portfolio Tim Aarsen
Personalia Surname First names
Aarsen Timothy Willem Frederik (Tim)
Birthplace Date of birth Nationality
Oldenzaal, The Netherlands 09 May 1979 Dutch/American
Email address Telephone
timaarsen@gmail.com 347-331-8928
Curriculum Vitae 2007-current
Freelance designer
Febraury 2011
Volunteer at Brooklyn Museum for reOrder installation by Situ Studio
2009-2010
Architectural and Urban Designer at Studio Marco Vermeulen (SMV)
July 2010
Series of lectures and workshops in Brazil organized by the NAi (Dutch Architecture Institute) - MICRO-REVOLUTIONS: AA - NAi Design Workshop S達o Paulo - Flooding-workshop in collaboration with Columbia University NY - Unsollicited workshop in collaboration with Studio-X Rio de Janeiro
2008-2009
Urban Designer at Royal Haskoning (for the project Eko Atlantic)
2007-2009
Architect at VHP s+a+l, Rotterdam
2007
Graduated at Eindhoven University of Technology, Faculty of Architectural Design and Engineering on the Revilatization of the Hofplein overpass Rotterdam Nominated by the faculty for the Archiprix 2007 (Master of Science)
2006
Co-founder of architecture collective Megatron Architects
2006
Assistant to Professor Jan Westra in a design workshop for graduate students
2005
Chief editor of the Chepos 002: Revitalization, together with Hana Cisar (ETH)
2004
Assistant designer at Office Ruimtelab
2001-2006
Editor of the Chepos, Quarterly magazine of the student association of engineering
2001-2002 1998-2003
Chairman 16th board of CHEOPS, Study Association of Engineering
1997-1998
CAD-course, BOCES Watertown, NY Calculus I & II courses, Jefferson Community College, Watertown, NY
multiple student co-ships, ranging from teaching freshmen study skills, supporting the exposition committee of the faculty and organizing the information days for the faculty of Installation Technology
Projects 2011 reOrder Brooklyn Museum - installation - Situ Studio 2010 Downtown Fargo competition - architecture - SMV Water Sport Center Frankfurt (Oder) – architecture and masterplan - SMV Living Landscape 1.0 – urban design and architecture - SMV ▲ SPECIAL MENTION d3 Housing Tomorrow competition 2011 Californië 2 – masterplan – SMV Design Company Branding SolidGreen – graphic design - TWFA Village park Stampersgat – public space – SMV Logistics park Moerdijk – masterplan - SMV 2009 Wooden eco passage – infrastructure – SMV Businesspark Waalwijk - masterplan and energy consultancy - SMV New map for BrabantCity - research - SMV Design Startersunit teleski-track - architecture - TWFA Sunrise Campus - masterplan and urban design - SMV AFC Nieuw Prinsenland - urban and landscape plan - SMV Eko Atlantic, Lagos Nigeria – masterplan – Royal Haskoning Design logo Rally Via Bellare - graphic design - TWFA 2008 Business Park Vnukovo – masterplan – VHP Villa KasCade, Almere-Poort – competition residential tower – VHP Pilotproject Watersquares Bloemhofplein – public space - VHP Sketchdesign Petrolstation Zierikzee – architecture – VHP Frozen Fabrics, furniture Vondelpark – competition public space – VHP Floating Communities – research for Blauwhoed – VHP Bridges Meerland Eindhoven – competition infrastructure – VHP Design logo Bamboo ConceptsSolutions - graphic design - TWFA 2007 Yachtbuilding Port Nesselande – architecture - VHP APEC 2012 Vladivostok – masterplan - VHP Congress Centre APEC 2012 Vladivostok – architecture - VHP M-001 A drifter’s penthouse – MegatronArchitecten Design logo restaurant-bar Friends, Cambrils Spain – graphic design - TWFA 2006 Back on track – Graduation thesis Eindhoven University of Technology 2005 Casa Nova, Gemeente Haaglanden – competition architecture - TWFA Backbone, public art piece – competition architecture - TWFA aStH05, Woonstichting Vestide Eindhoven – competition architecture ▲ SPECIAL MENTION: Remarkable project Re-styling of Chepos/Chief editor – quarterly magazine for engineering students 2004 Revitalization shoppingstreet Eindhoven - study project - TWFA Starterswoningen Nieuwkoop – visualisation - Ruimtelab 2AB – extension dwelling – Ruimtelab Irish Performing Arts Center, Ireland – competition architecture – Ruimtelab SquAir, Wilhelminaplein Eindhoven – competition public space – Ruimtelab 2003 Skate bowl – study project – realized ▲ 3rd PRIZE Woodarchitecture/Public award Woodprize
NAi Matchmaking program July 2010 Workshop UNSOLLICITED ARCHITECTURE This event was organized in close collaboration with Columbia University's Studio X lab Rio. A dutch architect was matched to a brazilian architect (office) who was located in one of the four neighborhoods: Flamengo, Gloria, Humaitá and Lapa. The teams developed a range of unsollicited strategies which were published in the national paper O Globo.
Visiting school MICRO-REVOLUTIONS Garrido, a former boxingchamp started his own boxing academy under a viaduct. There's more to it than just getting in shape, its a process of human recycling, homeless and junkies become new and ready for society. The intense 8 day workshop explored the possibilities of the designer to improve this initiative through the design of micro interventions. Using parametric design tools and digital fabrication techniques. In collaboration with AA School of Architecture.
Workshop FLOODING a 5 day workshop on city floodings, organized in close collaboration with São Paulo Lab / Columbia University New York. Three groups, guided by dutch and brazilian architects, created strategies and site specific designs to deal with the recurring floodings of São Paulo’s riverfront neighbourhoods.
Instant Downtown Fargo, USA 2010 @ SMV
Team: Marco Vermeulen, Pavel Savine + Tim Aarsen â—? Status: Competition design
In order to vitalize the city center we have chosen a strategy of urban condensation: Instant Downtown. We propose a fully programmed dense urban block which gives Fargo’s downtown an identifiable, mature skyline. At the same time we consider the scale and function of the historical buildings with a shopping layer on Broadway. In addition, we boost the number of downtown inhabitants, and create a one of kind elevated urban activity park. Separating the shopping plaza and the urban activity deck we find 500 (public and private) parking spaces on a continuous ramp fully integrated into the block. No more parking on street level, no more ugly street front parking garages.
Instant Downtown Whilst Broadway and the mall are more orientated towards shopping and retail, the roof of the parking ramp doubles as an urban activity deck which consists out of five sloping levels. The deck is programmed with playgrounds, sandboxes, greenery, an ice rink and a basketball court. From this level nine towers and blocks between five and seventeen stories high are accessed, combining a mix of offices, apartments and student housing. This guarantees round the clock activity on the urban deck. Windows in a wind protecting wall around the deck frame beautiful views towards the surrounding area.
The new skyline relates to the three scales of the city
Instant Downtown
Currently most downtown blocks in Fargo are 50% parking. Asphalt is the norm. We propose a design which fully integrates parking into the urban program and creates space for street orientated activity. An elevated continuous parking ramp is winding up the block and makes parking an experience in itself. The triangular courtyards created by the parking scheme form the basis of the layout of the shopping mall and the urban activity deck and define space for escalators that connect these layers. The Instant Downtown strategy meets the needs of Fargo with a mixed use, condensed block which fills the current void with a vibrant heart. The block creates an image of a lively American downtown on an urban scale, while continuing and intensifying the activity on street level.
Living Landscapes 1.0 2010 research @ SMV
Team: Marco Vermeulen, Thijs van Spaandonk, Antoine van Erp + Tim Aarsen â—? Status: Conceptual design
SPECIAL MENTION d3 housing tomorrow competition
Living Landscapes 1.0 High density living in a landscape Living Landscape 1.0 is the first design in a series, in which the landscape experience of the house is the central theme. The traditional Dutch housing typology with a back-to-back orientation at a density of approximately 36 dwellings per hectare forms the starting point of the design. For reasons of feasibility, we strive to achieve a similar density. Living Landscape 1.0 dwellings are not back-to-back situated, but front to back. Therefore all the dwellings and gardens have an optimal orientation towards the sun. The plots also faces the street sideways, which gives the gardens a connection with the street. This enhances the liveliness in the neighbourhood, unlike the conventional configuration where the private life mostly takes place in the private (backto-back) gardens. For children, this extension of the garden into the street offers a lot of additional playing opportunities. By shifting the houses relative to one another semi-detached houses are created. The sculptural roofs of the houses are also the visual boundaries of the private gardens. From the living room it appears that the horizon has lifted, which enlarges the garden. All the roofs are covered with grass to enhance this effect.
0 / conventional: back to back 1 / rear-end: optimal orientation of all the homes and gardens 2 / lateral orientation to the street 3 / detached houses 4 / landscaped green hoods
APEC 2012 Summit masterplan Vladivostok, Russia 2008 @ VHP s+a+l
Team: Jacques Vink, Pedro Pinto de sa Borges, Auzie Triratnamurti, Paul Stavert, Ward Mouwen, Andrea Abita+ Tim Aarsen â—? Status: Concept design
Russia is to host the APEC in 2012. The economic summit for Asian countries will take place in Vladivostok. The planned event has given rise to a huge, ambitious programme of actions, not only for the summit itself but also for permanent improvements to Vladivostok’s civic and regional structure. The programme includes amenities like a Conference Centre, International Press Centre, Theatre and Opera House, Hotels, World Trade Centre, Exhibition Centre, Oceanographic Museum, Medical Centre, Sports Facilities, Shopping Mall and Parking Facilities. Infrastructural improvements will include the expansion and reconstruction of the motorway network, the airport, harbour facilities, and there will also be urban and landscape design projects.
Congress Center APEC 2012 Vladivostok, Russia 2008 @ VHP s+a+l
Team: Jacques Vink, Pedro Pinto de sa Borges, Auzie Triratnamurti + Tim Aarsen â—? Status: Concept design
For the APEC 2012 a new conference center had to be designed. Based on the typological shape of the gathering/meeting, the circle, the building is organized as a continuous loop. At both ends the volume is lifted, to create the entrance and on the other side a beautiful panoramic view of the bay. The volume surrounds a large outdoor square which symbolizes the agora, the people’s place.
Congress Center APEC 2012
Masterplan Eko Atlantic Lagos, Nigeria 2009 @ Royal Haskoning
Team: Urban van Aar, Demet Sert, Jens Jorritsma, Auzi Triratnamurti + Tim Aarsen â—? Status: Under construction
Eko Atlantic is a dynamic new city that will rise from the Atlantic Ocean, adjacent to Victoria Island in Lagos, Nigeria the biggest and fastest growing city in West Africa. It will be built on land that is being reclaimed from the sea. Eko Atlantic will become home to at least 250,000 residents, with commuter volume expected to exceed 150,000 people daily. In essence it is a huge reclamation project, replacing land that was lost during a hundred years of severe coastal erosion. Complex marine works engaging world-renowned consultants and contractors to roll back surging waves from the Atlantic Ocean have already begun. Valuable land that was lost to generations of Nigerians has started to reappear, expanding every day. Eko Atlantic will grow into a vibrant, twenty-first century city, larger than Victoria Island, and will help to establish Lagos as the financial capital of Africa. Check: http://www.ekoatlantic.com
Wooden eco passage Venlo, the Netherlands 2009 @ SMV Team: Marco Vermeulen + Tim Aarsen â—? Status: Preliminary design
The eco passage consists out of a pedestrian walkway and a bicycle path, making a combined width of 25 meters. The bridge is constructed out of (indigenous) whole tree trunks, which literally adds to the concept of nature crossing the road. The beams are constructed out of 2 to 5 logs, which have a tapered shape. These logs, after removal of the bark, have a diameter of at least 300 mm and the width increases with 15 mm every meter. With a computerized mill the connection joints are precisely cut out, similar to a tongue and groove connection. The logs are stacked on top of each other, turning them 180 degrees every other log. This enhances the strength of the construction. The thickness of the soil which is needed for the plants and trees determines the height of the construction beams and therefore how many logs are needed. Because the thickness of the soil varies, the cross section is asymmetrical. At the location of the thickest layer of soil, the distance between the columns is the smallest.
New furniture for the Vondelpark Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2008 @ VHP s+a+l
Team: Office Balini, Dirry de Bruin, Leontien Wiehink + Tim Aarsen â—? Status: Competition entry
By using the ancient method of weaving and the new techniques of biocomposites a signature line of furniture is created.
Moscow, Russia 2009 @ VHP s+a+; Team: Dirk van Peijpe, Jacques Vink, Auzi Triratnamurti, Jens Jorritsma + Tim Aarsen â—? Status: Masterplan approved The scheme of the business park is derived from the spatial composition of the Krelim. A wall wraps around the large building blocks and encloses an introverted semi-public space. The largest part of the parking is located outside the wall, surrounding the business complex. In the courtyard only VIP traffic is allowed.
M8 to Yaroslavl
M10 to St. Petersburg
Masterplan Business Park Vnukovo
MKAD
Third Ring
M7 to Nizhniy Novgorod
Garden Ring
M9 to Riga
M1 to Minsk
M3 to Kiev
M5 to Penza
VNUKOVO
BYKOVO
M4 to Rostov-na-Donu
A-101 OSTAFIEVO
M2 to Orel
DOMODEDOVO
site boundary
wall entrances
outisde parking
built surface
public space
Masterplan Business Park Vnukovo
The four U-shaped blocks are built on top of a parking garage. The roof of the garage is covered in grass, allowing the offices to have a green view. The plint of the garage is programmed with shops and cafĂŠs.
Longitudinal section
Pilot project Watersquares Bloemhofplein Rotterdam, the Netherlands 2008 @ VHP s+a+l together with Urban Affairs
Team: Florian Boer, Juanita Fonseca, Marco Vermeulen, Mario Casciu + Tim Aarsen â—? Status: Preliminary design
Bloemhofplein is a textbook example of a central neighbourhood square within a traditional urban layout and is eminently suitable as a central water square. The water storage volume of the square is limited, but still substantial (approximately 950 m2) and this means that the surrounding streets can drain directly into the square. The Bloemhofplein approach can serve as an example for the many comparable squares in this urban district, whereby the significance of the pilot transcends the physical impact. Bloemhofplein is presently a multi-functional square and, as a water square, it will also appeal to a diverse group of people who will use it to sit, exercise, play games or simply spend leisure time there. The new water square will become a representative, central space in the neighbourhood.
Pilot project Watersquares Bloemhofplein
During a rainstorm the square gradually fills up with water, creating new possibilities for playful activities.
Village Park Stampersgat, the Netherlands 2010 @ SMV
Team: Marco Vermeulen, Rutger Wirtz +Tim Aarsen â—? Status: Under construction
Between the site of the sugar factory and the village of Stampersgat, we designed a miniature landscape park. The park is made out of landforms which are constructed using beet soil, a rest product of the sugar factory. The landforms work as a sound barrier as well as a visual barrier. The park will also serve as a connecting element between the village and the existing pedestrian routes along the Mark-Vlietcanal. The park is part of the primary visual quality zone of the het Agro & Food Cluster Nieuw Prinsenland, a largescale greenhouse and industrial zone in the nearby Prinsenland polder. The park serves two types of pedestrians: those who want to go to the Van-Aken hiking path along the canal and those who just want to go for a small walk inside the park. The three sculptural landforms create interesting spaces which offer alternatives for pedestrians. The obvious simplicity of the design together with the gracious curves and lines makes for an interesting play of depth and a constant changing perspective.
Village Park Stampersgat
Villa KasCade | competition entry sustainable residential tower Almere, the Netherlands 2009 @ VHP s+a+l
Team: Jacques Vink, Andrea Abita, Auzi Triratnamurti, Piero Medici + Tim Aarsen ● Status: Competition entry
For a housing competition in the Amsterdam-suburb of Almere we designed a sustainable highrise building. The key element of the design is the interconnecting of the buildings atria. The tower consist out of five ‘communities’, each surrounding an atrium. Within this atrium different activities take place which all relate to the activitiy of greenhouse gardening. All the dwellings have their frontdoor to one of these indoor gardens.
floorplan type A
floorplan type C
floorplan type P
Villa KasCade | competition entry sustainable residential tower Rainwater is collected on the roofs of the tower and the parking garage. The water is used for the grey water system in the apartments as well as irrigating the indoor gardens. After it has passed through the building it is filtered in the two helophyte filters in the parking garage, before it is returned to the surrounding landscape.
rainwater sewage
grey water black water
Agro & Food Cluster Nieuw Prinsenland Dinteloord, the Netherlands 2009 @ SMV Team: Marco Vermeulen + Tim Aarsen â—? Status: Under construction
The site of the Agro & Food Cluster (AFC) Nieuw Prinsenland, a large scale development of greenhouse cultivation and industry to the east of the village of Dinteloord, is approximately 600 hectares. This includes the existing terrain of the sugar factory. The project deals with the (visual) integration of this development into the surrounding landscape. Inspired by the dikes and forts which are very common in the surrounding area, we introduce earthworks which surround the AFC creating a large green collar. The sugar factory supplies the ground which is necessary for the construction of the earthworks. It is a side product of
the process of producing sugar, approximately 80.000 cubic meters a year. The green collar doesn’t attempt to hide the AFC, it rather tries to soften the often harsh border between the built environment (the greenhouses and industrial buildings) and the horizontal flat landscape. The collar forges the buildings into one visual entity. The shape of the earthworks can be diverse and is mainly focussed on the visual experience from within the landscape and the villages as well as from the highway. Internally the AFC is organized through the logic of spatial optimization. A large part of the collar consists out of open water reservoirs which are used for irrigation. This results in the collar, besides being mere visual, to be functional as well. In essence we are dealing here with a challenging 12 kilometre long land-art piece!
Agro & Food Cluster Nieuw Prinsenland Metabolism scheme (image by Pavel Savine)
In this new industrial development alot of attention is going to sustainability. In order to try to reduce energy consumption (of natural resources) and managing the waste cycles, it was necessary to map all the energy and material flows of the project. The presence of the sugar factory became essential in realizing the much needed water bassins for the greenhouses. The construction of a biogasifier on location will provide the area with green gas and will reduce transport miles.
Revitalization project Hofplein overpass Rotterdam, the Netherlands 2007
Graduation thesis Eindhoven University of Technology
ARCHIPRIX NOMINATION by the faculty of Architecture of the TU/e
In 1908 the first electrical train tracks in Holland operated from Rotterdam Hofplein to Scheveningen. The first 1950 meters were constructed out of solid reinforced concrete arches, elevating the track above street level. The result was a unique overpass which in the following years rapidly got absorbed by the expanding residential neighbourhoods of Rotterdam Noord. Now, almost a century later, the train stops. For good. This graduation project deals with the reinterpretation of infrastructural heritage and its impact on the built environment.
Revitalization project Hofplein overpass
All the interventions proposed are to be perceived as possible schemes for organizing this large strip of public space. It deals with creating public space but also making space public. A whole new layer is added to the neighbourhood and with it a whole new system of networks and relations. Through the site-related interventions and their specific visual qualities we have made 7 proposals for 7 different locations, each having its own specific appearance and translation of the aura of the object. The predilection for colour and exuberant vegetation creates an image which wishes to radiate atmospheric qualities which are envisioned for the specific place, creating an intense sometimes banal connection between the existing and the proposed, interweaving public and private space. The aura of the object and the qualities and shortcomings of the site were decisive in the creation of a conceptual design proposal for the re-use of this two kilometre long stretch of urban infrastructural heritage and it was all done with respect of the past but with an eye to the future.
Wooden skate bowl Eindhoven, the Netherlands 2003 Master project Eindhoven University of Technology Team: Marc Maurer and studio ● Status: Built
THIRD PRIZE & PEOPLE’S CHOICE
Other work Bridges Meerland, Eindhoven Project:
Infrastructure
Status:
Competition
Team:
VHP René Heijne, Sven Spierings, Dirry de Bruin + Tim Aarsen
Gallery + Bed & Breakfast, Noorden Project:
Architecture
Status:
Realized
Team:
Ruimtelab René Heijne, Jacques Vink + Tim Aarsen
Port Nesselande, Nesselande Project:
Architecture
Status:
Under construction
Team:
VHP Jacques Vink, Tjeerd de Jong, Paul Stavert + Tim Aarsen
Clover 4 development, Venlo Project:
Urban design
Status:
Visualisations for publication Archtiecture of Consequence
Team:
SMV Marco Vermeulen + Tim Aarsen
Urban Block A101, Moscow Project:
Architecture
Status:
Competition
Team:
SMV Marco Vermeulen, Thijs van Spaandonk, Marcello Fantuz Assisted in visualisations
Petrol station, Zierikzee Project:
Architecture
Status:
Concept
Team:
VHP Jeroen de Jong + Tim Aarsen
Floating Communities, Rotterdam Project:
Urban design
Status:
Research for Blauwhoed
Team:
VHP Jacques Vink, Pedro Pinto de sa Borges + Tim Aarsen
Wilhelmina Square, Eindhoven Project:
Public space
Status:
Competition
Team:
Ruimtelab RenĂŠ Heijne, Jacques Vink, Paul Stavert + Tim Aarsen
Other work
Sunrise Campus, Venlo Project:
Masterplan
Status:
Under development
Team:
SMV + GroupA Marco Vermeulen, Phillip Vencken, Greetje van den Nouweland, Adam Visser, Ines Senghor + Tim Aarsen
Water Sports Center, Frankfurt (Oder) Germany Project:
Architecture
Status:
Sketch design
Team:
SMV Marco Vermeulen, Roy Kanjanapanyakom + Tim Aarsen
Revitalizing Ekkersrijt, Eindhoven Project:
Revitalization/architecture
Status:
Concept pitch
Team:
Marco Vermeulen + Tim Aarsen
M-001, Eindhoven Project:
Guerrilla architecture
Status:
Built and destroyed
Team:
Megatron Architects
Teleski Startingunit, Nesselande Project:
Architecture
Status:
Definitive design
Team:
Tim Aarsen
Art/meeting place, Eindhoven Project:
Art/architecture
Status:
Competition
Team:
Saskia Frijns+ Tim Aarsen
Chepos 002 on Revitalization Project:
Quarterly publication
Status:
Printed
Chief editor Tim Aarsen Guest editor Hana Cisar ETH
Design logo’s Project:
Graphic desgin
Team:
Tim Aarsen
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