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Ruud van Gool MSc/Architect/August 2014/ruudvgool@hotmail.com/+4915737935441
please allow me to introduce MYSELF
Ruud van Gool, born in 1987, educated at the Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands, of which I graduated cum laude in Architecture, Building and Planning in March 2014 with my graduation project A Bijlmer Experience which was selected for the Archiprix 2014. Throughout my studies and extracurricular activities I have been working on a broad range of scales and typologies in urban contexts. I consider myself a contextual architect, researching, deriving and designing from the fysical spatial, and the non-fysical social, economic, political and theoretical context. This context of spatial conditions and non-spatial interests then provides the tools with which a spatial intervention can be
Aerial photo Bijlmerdreef, Amsterdam
designed to serve private and public interests. I am also a thorough conceptual designer, I meticuously research and test a concept on the range of scales present to come to a spatially coherent proposition on all scales. My projects which show this approach are for example A Bijlmer Experience, a proposition which connects and redefines the Bijlmermeer neighbourhood with a series of coherent spatial, social and functional interventions. Or the competition winning entry The Wheat Labyrinth which proposes through cheap, temporary interventions which utilise the conditions present to connect the disconnected site with the city-centre on a spatial, social and functional level. This portfolio is a selection of projects to show this approach.
CURRiculum vitae Ruud van gool
Personalia Surname van Gool Name Ruud Address Hobrechtstrasse 10 12043 Berlin Germany Telephone +49 (0) 1573 7935 441 Email ruudvgool@hotmail.com Date of birth 06-07-1987 Place of birth Breda, NL Nationality Dutch BSN 1998.95.685
Education sep 2011- feb 2014 Eindhoven University of Technology, NL Architecture, Building & Planning, Master Cum Laude (with honours) sep 2005 - jul 2012 Eindhoven University of Technology, NL Urban Planning & Architecture, Bachelor sept 1999 - jun 2005 Mgr. Frencken College, NL BĂŠta/Gamma, Secondary school
Extracurriculum oct 2010-jun 2011, 4 hours per week Student project work experience Eindhoven, NL, EDHV Flashville aug 2012-jan 2013, 40 hours per week Internship Berlin, DE, KuehnMalvezzi Architekten Gmbh may 2013-may 2014, 4 hours per week Practice experience studygroup NRE/Picuskade Eindhoven, NL, Studygroup NRE/Picuskade
Aerial photo Berlin, Ritterstrasse
Languages Dutch, mother tongue English, fluent German, fluent French, basic Italian, basic Software Sketchup, Vectorworks, Illustrator, Indesign, excellent Autocad, good Photoshop, good/moderate Archicad, novice
The modernistic grid infrastructure, which was one of the original spatial cohering elements, is now used to bind the different spatial urban fragments by creating a route along which these fragments can be experienced. First, the route is strengthened by creating a continuous spatial element by extending the existing rows of trees Second, the scenes are strengthened by specifically applying these trees per scene in various landscaping methods. Third, the borders of the scenes are strengthened by making interventions which alter the perception of the motorist, and thus makes him more aware of his surroundings. These infrastructural or architectural interventions then provide an interaction point between the motorist and the pedestrian by the program and by extending the spatial experience into the drive-on motel, the drive-in daycare and drive-by club.
Photo from the ´80s which shows the original spatial experience and coherence of the Bijlmer
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4 For my Master’s graduation project I proposed a new, aesthetic way of experiencing the Bijlmermeer by the development of a cinematic route as a cohesive spatial and programmatic element along which I designed a motel, a daycare and a nightclub. The location of the Bijlmermeer is the largest Modernistic development in the Netherlands, which is situated to the southeast of Amsterdam that, like many similar Modernistic plans, had become a ghetto in the ‘80s. In 1992 a large-scale renewal plan was drafted in which more then 50% of the original ten story honeycomb flats was to be demolished and replaced by smaller scale housing Due to this renewal plan the original spatial structure of the Bijlmer has been lost, and I use the new spatial elements to propose a new way of spatially structuring the Bijlmer by embracing its pluriform manifestation as a starting point.Herefo
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A BIJLMER EXPERience, the bijlmerroute Amsterdam
Presentation of graduation projects to the alderman Emile Hirsch and urbanists of Spatial Planning in Amsterdam Zuid-Oost
Corporate
Corporate
Urban
Urban to Suburban
City to Suburban
Slabs next to water
O.G. Bijlmer #2
O.G. Objects Bijlmer in #1 green
City lane
Slabs in park
Objects in green
City lane and Urban
The situation as of august 2013, clearly showing unclear scenes in the highlighted bottom left part of the route
Corporate
Urban
Urban to Suburban
City lane
City to Suburban
Suburban and Villas
Suburban and Villas
Suburban
Suburban
Objects O.G. in Corporate Bijlmer green
Slabs in park
Objects in green and blue
City lane and Urban
The proposal, in which the proposed scenes are carefully spatially staged by strengthening their characteristics and their boundaries
Objects in green and blue
Slabs in park
O.G.Bijlmer
Objects in green
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O.G. Bijlmer
Map and photomontage of different landscaping to define different spatial characteristics of scenes.
Objects in green
Slabs in park
Objecs in green and blue
City lane and Urban (existing)
Nightclub
Daycare
Turboroundabout
Elevation
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Nightclub
Daycare
Turborotonde
Motel and Gooisewegviaduct
Elevation
Map and photomontage of different interventions on the borders which define them by altering the perception of the driver due to either vertical (elevation) or horizontal movement (turborotonde, daycare, nightclub) or vertical and horizontal framing (motel, daycare and nightclub).
Isometric view: volume nightclub
Directions of volume nightclub
Construction, “frame” nightclub
Light, artificial lighting either from side or top
View from recesses showing the transfer of light through the seperating opaque U-glass walls and the compartmentalisation of the recesses
Elevation from entrance stairs showing manifestation of construction and main hall in façade
View from balcony to main room, showing different use and voyeur-position
Elevation from tunnel next to club showing different façades/construction and entrance stairs
Cross section at main room showing different proportions of space
Underground floor, showing different furnishings in the recesses
Cross section at main stairwell into the tower, showing its relationship to the road
Ground floor, showing the surrounding balcony and the main room. Here again different furnishing is used for different spaces and use
Longitudal section at main hall, showing the different lighting and “flow of space” from entrance to tower.
First floor, showing the tower and entrance volume and different façades with different relationships to the surroundings. View from main room to balcony, showing different lighting and construction framework.
Longitudal section at the balcony and recesses showing different spatial characteristics of the two, due to the construction framework
Isometric view: volume daycare
Directions of volume
Construction, “frame� daycare
Ground floor with rhythm of the construction with the classrooms and patios inbetween
View into the series of patios, in which the different colours and reflections make a spectaculair sight
Light from patios alluminates coloured glass
First floor, which shows the doubleheighted classrooms and normalheighted sleeping rooms, and the relationship of the volume with the road, showing the rhythm of the construction to the motorist 1/750
Crosssection at the communal space, showing the play-pit and the faรงade of the road-volume
Crosssection at the patios, showing the different heights within the building and the ratio of open space versus covered space
Longitudal section at the hallway, showing the relationship of the volumes and the motorist
Longitudal section at the sleeping rooms, showing the different heights within the building 1/750
View of classroom and different levels, with a fixed cooking and water position in the back, and stairs which serve as storage on the groundfloor Play of light on the rhythmic planes of construction, providing a surface to reflect the coloured light and alluminate the hallway
Isometric view: volume club
Directions of volume
Construction, “frame� club
Underground floor motel
Ground floor motel
Second floor motel, showing the towers and 90degr. turn of the rooms 1/750 View into one of the patios, in which the different apertures; opaque, clear and open, and the relationship with the car are to be seen
Light, artificial lighting either from side or top
Crosssection at motelroom, showing the relationship of the different levels of the motel
Crosssection at a patio, showing the tower faรงade and faรงade of motelrooms
Crosssection at the tower, showing the lobby and viewing point
View of the rhythm of clear and opaque, light and dark, and planes of construction in the motel hallway
Elevation motel The rythmic construction has an effect on the motorist and is the frame for different kinds of apertures 1/750
Relationship of the hotel guest and the motorist, of whom the guest catches a glimpse as they race by
Longitudal section at the patios, showing the switch in direction of the rooms in the towers and different proportions of spaces 1/750
Fashion department store and fashion museum Amsterdam
The goal of this Masters’ studio was to research a range of typologies to come to a plea of the return of large scale types within inner city fabric, with the Amsterdam city centre as case study. The location is 50m from the Dam square, inbetween the small scale busiest Dutch shopping street Kalverstraat and large scale soon to be part of the Amsterdam Red Carpet, Rokin. The plot is divided by a typical Amsterdam alley, the Papenbroeksteeg. I designed a fashion department store accompanied by a fashion museum, each on either side of the alley, which gradually meet and mix. With the department store aiming to the target group of the shopper on the Kalverstraat, and the museum aiming to the tourist, wandering on the
Rokin. They both profit from each other by appealling to each others visitors and by using their relationship as a unique selling point. I introduced an unusual type to Amsterdam, moving the entrances from the streetfaçades to a court in the widened alley, which now became a passage. The façade was one of the leading themes in the design. The very different conditions on both sides lead to different approaches to the façade and a developing façade from very open (department store) to very closed (museum). With alterations in depth of the brickwork I created a layered and speaking façade.
Impression of the passage from the Rokin to the Kalverstraat, with the department store on the left and the museum on the right,
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The site near the Dam square, with a national palace and the national monument, in the centre of Amsterdam. The existing building and plot is located around an alley connecting the shoppingstreet Kalverstraat and the future “Red Carpet of Amsterdam� Rokin
The strategy of replacing the entrances to a newly introduced court and broadening the alley, elevating it to a passage, thereby creating much more very valuable display room
Return horizontal elements of surrounding buildings on Kalverstraat façade; plinth and roofcrown
Different façades, sense of character and appearance passage
Return vertical elements of surrounding buildings on Rokin façade; plotsize
Progress from a very open to a very closed façade aperture 1/1000
Model Kalverstraatfaçade
Above; Kalverstraatfaçade and below; Rokinfaçade showing different façade styles on each side
Concept of progressive interaction two typologies
Longitudal section at passage
Cross-section at passage showing different storey heights
Ground plan
Plan third floor 1/1000
Model Rokinfaรงade
Cross-section of court showing atrium and cores 1/1000
Flashville Brabantstad
For this extracurricular project at EDHV, architects of identity, a design/communcations firm from Eindhoven, I participated in a project to design a mobile hotel for flashpackers, hypermobile urban professionals. This hotel will possibly be built for Brabantstad European Cultural Capital 2018. Brabantstad is a partnership between the large five cities of the province of Noord-Brabant in the Netherlands. For this project, the client Vrijetijdshuis Brabant, a governmental foundation concerned with leisure, explicitly asked EDHV to involve students. I worked together with EDHV and students from the Design Academy and Industrial Design in Eindhoven and the Art Academy in Utrecht.
My input was mainly very architectural: I researched Archigram on their views on the mobility of man. I did research into using and mixing archetypes as a way of showing identity and made modelstudies into what that could look like. Also, I made diagrams of possible ways of incorporating sustainability in the design. Towards the final product, our input decreased, but my research is still very recognizable in the final product. I enjoyed working with a real client and with the wide range of backgrounds of my “colleagues�.
Photo of the model of the end result*
Research identity-ambitions five cities Brabantstad*
Sketches mixing archetypes
Isometrics sustainable use hotel
Photo of the model of the end result*
Model archetypes and scaffolding
Nieuw Zurenborg Antwerp
For this urban design project I designed an urban plan that incorporates several zones of different housing types, with a strong emphasis on collective and green space. The location is the Antwerp neighbourhood of Zurenborg in the southeast of the inner-ring city, where a big plot of former industrial area became available for housing. The goal of this studio was to investigate housing, the role of the neighbourhood in the city, and its relationship to the nearby highway Ring. The three zones are determined by their respective conditions regarding mostly traffic. The outer zone consists of five-story staircase access flats, shielding the plan of the traffic fumes and noise from the Ring. The middle zone consists of four level appartments on the roadside, and rowhousing on the parkside. The inner zone in the park is made up by solely rowhousing.
Three zones of housing types, with from left to right: rowhousing with private garage, rowhousing and apartments with collective parking garage and staircase access flats with collective parking garage
Each housing cluster is oriented on its collective space, which is seperated from the public space by a small increment in height. This stress on collective space is put to add a sense of community, and to react to the strong border between public and private space in the rest of Zurenborg. Also, the pressure on the public space in the rest of Zurenborg is very high, and the plan relieves that by the abundance of green public space in Nieuw Zurenborg. Parking is situated underneath the building blocks, and the use of public transport is encouraged by providing easy access to the city’s public transport system.
Ring of Antwero with buildings/city observable from the highway in white, and obstructions in red. In light red the location of the project.
Typical cross section of an apartment building near the highway
Cross section of the elevated street with rowhousing of different types
Urban plan Nieuw-Zurenborg showing development of the typologies from “slabs” to “slabs with a head” to “open court” blocks. All internal urban spaces are elevated with parking underneath leaving a large park like area at the disposal of the inhabitants and the inhabitants of the dense Zurenborg neighbourhood north-west of the area
Map of use of public space and traffic and entrances, also showing public transport 1/2 500
Plans of different types of rowhousing: consecutive floors from bottom
Crossection of the elevated street of rowhousing with private parking
Summerhotel / studenthousing Rotterdam
For this multidisciplinary project we designed a building that is fully a hotel in summer and for the greater part student housing in the rest of the seasons, accompanied by a range of added functions. The location is the Rotterdam Schouwburgplein, for which we too made a new square design. The discipline I was responsible for was that of Architecture and Context. The building is to be described as a a plinth reacting to conditions on ground level and a wide tower reacting to conditions on the highrise level, resulting in the characteristic jump in directions of plinth and tower. The atrium crossed with communal floors, which serves a social and climatic purpose, and the vides visible in the façade are distinct features.
Besides the general design I personally worked out the plans and façades for the plinth.The result was a very interlocked and related plan that let different functions profit from each other and their surroundings. I designed a very horizontal façade, to be in contrast with the vertical tower. This horizontality was to be felt in the material (brick), window framing and the direction of openings. Also, to contrast with the lighter, “floating” tower, I used dark-antracite brickwork to stress its connection to the ground.
Impression of communal space in skygarden showing the interior and use of the skycourts*
Montage several perspectives of urban and interior spaces*
Adoptation surrounding block structure
Model building and part of the square
Return of historic Kruiskade
Opening square wall
High-rise
Model urban design, showing urban integration
Turning high-rise to direction other high-rise
Horizontality plinth
Elevation Westersingel/west
Verticality columns Codarts and plot width Westersingel
Increase in height between low blocks and high rise buildings
Verticality faรงade tower
Functions and interior relations
Functions and interior relations
Lobby
Doorgang
Bakker Bart
Restaurant
Fitness
Ingang woningen
Congres
Bioscoop
Longitudal section, showing jumping skycourts*
Paagman
Ingang studenten
Keuken Mensa
Interne relaties
Render showing construction and its superposition on the plinth*
Entrances and exterior relations
Ingang
Entrances and exterior relations
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MACHbarkeitsstudie erweiterung wien museum wien
This study, which I contributed to during my internship at Kuehn Malvezzi Architekten in Berlin, had the aim to investigate the possibilities of an extention of the Wien Museum, the city history museum of Vienna on the historic, planologically and politically difficult Karlsplatz location. The existing Wien Museum was designed by the Wiener architect Oswald Haerdtl, and the only twentieth century museumbuilding of Vienna, showcasing an architectonic aesthetic unusual to the city. With the monumental Karlskirche as the determining factor, urban conditions to which the extention should
comply were formulated and a range of urban forms and scales related to the volume of the requested programmatic additions were investigated and tested with models. This led to three different proposals of possible extentions: Haerdtl 2, Solit채r and Plateau, which were elaborated with impressions, programmatic plans and calculations and urban schemes. The Plateau proposal was favoured by the municipal board and will be used as the blueprint for a future competition.
Impression of a proposed connection of the existing elevated Haerdtl-bau with the Karlsplatz via a plateau, derived from the urban conditions*
Early propositions, of which most were discarded
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Urban conditions: Axis of the Karlskirche accentuated in proposal
Urban conditions: Axis of the French Embassy accentuated in proposal
Modelresearch of later discarded proposition
Haerdtl2 proposal
Plateau-proposal
Solit채r-proposal
Montage Haerdtl2-proposal
Montage Plateau-proposal
Montage Solit채r- proposal*
Public functions within Plateau-proposal
Special exhibition within Plateau-proposal
Permanent exhibition within Plateau-proposal*
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restaurant shop
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foyer kasse
verantstaltung
vermittlung
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garderobe verwaltung
depot
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3805-2 qm Floorplan BGF level NGF 2892 qm
BGF 6529 Floorplan level -1qm NGF 4962 qm
Impression of the Plateau proposition from the Karlskirche*
BGF 2677 qm Floorplan groundlevel NGF 2035 qm
BGF 1872 qm Floorplan +1 NGF 1423 qm
Floorplan BGF +21823 qm NGF 1386 qm
Private/public house Eindhoven Corner points and clandestine passages, The proposition is located on the top of image in red
For this architecture project I designed a single family home with strong tension between the public and the private space. The project is located in a peculiar triangular building block in the south of Eindhoven near the inner city ring. The initial phase was a research of the block itself on an urban level, of which to derive conditions to base your design on. The two other corners of the block were very much accentuated by a volume, so I proposed an appartment building to accentuate the remaining southern corner. Then, another characteristic treat of the block was that it
was (clandestinely) permeable from several sides. I introduced a likewise passage near the proposed appartment building and situated the one family patio house next to it, creating a situation with tension between the public and private. Most design elements are used to cloud the border between public and private, like the use of glass bathroom bricks, the juxtapositioned entrance to the garden, the partial overhang of the first floor and the openness of the volume at the patio, which is partly obscured by the tree.
Patio and passage showing the “play� of the volume and walls with what is private and what is public
Sequence of floors
First floor plan
Ground floor plan 1/400
Cross section through living room and stairs Overhang first floor on the westside, creating tension between the public space and the volume
View from the south-east showing the overhang of the volume, juxtapositioning of the garden wall and the translucent glass bricks creating tension between the public and private
Longitudal section through patio and stairs
Public space between appartment building and house
Longitudal section through living room, looking to the patio
Cross section through bedrooms 1/400
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The wheat labyrinth ‘s HERTOGENbosch
The main design philosophy is to create, by minimal interventions, conditions for developments by using the specific spatial qualities of the De Heus grounds and its factory buildings.
Secondly, we connect this route with the factory ensemble by the creation of the Wheat Labyrinth, a route through the factory buildings along the path of the former production process. Hereby connecting the spatial and functional potentiality of the array of spaces inside the factory. This will be a path of urban exploring, unconsciously making the visitor aware of the history of the terrain. This history and spatial quality will also be displayed outward, by strategically stripping the hull of silos, showing the history of the site.
Firstly we, connect the factory grounds with the city centre by elonging a possible recreation route along the Binnendieze canal along the embankments of the factory grounds. This is done by connecting the Binnendiezebrug with pedastrian stairs to the city centre and the factory grounds.
Thirdly, these spaces will then inhabited by an array of functions which can use the now accessable spatial qualities of the factories. These functions, cultural, commercial or recreational will add a functional liveliness to the area making the De Heus grounds a unique experience.
For the 24UP, the twenty-four hour student design competition, the brief was to come up with ideas to revitalise the, recently opened for the public, former wheat processing factory terrain of “De Heus” in de province of Noord-Brabant capitol of ‘s Hertogenbosch.
Impression of the route seen from one of the vantage points along it. The scaffolding platform erected as entrance to the building ensemble can be seen on the left, the opened walking bridge exposing the structure in the center bottom.
The dead-ended route along the Binnendieze at the Binnendiezebridge. In black is shown the citadel, in red the factory grounds
Strategically stripping the faรงades to show the history and former function of the wheat factory, in this case the silos.
On the left the scaffolding stairs to connect the lavender recreational route along the Binnendieze with the inner city and the factory grounds and on the right the scaffolding stairs connecting the fuchsia internal wheat labyrinth with the earlier mentioned recreational route are shown.
Award Ceremony during the BAI Night From left tot right: alderman Geert Snijders, me and Jasper Massink
Image of the model, showing part of the embankment with the faรงades of the characteristic walking bridge stripped and one of the silos pierced to enhance the spatial experience. In the right silo a scaffolding stair is erected, making the ensemble accessable from the north*
Impression of the simple connection by scaffolding stairs to the Binnendieze-bridge from the embankment, creating a recreative route along the Dieze-canal
View from the Binnendieze-bridge looking onto the scaffolding stairs and pier connecting the city with the former factory grounds and buildings
An impression of the factory grounds by night, showing the route guided by light, acting as a guide inside and a beacon on the outside. This light route is also an extention of the route along the Binnendieze, which is alluminated by street lights.
Impression of one of the walking bridges connecting the different buildings from the ensemble. The top of the corrogated iron faรงade has been cut away creating a great vantage point towards the city, the canal and the rest of the factory buildings. To the top right of the image the machinery of the wheat processing route is seen.
Ruud van Gool MSc/Architect/August 2014/ruudvgool@hotmail.com/+4915737935441