portfolio
jan gerits
introduction
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about me
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art building | von-kluck-bunker
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whine pavillion | zollhafen mainz
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raum ver rĂźckt
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analysis | linked hybrid | steven holl
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cardboard interface
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architecture photography
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about me
name: nationality: born: adress: phone: programs:
jan peter gerits german 15.03.1994 scharnhorststr.3 48151 mĂźnster +4915785052088
In the following pages i will give a little overview of the projects i did up to this day. The projects do not only represent the work I did in my studies but also my understanding of architecture. Architecture is diversity - and that is what I love about it. From the smallest details to a city wide scale - everything is architecture. And in my projects I tried to grasp at least a few of the many facettes. Whether building up a project from a virtually philosophic thought or creating space in form of mathematical rules. Every new project gives us new ways to look at a project and every building we plan is unique. I tried to give this impression in the following works. From hands on trial and error projects to extensive urban analyses. All the works you will see now are totally different but are significant parts of my architectural understanding.
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2012 st. andrews summer school film + youth leadership
2007 copenhagen year abroad st. petri skole 2011 cambridge summer school photography + english
2014 - 16 mĂźnster msa architecture 2005 - 13 bonn e m a gymnasium
2013 europe trip 94 days
art building | von-kluck-bunker
exhibition room
In this project I had the task to transform an old bunker from WWII into an meeting place for artists and art lovers. The room programme was developed in a series of mathemtical and geometrical studies. Different operators applied on an initial space led to a complex conglomerate of rooms. Each of those rooms is unique and has a special function. This conglomerate of strategically arranged spaces stands in a harsh contrast to the existing context.
shell
consisted floors
gallery circuit
lightwells
public
studios
In my concept this conflict is made visible in the inside of the building. Existing walls are rough concrete and the new walls are plastered.
mathematical + geometrical studies
The bunker is located in the context of a school. On two sides the distance between those two buildings is less than 5 meters. This fact demands a very careful placing of openings. There are only two large windows, which allow a certain connection between those two buildings. The light for the rooms comes from light wells, which are also generated with the same system used for the rooms. The light wells not only have the purpose to bring light in the rooms but they also structure the building on the inside. The material is translucent so they allow a light connection but not a sight connection.
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whine pavillion | zollhafen mainz
The Zollhafen in Mainz is an upcoming area located directly at the Rhine. My task was to design a whine pavillion on the end of a land tounge. In the design process I develeloped a concept which was based on the dissolution along the water promenade. The construction of the pavillion was developed on a grid of cross columns. Independent from that, the facade slowly dissolves in the direction of the Rhine. In the inside of the pavillion is a seperate concrete cube housing the functional rooms like a little kitchen, storage and the restrooms. The rest of the space is open and caneasily be easily shaped by chairs and tables.
The construcion of the pavillion is planned out in detail regarding the possibility of prefabricating most of the elements and a quick and easy on site building process. The area of the Zollhafen was characterized by industrial buildings. Some of them were restored and give the place a very industrial charme. The pavillion blends into this atmosphere with its rough materials. For the facade and the columns hot rolled steel is used. The open contact with the steel connections amplifies the rough look of the building.
explosion
floorplan
As a solution for the shading on the outside a perforated trapezoidal sheet is used which also works as an acoustic seeling on the inside.
view south
view west
view east
The name of this project is „raum ver rückt“. „verrückt“ means either „crazy“ or „to shift sth.“ With those two words I can easily explain what the project is about. I had to find out where the boundaries between private and public are. In my studies it occurred very fast that there isn‘t any precise border but that you can find many crazy situations where privacy and publicity overlap. My first approach was to find the most abstract way to create privacy. With two frames covering my face and my private parts i found the most profound way of space creating privacy. Those frames were multiplied and arranged in a grid so i could create more situations to fathom where publicity ends and privacy starts. By shifting the frames I could create everyday situations, like lying i a bed, but also crazy situations, where the bed is moved outside of its secure space into publicity.
raum ver rückt
The dimensions of the frames are based on foregoing body studies in which i found out what space you need for certain actions.
the most abstract way of a privat room is hiding the private parts from peoples eyes
sitting on a chair
sitting on a bench
lying in a bed
where is the line between sitting in the private room or sitting outside in the public?
body studies
is a bench which is raised above the public life a private space?
two people interacting in a crazy situation. are they private? are they public?
the most private space. even though public life takes place just above your head?
the most abstract way of creating privacy. would you private?
where is the line between lying in a private bed and lying on a public bench?
is a bed raised above the public still a bed? or just a bench?
is a room, where two people look into each other eyes but there is no other interaction possible, public or private?
analysis | linked hybrid | steven holl
The task was to analyse Steven Holl‘s Linked Hybrid. Even though we didn‘t have to propose an own design in that course we learned a lot about urbanism. The mehtods for analyzing in two dimensions but also in three were very interesting and could be referred to any other project. But the most important lesson we learned was - always keep the culture in mind you build for. Linked Hybrid seems like a very open and social project and would act like such in Europe. But in China, where it is actually located, it has a very introvert character and fences itself of from the outer world. This can be led all the way back to the chinese quadrangles from the past where social life also happend in a secure inner space.
vor 1950: Traditionelle Hofhäuser und schmale Gassen _Individuelle Vielfalt durch verschiedene Bevölkerungsschichten _Vermischung von privatem und öffentlichen Raum
before 1950:
ab 1950: Abriss traditioneller Bauten, Neubau von anonymen Wohntürmen
ab ca. 2000: Überdachte Wohntypologien "Stadt in der Stadt" _Verknüpfung von privaten und öffentlichen Bereichen _Sanierung von Bestandsgebäuden _gesteigerte Wohnqualität - teures Wohnen _Berücksichtigung des Umweltaspekts _Verdrängung der Mittel- und Unterschicht an den Stadtrand
after 1950:
after 2000:
traditional
high rise -
more experimental -
quadrangles
high density
hybrids
_zur Kompensation des rasanten Bevölkerungsanstiegs _schlechte technische Ausrüstung der Gebäude _keine Wohnqualität _Massenbehausung
cardboard interface Our task was create an interface out of cardboard. The first things that came to our mind were chairs, loungers and beds. But soon we started to realize that an interface could be much more than that. We developed a new image of our task and defined that an interface is something that elevates the body from the ground. This means that an interface has the simple but important purpose to create a space between the body and the floor. While doing that it doesn‘t necessarily has
to have the well known forms
cardboard interface
of chairs and loungers we see in our everyday life. This brought us to an more conceptional way of dealing with our task and made us rethink the way we lie, sit and rest.
The interface doesn‘t work like a normal chair on which you can sit or lie down. It is an extension to the body itself. It adds the possibility to lie and sit down where ever we want without harming the mobility and flexibility of the body itself. Additionally it is based on modules which can be added or withdrawn just how the user needs it.
architecture photography
seagram building | new york
louisiana | copenhagen
boros bunker | berlin
bundeskunsthalle | bonn
fire station - vitra campus | weil am rhein