan space. This goes hand in hand with the bigger scale. Big and small, slow and fast, nature and city benefit from each other. The title of the book can also be read as Cape Town Fictions. It is not the intention to propose master plans, but ideas. We offer a new way to look at these frictions and make room for thought by fictions.
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One project dealt with longitudinal figures of Waste nomans land factory through the city of Cape Town. One of these figuresFood wasmarket a major Industrial scale agriculture highway where we imagined it as a sequence of different actors on different scales. This resulted in an interplay of different rhythms meeting and strenghtening each other.
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The nomansland located next to the informal settlements is not accessible for a sole top down approach, as these interventions have a great chance not to get accepted by the community. We have learned in Cape Town that a pure bottom up approach is also not effective enough to create real changes. The strategy here is to let the top down and the bottom up coexist in order to create a gate into the informal settlement, and this is done by working in phase. The proposed start is by connecting some water taps to the waterline where people can do their washing. We also add a sliproad with a busstop to the strip. The bus stop brings different activities likestreet vendors selling coffee, bread, cigarettes, and are rendez vous spot for catching the bus. This busstop and washing facility is monitored by a concierge who takes care of the infrastructure. At the same time we construct simple purifying wetlands at strategic locations, depending on the topography and the existing drainage lines in the settlement. These wetlands have the purpose to deal with rain and greywater very locally, and it allows for the extension of the existing drainage inside the settlement.
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Team XII competition: Changing Perspectives Period
2nd master 2015-2016
Location
Leuven
Team
Brecht Vermeylen, Laurens Vanden Eynde, Willem Vandervoort, Bruno Stevens Ward Verbakel, Els Vervloesem, Lisa de Visscher, Pieter Walraet, Yuri Gerrits
Jury Recognition
1st prize Team XII Publication A+ magazine
The debate about the refugee crisis is topical but specific solutions are hardly found or difficult to implement. In our proposal we change the perspective from temporary asylum shelters towards an approach of integrating refugees in society and simultaneously strenghtening the urban fabric. While the logical move is to provide shelter for incoming refugees, we change perspective and invite students to move in these new shelters. Their rooms that become available are allocated to refugees. We do this by implementing student housing in existing empty buildings. At the same time every student house owner will be obliged to give room to an asylum seeker. The students move to the government financed reallocated buildings. They keep paying rent to their landlord thus providing free rooms for the refugees. This new system of student housing creates the opportunity for refugees to integrate into the urban tissue which leads to a multicultural society where solidarity can be one of the cornerstones.
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Renovation of the Bacteriologic Institute Period
1st master 2014-2015
Location
Leuven
Mentor
Els Claessens
Team
Javi Munoz Godino, Bruno Stevens
Recognition
ASRO exhibition
Facing the rehabilitation of the Bacteriologic Institute implies a very careful lecture about its value and architecture starting from its inner spaces and the connection between them. By this way, the intervention starts working mainly as a “cleaning task�, which consists on spotlighting the strong characteristics of the building and its original value, as well as making it running again. The proposal is a silent but also powerful way to understand the building. It is conceived as a cleaning work, by erasing the problematic elements in order to return clarity and functionality. The used strategy implies occupying the building, instead of adding new planbuildings or altering its structure. Therefore this strategy is focused in three old spaces of the Institute that are now developed and improved, such as the void in the main building, the big and central room for investigation and the old skylight in the back.
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Renovation of the Bacteriologic Institute: Interior Period
2nd master 2015-2016
Location
Leuven
Mentor
Sarah Flebus (Hasa)
Recognition
Lecture at STUK arts centre ASRO exhibition
The brief demanded for the design of an auditorium in the Bacteriologic instute, working further on the design from the 1st master. The auditorium was conceived as a space with multiple uses, lectures and small library or reading room for the hotel. The design of the auditorium went into great structural detail.
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Maggies Centre Period
1st master 2014-2015
Location
Leuven
“Built alongside the hospital, our Centres are uplifting places with professional staff on hand to offer the support people need: practical advice about benefits and eating well; emotional support from qualified experts; a friendly place to meet other people; a calming space simply to sit quietly with a cup of tea.” The building is a box of interactions where every part of the programme has its own space but at the same time they all are connected, so the feeling of community is triggered implicitely. It’s a box with a domestic scale, separated in different scales by inserting subvolumes, and connected with the green; both forest and plants on the interior and exterior of the box.
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Interior Maggie’s Centre
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Paris Champagnebar (competition) Period
3rd Bachelor 2013-2014
Location
Paris
Team
Brecht Vermeylen, Brecht Van de Velde, Willem Vandervoort, Bruno Stevens
The aim of this International Competition is to design a Champagne Bar along the Paris river “Seine” and by the romantic “Pont des Arts”. In our proposal Our aim is to improve on the unique quality of this site which attracts local parisiens and tourists alike to enjoy a drink or a stroll on the banks of the river Seine. We activated the roof by connecting it to the curb on street level as well as to the walkway along the banks of the Seine on both sides. Now the roof becomes a stepped public square providing acces, circulation and splendid views on Île de la Cité and the Pont des Arts.
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Imagination of a Champagne bar in Paris
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Crematorium Period
1st Master 2014-2015
Location
Antwerp
Mentor
Mauro Poponcini (Polo)
Recognition
Model published on Architecture models
The crematorium design is a complex design brief due to the sensitivity of the program. The program demands an answer to one of the most intimate and deep feelings that a person can experience in their life, death. It is here that people have to say their farewells to their loved ones. On the other side it is a very functional building which asks for an invisible efficiency. The technical installations have to be out of view, but still have to be visitable for the public. The architecture receives an important role, where the promenade has to be orchestrated without becomes overwhelming. The design makes use of historic references that subconsciously reminds people of the importance of this event. It is together timeless, modern and argaic with a subconscious reminder to the past.
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Delaunoy Housing Period
3rd Bachelor 2013-2014
Location
Brussels
Mentor
Goedele Desmet, Nathan Ooms, Brecht Verstraete
Team
Senne Simoens, Lieselot De Rore, Eline Devos, Bruno Stevens
Recognition
ASRO exhibition
The program of the housing comple at the Delaunoy site in Molenbeek, Brussels, consists of hundred houses, a market and a youth centre. There is a difference in housing typologies, combined with work functions as to create a social mix. Private, collective and public spaces are carefully orchestrated to create a pleasant and healthy environment
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Architecture School Period
2nd Bachelor 2012-2013
Location
Leuven
Mentor
Geert De Neuter (Goa architecten)
Recognition
ASRO exhibition
The concept of an architecture school in the historic city of Leuven, is connecting the school to the local community and the natural environment. Situated in the town’s newest development area and neighbouring the waterfront, the concept is in several ways combining two complementary ideas : movement and pause, education and relaxation, indoors and outdoors, nature and manmade. These dynamics will boost activities, both of students and residents of the area. The square is open for the public and provides an area for open air activities like musical performances, markets, reading booths, relaxing. The 2 major functions of the school, study and design, are situated in separate area’s, emphasizing their difference in nature. Positioned underground, the classrooms as well as a subterrean multipurpose room and an atrium, receive natural daylight through dozens of triangular skylights with (coloured) glass inlays. This elegant beam construction with both an interior and exterior function, supports the market square on ground level, and intrigues the visitor by the repeating geometric pattern. An information office is situated at the first level, an eyecatching red coloured box. The focal point of the design is without doubt the workshop area : conceived as a suspension bridge with arcs and cables, the studios are situated on the deck of the bridge, following one long linear plan. To encourage free imagination, these rooms are provided with full glazing, removing all visual boundaries. Students of all levels can mingle on these premises. The school’s exposed concrete will help maintain optimal thermal stability throughout the year.
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Timber construction of a school Period
1st Master 2014-2015
Location
Baturraden, Java, Indonesia
Team
Bouworde
I’ve been to Baturraden, Indonesia, with Bouworde to help local craftsmen with the construction of a new school building. The project did not involve any design aspects, but was focussed on the construction of the building. A multitude of timber joints were manually carved in the wood and put together on self constructed bamboo scaffolding. The local craftsmen taught us their ways of construction, and after a few days they trusted us with all aspects of the construction. The project has gone from the foundations, that were already finished when we arrived, until the assembly of the floortiles. In general this was a very learnful experience.
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Existenz Period
1st Master 2014-2015
Location
Leuven
Function
Vice President
Team
90 master students Ir. Arch.
Existenz is an organisation managed by the first master students civil engineering architecture from the KU Leuven, Belgium. Existenz aims to be a platform where architecture can be practiced in its widest form towards as inviting and accessible as possible. The name is a reference to the Existenzminimum dwellings of modernism where maximum functionality was achieved with a minimum of resources and space. Existenz endeavours the same concept, where we try to achieve the maximum with a minimum of resources. However Existenz is more than just architecture, it is a year long a ‘way of life’, a platform to let our creativity flow in all of its aspects. It’s an invitation to other disciplines to stimulate interaction between art and architecture. In my function of Vice President I coordinated a group of 90 people, each with different responsibilities towards inspiring and ambituous events. The results are all due to intense teamwork.
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