Student Portfolio:
Wouter Pocornie MSc.
CONTENT
Graduation Projects: Identity in Post-Disaster Re-Development Haiti & the Saga of Vulnerability Critical Alternative Approach to/within Post-Disaster Re-Development Spatial Strategy to Enable Cultural Resilience in Villa Rosa, Port-Au-Prince Educational Institution in the place Villa Rosa, Port-Au-Prince
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Selected Works: NL_House Light/Soul Wisdom Democracy = Table: Civilian Control on Authority Semiotics, Pinhole Experiment: Border Conditions IJsselmonde 2028 Image of Nijmegen Urban Emergencies: El Salvador Urban Emergencies: Sichuan, China Naija Rhythms, Urban Detectives Local Perspectives, Workshop @ Grand-Goâve, Haiti
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Appendices: Degrees Recommendations
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Student Portfolio Wouter Pocornie / pocs26@gmail.com February 2014, update June 2017 2
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2017
OCT 2016
SEP 2014 - JUL 2017
Architect/R&D EGM architecten
Owner/Freelancer 26H MAR 2016 - APR 2016
YPTDP Workshop ISOCARP & ITACUS Glasgow (Scotland, UK)
NOV 2016 – NOV 2018
Mentor/commissioner NUC
EDAC Center of Health Design JUL 2015 – DEC 2015
MAR 2016 - APR 2016
2016
PEP semester Werkveld
FEB 2015 – JUN 2015
PEP semester Bedrijf
DEC 2014
YPP Workshop ISOCARP Moscow (Russia)
Mentor (primary school) NUC JUN 2015
2015
Starten met Ondernemen BNO AUG 2014 - NOV 2014
Urban Planner We Love The City
MAY/JUN 2014
YPP SUSREG Workshop ISOCARP Wrocław (Poland)
2014
FEB 2009 – OCT 2013
MSc in Architecture, Urbanism, and Building Sciences TU Delft - University Direction: Urbanism
2013
FEB 2009 – NOV 2012
MSc in Architecture, Urbanism, and Building Sciences TU Delft - University Direction: Architecture
NOV/DEC 2011
Intern Cordaid Mensen in Nood Port-Au-Prince
2012
JAN 2011 - JUL 2011
Student-Assistant (UE Haiti) TU Delft
SEP 2005 – JAN 2011
2011
BSc in Architecture... TU Delft - University MAY/JUN 2010
Urban Detectives, TU Delft City Space Investigations Lagos (Nigeria)
SEP 2010 - NOV 2010
Student-Mentor (1st years) TU Delft
2010
JAN 2010 - NOV 2010
Student-Assistant (UE Sichuan) TU Delft
SEP 2009 - NOV 2009
Student-Mentor (1st years) TU Delft
2009 FEB 2008 - JUL 2008
Intern (Assistant Designer) Rudy Uytenhaak
2008 FEB 2007 - JUL 2007
Assistant Work Planner AWN (Housing Association)
2007
NAME
Wouter Pocornie, MSc. LICENSED ARCHITECT LICENSED URBANIST
Dutch: mother tongue & English: fluent in conversation, reading, and writing. PERSONAL INTERESTS
Sports: football, American football, basketball, (table) tennis - incl. volunteering, and boxing. Writing and graphic design/illustrating. Travel. Live concerts, art, (decoding) film/movies & documentaries (incl. editing). Studying/reading about: geopolitics, culture, philosophy, and pedagogy.
3+ years of experience
SKILLS
Research (qualitative & quantitative). Writing. Illustrating. Presentation. Organization. Team management. Leadership. Mentoring (constructive consult). AutoCAD, MicroStation. GIS, Space Syntax. Adobe Creative Suite: Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Premiere. 3D-visualization: Maya, Sketch-Up. Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
R&D Radar . Quick scan
graduation projects
Identity in post-disaster re-development PROJECT Research Thesis (Arch)
As a student I partook in two Master programs at the TU Delft. In the direction of (MSc) Architecture I chose to delve into design approaches. This project included fieldwork research conducted in various places in Haiti.
SITE Port-Au-Prince, HT
This thesis describes the integration and incorporation of identity in post-disaster re-development. It incorporates Haitian identity threefold: In the concept for design and formulating strategy (syncretism; derived from vodou culture); in the process of production (building and materiality); and in management/ organization via a platform (established to facilitate via a reflexive attitude).
Period 2011-2012 Mentors Sang Lee Arjan van Timmeren John Heintz
Points of departure for integrating and incorporating identity in post-disaster re-development are: Call for identity; Facilities in an (educational) institution; Establishing a platform; Role of architecture in post-disaster re-development.
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Relief Relief Emergency
Transitional Rehabilitation Recovery
Post-disaster re-development Development Durable solutions
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PRODUCTION
integration & incorporation of identity in development discourse
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fieldwork actor analysis: platform & facilities project
project Census
objectives
project
sustainable solution to housing
MICTD
ATL
CRC (12)
Logement-Quartier
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return is facilitated: trainings & consult improve re-habilitation districts based on local needs
ATL/CRC
MICTD handover exit-strategy
+ objectives
Regional & City Planning
capacity buiding/handover: future projects, continuation
project
KR
knowledge resources
objectives information (5) tasks
access to materials
project
debris 2 (removal)
grants
HOK
House of Knowledge
enumaration community planning
training services
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TS
training services
OC open consult
project
HOK
Villa Rosa
project
HOK
Nan Cocteau project
HOK Tisous
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haiti & the saga of vulnerability This was a research into the evolution of Haiti’s architectural and urban development. The processes were contextualized from the perspectives of economics, politics, and demographics. These frame Haiti’s unique cultural background in order to reflect on the architecture and urban development during a specific time period.
PROJECT History Thesis (Arch)
The hardships forced on its population show the resilience of Haitians; their capacity to cope with (what could be considered) the bare minimum. From the perspective of aid, the majority of the people are not benefiting from formal development and throughout history tried numerous attempts to change their situation via the top-down approach but rely primarily on informal strategies, which illustrative the resilient bottom-up approach. Port-Au-Prince became thé center of opportunity, which contributes greatly to the nation’s vulnerability. Architecture evolved, essentially, via an adaptation technique.
Period 2011-2012
SITE Haiti
team A.H. van Amerongen
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adaptation technique ADAPTATION TO... HERITAGE/VERNACULAR
BUILDING STYLES
GLOBAL-LOCAL NEXUS SURVIVAL & TRADITION
SOCIAL PROCESSES
IDENTITY
CLIMATE
COPING MECHANISM
LOCAL DISCOURSE
PRODUCTION
DISTINCTION
EXPRESSION
thé Port-Au-Prince: GREEN MOUNTAINS BECAME GREY (DWELLINGS) & BROWN (DESOLATE/DEPLETED)
building style: caille (primitive hut)
coping mechanism: risk to hazards
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Critical alternative approach to/within post-disaster redvelopment PROJECT Research Thesis (Urb)
This research was an addendum to my research thesis (MSc A). It broadens the domain to a perspective of urbanism and (generic) development which responds to slumming.
SITE Port-Au-Prince, Haiti
There is a need for change in the strategic approach. The departure point is to intervene via a series of networks. It is a pattern of how and where to critically intervene in a specific and complex context. The outcome presents a critical alternative approach in strategy within (post-disaster re-)development. It describes the relevance of urbanism and urban planning in this practice. The approach links educational development projects to overall improvement of infrastructure by structuring resilient and sustainable interventions as principal objectives.
Period 2011-2013 mentors Arjan van Timmeren Roberto Rocco
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integrated network interventions (POST-DISASTER RE-)DEVELOPMENT
CRITICAL ALTERNATIVE APPROACH
SITUATED EDUCATIONAL PARADIGM
generic development: primary schools
shelter programs self-construction
modes of taxation
generic development: material processing
development budget donors
human capital
multi-/bilateral agencies
social capital
services
NGO institutional capital active actors
payments
FUNDING
remittance labor
TUITION
collection
drainage
donations
hybrid programs
urban form
composting
RESILIENCE SUSTAINABILITY institutional capital
social capital
human capital
communities of VR
IDENTITY MAIN RESEARCH; LITERATURE REVIEW; EMPIRICAL STUDIES
from research to pattern
SYNCRETIZED DISCOURSE
CASE STUDY: HAITI POST-QUAKE (2010)
CAPACITY BUILDING
ANALYSIS CRITIQUE
SITUATED EDUCATIONAL PARADIGM
LITERATURE REVIEW
ADAPTATION TECHNIQUE
URBAN INTERVENTIONS
REVOLUTION OWNERSHIP ABSTRACTION OF GOVERNANCE
AGGLOMERATION
PHILOSOPHY APPROACH
PLANNING: PATTERN
1 - SOCIAL LANDSCAPE 2 - OPERATIONAL LANDSCAPE 3 - PUBLIC DOMAIN
REFLEXIVE
HANDOVER PHASE
Spatial strategy to enable cultural resilience in Villa Rosa, Port-Au-Prince PROJECT Grad Project (Urb)
This design uses the pattern from the research to structure a vision and spatial strategy. The design is defined through different scales to illustrate the plan for Villa Rosa and various typologies in local areas.
SITE Port-Au-Prince, Haiti
These critical projects use templates to signify the urban interventions as well as the organizational schemes; modes of governance, which indicate how these projects will transform in phased planning. The series of interventions are interrelated through specific properties and enable the users and inhabitants of the area to build up (local) capacity; social, human, and institutional. This approach therefore enables the communities to improve their resilience and, overall, carry out the syncretized development discourse.
Period 2013 mentors Arjan van Timmeren Roberto Rocco
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PLANNING: PATTERN
HANDOVER PHASE
VISION
THEMES & PRIORITIZATION
CRITICAL PROJECTS
SITES & INTERGRATED INTERVENTIONS
SPATIAL STRATEGY COHERENT PLANNING
educational institution in the place Villa Rosa, Port-Au-Prince PROJECT Grad Project (Arch)
The design is an educational institution. It combines a primary school with a community center as well as offices and workshops. Regarding the program, it is a regional hub for essential facilities, which most NGOs operating on-site require to bridge the ‘handover’ phase.
SITE Port-Au-Prince, HT
The Haitian vernacular has evolved via an adaptation technique, similar to the concepts of syncretism used in vodou. As such, the genius loci is formulated via an open (body) structure with an inside-outside relationship through its façade and roof. The architecture is an interpretation of ‘defamilirization’ (critical regionalism), to unify a fragmented whole. The process of design is formulated in a design vocabulary –specified to place and culture.
Period 2012 Mentors Sang Lee Arjan van Timmeren John Heintz
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research & design
NGO
KR
knowledge resources
TS
training services
OC open consult
design vocabulary
Spatial Configuration
tools for composition (design)
Territory
Implementation Strategy
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inside/ outside
Context Analysis
part-whole (megaform)
Construction Points
construction
function
Program Definition
Architectural Production
selected works
NL_house PROJECT Grad Project (BSc)
NL House was my final design course in the BSc curriculum. The objective was to design a conceptual governmental building (i.e. a new Catshuis) where the Dutch identity is signified to foreign delegations.
SITE Lelystad, NL
In a seemingly empty site, that of the typical Dutch polder, I reached out to political, geographical, and philosophical notions of Dutch culture. The architectural translations of Calvinism, poetry, and the ever-compromising dialogue (‘poldering’) lead to the final configuration of space, materials, and methods of construction.
Period 2008-2009 instructor Remco Bruggink
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building envelope
Light/soul PROJECT Bouwen met Licht
‘Building with Light’ is an elective course, which focuses on the use of light as a structuring approach. The brief consisted of public workshop rooms, an exhibition hall, and a private room dedicated to centering/prayer/meditation.
SITE Rotterdam, NL
From the perspective of program the functional plan was configured, subsequently oriented, and adjusted to optimize the experience. This is drawn on phenomenology. The classical natural elements were used as tools for this spiritual assignment. In this context of spirituality, the objective was to design a spiritual public building within the spatial enclosure of a quarantine island in the city of Rotterdam.
Period 2008 instructor Uri Cohen Moritz Bernoully
The project allowed for the exploration of light as a tool for composition and structure in architecture.
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experience
natural elements
inside-outside relationship
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wisdom: transformation of the cebeco office building PROJECT Hergebruik & Functiemenging
This project was an renovation assignment of a 1960s office building; Cebeco, located in Rotterdam near the Blaak station. Our group claimed that this Modern-style building disregarded natural elements in its architecture. We expanded the height of the building to house additional dwellings and transformed the North and South faรงade according to a set of principles. These included the integration of vegetation and a water filtration system, in addition to physical transformations in order to house a school and work spaces. By following our conceptual points; evolution, storytelling, contra form, and photosynthesis, we proposed to develop a design which seeks to work with nature.
SITE Rotterdam, NL Period 2007 instructor G.T.W. Godbersen R. Beenders M. Assal
The project was selected amongst the best of the studio groups.
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transparent
urban living
school
corridors
Civilian control on authority Democracy = table This project had a central theme: House of Democracy. The brief was subdivided in three categories: citizens, democracy, and civil service. After the midterm, where the students presented their preliminary designs, this project was chosen (voted) amongst two others to be developed in teams.
PROJECT Huis v/d Democratie SITE Amsterdam, NL
The project was drawn on a series of concepts. It advocated for civilian control on authority, by opening up the building to the public domain. Adjacent, democracy and citizenry was considered as a platform (table) to carry the economy (i.e. offices). The design relied much on sketches, which were interpretations from group discussions and theory.
Period 2007 instructor M. Baltus G. Feenstra A. Winten
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image of the ZuidAs, AMS
Citizens
Democracy
Civil Service
PRINCIPLES
House of Democracy
View on democracy: Diversity is working together Morphing: Citizens and democracy on same level Communication: Open and transparent exterior Eye-catcher: Influence and status of business district Sustainability: Vegetation in interior & solar power roof
Democracy = table
semiotics: pinhole experiment, border conditions This project follows the process of semantic analysis and semiotic modelling. After constructing a pinhole camera and developing a linguistic analysis as a group, I focused my design on organizing a ‘tectonic alphabet’. These were elements derived from the light compositions captured by the pinhole camera. Then, the structuring of codes and the index model formulated a plan; a script, for manipulating the materials.
PROJECT Border Conditions: The Invisible City
This project was an introduction to semiotics and an experiment to explore unfamiliar ways to architectural design. The program was an open, publicaccessible space (incl. multi-purpose studios).
Period 2009-2010
SITE Rotterdam, NL
instructor Sang Lee
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ALLIANCE: ‘ECONOMIC BELT’
TOP-DOWN REGULATION/ MONETARY PLANNING
long term
mid term short term
IJsselmonde 2028 PROJECT The Island of IJsselmonde
IJsselmonde contains various stages of urbanization: The Agricultural Sphere, Industrialization, (Contemporary) Urbanity and the transition of these phases. In order to preserve-and-exploit this rich identity, the Olympic Games 2028 are used primarily to intervene on a infrastructural level. In this way the framework is set up for a regional plan which allows local economic activities to strengthen, political agendas to be realized in the built environment, and cultural identity to be preserved. Therefore, the aim is to implement specific incentives on various locations in the format of Image-Intervention-Industry. IJsselmonde will remain a cultural vessel of urbanization and boost economic activities after the (2028) Olympics.
SITE Rotterdam, NL Period 2010 instructor Qu Lei Samir Bantal Team C. Sun X. Wang
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Apparatus
Image - Intervention - Industry
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Nijmegen North
Nijmegen
DISTRICT NIJMEGEN ISTHMUS
Image of Nijmegen PROJECT R&D Nijmegen
The isthmus is the narrow strip of land connecting Nijmegen with the Northern part extension. It’s the principal body to exploit the current ‘Image of Nijmegen’ and the future plans for the Northern part.
SITE Nijmegen, NL
Through familiarity (program and imageability), this strip will connect users to the new Nijmegen. The plan consists out of three main areas: the West-end, Central and East-end. The flexible program deals with the fluctuation of the Waal river and provides a variety of activities depending on the season/time. While responding to the Municipality’s plans for the area, the isthmus as a whole compliments the image of the city: Being the second (inbetween) image of the sequence.
Period 2010-2011 instructor W. Hermans P. Lu
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changing landscape
project devices
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urban emergencies el salvador PROJECT Urban Emergencies: Global Studies
â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Urban Emergencies: Global Studiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; was a pilot program, initiated by students, which focused on post-disaster responses. Here, 18 students were grouped in teams of 3, each visiting a different country to conduct 3 months of fieldwork research. This included setting up workshops, interviews, surveys, and visits.
SITE San Salvador, SV
The results were combined in six themes: aid, risk, typology, migration, management, and planning. The course ran for one semester, concluded in a symposium and exhibition, and extended throughout the summer, when the participants authored a publication.
Period 2009 instructor Alexander Vollebregt
This experience was the determining factor, for me, to pursue a degree in MSc Urbanism adjacent to the MSc Architecture program at the TU Delft.
Team D.J. Duijf
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70%
aid
management
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50%
YES NO
Familiarity with alarm sytem Sector Montreal
YES NO
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Buenos Aires
Finca a Argentina Arrg genti a
Iberia
Chalatenango Santa Ana
risk
typologies
Cabañas
Ahuachapán
San Salvador
Mejicanos
Sonsonate
Cuscatlán
Morazán
Santa Tecla
San Vincente
CHSS
La Libertad La Unión
La Paz San Miguel Usulután
ready-to-collapse
flashflood
planning
migration
intensification
exhibition
symposium
publication
urban emergencies sichuan, china PROJECT Urban Emergencies: Sichuan
The project UE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sichuan was a summer workshop in which I also worked as a (student-)assistant. With a group of 25 TU Delft students and instructors, we worked on-site with an additional group of 25 students of the Southwest Jiaotong University in Chengdu.
SITE Dujiangyan CN
Our site was Dujiangyan, which is part of Metropolitan area Chengdu. This site was severely affected by the 2010 Wenchuan earthquake and already rapidly re-developing. Reflecting on this crisis response, our group was subdivided in different teams to map and propose alternative strategies to planning. Great emphasis was put on fieldwork, as we explored techniques such as derivĂŠe and interacted with local residents, government officials, and professionals.
Period 2010 instructor Alexander Vollebregt Team J. Wang; N. Kipp; D.P. Ferreira; D. Luo; X. Zhang
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natural disaster future risk
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IDENTITY
team: spatial structures
TOURISM ENERGY
- ACCESSIBILITY - SOCIAL EXCHANGE - CULTURAL MARKETABILITY
PILOT PROJECTS
FUTURE DEVELOPMENT PILOT PROJECTS: SPATIAL STRUCTURE
WATER MOBILITY INFRASTRUCTURE PUBLIC SPACES
monocentric urban growth
connectivity
industry
urban detectives: Naija rhythms The workshop consisted of preliminary research, fieldwork with audio-visual tools, and post-production for an exhibition at the faculty of Architecture in Delft.
PROJECT CSI Lagos a/v media workshop
As Lagos already received much international media attention, our sites were difficult to document. Therefore, we relied on collaborating with local students as well as residents and used guerrilla style recording. My project followed a trail from the gated community in Lekki, towards the on-shore, small-scale industry neighborhood in Ilaje, and finally the captivating slum on stilts in Makoko.
SITE Lagos, NG Period 2010
The aim was to depict the necessity of informality in Lagos and how this transforms its formally planned structure, experience, and image.
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Ikorodu
Ikeja
2 Lagos Mainland Surulere
Yaba
LAGOS LAGOON
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LAGOS Lagos Island Lekki Peninsula 1 Victoria Island
signs of informality
structure from economy dwelling in megaslum
The first chapter introduces the neighborhood Lekki: Here, a gateman introduces the overwhelming presence of informality in a high-income, planned community.
The second chapter takes the viewer just off-shore, to Ilaje: Here, the underwater delving of sand is a major economic activity and used in construction of villaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in Lekki.
The third and final chapter takes place in the lagoon itself, in Makoko: This slum is built, for a large part, on stilts by migrants who came from outside the city.
local perspectives: workshops in Grand Goâve This project is an exhibition, including a short film, by grad students of Explore Lab 12 & Urban Emergencies Haiti 2011. Our workshop assignment took place in Grand-Goâve, only 45 minutes from our base in Léogâne, which is about 3-4 hours away from Haiti’s capital city: Port-Au-Prince.
PROJECT Explore Lab workshop SITE Grand Goâve, HT
Our objective was to interact with local students and create a creative, playful atmosphere where we could gain insight on their perspectives of public space and its desired development. Our tactic was to start off with a small example through interacting on a personal level, then let them create their own material and subsequently reflect on it together where the subject elaborates on his/her drawings.
Period 2011 Team J.B. Verhoef A.H. van Amerongen
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exhibition at the TU, Delft (NL)
primary school: Ecole National Mixte
secondary school: Wonderful WEFSI 39
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Date Our reference Your reference Contact person Telephone/fax Subject
January 30, 2014 Recommendation Wouter Pocornie Dr. Roberto Rocco, Assistant Professor Letter of recommendation Wouter Pocornie
Delft University of Technology
Faculty of Architecture Urbanism Visiting address
Julianalaan 134 2628 BL Delft, T he Netherlands r.c.rocco@tudelft.nl Visit us at
http://www.spatialplanning.bk.tudelf t.nl/ 4bda - 410a - 94d3 - debc515faa04&lang=en
Dear Sir or Madam
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This is to recommend architect urbani st Wouter Pocornie . I have known Wouter for two ye ars, having acted as his research supervisor at the Master programme of the Department of Urbanism of the Delft University of Technology. Wouter has pursued two consecutive programmes in Ar chitecture and Urbanism, within the Explore Lab education programme. The Explore Lab is meant for exceptionally motivated individuals pursuing resear ch and design themes of relevance at a high level. During this period, I have come to appreciate Wouter as a truly exceptional designer and researcher . I am confident to state th at he would surely be a valuable addition to any organisation. Woute r has shown great capacity for analytical reflection and a very critical stand towards issues discussed during his graduation project . This project presented Wouter with great challenges, in terms of research capacity, but also in terms of organisatio n and perso nal endurance. Wouter has proved to be an exceptional researcher , planner and designer . He developed a strategy plan for a slum area in post - disaster Haiti with deep knowledge of the challenges and issues at hand, a deep understanding o f governance and of the stakeholders involved, and a very effective review of the existing literature on the themes he was tackling. The site and the theme chosen for the project are amongst th e most difficult on Earth and Wouter has acted professionally and ethically towards the challenges he was pre s ented with. Most importantly, he has demonstrated that he can deal with very complex topics and very difficult locations.
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Wouter is able to communicate in a very clear amiable way and was quick to respon to input given by his supervisors . These are very important qualities in 19 Marchd 2009 an He has an . area where communication and teamwork have such a central role. excellent appreciation of the value of an effe ctive communication strategy. 2/2 He is hardworking, conscientious and thorough. He has showed capacity for leadership in several occasions. I am ve ry impressed by his skills in English, both written and oral. I strongly recommend
Wouter for a position in your organisation
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