Architecture portfolio

PORTFOLIO RAVEN KLUIJFHOUT

Content Personal information Personal Note 2 Curriculum Vitea

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Work Senior homes 4 Asster 16 Student house 24

Academic University Library

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Primary School ‘t Landje

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Birth Hotel 54 Indesem/11 60

Contact

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Personal Note Text: Architecture to me is creating the conditions for live, culture and human activity; always out of the perceptual perspective of the user.

Architecture that has a strong relation to it’s context in a physical, historical and programmatical sense.

Architecture with an eye for detail, a poetic use of materials and a tectonic use of construction, that leads to something that triggers your fantasy and imagination.

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Name: Raven Kluijfhout Date of birth: 06/07/1986

2012:

2011 Lecturer at 10 for 10

Architecture faculty, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Languages: Dutch: native speaker

English: Good

German/ Spanish/ French:

Basic skills.

Adress: Rodestraat 39, 1501

2000, Antwerpen (BE) Phone: +31 (0) 634197289

+32 (0) 486892557 Email: raven.kluijfhout@gmail.com

Education 2012: Msc degree Architecture.

Technical University Delft,

the Netherlands.

2010: Bsc degree Architecture.

Technical University Delft,

the Netherlands.

2009: Arquitectura.

ETSAB, Barcelona, Spain

OSAR Antwerp, Belgium.

Junior architect: Competitions, Aquisition, building permits, tender procedures, construction site, etc.

2011: Indesem/11

International design seminar, Delft,

the Netherlands, theme develop

ment, organisation, participant coordinator.

2010: Drost en van Veen architecten.

Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Internship: Design, planning, competition

2009:

Casa Barcelona Competiton in collaboration with Mies van der Rohe funda tion, Barcelona, Spain

Language courses:

Spanisch Intermedio B1, 2009,

Barcelona, Spain.

Spanisch Basic, 2007, TU Delft, the Netherlands.

Software: Vectorworks (2014), Autodesk Maya, AutoCad, Adobe Suit CS 5, Office, Mental Ray rendering.

Mac OSX and Windows.

Portuguese Basic, 2006, Arajal d’ Ajuda, Brazil.

Modeling techniques: Experience with lasercutting and cnc milling

Interests: Travelling, Art, Electronic music,

Surfing, Snowboarding, Biking.

Tools

Interests

2005: VWO diploma.

Vrije school de Berkel, Zutphen, the Netherlands

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Senior Homes Project phase: Preliminary design, building permit, tender procedure.

Type: Dwelling (for elderly), Restaurant, Wellness Location: Waregem, Belgium Size: 8000 sm Date: 2012 - 2014 Office: Osar architecten

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Text: On the former “sofinal� site in Waregem (BE) two new volumes are created, that together hold 131 assistantappartments, a bar/ restaurant and a wellness.

The current morfology of the site is messy and unstructured. The new volumes refer to the neighbouring building, a historic warehouse building with a very longitudinal

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Images: 01 Site plan. New volumes in relation to warehouse building 02 Birdseye perspective onto the site 03 Neighbouring historic warehouse 04 South facade 4

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Text: A distance of 40m. is respected towards the historic warehouse building. In between this building and the new volumes a parkish landscape is created with fruittrees and a petanque court.

De longitudinal blocks vary in height from 2-4 layers. The inner area between the two blocks is 1m. lowered, this is the level where one enters the building. The buildings are connected by an underground parking.

The central cafetaria has a generous grand-cafe like feel because of its 7m. high ceiling. On top of the cafetaria a Wellness is created where one could enter the large communal roofterrace.

Images: 05 Ground floor plan 06 Birdseye perspective 07 View from the Molenstraat 08 Section A 09 Section B 6

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Text: The 100 and 120m. long facades are cut-up in a gridlike brick structure. The balcony’s form a horizontal slab, that emphasize the lenth of the building(s).

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Images: 10 Balcony detail 11 Facade study models 12 North elevation block B 13 South elevation block B 8

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Text: The materials used in the facade: brick, steel, anodised aluminium and concrete have a rather industrial association while on the inside softer materials like wood, linoleum and plaster are applied.

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Images: 14 Brick sample 15 Axonometric study drawing of the facade 16 Model of typical appartment 17 Model of typical appartment 18 Model of typical appartment top view

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Text: There are five different types of appartments all with a general terrace and wheelchair accesible living, sleeping and bath rooms.

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Images: 19 Plan appartment A 20 Plan appartment B 21 Plan appartment C 22 Plan appartment D 23 Plan appartment E 24 Apartment, impression

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Images: 25 Cross section Cafe/ Restaurant.

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Asster/ sirius Project phase: Masterplan, Preliminary design Type: Psychiatric hospital for elderly Location: Sint Truiden, Belgium Size: 4800 sm Date: 2014 Office: Osar architecten

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Text: The domain of the Melveren campus (part of the psychiatric hospital: Asster in St. Truiden) is beautifully located in the middle of a ”haspengouws” landscape with naturally glowing hills and fruit trees.

The organization of an up to date psychiatric hospital forms a great challenge. The current infrastructure and different buildings on site are designed out of a functional perspective. Because of a changing care-plan and a different perspective on psychiatric treatment in general, this infrastructure is no longer Images: 01 Typical ‘hoeve’ near St. truiden 02 Typical ‘hoeve’ near St. truiden 03 Ferraris map of Melveren and around 04 Birdseye view on the new masterplan for campus melveren 05 Top view 03

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The new master plan wants to embrace the surrounding landscape. In different stages new buildings will replace all current ones.

Today the campus doesn’t have a face to the outside world. Therefore a central square is proposed. This place is visible from the street and connects a new bicycle route. Around this central square the more public functions of the campus like: shop, library, laundry, restaurant and some other facilitating functions are located.

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By making the buildings more compact, there’s a functional and environmental advantage and best of all a great part of the site will become outside space that connects with the surrounding landscape.

It is important that all buildings are designed in a flexible way in order to be able to adapt them to future care and/ or organizational developments.

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Text: Within the Melveren campus there are different units. Sirius consists of 4 units especially for elderly people. The new Sirius building is a combination of two current buildings that house the Sirius units today.

The program consists of 60 beds with all the supporting functions. Also a daycare center, a consultation center, special therapy and sport rooms are requested.

Patients will stay for a maximum period of three months in the hospital. After that they’ll go to the day-cre unit if necissary.

The concept of the building is based on a for this area typical farm building where different buildings are connected around a central courtyard. On the ferraris map it is already visible that this typology was present around on and around our site.

The aim of the building is to create 8 different groups of 7-8 patient rooms.

Images: 06 Masterplan Asster, campus Melveren 07 Concept 08 section scetch 04 Concept model top 05 Concept model birdseye view.

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Text: These groups have there own living room, kitchen and other facilities in order to function independently and have a small scale residential feeling instead of a large institutionalized hospital character. A chain of small buildings is organized around the courtyard in such a way that different outside spaces are created. These outside spaces create layers of public and private spaces. The open or closedness of these spaces can be defined by the status of the patients staying in a particular unit.

The living groups have different areas for eating, therapy and relaxing all within a larger central area that connects the rooms.

This central area is bordered by four rooms on each side. Four rooms look out onto the fields, the other four rooms have a view on the central courtyard. By connecting the rooms directly to the living areas there are hardly any hallways.

Images: 11 Plan, groundfloor 12 Series of sections

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Text: Therefore the patient will be quicker attracted to take part in a common activity or therapy session. By grouping the rooms in clusters of four it is also possible to work in smaller groups.

The idea of working in and with the landscape can be found in the different types of outside spaces and (covered) terraces/ winter gardens.

The patient rooms are big enough to allow a hospital position of the bed, or if the patient is in a somewhat better state, to create a small seating area.

Images: 13 Plan of a typical room 14 Reference room: R. Piano, Ronchamps, France 15 Reference for wintergarden.

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Student house Project phase: Tender procedure Type: Dwelling, group living Location: Antwerpen, Belgium Size: 450 sm Date: 2014 Office: Osar architecten Text: This typical flemish appartment building is transformed into a house for students.

Each floor holds two smaller rooms, one larger room, a communal kitchen and bathroom. On groundfloor a communal patio is created.

In this project I measured and drew the current state of the building, examined which (structural) elements should be replaced in theconversion process and worked on drawings and calculations during the tender procedure.

Images: 01Street view 02 Plans basement, groundfloor, first floor 24

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Images: 03 Plans second floor, third floor, roof 04 Kitchen impression 05 Patio/ garden impression

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Images: 06 Elevation street facade, cross section 07 Kitchen 08 Student room 28

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University library Project: Msc Graduation Type: University library Location: , Amsterdam, NL Size: 14000 sm Date: 2011 - 2012 Text: The new University library Amsterdam provides studyspaces for students of the UvA and the HvA. It’s the center of academic life, a central meeting place. An autonomous city within a city with a very public interior.

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Image: 01 Perspective from the spinoza straat

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Text:The site is bordered by the ‘Sarphatistraat’ on the north side, one of the aorta’s of the inner city of Amsterdam and the ‘Singel’ , the most outer canal of the city centre, on the south side. Historically the Single formed the outer periphery of the city around the city wall for over 200 years. The clear distinction between the city and the

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lands disappeared after the removal of this city wall. But up till today one can recognize a clear difference in the very urban character of the Sarphatstraat and the quite character of the Singel banks and the beautiful Spinozastraat, almost unique in a busy city centre. The Architecture of the building enhances these different qualities the site

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has to offer and stimulates the movement trough the site. Three main outside spaces are created. A quite square on the Singel side, an internal square that sets up the entrance of the building and a third square on the Sarphatistraat side. These three squares are connected by a public route.

Images: 01 Site plan in relation to Universities 02 South elevation 03 Amsterdam around 1900 with citywall 04 19th century view on location 05 Birdseye view 06 Groundfloor plan 32

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Text: The building has a closed and almost fortress like appearance. The facades are build up out of a concrete plinth and masonry. The red color of the brickwork stands out in the Sarphatistraat, but fits in there material-wise. The building has a pretty open plinth to prevent a total close off from it’s direct environment. Above this plinth large closed surfaces of brickwork give the different volumes a heavy feeling. This appearance refers to the old factories, brewery and diamond polisher-buildings that used to be in this area of the 19th century Amster07

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contribute to the idea of a city within a city.

With its own autonomous interior logic.

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Images: 07 Perspective on singel-side square 08 Street perspective, Sarphatistraat 09 Perspective on Sarpati-side square 34

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Text: The interior organization is set up around one central space: the central void. This space sets up the entrance of the building and is the intersection of the public realm of the city and the public interior of the building. The section reveals that the character of this central void is emphasized by the surrounding study cells all orientated and outlooking towards the center. Creating the sense of a theatre where there will be a visual connection between those who enter the building and those who are already in there working, studying, reading.

The paradox of a central empty space as being the center of activity and the starting point of the movement of the user going from the inner center of the building towards the outer volumes, crossing the center every time again plays a key role in understanding the building.

Images: 10 Axo ‘central part’ 11 View on central void 36

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Text: The building is split up in three main parts: A central part, A library part and a study center part. The central part has, on groundfloor an informationdesk on one side of the void and a restaurant on the other.

Furthermore the mediatheque, the surrounding studycells and a number of groupstudy rooms are located here. The library part revolves around the central three storey high reading room. The studycenter part is build up out of two lecture rooms and a number

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of study rooms.

The first and second floor are the most importent in terms of connecting all the different parts.

Images: 12 First floor 13 Section A ‘central part’ 14 Second floor 15 Third floor 16 Fourth floor 17 Fifth floor 18 Section B ‘library part’ 19 Section C ‘Studycenter part’ 38

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Text: In order to have these closed exterior volumes brick screens are applied, letting the light into the building but still maintaining this introvert feeling. These perforated screens on the other hand also give an idea of thinness emphasizing that the brickwork is just a skin around the concrete load-bearing structure.

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Images: 20 Section of facade 21 Facade detail 22 Axo technical buildup 23 Detail concrete plinth 24 Detail brick screen 40

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Text: While the volumes are very clearly defined on the outside the interior space is more of a continues quasi urban experience. Each volume has it’s own load-bearing structure, but instead of the brick screens that cover this structure on the outside, the load-bearing columns and beams of in-situ board-marked concrete are very present on the inside of the building.

Images: 25 Restaurant with view towards the Singel 26 Study room 27 Studyroom with view towards university 42

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Images: 28 Lecture room 29 Reading room 44

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‘t Landje Project: Academic design project Type: Primary school Location: Vasteland, Rotterdam, NL Size: 4000 sm Date: 2011 Text: Primary school ‘t landje consists of 20 classrooms, 2 gymnastic rooms, a communal room for plays and get-togethers, a teachers room, a kitchen and an arts and crafts room. The school has a kindergarten and and two classes of each group.

The location is in the heart of Rotterdam between the eye hospital and a church and close to the Witte the with straat. The square ‘t landje’ in front of the location is one big playground and is surrounded by more schools.

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Text: The building is shaped in such a way that, for safety and noise reduction reasons, it closes of the somewhat busier Schiedamsevest on one side and the eye hospital on the other. Together with the existing church a schoolyard is created on the South-east side of the building which is open towards the more quiet backstreet. The front facade continues the line of the eye hospital and therefore clearly defines ‘t landje as a square.

The gymnastic rooms on the upper floors are normative for the mass of the building. On groundlevel the bikestorage is covered by an elevated square.

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Images: 03 Street perspective 04 East elevation in relation to the church 05 Birdseye perspective: school and yard 48

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Text: The classrooms are organized in such a way that they jump from one facade to the other. In between the classrooms a dynamic open space comes to existence. The classrooms are devided by ‘service blocks’ with toilets, wardrobes, sinks, storage and workspaces and big openable sliding doors, therefore the classrooms can be extended onto the hallway. A grid of sightlines

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is layed over the floorplans to provide an overview for the teachers. To guarantee an efficient routing there are four elevation points. Vertical clusters of the same groups and ages are therefore created, horizontally

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Image: 06 Classrooms in relation to flexible space 07 Vertical compartments 08 Perspective on hallway 09 Perspective on groundfloor entrance 10 Typical floor 11 View on patio 50

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Text: All the climatological issues are solved in the facade. Each classroom has its own ventilation/ heating/ cooling system which is based on the amount of oxygen and temperature in the classroom. Windows are therefore openable. The external sunshading panels prevent to much heat coming into the building and give a varied and playful image in a furthermore very formal facade.

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Birth Hotel Project: Bsc diploma project Type: Birth Hotel Location: Vasteland, Rotterdam, NL Size: 1500 sm Date: 2009 Text: The new Birth Hotel is located in the centre of Rotterdam on the Schiedamsevest, close to the well-known Witte de Withstraat.

The Birth Hotel offers rooms for pregnant woman that are about to give birth, but don’t have a stable home. The Birth-Hotel offers maternity care, a communal room for pregnancy gymnastics, space to receive visitors, a roof terrace and 20 spatial hotel rooms in a protected and clean environment. The Birth Hotel also fosters office spaces for the maternity-care Rotterdam organization.

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Text: The Hotel is part of a newly build building in which also, on the first and second floor, a conventional hotel is located.

The Birth-Hotel will be realized on the top two floors of the building.

Urbanistically the building ends a city block. The plinth is set back and provide spaces for shops and small restaurants. The entrance of the Birth Hotel is on the ‘back’ side of this block where more room is for cars and ambulances. The Hotel rooms are grouped around a central patio. The hallways are almost monastery like focussed on the inside, creating a quiet and serene atmosphere. The communal room bridges

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the patio in the middle, creating two smaller patios.

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Text: The program of the building is devided in three clusters. A central part, a maternity part and a hotel part. The central part where one enters, has an information desk and a large communal area that forms the spill of the building. The nurse room is on top of this area provides an overview over almost all the hotel rooms. The maternity part, also next to the entrance has two maternity rooms, a small office and a meeting room. The Hotel rooms cover the whole south-west wing of the building. All hotel rooms are separated in an indirect way from the communal part. Giving a feeling of ‘togheterness’ and safety.

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Indesem/11 Project: Symposium | Workshop Location: TU Delft, NL Date: 13-21 May 2011

spect to the digitalized network society and the necessary shifts in practice and thinking when designing in this changing paradigm, with special emphasis on the potency to redefine our public spaces.

Text: (International Design Seminar) is an

Speakers / tutors amongst others were Neil

architectural event that takes place every

Leach, Peter Cook, Marcos Novak, Saskia

two years at the faculty of architecture in

Sassen, Herman Hertzberger, Daan Roose-

Delft, The Netherlands. It is a week long

gaarde and Kas Oosterhuis.

workshop for students and recent graduates, accompanied by a publicly accessible

In a commitee of six full-time members we

lecture series featuring renowned architects

worked a half year to realise the 2011

and theorists reflecting on the current theme.

edition. Together we worked on theme development and workshop assignment.

The organistaion of Indesem goes back as

My personal task was directed to the com-

far as 1962 when it was first initiated by

munication with participants and Public

Herman Herzberger. Since then interna-

Relations.

tionally acclaimed architects such as Aldo van Eijck, Rem Koolhaas, Ben van Berkel, Jean Nouvel, Renzo Piano, Winy Maas and theorists like Saskia Sassen, Bruno Taut, Anthony Vidler and Michael Speaks among others, lectured at different editions of Indesem.

The 2011 edition of Indesem focussed on the theme ‘Losing ground’; the changing position of architect and architecture with re60

Images: 01 Workshop in full swing 02 Herman Hertzberger lecturing 01

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Contact Address: Rodestraat 39, bus 1501, 2000, Antwerpen, Belgie

Phone: +32 (0) 486 89 25 57 Email: raven.kluijfhout@gmail.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ravenkluijfhout/59/216/a20

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