Diede Onzia Architect Engineer edition 2019
table of contents curriculum vitae
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FCF SUMMERSCHOOL
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dartele bouwers
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1. cozinha taipa 2. roundhousE 3. house i&l 4. HOUSE W&L
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ghent university
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1. Master Thesis: The (Re)Productive City: Brussels
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Areal architecten
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1. luchtbal 2. A-Maze 3. GALlifort
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kompakt
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1. greenhouse 2. suzhi a van
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Project Name
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curriculum vitae
titel diede onzia #1 ondertitel architect ingeneer
Date of birth: 4 july 1992 birthplace: Antwerp gender: male nationality: Belgian Driving licence: B Adress: Sint-Mattheusstraat 47/2, 2140 Borgerhout e-mail: diede_onzia@hotmail.com tel.: +32472/32.08.57
Intrigued by our current society and its global challenges, I tend to dream away enthusiastically about what great things the future might hold. This has always been part of who I am; an optimist, but pragmatic. It’s the rational me that has this urge to look for solutions whenever a problem occurs. Quite young I realized that designing was a part of my nature. The creative process of looking for practical, sometimes haphazard solutions is like eating chocolate to me, it makes me childishly happy and it can be more addictive then one would like to admit.
interests
software travelling cultures and history of the beaten path
Adobe Creative
reuse and upcycling scavenging restoration
AutoCAD Autodesk
English Fluent in writing, reading and speaking
cooking enjoying good food and conversation
Microsoft Office
French Basic understanding and speaking.
Revit Autodesk
Italian Healthy interest
sketchUp 3D
Portugese Healthy interest
drawing designing and sketching ideas music all that’s not on the radio, but should be
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LANGUAGEs
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Dutch Mother tongue
Experience
roundhouse buildingcamp [summer] Companhia vzw, Travancinha, Portugal
2012
roundhouse buildingcamp [summer] Companhia vzw, Travancinha, Portugal
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building the greenhouse [independent] Private, Boechout, Belgium
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roundhouse buildingcamp [summer] Companhia vzw, Travancinha, Portugal
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Secondary Education In Mathematics (8) and Science Sint-Gabrielcollege, Boechout, Belgium
2010 2014
Bachelor of Science in Engineering: Architecture Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
2014 2017
Master of Science in Engineering: Urban design and Architecture Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
2016
Master of Architecture and Urban planning: Architettura et città Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
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2020 Today
Project Architect with Areal Architecten Areal Architecten, Antwerp, Belgium
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2023
Tutor: Summerschool Openstreets Filter café Filtré Atelier, Brussels, Belgium
2015
Cozinha Taipa buildingcamp [summer] Companhia vzw, Travancinha, Portugal
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Trip through Central-Asia in our selfbuild van Belgium - India - Belgium
2018 2019
House of Ingrid & Liebrecht buildingcamp [summer] Private, Travancinha, Portugal
2020 2021
House of William & Laure [independent] Private, Travancinha, Portugal
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Kangaroo House of Johan & Ilse [independent] Private, Oud-Turnhout, Belgium
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Interiordesign iGent tower [independent] Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde, Belgium
2004 2010
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open streets #1 FCF ATELIER - summerschool
Content: Micro-interventions tutor by: Filter Café Filtré Atelier and Tournevie location: Molenbeek, Brussels year: 2023
The Mariti(e)me neighbourhood is a very densely populated area. The lack of qualitative public space and scarcity of private terraces and gardens lead to the urban experiment of the summerstreets. In this year’s 4th edition of the summerstreets, the program and street interventions span the Maritime neighbourhood. Together with some 30
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partners and neighbour coalitions in every street, Filter Café Filtré - Atelier opens the streets for neighbourhood activities as experiments to appropriate the street as a public space and to build community. This summerschool focusses on building micro-interventions that immediately improve the livability of the neighbourhood. Street reconstruction takes time, large budgets and is sometimes difficult for residents to digest. Micro-interventions are manageable changes that give way to a mindshift and give positive impetus to long-term changes. Can micro-interventions bridge the gap between the streets today and high ambitions in the long run? Which micro-intervention makes the difference now but don’t stand in the way of a permanent street layout?
Openstreets
FCF atelier
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In Travancinha, a small village near Seia located in the beautiful Serra da Estrela of Portugal, Tobias and Sara own a very special piece of land called Companhia that they cultivate for their bio-agricultural farm. Living an always busy, self-sustainable life, they organize workshops and offer camping possibilities trying to reconnect people with nature and themselves. Companhia became a research ground for experimenting with design, ecological opportunities and sustainable building, as well as the birthplace for our collective of architect-builders ‘de dartele bouwers’.
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DARTELE BOUWERS
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cozinha titel taipa #1 community kitchen and workshop in ondertitel rammed earth
status: completed Coöperation with: Stijn Baets, Ian Kuppens, Jitse Massant and many volunteers commisioner: Companhia VZW location: Portugal year: 2016 - 2019 materials: rammed earth, pine wood and cork budget: 16.000 €
The self-sustaining farm of Tobias and Sara in Travancinha needed a farm kitchen and a communal space in which volunteers can live and work together. We designed an archetype, a typical farm-building, inspired by the local vernacular forms and techniques. The open plan takes in acount long-term adaptability, as the walls will almost certainly outlive the current program. It is an empty shell, a multi-functional space, a barn, a workshop space. It will be lived through
In search of hands-on knowledge, we designed what we could build experimentation in co-habitation and production. The whole project is built with volunteers who in return for their work got shelter and food from the farm. A micro-economy. Organizing this construction site of many inexperienced volunteers, keeping an eye on the quality as well as keeping the motivation high, has been a comprehensive learning school in itself. The sand used in the rammed earth walls is dug office up on site. The gravel and clay come from within a 10 km radius of the site. The wood is resourced locally. The roof is insulated with expanded Portuguese cork and finished with reused roof tiles from an abandoned factory in the village. This combination of the locally inspired design, vernacular building techniques, and locally sourced and reused materials creates a building that is absorbed by its surrounding landscape.
hammock forest
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Dartele Bouwers
poolside dirt road to the village
courtyard
big old oak
roundhouse
Cozinha Taipa
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Cozinha Taipa
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the roundhouse an exploratory workshop space out of earthbags and clay status: completed Coöperation with: Stijn Baets, Ian Kuppens, Jitse Massant and many volunteers commisioner: Companhia VZW location: Portugal year: 2012 - 2015 materials: earthbags, clay and timber budget: 2.500 €
In our early 20s, we ventured to Portugal to build a little community house on a self-sustaining ecological farm. The project organically grew, with each year a growing number of volunteers, from the structurally logic of a circular plan to a twostory tiny house with a pitched roof. It consists of an Earthship inspired foundation of discarded tires, walls of earthbags and a roof structure of round wood keeping the budget
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An architecture student’s playground to an absolute minimum. The sand to fill the bags is dug up and sieved on-site, landscaping the surroundings of the house in the progress. The timber was cut, barked and treated by the volunteers. Hay was harvested on the farm to insulate the roof. The mass of earthbags is breached by a round wood frame on the westside to allow flexibility in the long run. The two-story continuous walls of plastered clay create a spacious feeling in the small space. The interior furniture is built with pinewood. Above all the ad-hoc process of the building camps with numerous volunteers is what educated us the most. Generating valuable lessons for years to come.
Dartele Bouwers
The Roundhouse
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house i&L #3
RENOvation of a GRANITE ruin
status: in construction Coöperation with: Stijn Baets, Ian Kuppens commisioner: I&L location: Portugal year: 2020 - 2021 materials: wood, cork, bricks budget: 40.000 €
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In Travancinha lie the ruins of the old industry peaseful overlooking the vast valley. The 19th century director’s house sits on the end of the site profiting form the bests views. The old granite ruin is the start of a renovation project that we managed as architect-builders through yearly construction workshops with volunteers. A wooden roof supported by the existing stone walls and one unique column was the subject of the first workshop. In a second workshop the interior walls and fixed furniture where constructed in visual brickwork and concrete slaps.
Dartele Bouwers
house I&L
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house W&L #4 RENOvation of a GRANITE ruin
status: in construction Coöperation with: Stijn Baets, commisioner: W&L location: Portugal year: 20212023 materials: wood, cork, argex budget: 35.000 €
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Starting from a small ruin, this family home evolved in two fases. First a second layer was added to the existing ruin, the cork facade distinguishes new from old. As a natural, local material the cork blends in carefully with the rough landscape. Secondly the house is extended with a new elongated one storey volume. Like a shy child its hides behind its mother. This self-build allowed experimentation in ecological building materials. In contrast to the existing granite masonary, the new volumes are light wooden structure filled with argex and finished with cork and plaster.
Dartele Bouwers
house I&L
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At 13 years old I had already decided I would become an architect. Still not fully aware of what architecture exactly implied, but equally passionate about drawing, geometry and construction as the little kid of 13, I started my studies in Ghent at the age of 18. The next seven years completely changed my views of the profession, our society and in particular the economy of the city. I became increasingly aware of the impact architecture and urban design have on our society and herefore the potential we as architects hold to deal with contemporary global phenomena like climate change, exploitation, rising inequality, and the like. And also, on a lighter note, that good design makes me happy.
- Master of Science in Engineering: Architecture -
GHENT UNIVERSITY
2010 - 2017
master thesis #1
the (re)productive city: brussels
Coöperation with: Ian Kuppens, Jitse Massant promotor: Joachim Declerck tutors: Michiel Dehaene, Bert Gellynck year: 2016 - 2017 link: https://lib.ugent.be/ catalog/rug01:002367306
The master thesis started with the title ‘The Productive City - Brussels’, intending to indulge ourselves in a spatial research-by-design exercise. Deeply convinced that learning by doing would provide us with more useful insights than merely digging in stockpiles of paper, we started this project by researching existing companies in the metropolitan region of Brussels. We became intrigued by the relation between production and urbanization. To comprehend this relation better, we decided to embark on a theoretical adventure
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through history and present, which allowed us to situate the explorative fieldwork and design exercise in a theoretically backed framework. Hereby we became familiarised with the concept of reproduction. We began to envision the urban environment as a collective resource system, full of use-value. A collective resource system that is to be enriched and reproduced by the productive activities that are situated in this environment.
Designing an urban economy that contributes to a reproductive urbanism The reproductive city as a system that is able to reproduce the conditions of production, develop itself in the future and create a generative environment not only for its productive actors but more broadly for its inhabitants. The reproductive city as an urban environment that takes on its responsibility in the context of planetary urbanization. In Masui, Brussels we test what we, as designers, can contribute towards a reproductive urbanization. It comes from our belief that citymaking inevitably is a political act. As a result, we designed an urbanization in Masui through the productive activities comprising the reuse of building materials. Dealing with the different scales of locality, inherent to the city, as a search to engage with different association levels and to define appropriate project spaces. The buildings work as bridges between the different scales of locality and hereby reinforce and position them in the urban system.
Ghent University
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Ghent University
processinghubs masui the brussels land agency developes large plots towards a new balance between production, local services and living
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Three years ago I started my intership with Areal Architecten in Antwerp. It has been a great pleasure to learn and develope within this compact team of architects. Through project of different scales and content I was able to grasp the different aspects of the profession. I got the chance to join interdiciplinary teams within the context of competitions for small and large public projects as well as working more independent within the office on housing projects to walk through contracting and construction fases of multiple projects.
developing contemporary projects on a varying scale.
AREAL ARCHITECTEN
2020-2022
LUCHTBAL #1 REPlacement of 185 social housing units
status: Tender by: Team Areal - Tom Thys Architecten Coöperation with: Atelier Arne Deruyter, Tecon, ARA commisioner: Woonhaven Antwerpen location: Antwerp year: 2020 - 2027
Before and after: Two perimeterblocks, with clear public streets enclosed two inner parks. Between the blocks an interesting passage originates.
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Big and Small: A difference arises between East and West. The first embeds in the scale of the adjoining neighborhood build to the example of the garden city movement. The later seeks the scale of the harbour with a tower up to 8 floorlevels. Twist and shift; Both zones search for their ideal position taking in account the larger existing trees. This reposition enriched the central passage. In there interrelationship these outdoor areas create strong places of transition, which are essential to originate a neighborhood feeling. The passage inbetween by two public greenareas becomes the image of the quarter.
Areal Architecten
Luchtbal
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A-MAZE #2
RENovation of a schoolbuilding
status: completed by: Areal Architecten Coöperation with: Concreet, Studiebureau Bogaerts commisioner: GO! location: Beverlo year: 2020 - 2022
Community education wants to play a pioneering role with this project. The school consciously chooses to abandon a classic class structure. The new school environment should be a space where every student feels safe and where his or her innate curiosities are stimulated. The focus within this vision is on the learning process in which the teacher is the coach who guides the student in the process of self-development and learning gain. There is therefore a need for innovative and
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flexible learning environments that offer space for various ways of learning with a focus on digital skills. The structure has a distinct visual language: tightly repeating concrete columns and beams support a ribbed floor poured in place. The precisely designed, large wooden windows on the north and south façades show attention to detail and perfectly complement the vision of an open school. Continuing on the concept of an open learning environment, we want to create a new, clear central entrance that flows directly into the new multipurpose space. For us, this place is more than a refectory and this space may aspire to be the new beating heart of the school. A new central tribune as a free-standing element ensures collectivity and connection. The central tribune provides a different setting for the floors. The open learning places nestle around it, while other spaces with increasing acoustic demands are further away from this collectivity.
Areal Architecten
A-Maze
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GALLIFORT #3
A PRODUCTIVE EDUCATIONAL URBANISM
status: competition - 2nd place by: Areal Architecten Coöperation with: Atelier Arne Deruyter commisioner: AGVespa, AGSO location: Deurne year: 2021
When we question how education nowadays could be shaped in a relevante and meaningfull manner, we cannot be blind for a number of societal challenges with whom we are confronted. This masterplan for the Gallifort site puts forward a educational enviroment that provides leverage for these challenges.
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A research by design made abundantly clear that the available space had to be used prudently. It became an excercise in creating space, by opening up the site to the neighborhood in image and in synergies. We added a productive landscape insentive to the program from the conviction that there lies a unique opportunity to achieve a contemporary educational environment that is closely intertwined with the adjacent neighborhood and public green areas. The school is seen as a minature version of society, as increasingly the educational enviroment becomes this image that arises in children about the same society. We create a safe living environment amidst the greenery for the primary school and an open view, in connection with the city and the park for the secondary school.
Areal Architecten
Gallifort
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COMPETITIONS Vrijetijdscentrum Fabrik Zellik Asse, Zellik [2020] Cultuur infrastructuur ter huisvestiging van het lokale gemeenschapsleven met ondere andere ruimte voor de bibliotheek, een concertzaal, brasserie, polyvalente ruimte, jeugdlokalen,... Sociaal huisvestingingsproject Antwerpen [2020] Luchtbal Vervangingsnieuwbouw van 185 sociale wooneenheden in de wijk Luchtbal. Jongerentehuis de Vlinderkes Wilrijk [2020] Nieuwbouw van een begeleidingscentrum voor jongeren. Sociaal huisvestingingsproject Boom [2020] Nielsestraat Sociaal huisvestingingsproject bestaande verschillende woontypologieen. Design and build Zorgdrop Ruiselede Ruiselede [2021] Masterplan voor het kloppend hart van zorgdorp Ruiselede inclusief een sporthal, bijkomende dienstverlening voor de specifieke doelgroep en verscheidene woonentiteiten. Masterplan Gallifort Deurne [2021] Bouwen van een dubbele basisschool, een secundaire school en een sporthal. Design and build Woonzorg site Mechelen [2021] Zwarte Zustersvest Bouwen van een dubbele basisschool, een secundaire school en een sporthal.
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Areal Architecten
CONTRACTING & CONSTRUCTING A-maze secundaire school
Beverlo[2020-2022]
Renovatie van een bestaande school infrastructuur tot een open leeromgeving. Opmaak aanbestedingsdossier en werfopvolging. Woningproject Dullaert
Kontich [2017-2022]
Nieuwbouw van 3 woningen en 6 appartementen. Werfopvolging. Woningproject Gelwyn
Wilrijk [2020-2023]
Nieuwbouw van 9 appartementen Opmaak aanbestedingsdossier en voorbereiding opstart van de werf. Sociaal huisvestingingsproject Antwerpen [2023] Luchtbal Vervangingsnieuwbouw van 185 sociale wooneenheden in de wijk Luchtbal. Studentenhuisvestiging Leuven [2022-2023] Blijde Inkomststraat Vervangingsnieuwbouw van 44 studentenkamers en studio’s
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Kompakt is intrigued by small spaces and sees them as opportunities to combine smart design, the reuse of materials and the actual act of building. An ideal playground wherein we create a different approach to building. First of all, what’s available become the means. Therefore we design to scavenge and scavenge to design. Secondly, small spaces need ingenuity to be able to fully exploit their potential. Kompakt works on the crossroad between these two, always eager to broaden this narrow but intriguing path.
© 2014
#1
greenhouse
a house of plants out of reused materials by: individual status: completed commisioner: private year: 2014 materials: secondhand woodframe windows, bricks and greenhouse glas budget: 1000 €
A passionate and handy gardener wanted a greenhouse to be able to grow more than the flemish wheater normally allows. The standard greenhouses available on the market didn’t appeal to his imagination. His request for a more sturdy build meant an opportunity for reuse. The second-hand market is flooded with single glass windows, as a result, many renovators are giving them away for free. During two months 15 windows, 98 concrete blocks and over 2500 bricks
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“the greenhouse as an exercise in the circular building economy” were sourced and collected, for free, mainly from no more than 15 km from the building site. This meant a repeating, instant design exercise to see whether the available windows would fit together. The final structure has been determined to the measurements of the collected window frames. A reversed process. The result is a celebration of the greenhouse. A 7m2 glass surface showcases the tomato plants as if they belong in a shop window. Beside french doors create a space that excels your everyday greenhouse, a place to slow down and admire the work of the day. Except for mortar, varnish and bolts, no new materials were produced for the build, lowering its ecological impact to an absolute minimum.
Kompakt
Greenhouse
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#2 suzhi the van a search for efficiency and low-tech functionality
Coöperation with: Alicia Teerlinck status: completed year: 2018 materials: cork, secondhand wood budget: 2000 €
The goal for this 2004 Mercedes Sprinter was clear; to accompany Alicia and me during one year on our travels through Asia. The design became focused on the efficient use and functionality of the 6m2 interior of the van. We took the metaphor of a Swiss pocketknife on wheels with us during the design and set one golden rule: everything has at
least two functions. Like this, the extendable sofa becomes the bed and serves as a barrier between the living space and the longterm storage. The lower closet serves as a bench when the table is folded down and as a rail to support the extension of the bed. The table that folds down from the wall, can be detached for outdoor use. We chose for ecological insulation of Portuguese Cork that immediately operates as the finishing layer, regulating the humidity and improving the acoustics.
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Kompakt
270 WATT SOLAR PANEL ON THE ROOF
ROOF WINDOW
BOOKSHELF AND SPICES RACK
OVERHEAD STORAGE CLOTHES CLOSET
EXTRA BATTERY BANK
FOLDABLE CHAIRS STORE UNDER THE KITCHEN TABLE FOLDS UP AGAINST THIS WALL LONGTERM STORAGE IN THE ”GARAGE”
SPARE WHEEL HANGS UNDER THE VAN
Suzhi the Van
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Diede Onzia 0032/72.32.08.57 diede_onzia@hotmail.com