FRANSISCUS J. VAN KESSEL
ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO 2010 - 2016
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CURRICULUM VITAE 4
RELEVANT TRAVELS
BACHELOR PROJECTS 8
SYMBIOSIS: THE AUDITORIUM & THE HIVE 12
GRADUATION PROJECT 36
A MASTERPLAN FOR CENTOCELLE AIRFIELD 44
A THEATRE ON THE MAAS
A DESIGN FOR PALAZZINA GAIA
MASTER PROJECTS
OTHER WORKS
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VERTIGO WORKSHOP EXTENSION 24
OPORTO SERRADO 30
LA EXCAVACIÓN
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DRAWINGS 64
PUBLICATIONS 70
WRITTEN WORKS
CURRICULUM VITAE “I hereby wish to recommend Frank van Kessel for a position as architect at your company. I was impressed by the outstanding quality of his comprehensive analysis, presentation and final essay on the Piranesi variations for the fifth issue of the Seminarch magazine. During group discussions with specialists and other students he can listen to the opinions of others and intervene with personal and very precise remarks that helps the debate further. His co-organisation in the city trip to Rome and the additional tasks which he fulfilled for the magazine demonstrates his commitment. I am convinced that Frank van Kessel is one of those few students who has the skills and knowledge to be a great addition to your team.”
“I have gotten to know Frank as someone who can handle a lot and therefore takes on a lot.”
Karel Wuytack
Wouter Hilhorst
Teacher Urban History & Morphology LUCA, KU Leuven
Teacher / Researcher AUDE, TU Eindhoven
recommendation letter
during my graduation speech
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PERSONAL DETAILS Fransiscus J. van Kessel, MSc Architecture, Building and Planning frank.van.kessel@live.nl (+34) 617 246 119 Find me on LINKEDIN and ISSUU
RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE June, 2014 - June, 2015
Communications Editor UCJC, Escuela de Arquitectura y TecnologĂa, Madrid, Spain The functions Web Design (HTML), posters, flyers and booklets, administrative, social media, Spanish - English translations. September, 2012 - July, 2013
Assistant Media & Handdrawing University of Technology, Eindhoven (TU/e) Preparation of classes, student consultation (in English), critical evaluation, giving marks. January, 2012 - December, 2014
Editor and Writer Archiprint (architectural digest of the TU/e) Writing articles, contacting potential writers, editing and translating articles, preparing for print.
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE February, 2014 - July, 2015 and October 2016 - present
Freelance Teacher of English Being a freelance English teacher, besides teaching capacity, involves compilation of lesson programmes, maintaining good client relations and interpersonal skills, as well as attention for the clients needs. I have worked at a variety of academies in Madrid, Spain and Turin, Italy.
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EDUCATION September, 2012 - July, 2013 and September, 2015 - August, 2016
Master of Science - cum laude Architecture, Building and Planning Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven February - May, 2016
Graduation Exchange Dipartimento di Architettura e Design, Politecnico di Torino, Torino July 2013 - February, 2014
Erasmus Exchange Escuela TĂŠcnica Superior de Arquitectura, Universidad PolitĂŠcnica, Madrid September, 2009 - July, 2012
Bachelor of Science Built Environment
Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven
LANGUAGES dutch
english
spanish
italian
french
german
native
C2
C2
B2+
B1
B1
CRAFT
3D
ADOBE
MICROSOFT
OTHER
modelmaking
sketchup
photoshop
powerpoint
analysis
handdrawing
revit
indesign
word
writing
bookbinding
2D
illustrator
excel
communication
carpentry
autocad
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HAMBURG
AMSTERDAM
DUSSELDORF LILLE
LIÈGE
PARIS
SINGAPORE MELAKKA KUALA LUMPUR
STRASSBOURG
LAUSANNE
VENICE LYON
BILBAO
PORTO
TURIN
SAN SEBASTIAN
ROME
BARCELONA
MADRID VALENCIA
GRANADA
RELEVANT TRAVELS LIEGE
7-day drawing excursion.
PROJECTHOPPING
4-days from Eindhoven - Dusseldorf - Strassbourg Lausanne - Lyon - Paris - Lille, back to Eindhoven
LILLE
4-day architecture excursion.
VENICE
3-day architecture excursion to the 2012 Biennale
HAMBURG
4-day architecture excursion
SINGAPORE - MELAKKA - KUALA LUMPUR
12-day architecture excursion
ROME
4-day trip for Seminar Urban Objects in Rome 10-day trip for Graduation Studio Le Città di Roma
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AMSTERDAM
1-day architecture excursion
KUALA LUMPUR MELAKKA SINGAPORE
BARCELONA
1 month for learning Spanish MADRID
6 months for Erasmus exchange with the Escuela Técnica Superior de Madrid (ETSAM). 18 months professional experience.
BILBAO - SAN SEBASTIAN
4-day architecture excursion GRANADA
2-day excursion to the Alhambra VALENCIA
4-day excursion to the Ciudad de las Ciencias
PORTO
2- day trip for research into mental mapping.
TURIN
3 months for a graduation exchange with the Politécnico di Torino
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BACHELOR PROJECTS
September, 2009 - July, 2012 Bachelor of Science Built Environment Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven
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SYMBIOSIS: THE AUDITORIUM & THE HIVE
The auditorium of the University campus is one of the oldest buildings on site. To the present day, it remains a valuable structure for social interaction and education. Most classes take place in it. The exercise was to design an addition to this building for a guest lecturer or professor to stay for a few days. The main
challenge was that both structures should coexist as if they were engaged in a symbiotic relationship. One could not dominate the other. The Hive depends on the auditorium structure to hold it up. It takes the space of a utility closet on the main floor, and adds a suspended consultorium to the auditorium.
The Hive takes the space of a utility closet and adds a valuable space for consultations in return, resulting in a symbiotic relationship between it and its host structure, the campus auditorium.
Main floor (ground
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Office floor (Floor -1)
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A THEATRE ON THE MAAS
Maastricht, a small but important city in the South of the Netherlands, is one of the last outposts before reaching Germany and Belgium. The city, however small, like other great Dutch cities, has a renowned University, a modern center, a long history of fights against water, and beautiful remnants of the past. The area around its marina is no different, except the remnants are not beautiful. This project was about first designing a masterplan for a relatively small area around the marina. The architectural assignment was is for a movie theatre that seats about 100 people.
It includes an elevated and cantilevered projection room held up by a beautifully elegant construction, exhibition space on two separate levels, and all amenities necessary for keeping the place running, such as technical rooms, storage and restroom facilities. It also includes a cafeteria and a circular walkway that allows for the appreciation of the construction and the fantastic views towards the riverside. The projection room opens on the cantilevered end for day scenarios and concerts, providing equally stunning panoramic views of the other side of the river.
Instead of hiding the projection room underground, it is lifted on strong legs. The cantilevered side opens to reveal the landscape of the outskirts of Maastricht and to serve as a stage for performances.
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Ground Floor
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First Floor
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Second Floor
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Shutters Closed - Cinema
Shutters Open - Performances and day scenario
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Impression of the Foyer
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MASTER PROJECTS
July 2013 - February, 2014 Erasmus Exchange ETSAM, Madrid
September, 2012 - July, 2013 and September, 2015 - August, 2016 Master of Science (with honours) Architecture, Building and Planning Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven
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VERTIGO WORKSHOP EXTENSION
The assignment for Architectural Engineering departed from the notion that many architectural concepts are the product of a long tradition combined with the professional experience of the architect. It is difficult for an architect not to be influenced by other works. Architects have masters, are inspired by others, and take solutions for problems by studying examples. The assignment consisted of an architectural analysis of Tham & Videgard’s tree hotel in Harads, and the recreation of a detail on 1:1 scale. The ultimate goal was to design an auxiliar building to the faculty’s existing workshop.
The final design was inspired by architectural elements of the investigated tree house, and their corresponding details, preferably without direcly copying them. The design consists of individual workstations that can be configured around the building perimeter. The building would serve as a place to construct, store and exhibit the details built during the first part of the assignment. At the end of each semester they can be folded and stored. The design blends into the surrounding park on the campus, as does Tham & Videgard’s treehouse.
The extension for the Vertigo workshop can be set up in an instant, be used for project and presentation, and after all is said and done, broken up and transported in pieces. And you won’t even know it was there...
Horizontal detail
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OPORTO SERRADO
An important challenge of a fictional or imaginary project is to believably nuance it. In Spain I found a more open and creative environmentthan I was used to. Moreso, in studying abroad I found more freedom of mind, which to some degree is as necessary as it is important. In Oporto Cortado I explored the nuances and possibilities of a structure that traverses the city of Porto in a straight line, from the peripheral motorway to the very center. The structure would adapt to various urban conditions, but would always be linear. In the mind of the people it would be a new point
of orientation. The reference to works of art were important for the early stages of the project. Projects such as the Field of Walls on the Venice 2012 Biennale and other works of Pier Vittorio Aureli, Exodus, or the voluntary prisoners of architecture, Rem Koolhaas’ graduation project, Jiong Wu’s, A strategic plan for Rome, Via Appia, and This way Brouwn, a mental mapping project of visual artist Stanley Brouwn, formed the inspiration for this project. The proposed trajectory intervenes on city scale
The linear structure right through the center of Porto will adapt to various urban conditions, but will always be perfectly linear. In the mind of the people it will be a new point of orientation, taking various levels of importance in their lives.
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PANEL [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
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LA EXCAVACIร N
The assignment Dibujo, Anรกlisis e Ideaciรณn had a very imaginative approach, beyond drawing in two dimensions. It aimed to develop the imaginative ability of the architect to project himself inside his creations and elaborate two-dimensional drawings from three-dimensional models, yet without losing the third dimension. La excavaciรณn is a canyon, or fissure in the landscape that has become inhabited and rationalized by a very
precise civilisation. The concept of this excavation extends beyond that of the deep hole in the mountainside, and elevates it to a rational beauty, with polished, perfectly perpendicular caverns that form an ever so sharp contrast to the savage outer walls of the crack. The subtle light tones provoke a sensation of homeliness and a desire to move inwards, to wander, roam and explore.
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GRADUATION PROJECT “During his stay in Turin, Frank proceeded thoroughly, expeditiously and professionally; as I had written for myself: - not unlike a steam train.” [...] Frank’s project is strictly architectonic - in the sense that it is limited to our professional area. [...] Nonetheless, it covers the full width of the profession, from urban scale to detail.”
“Frank has captured the essence of the nineteenth century typology not only in it’s architectural form, but also in the experience of roaming through the streets of the periphery of Rome. It is both serious and cheerful!” Haike Apelt, Ass ociate Professor, AUDE during evaluations
[...] “Perhaps the most important thing: Frank designed fantastic floor plans , in which all of us would like to live.”
Wouter Hilhorst, Teacher / Researcher, AUDE during the graduation speech
“The amount of built-in closets is more than adequate, even by my standards” Christian Rapp, Chair of Rational Architecture, AUDE overheard during evaluations
February - May, 2016
Graduation Exchange Dipartimento di Architettura e Design, Politecnico di Torino, Torino
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A MASTERPLAN FOR CENTOCELLE AIRFIELD
The urban design exercise is the densification of the area of Centocelle Airfield with a new development of palazzine, based on the design principles of the palazzina and its urban context. The Building Brick of Rome: On the Intricacies of the Palazzina typology
Since the end of the Baroque era there has been no era as tumultuous and confusing as the expansion of Rome during the nineteenth century. It quickly had to grow into a capital city in an attempt to catch up with the demand for housing, resulting in a socalled ‘building craze’. Nowadays, Rome counts over three million inhabitants, and a myriad of unfinished expansion plans, sprawled with a typology called ‘palazzina’, a multi-family residence type with a small footprint ans pre-established criteria to which it has to conform. At the same time, Rome deals with the remains of ancient ruins and unkempt garden parks that sprawl the city and create holes between densely built uran developments. One of these is Centocelle Airfield, just outside the center of Rome. However, the plans from the previous decade for the development of this area as a public park haven’t yet come to fruition.The urban design exercise for this graduation project is the densification of the area of Centocelle Airfield with a new development of palazzine, based on the design principles of the palazzina and its urban context.
Plan for development of Centocelle
Centocelle Airport can be described as a canvas suspended between the main infrastructure. In no other piece of Rome has the importance of the site had such an inpact on the urban tissue; it is clear only the airplane has priority over the car. About Centocelle Airfield The Building Brick of Rome: On the Intricacies of the Palazzina typology
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Pinciano, to the northwest of the city center, is organic and sports a wide variety of examples of the typology, to the point that the exact characteristics of the palazzina almost seem to fade away. The Building Brick of Rome: On the Intricacies of the Palazzina typology
Urban tissue characteristic of
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Centocelle, on the other hand, is characterized by its grid-like structure and the strict repetition of the very same palazzina typology. The Building Brick of Rome: On the Intricacies of the Palazzina typology
Urban tissue characteristic of Cento-
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Masterplan for Centocelle Airfield
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A DESIGN FOR PALAZZINA GAIA
My graduation project revolved around a hugely popular building type in the Roman city fabric, the Palazzina. This typology has a small, compact footprint with one to four apartments on five to seven floors. On a lager scale, the graduation report focused on the twentieth century development of the city and on the importance of the palazzina typology in this developments. After thorough analysis of typical examples of the palazzina, a start was made towards architectural design. Based on the gathered principles, an urban tissue is projected onto a former airfield that
has been enveloped by the expansions of the early twentieth century. The tissue incorporates aspects of the neighourhoods of Pinciano and Centocelle, combining a grid-like tissue with medium-sized lots with the adaptivity of the tissue to existing historical elements present on the site, such as the runway and some Roman villas. On a smaller scale, one of the lots was chosen to develop a medium-sized, five-storey palazzina, with various apartment sizes, inspired by works of Italian rational architect Giovanni Muzio.
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Underground parking
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Ground floor
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First floor Apartment type
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First floor
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Second - Fourth floor North-facing apartment type
Second - Fourth floor South-facing apartment type
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Second - Fourth floor
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Fifth floor / Top floor A partment type
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Fifth floor / Top floor
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Casa Bonaiti - Giovanni Muzio
Palazzina Gaia - East Facade
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Casa Bonaiti Facade Details
Palazzina Gaia - North Facade
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DRAWINGS
La Excavaciรณn Madrid, 2015 Marker on paper
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Descending a Staircase with Style Eindhoven, 2013 Marker on trace paper
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El Cubo Madrid, 2014 Marker on paper
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La Ville Industrielle Liège, 2013 Watercolour and charcoal on watercolour paper
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PUBLICATIONS
Over the years I have had the pleasure of collaborating in various studies, and be part of the process leading up to their publication. My most valuable experience have been my involvement in Archiprint, the architectural digest of the faculty of Architecture of my university. Another important contribution was to the internal and external communications of the Camilo José Cela University, for which I did graphic design, translation and the editorial. I went through the whole process of elaboration, from initial idea to print. My last accomplishment has been the final stage of Le Città di Roma, a drawn atlas of the development of the city of Rome. Only one chapter was written by me, as it had been a group effort, yet the finishing touches and the binding of the A3-sized, 500-page atlas was done by me as well.
PUBLICATIONS: Archiprint (2012 - 2014) - Editor, Writer, Translator Seminarch ed. 5 (2013) - Writer Archescape (2014) - Image Editor Le Città di Roma (2016) - Writer, Printer, Binder COMMUNICATIONS: UCJC internal communications booklets (2014 2015) Graphic Designer, Editor, Translator, Printer, Binder UCJC external communications leaflets and posters, web design and publication (2014 - 2015) OTHER:
A full list of publications and my corresponding input can be found next to this introduction. The communications are not included in this portfolio.
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Seminarch Archescape Le CittĂ di Roma
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LE CITTĂ€ DI ROMA
This book represents a group effort to undertake a study of the city of Rome. Conducted research is a result of a collaboration between students from Eindhoven University of Technology, Politecnico di Torino and La Sapienza di Roma. Roma, located in the center of Italy, is full of contrast. It is the largest city of the country and the capital of the region of Lazio and Italy. It is also the fourth of the mayor European capitals. [...] It has been the first great metropolis of humanity, the heart of one of the most important ancient civilizations, which influenced society, culture, language, literature, art, architecture, philosophy, religion, law and customs of the following centuries. The territory on which the city was founded and developed has a complex geological history and this also changes the orography of the territory. This book will try to disclose this fascinating story in the first growth maps part with the development of the whole city. In this story, the street is the key lecture element used to read the city. The streets are strictly linked to the major actor of this story and they represent the development and the morphology of the city. [...] The binding of this book was one of my greatest undertakings on that plane. The book weighs nearly four kilos and contains over 300 pages and is roughly A3 size.
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ARCHESCAPE: ON THE TRACKS OF PIRANESI
This publication is the final part of an extensive theoretical study of Rome. The main theme revolves around Giovanni Battista Piranesi´s etches of Rome and modern interpretations of these. The Campo Marzio and the Carceri were only some of the main recurring themes. In this publication I have made an attempt to analize Peter Eisenman´s Piranesi Variations, a complex web of superimposed layers. I used Stan Allen´s Thing Theory and Piranesi´s reflections of Rome and the Campo Marzio to reverse-engineer Eisenman’s intricate model that was on display at the 2012 Venice Biennale.
ARCHIPRINT
Archiprint is the architectural digest of the Eindhoven University of Technology. Its issues appear roughly twice or thrice per month and are comprised of articles around a general theme established for that issue. I started at Arhciprint by doing editing and translations and moved on to writing after a short period. The editorial team would contact the writers and make the deadlines. Then, once the articles are submitted, these are discussed, edited and sent back to the writer for his inspection. In total I have been active for Archiprint for around two years.
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ARCHESCAPE: ON THE TRACKS OF PIRANESI
Gijs Wallis de Vries was in need of a person who could find good quality images he wanted to include in his book. The interpretation of his writings and the association between text and images were important qualities, which I had demonstrated in his seminar. Many images needed enhancement, but there was one particular image that had to be made from scratch since the building does not exist as such; the ruins of the Peace Palace in The Hague, which was printed on a full spread in the book.
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WRITTEN WORKS
The following section of this portfolio includes the beginnings of articles, essays and theses I have written over the last six years. The ability to develop an intellectual architectural discourse is important for the formation and the professional life of an architect. Research forms the basis of any project, and without factual support, no intelligent discussion is possible. The development and composition of a written piece is much like the design process, in that enters it with a plan and a result in mind, and finds himself surprised by unexpected pieces of information or even by himself. While the result might not always be expected, it is up to a good writer / designer to steer or sway their audience in one direction or another, convincing them of the logical outcome. It is therefore not too surprising that many great architects have also been succesfully published more than once.
GRADUATION THESIS The Building Brick of Rome (2016) ESSAYS De Piranesiaanse Parallel in de Architectuur van Ricardo Bofill (dutch) (2016) Seminarch 5: The Piranesi Variations (2014) ARTICLES Archdaily Classics Submission: Iglesia Santa Ana / Miguel Fisac (2014) Several articles in three issues of Archiprint
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THE BUILDING BRICK OF ROME: ON THE INTRICACIES OF THE PALAZZINA TYPOLOGY Rome, when becoming capital of the Italian Kingdom in 1871 quickly had to expand, as it was not apt for its new role of main city in terms of housing. The expansion of Rome was not without its difficulties: as badly organized and scattered government instances were charged with the expansion of the city, while the free-market principle, fed by the lack of governmental control, had caused a building craze that had rapidly gotten out of hand. Existing plans were not executed to completion, while buildings were rapidly, badly and illegally constructed in other locations. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the government, as a result of efforts towards creating more consistent expansion plans, had managed to repress the building craze. Meanwhile, a new building typology was introduced: the palazzina, literally translated “little palace�. Former urban expansion plans would
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propose blocks and courtyards, but these were heavily dependant of the willingness of investors, who had enjoyed too great a power because of the instability of the government administrations. They also provided little possibility of continuity, as flat terrain is not common in a city such as Rome. On the other hand, the palazzina typology proved to be a viable element for urban developments. [...]
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SEMINARCH 5: THE PIRANESI VARIATIONS Inspired by the 13th International Architecture Exhibition’s theme Common Ground, Peter Eisenman has formed a team to revisit, examine and reimagine Piranesi’s 1762 folio collection of etchings, Campo Marzio dell’antica Roma. [...]It is the enigmatic quality of the map-drawings themselves - so precise, so special, yet so utterly impossible - that continues to fascinate. The Campo Marzio can be seen as a space consisting of relations (Diagrams) a space consisting of meanings (Walls), and a space consisting of objects (Dreams). Spaces that Stan Allen calls fields, hence the title of the projects. However, these spaces, or fields, are not separated, but rather connected by causality. The relation between the objects can define their meaning, and their meaning can define the nature of the objects. The nature of the object can in turn define the position of the objects with respect
to one another, which defines the relation that the objects have to each other. The separate ‘Field-projects’ show us what the Campo Marzio would look like if every type of space, or every field, would be taken apart and given a contemporary interpretation. [...]
In: Seminarch 5: Thing Theory and Urban Objects in Rome, J.G. Wallis - de Vries, K. Wuytack and the students of the TU/e:
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DE PIRANESIAANSE PARALLEL IN DE ARCHITECTUUR VAN RICARDO BOFILL ( DUTCH ) Piranesi was een achttiende-eeuwse architect die voornamelijk bekend was vanwege zijn volumineuze oeuvre van etsen, ietwat minder voor zijn uiteenzettingen over architectuur, en weinig voor zijn gebouwde werk. Desalniettemin was hij al wat het bovenstaande suggereert: vastlegger, visionair, theoreticus en man van de praktijk. Zijn werken, waaronder de Campo Marzio, de Vedute di Roma, en de etsen van de Carceri, die later ter sprake zullen komen, hebben vele architecten geinspireerd die spontaniteit omarmen, homogeniteit afzweren en contrast verwelkomen. Piranesi staat aan het begin van de speculatieve architectuur en wordt daarom een van de eerste moderne architecten genoemd. Het is het meest toepasselijk om te spreken van een Piranesiaanse Par-
allel, in plaats van een Piranesiaanse Invloed of van Piranesiaanse Principes, en wel omdat Ricardo Bofill het nimmer heeft gehad over Piranesi en zijn werken, noch in geschrifte, noch gesproken. Toch omvatten zijn werken een veeltal principes en concepten die toegeschreven zouden kunnen worden aan Piranesi. [...]
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ARCHIPRINT As editor, writer and translator, I was part of a team of enthusiastic students, who together aimed to stimulate intellectual architectural discourse among students. The weekly meetings evolved around discussing the various angles from which to shed light on a previously elected topic, and which potential writers to approach. Each member would edit at least one
article, as well as fulfill an additional role with regard to keeping the team on schedule for a timely release of each issue. Regardless of a full study-related workload, the team managed to publish at least two issues per academic year. The excerpts below are the introductory paragraphs of the articles I either wrote, edited or translated.
The following texts are excerpts from several issues of Archiprint, he architectural digest of the Eindhoven University of Technology, for which I have been active as editor and writer, between 2012 and 2015.
ARCHESCAPE BOOK REVIEW
I DRAW (WITH) THE BODY
Since the 18th century there hasn’t been an architect as influential as Giambattista Piranesi. He continues to inspire scholars, philosophers and architects alike, most recently by having been featured at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennial. In Archescape; On the Tracks of Piranesi Gijs Wallis De Vries describes him as the master of the architectural suspense, who suspended the classical paradigm of architecture to reveal its contradictions and liberties.’
The human body is a natural measure of architecture, therefore it is used as a constant reference throughout the process of design. [...] The communication of an idea of living, considering the architect as a creator that has the privilege to materialize the conscience expectations and the unconscious imagery of an individual or a collective, is an essential act for contemporary architecture, especially if one wants to achieve its full compliance. [...]
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BORN FROM SENSIBILITY
THE SHOWCASE PORTOLIO
Almost half a century after its completion, the Leça Swimming Pool complex, designed by Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza, has gracefully retained its architectural integrity. The Leça Swimming Pool complex has established itself as an example of Siza’s careful reconciliation of nature and his design.1 Siza’s works seem to be born from engaging with the conditions that surround them, embracing and upheaving the genius loci and ultimately presenting it [...]
The portfolio is a familiar phenomenon, and many people will deal with one. These days even primary schools are starting to use portfolios. You can find a lot of information about portfolios and their dos and don’ts on the Internet. This article focuses on the portfolio of the architect/designer aimed at bringing the architect to the attention of an employer: the showcase portfolio. When I look at a portfolio, I am naturally interested in its content, but also in the portfolio’s design. [...]
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THE ARCHIPRIX
JAC DE KOK SPEAKS...
The special aspect of a project is really hard to define. The most important thing we ask [the jury] to do is to judge the project according to their own expertise, as well as their own agenda. [...] Two projects in the same category can still be totally different, thus making them impossible to judge according to categorization. By judging all of the submissions together, without separating them according to discipline and scale, we noticed that the difference between disciplines is not really that great. [...]
Jac de Kok addresses the aspects of the medium of exhibition and discusses the way information is best presented. The first step in organizing an exhibition is to look for exhibitors that fit in the predetermined frameworks of the programme. This process is followed by a discussion in which an inventory is made. [...] The transport of the pieces, time and planning are important aspects, but the outline of the costs often plays the biggest role. The choices made in the design of an exhibition are of essential importance. [...]
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
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