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Architectural Analysis, model 1:33

Dortmunter Wall - p 08, model 1:1000

Canoe pavillion, bachelor project

Graduationn project , model 1:1000

Architectural Engineering, model 1:1

PORTFOLIO architecture / urban design

Martijn Pater

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TU/Eindhoven - graduation project 2014

München Kontinuiert graduation committee:

prof. dipl-ing C. Rapp ir. R.P.J. Roorda dipl-ing. H. Apelt

This research project was part of the graduation studio ‘München (RE) konstruiert‘ at Eindhoven University of Technology and starts of with the collaborative research of the morfological transformation of the city of Munich. It takes the starting points of the late 19th century city plan by Theodor Fischer which has been a determining factor for most of the 20th century development of the city and places these in light of the contemporary city and several theoretical standpoints. Finally it proposes a series of interventions along one of Munichs radial streets aimed at establishing a differentiated sequential experience.

sequence & enclosure A prominent figure in the history of the city of Munich is Theodor Fischer - an architect and urban planner during the late 19th century. His urban city plan for the urban development based on sequences and enclosed spaces were highly influenced by Camillo Sitte’s theories for a ‘city planning based on artistic principles’. The principles seem to be contradicted in his later work on a highrise project at the Sendlinger Torplatz (1920).

Although this highrise no longer follows the established regulations in his urban plan from 1904, it still provided an apropriate answer to that specific urban situation. An apparent paradox - however - still dictated by the same premises as his earlier work. It shows Fischers non-dogmatic approach as he reshaped his own work and theoretical assumptions through critical reflection. His vision for the city of Munich had changed - no longer emphasizing the central position of the Frauenkirche and its dominance in the skyline of the city. His theoretical approach can be related to a framework of 20th century city theories contemplating the fragmented condition of the contemporary European city, ie. Colin Rowes’ Collage City which deals with the problem of enclosure illustrated by the scattering influence of an object-oriented city planning or O.M. Ungers ideas of an Archipelago city which also embodies a definition of the metropolis or a polycentric conglomerate. continuity The project was based on a centralized idea of continuity, both continuity of building types following a Muratorian typo-morfological analysis as well as continuity within a sequential experience based on the theoretical framework. This approach yields an interesting intervention of the urban ‘pallazo’ building type mixed with rural characteristics relating it to the place and its historical significance and responds to the current morfological situation and its tendency for urbanization. Next to that it continues on the same underlying principles of Munichs most prominent urban plan which has dictated most of its twentieth century development: enclosed urban spaces and a continued sequence.

Theodor Fischer (1920) “Vom Fernbild der Stadt heute zu reden, ist freilich fast nur Theorie. Wer nähert sich noch mit dem offenen Wagen, zu Pferd oder zu Fuß einer Stadt?

Durch den Bahnhof und die Kaiserstraße wird der Ankömmling heute eingeführt. Wenn er dann in der Altstadt sich umsieht und künstlerische Wirkungenen entdeckt, so findet er erstaunt wieder Einheiten (..) etwa einen langen übersichtlichen Straßenzug mit dem beherrschenden Turm der Hauptkirche.”

TU/Dortmund - frühjahrsakademie 2014

Dortmunter Wall supervision:

prof. dipl-ing C. Rapp prof. Dr. Silvia Malcovati prof. Max Dudler Dipl.-Ing. Arch. Olaf Schmidt Dipl.-Ing. Arch. Michael Schwartz Dipl.-Ing. Haike Apelt

A two week project of the Frühjahrsakademie at Dortmund University, studying and designing a conceptual intervention for the “Dortmunter Wall”, resulted in a proposition for an intervention of the current urban fabric of the northeast ring. Afterwards the exposition was published in the Dortmunter Kultur.

Instead of considering the ring as a single unity, a series of interventions seemed more appropriate aiming to create several access points towards the inner city as the ring will not be experienced as such for the most part. The northeast intervention reflects the morfological development of this part of the ring, resulting in the current wide street profile and also the loss of a sense of enclosure. The developed concept aims at creating unity in diversity by either strenghtening this spatial enclosure or - at specific city entrance points - opening up spaces (also allowing for highrise accentuation), while responding to current situations. The aim of the concept is spatial coherency rather than unity.

At the moment there is only a single location remaining of the old city walls. The idea was to make the historic city walls again visible in the materialization in the plinth towards the outside in the new added buildings at this location. Towards the outside the ‘ring’ opens at marked city entrances by using the ‘objectin-a-field’ as spatial differentiation.

The highrise marks the space in front as a new city square.

In samenwerking met: Theo van Hoeven en Mark Kanters

TU/Eindhoven - research seminar 2014

MIESinterpretation

The scale model on the left was made as part of the research seminar MIESinterpretation at the Eindhoven University of Technology. The assignment was to (re)interpret several unbuilt works of Mies van der Rohe and to (re)design it based on the limited available information. The model was completely cast in concrete and was shown during the Dutch Design Week ‘13, next to serving as a kick-off for the sixth Concrete Design Competition.

The Concrete Office Building is one of the visionary designs Mies van der Rohe made in the early 1920’s. All that is known about the building is given by a charcoal perspective drawing of the building, a small sketch in a letter and one photograph of a model of the building at the Weimar exhibition of 1923, accompanied by a description of the building in the magazine G: Material zur elementaren Gestaltung.

It was one of three of Mies´ answers to the application of reinforced concrete (and glass) which determined its formal appearance. These projects together show the basis for Mies’ competition entries of the 1930s and his later work, in which also the influence of Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781‐1841) becomes more apparent. Interpreting the two given facades in the sketch and Mies’ text, he must have intented an interior courtyard.

TU/Eindhoven - multidisciplinary project 2012

MIO-project

This project was a multidisciplinary project for the refurbishment of the main building at TU/ Eindhoven. A collaboration among building physics, construction and architecture participants resulted in a renewal of the facades with an added second skin facade with photovoltaic cells on the frames and in the glass panels.

The frame continues on the roof with openable multilayered ETFE-cushions with PV-panels.

The generic facade follows the rigid campus grid and allows for different specific uses of space towards the inside. By removing floorparts or adding mezzanine levels within the existing construction different interactions are created throughout the building with a playful use of spaces.

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TU/Eindhoven - multidisciplinary project 2010

Casa400 Rotterdam

The assignment for this multidisciplinary project was an urban renewal for the current situation of the Schouwburgplein in Rotterdam. The project was a multidisciplinary assignment for several disciplines such as building physics, construction, building management, real estate and architecture / urbanism.

A new building was conceived to redefine the urban space of the square in front of it. In the design the current square was lowered to increase the accessibility of the area and to allow for new walking routes that connect it to Rotterdam Central station and the Westersingel. The intervention of the new building block responds to the change in the urban scale at this specific point in the city on the so called ‘brandgrens’ and provides a link between the small scale housing and the city center. The building block allows for a certain permeability by incorporating a (semi)public passage intersecting the block. It houses a mixture of functions such as a theatre, converence spaces, hotel with restaurant, housing and commercial in the plinth. The hotel follows a ‘casa400’-concept in which hotelrooms are used as student housing during low season. To counteract waterlogging during heavy rain the public square was designed as ‘watersquare’ and green roofing was applied for temporarily storing the water.

TU/Eindhoven - research project 2010

Generative Design

This research project was aimed at exploring computer generated design possibilities. The starting point of the project was based on a personal interest for tree-shaped construction elements and architectural experience. Using Autocad VBA scripting and based on given parameters, several variations of these elements could be generated within any given volume resulting in a variation on Toyo Ito’s ‘Architecture as park’ project. The script used a denotation method of a Lindenmayer system to determine the construction. Finally a scale model of the generated 3D model was materialized using a 3D plotter.

TU/Eindhoven - bachelor design project

Canoe pavillion

The assigment for this design project was to create a canoe pavillion on a chosen location along the Dommel river in Eindhoven. A small pavillion was then designed on the outskirts of Eindhoven near Nuenen.

The basic concept of a pavillion becoming part of its surroundings and providing basic shelter was explored. The concept was to create a relatively basic volume which is lifted above the water and a lower part which becomes part of the surroundings and allows the water to flow through the building and which also allows for fluctuations of the water level. Light enters through a central vide which allows for interaction and also to see people coming in and leaving the pavillion below. The lower spaces are to be used as storage and changing rooms, while the upper spaces provides a meeting place / kantine and a small office.