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Ulrike Vandenberghe
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SEHNSUCHT und FERNWEH
nach Architektur nach Berlin
These are the two beautiful German words which described the feeling I had after being graduated. Five years of discovering, reading, modelling, collecting and processing architecture had passed. Game over? No, up to the next level!
In other words: Hallo, I’m Ulrike Vandenberghe, 23 years old and after my first work experience in Berlin, I’m looking out for a new challenge. In this booklet you can find my projects from the past years. Take a look and find my sehnsucht für Architektur.
CONTENT EDUCATION
01 Covered playground 02 Villa revisited bachelor thesis 03 Hogerbrugge 04 Rurbanismus 05 Studio Abattoir 06 Rebuilding fragments as new entities master dissertation
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COVERED PLAYGROUND The playground of the design : literally a playground of a technical school, situated in the city center of Kortrijk. After demolishing an old covering of the playground of the school, a new one was needed. The purpose of the design studio consisted in finding a precise location for the construction by focussing on the surrounding buildings and the open space. The design focused on several anchoring points of the existing buildings and connected them as a web with eachother. Because of the different height of these points, the web got shaped and triangular planes were created. Beside this design process, the place of the trees also played a big role in shaping the new construction. For every tree, a rectangular open plane was connected with the web of the anchering points. In this way, the trees become part of the new constructions. location: Kortrijk, Belgium 2013
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VILLA REVISITED bachelor thesis Renaat Braem once wrote a book about Belgium as the ugliest country in the world. Xavier de Geyter made a book about the sprawl in it. Without doubt, this topic of the occupation of the landscape became a topic in urban planning for the last decade. All cities are occupied with huge suburbs that spread out far out of the center. However, with the current growing population, we need densificiation. A typical suburban area next to Ghent, was used as a design area to do research on this densify-problem. 4 plots and 3 villa’s : what is possible? The design added 11 new houses: 4 compact single-family houses, 3 for big families and 3 houses for cohousing. The built-up area doubled even though there is still enough outdoor space for every inhabitant. What with the existing villa’s? VILLA REVISITED Tearing down the exisiting villa’s was not an option, so a solution needed to be found. The existing villa’s were divided in 3 different parts. Firstly, the villa still consists one house, but ofcourse smaller. Secondly, a part is used as a co-workingspace for the surroundig inhabitants and finally, a part of the villa is used as a parking lot for the inhabitants. location: Destelbergen, Belgium 2015
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HOGERBRUGGE Kerkbrugge-Langerbrugge is a little town next to Ghent and situated at a crucial place. It is intertwined between the vibrant town Evergem, the Ghent-Terneuzen Canal and its dens industry. What once was a thriving village due to the power station from 1911, has now become a village without identity or center. In other words, the town needs a challenge to awake again. A new masterplan which doubled the population was asked. After some research, the decision was made not to overbuild the town with new houses, but to choose a more progressive way. Only one new entity would be realized: a vertical town on the canal side, called Hogerbrugge. The vertical town will constist of a fixed structure with fixed public programs in the center. Thereafter, modularly placed houses are added at the different sides of the vertical construction. Each module can be switched in several ways to accomodate multiple people and programs and the modular system also admits them to relocate according to people’s age or interest in certain facilities, views, etc. In this way, the modules become flexible living places around the center of public programs. By this interference, Kerkbrugge-Langerbrugge will rebecome an important spot just as it once was. location: Kerkbrugge-Langerbrugge, Belgium in cooperation with: Robbe Vanmoerkerke and Michiel D’Haemer 2015
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RURBANISMUS The relation and the combination of the city and the land is the last few years a big topic. The Flemisch landscape as an example indicates this problem very well. Next to the bigger cities, a big population is still living in smaller growing cities that therefore feel the need to expand. The question however is, how we can translate this demand in good architecture. A typical phenomenon to resolve this problem is building appartments on empty plots or plots where once one-family-houses were. This solution often results in a lack of activity to the street on the ground floor, a lack of parking places and a wrong definition of scale and rhythm. The town Kuurne was the playground for this design. The plot’s most important feature was the proximity of both the Heulebeek river and an important motorway. The design used the nearby linear buildings as a starting point for setting out the volumes. Three linear volumes with thirthy-two new houses where created. As a solution for the parking problem, a new platform was made to both hide the vehicles and to operate as a living platform between the different volumes. location: Kuurne, Belgium 2016
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STUDIO ABATTOIR Nowadays, the city of Brussels faces a number of social, environmental and economic challenges. Especially the canal zone of Brussels plays an important role in this process. To rediscover the potentials of this zone, Abattoir was chosen as research and design area. Abattoir nowadays consists of a slaughter-house, a 19th-century market hall, a new foodhall and an oversized marketsquare. Firstly, a new masterplan was created in group. As cities today are confronted with outmoving industry and production, the premise of the research process was to reintegrate these activities back in the city center of Brussels. By giving prominence to industrial activities and reintroducing them in the street and the city, industry may once again have a place in our daily lives. Therafter, one of the generated buildings was worked out in a smaller group. The building, situated in the center, with one side pointed at the highschool and the other side pointed at the market hall is thus a crucial building on the site. The design resulted in the combining of a technical school, technical workspaces and housing. Urban industry needs public visibility and that’s why these facilities are braught together as an experiment. In the final stage, a piece of this designed building was worked out into detail individually. Construction and material decisions were made and a big model with scale 1/50 showed an impression of how this building could function as a whole. location: Anderlecht, Belgium in cooperation with: Iza Godderis, Eline Cooman, Alexia Deltour 2016
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The mixed-building used for his design the same design rules as the masterplan. Axes were created through the building to connect the several market axes inside the building, the variaty of facilities, etc. The building itself is also cut in two by the logistic axes. Still, the building functions as a whole since the facilities are mixed in both entities. The building consist of the leather tannery of the slaughter-house, a technical school with workspaces and classrooms, a repair and tool store, and housing. By mixing all these facilities, the industry get its public visibilty back and people, young and old, learn from eachother.
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REBUILDING FRAGMENTS AS NEW ENTITIES master thesis Abbey of Roosenberg , one of the abbeys designed by the famous Dom Hans van der Laan was the unique design area for this project. Van der Laan, a dutch monk and architect, mainly known for his theories of the plastic number and the Architectonic Space, finished his building in 1975 and untill the summer of 2016, the building was still used for what it was build: a monastery where the sisters withdrew from the world; to live, to work and to pray in a quiet environment. In the summer of 2016, the sisters left the abbey and a new program for the building was needed. After some months of research, the university of KU Leuven became co-owner of the building and spread the message that the abbey should become a new study and congresscentrum in terms of meaning, architecture and art. This was the starting point for the master dissertation studio. The result of Rebuilding fragments as new entities is a project that selects fragments from the abbey, rethinks them and places them in the surrounding landscape of the building. location: Waasmunster, Belgium 2017
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I N S I D E OUTSIDE The inside-outside relationship of the abbey was the starting point for the research of the asked intervention on the site. Regular visits to the abbey made clear that Abbey Roosenberg is surrounded by a beautiful forest landscape, but at the same time distances itself from it. The action in the building is thus more observing instead of entering the landscape. All rooms, both the cella as the cloister and the living rooms own a strong framing of the surrounding forest landscape. Nevertheless, it’s difficult the find exits in the building to enter the landscape. The abbey thus keeps off the wild outside to strenghten the serene inside. This conclusion resulted in the decision to work in the landscape, rather than next to it.
C E L L A C O U R T D O M A I N In his book The Architectural Space, Dom Hans van der Laan devotes a complete chapter to the relationship between inside and outside. He builds a theory where he divides the experience space into three spaces. These three spaces are getting bigger in three steps and the smallest space is always central to the larger space. The three experience spaces consist of the CELLA as the action space, the COURT as the walking area and the DOMAIN as the field of view.
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RECONSTRUCTION Looking for a place and plan for the new intervention, it was logical to first look at the existing whole. The abbey consists namely of one entirety of different entities placed around the central courtyard. These entities each have their own program linked to the routine of the sister’s life. Despite this specific program per entity, the entities are still flexible. To realize the new residences for artist were chosen five of the above mentioned entities from the abbey to reconstruct them in the surrounding landscape. The entities are five different elements that by repetition and addition have the existing abbey as a result. And thus, because of their flexible plans, they can in any case get a new program. Moreover, by reconstructing these elements, in a way, a freedom is created to redesign the abbey without affecting the heritage value.
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Regarding the inside-outside story, an extra element was added to the entities: an enclosed garden, a hortus conclusus. This was done first by the desire to involve the landscape more in the new elements, secondly by the three-part of the cella-court-domain story, and finally also by the previous research of typologies of monasteries. Actually, the fact was that in the abbeys of the Carthusians, every monk also had his own garden.
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exhibition Singing Silence in Abbey Roosenberg 29.06.2017
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PROFESSIONAL Wohn -und Atelierhaus Berlin Moabit
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Cueto housing
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Education 2015 - 2017 Master in Architecture (magna cum laude) KU Leuven, LUCA School of Arts (Ghent, Belgium) 2012-2015 Bachelor in Architecture KU Leuven, LUCA School of Arts (Ghent, Belgium) 2007-2012 Latin-Mathematics Sint-Vincentiuscollege (Ypres, Belgium) Experiences 2017-2018 Far Frohn & Rojas Architekten 6 months Intern Architect (Berlin, Germany) autumn 2017 Dom Hans Van der Laan exhibition master dissertation project (Flemisch Architecture Institute, Belgium) summer 2016 ZOOM architecten Student intern (Ghent, Belgium) autumn 2015 Children Architects To Create Homes (Conscienceschool, Schaarbeek, Belgium) summer 2015 2.12 architecten Student intern (Kortrijk, Belgium) Skills Languages Autocad Dutch: native Sketchup English: fluent Photoshop German: fluent Illustrator French: intermediate Microsoft Office Contact Name: Vandenberghe Given name: Ulrike Date of birth: 2nd of June 1994 Place of birth: Ypres, Belgium Nationality: Belgian E-mail: ulrike.vdb@hotmail.com Phone: 0032 474 21 53 30
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t h ank y ou .