Sven van Oosten Portfolio Urban planning & design
Resume Personal information:
Education:
Van Hasseltlaan 686 2625 JS Delft
Master of Science with distinction Architecture, Urbanism & Building sciences Major: Urbanism Delft University of Technology
Adres:
Telephone nr: +31630643766
Details:
Date of birth: 25-02-1987 Place of birth: Gouda Nationality: Dutch
E-mail: svenvanoosten@hotmail.com
Jun 2011
Nov 2010
Bachelor of Science Architecture, Urbanism & Building Sciences Delft University of Technology,
July 2009
IFoU Summerschool Metropolises in transformation: the Randstad challenge
Experience:
2006 – 2011 (present)
Guide + Workshop facilitator, NAI (Netherlands architecture institute)
May 2010 – Feb 2011
Student assistant, Chair of landscape architecture, Delft University of Technology. Cover illustration: Imaginative drawing of a city, produced around may 2000, by Author.
Sept 2008 - Jan 2009 (Parttime) Feb 2009 – July 2009 (fulltime)
Treasurer / Organizing committee Indesem (international design seminar 2009), In cooperation with: Delft University of Technology & Stylos (study association).
Sept 2008 – Feb 2009
Trainee Urban designer + landscape architect, Palmbout urban landscapes
Overseas experience: May/Jun 2010
‘Globalisation; Research on the urban impact’ Argentina, Buenos Aires. 15 ects Masterscourse with on site research & collaboration with local university; participant. TU Delft University of Technology & Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo.
Aug 2006
‘Behind the image’ China, Beijing + Shanghai. 1 month Studytrip + research; participant. Stylos (study association of the faculty of architecture, TU Delft)
Languages:
Dutch (Native) English (Proficient)
Software:
Proficient: - Adobe: Acrobat, Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop, Premiere Pro (CS5) - Google sketch-up (8) - Microsoft Office Intermediate skill level: - Autodesk: Autocad / AutocadMap 3D, Maya
Interests This portfolio shows my work as urbanism student, at the Delft University of Technology, from the period of 2009-2011 As an introduction to my work I would like to introduce my personal interests related to the field of urban planning and design and thereby position myself within the professional field. I will do this by means of three themes:
Urbanization & Assignments for the urbanized landscape
Due to rapid urbanization our built environment is expanding into large urbanized landscapes where the line between city and countryside has become increasingly diffuse. The variety of urban realms that have emerged within these urbanized landscapes will bring a range of (new) assignments for future architects, urban planners and landscape architects. Sprawling municipal industrial areas, monotonous residential communities and the role of infrastructure in the spatial organization of the urbanized landscape should not longer be accepted unquestioningly.
Strategic design
The driving force behind a good project is unmistakably the role of the spatial strategy in relation to the design. A clear strategic concept should allow different actors easily to be involved in the design process. In addition the angle of an academic approach can be of value in the development of a spatial strategy and build a bridge between research and practice.
Context & Historical stratification
Based upon critical analysis of the context, opportunities can be raised for a spatial transformation that takes into account historical stratification and spatial quality of the urbanized landscape. A continuation of this historical spatial stratification, as a provider of local identity, should be seen as a challenge for designers in an age of increasing globalization.
The Land/in/between A4 Vlietzone, The Hague
Date: Fall 2010 - Spring 2011 Context: Thesis project, TU Delft Department: Urbanism Chair: Urban design / Landscape architecture Prize: TU Delft, Archiprix selection 2011. Keywords: Urban Fringe, Flowscapes, Urban Morphology, Metropolitan form, Design experiment Introduction: The A4/ Vlietzone is both literally
and by figure of speech a space in-between. Located between the Vliet and the A4 highway, this multifunctional area has gradually given way to impoverishment. Once a cultivated place in the countryside, where a multitude of country estates flourished, now a marginal place along the big bundle of spaghetti that is called the A4 junction, Ypenburg.
Approach / Method: Through the case of the A4
Vlietzone, The graduation project addresses the Inherent qualities of the Urban fringe within strongly urbanized contexts and focusses on the way infrastructure often has been imposed on these fringe landscapes. By means of a design experiment the opportunities for a transformation of the Vlietzone have been defined in three spatial models, reflecting on a different treatment of infrastructure, program and landscape.
Outcome: Through the design experiment, the project provides a guide for action, stressing the analogy of the interventions proposed in the 3 models: - Provide legibility of the urban landscape through cultural historical identity and landscape grain. - Improve the spatial organization of the area through improved permeability and connectivity of the area and focus on the development of a distinctive road-allotment relationship.
Evolution of the site, reading up.
Local spatial elements
Vlietscape
International zone
A4/Parkway
The context of the three models, of Vlietscape, International zone and A4/Parkway, shows the potential to activate the site of the Vlietzone in the larger structures of waterways, national highway networks and (public) transportation systems on the scale of the city region.
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The model of the Vlietscape: uses the current isolated character of the area to exploit this as a quality, establishing a strong contrast between urban and rural land-uses within urbanised areas. The model uses the water network as a carrier for the development of a ‘slow’zone, focussed on urban agriculture, energy production and leisure, spatially organized by the countryestates & polderstructure.
Public rest area
Ditch
Reet
Ditch
Robinho park
Ditch
Willow forestry
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Waternetwork
Boezem
20m
Design experiment International zone
500m
N
Model 2 explores the opportunity to create a new urban district, integrating the Vlietzone within the existing urban fabric. That also allows connections to be made with the isolated residential (vinex) extension areas and the city’s central zone. And promoting the extension of the Hagues international activities around the landscape coulisse.
252m
Rijkswaterstaat zone
Int. Ring
International Institutes
100 m
60m
100 m
Office - estates
A4
Sportszone
Ypenburg residentialzone
20m
Design experiment A4 Parkway
500m
100 m
Vliet
Vlietzone - Slow movement : - Childrens farm // Allotmentgardens
N
The third model takes a more radical and less biased stance in discussions on urban rural dichotomy. Instead of categorizing infrastructure as a boundary of the urban fringe, the Parkway model introduces a qualitative infrastructural landscape that actively engages both urban program and landscape features. The case of the Vlietzone illustrates the harmonious merger and potential of linear structures in the urbanized landscape.
120m
Residential zone
Infrastructurezone - Sportsfields, accomodations // light industrial developments // retail
20m
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500m
500m
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500m
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500m
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Generic principles Together the models clearly illustrate the complex assignment that exists for an urban fringe transformation, such as the Vlietzone. Ultimately the project does not intend one model or a joint model to be implemented - likely adding up to a range of already existing spatial claims. What the project does intend to offer is a number of spatial interventions that are recommended to improve the spatial organisation of the fringe These recommendation address the inherent problematics of the urban fringe and regardless from the programmatic infill, could be picked up in other contexts as well.
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Cultural heritage Charloise lagedijk
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industrial heritage Havenspoorpad
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A15
A15 Rotterdam
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Railway 100
Cultural heritage / Haarlemmertrekvaart
N200
Brettenzone Amsterdam
Cultural heritage / Old Rhine
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A44 Leiden
A44
Jan van Gooyen Anno 2020 representation of the Vlietscape model
Creating places for growth Creative cluster development, Buenos Aires
Date: Spring 2010 Context: Globalisation - Elective course, TU Delft, Joint program with: University of Buenos Aires FADU, municipality of Avellaneda, municipality of Buenos Aires. Chair: Spatial planning & Strategies In cooperation with: Hanne van den Berg, Vytas Buinevicius, Karolina Konecka, Martine Tragter, Yu Zhang, Yuli Zhou Summary: Introduction: In the context of the globalization
course, by means of a lecture series, students were given insight into globalization processes and their spatial consequences in developing countries. Through joint analysis, the socio-spatial segregation, throughout the larger metropolitan region of Buenos Aires has been defined as the main problematic, having major affects on the case study area of the polluted Mantanza Riachuelo river basin. Approach: The Project proposes a strategic development of (production) clusters, from the potentialities provided through local identity & facilities already present in the districts along the river basin. By this means the project intends not only for the development of centralities within the formal larger metropolitan networks, but especially providing new opportunities for underprivileged social groups that are housed along the RiachueloMantanza river. Interventions: The intended spatial interventions, illustrated by the case of the Barracas design & manufacturing cluster, are the improved accessibility and expansion of formal urban structures in the “villa’s” and a densification of the surrounding industrial sites linking the production cluster plots & activities with the public space structure & networks of the ‘villa’.
Precarious Neighborhoods Urban Fabric Allotment park Productive zone Distribution area Private-owned recreation Waterfront recreation area Waterfront public space Regional facility Local center Main support roads for development Potential development zone
Drawing by Hanne van den Berg
Drawing by Author
Drawings by Vytas Buinevicius
The case of theBarraccas industrial area illustrates a proximate 2-5 year process of both improving the conditions within the Villa, - by means of upgrading local infrastructure; the local street network, sewage & waterworks - as well as the development of the production & manufacturing cluster.
Drawings by Author
The cluster will be developed according to the potentialities of a synergetic cooperation between local villa inhabitants, entrepreneurs & investors. Providing both a formal system, including an information center and outlet store, as well as a semi-informal system with local facilities managed by & improved housing for, the villa inhabitants.
Inter/Acting IJsselmonde of activities, Rotterdam Date: Spring 2010 Context: MSc 2 studio Urbanism, TU Delft Chair: Spatial planning & Strategies In cooperation with: Ashley Ballantine, Robin Boelsums, Tuofu Hu, Yuli Zhou
Conditions
Develop with regards to node/place value
Diversity
Density
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Connectivity
Definition Development of specific profile
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Introduction: ‘IJsselmonde of activities’ is a regional
design strategy for the island of Ijsselmonde. The island is home to the southern city districts of the municipality of Rotterdam, characterized for accommodating a high percentage of low income households, suffering from a lack of job opportunities.
Approach/Proposal: Aiming for a more equal spread of economic activities in the region, the main proposition is to transform the (existing) economic centralities on the island, As part of the developed theoretical framework
the position of the existing centralities has been defined by three conditions: density of people, diversity of activities and connectivity between places.
The aim will be pursued by a strategy of Inter/ acting: Based on the demands of increasing the density of economic activities on the island, an optimum in the diversity and connectivity of different Centralities will be established: This will be realized through the addition of new transportation connections and the upgrading of existing transportation networks (improving the node value of the centrality), as well as through the local spatial transformation of five selected economic centralities (improving their place value). In addition the centralities require to be established in a complementary and hierarchical relation, illustrated by the series of individual key projects.
Legends infrastructure existing national highway national railway metro line tram line proposed
new highway new metro line new tram line new recreational route
Keyprojects:
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central spatial function commerce office creative industry sports sporting park recreational park recreation education residence medical facilities
central place in island (small scale) industry logistics and transportation station
working central place
commercial cental place
central place out island central place
Ridderkerk
Waalhaven
Lombardijen
Feyenoord
Inter/Acting Rediscovering IJsselmonde’s dikestructure, Ridderkerk
Date: Spring 2010 Context: MSc 2 studio Urbanism, TU Delft. Chair: Spatial planning & Strategies
* Individual keyprojects within the regional strategy for the island of IJsselmonde:
Introduction: The project illustrates the development
potentials for one of the smaller centralities on the island, using the case of Ridderkerk. Characteristic for Ridderkerk is the rich local community life and the self-sufficiency of the municipality regarding local job provision (provided through the economic activities on industrial area Donkersloot). Yet the spatial organization of the town is strongly depended on a regional road structure. Causing: a fragmentation and isolation of the different neighborhoods. And imposing a negative effect on the local living environment.
Proposal: The proposal for Ridderkerk seizes the
potential of the old historic dike structure to function again as the spine of the local community: a binding element for a variety of new cultural and economic activities. Stronger embedded in to local urban fabric - the dike will be rearranged for bicyclists and pedestrian, providing new spatial qualities. In addition: where the dike will meet a new tramline - that connects he village with the larger centralities on the island- a new node emerges; providing opportunities for further densification along the central square and park, as well as for a new bike transfer point (for parking, rental & repair) encouraging the use of the ‘bikedike’. In the light of this nodal development the dike also presents a potential to improve the tourism on the island of Ijsselmonde, allowing people easily to transfer and make a trip along the cultural relics along the dikeroutes.
Bikedike structure
Bikedike route Dike transformationzone stage 1 Industrial transformationaxis stage 2
specialization
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New public transportation
Technical Education & specialization
Shoppingcenter (consumers economy)
Tourism, Dayrecreation
Cultural relic
+Bike Bike parking & Rental
Deltatechnology axis
m organised different networks
Addition of programm organised around Integration of different networks
Clubhousing & leisure
New public transportation Shoppingcenter (consumers economy) Cultural relic Waterbus & Ferry
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Addition of programm organised around Integration of different networks
New public transportation
Technical Education & specialization
Shoppingcenter (consumers economy)
Tourism, Dayrecreation
Cultural relic
+Bike Bike parking & Rental
Clubhousing & leisure
Waterbus & Ferry
Waterbus & Ferry
1. Dike reorganisation allowing: + Toursim + Dayrecreation facilities
2. Dike reorganisation allowing: + Clublife facilities
2. Donkersloot Industrial area, regeneration. allowing: + Expansion of clublife facilities
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(Re)Structuring Structure vision, Haarlem Date: Fall 2009 Context: MSc 1 studio Urbanism, TU Delft Chair: Urban design & Landscape architecture Introduction: The project for Haarlem is the first
studio in the masters of Urbanism and focuses on the analysis and design of urban form. By means of a layerapproach analysis, a clear diagnosis has been made of the Haarlem agglomeration. With its characteristic North-South oriented natural (Spaarne), cultural (Ringvaart) and urban (e.g. Westelijke Randweg) structures, Haarlem and the larger agglomeration was in its earliest stages of development oriented along the old dune landscape. Though in recent decades the orientation of the agglomeration on the larger context is in a more obvious East-West direction (The connection with Amsterdam and Schiphol, as well as Zandvoort). In correlation to these developments the dominating North-South structures in the Haarlem agglomeration could be considered as mere functional and social barriers. Proposal: The main intention of the structure plan in this regard is to improve the permeability of these structures and to accommodate new program along the structures, where Ringweg, Spaarne and Ringvaart develop their own qualities. The Ringweg as keyproject focuses on replacing the railway tracks with a new BRTsystem (connected with the existing ZuidTangent) and adopts a more urban character, while the Ringvaart takes a more recreational character, adding new facilities to the isolated Schalkwijk area.
Legend
Dunes, protected landscape
Polder, main ecological structure Parks, main ecological structure Main devellopment axis Cultural, Recreational devellopment axis Stelling van Amsterdam, Cultural heritage Main roadstructure Ringroad Cross-connections Main (regional) bicycle paths Main railwaystructure Zuidtangent Railwaystation Public tranportation node Ecological cluster Ecological corridor Relation between ecological landscape and cultural develloment axis Sport facilities, interest area Representative addresses Haarlemmermeer, devellopmentzone (Future) Park 21 High density, innercity Medium density, row housing Projects 1 km
Low density, residences Industrial / improvement area
Infrastructuur
Old dunes
Landscape
Legend Ringroad/ highway
Polders, protected landscape Dunes, protected landscape
Mainroad Sec. road Railway Bus (HOV)
border of greater agglomeration border of municipality
Historic centre Old dunes
Parks, main ecological structure National landscape
Selection of Works 2005-2009
Early Urban design project, ‘De staart’, Dordrecht. Bsc3 Studio, Delft University of technology. Fall 2006
Moddelling, Coberco, Arnhem. for Palmbout Urban landscapes Fall 2008
Model study WeenaPoint. for Palmbout Urban landscapes Spring 2009
Ringstudy Turnhout. for Palmbout Urban landscapes Fall 2008
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Fase I Masterplan
Fase III
Fase II
‘1e,2e,3e orde’ analysis reserach and proposal for Almere BSc 6 studio, De logische & intuitieve stad. Delft University of technology. Fall 2008
Design proposal, Mercuriuspark Nijmegen. MSc 1 studio, Socio-Spatial processes in the city. Delft University of Technology Fall 2010
Architectual design, Cebeco building, Rotterdam MSc 5 studio, Delft University of Technology Fall 2007
Quickscan Analysis & Mapping Beijing and Shanghai. ‘Behind the image’ Participant of Study trip + contribution to publication & exhibition , Stylos. Summer 2006
Colophon: 1th version, 19 august 2011 Layout: Sven van Oosten Drawings: by author *unless otherwise mentioned For more information & digital version of this portfolio: www.issuu.com/soosten.
Backside illustration: 1th year student project, Redevelopment of a former industrial area. Fall 2005, Selected for exhibition at the faculty of architecture.