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Uittreksel van het afstudeerproject Interior 2005

Urban Reaction The thesis proposal comes out as a result of seeing the City of Brussels as a Mundaneum. At the beginning of the process, an analysis of the two main axis of the city revealed that the area that is in direct relation with the canal and the actual Harbour is not defined. Which is why, this area was choose as a possible site for the project. Historically speaking, the canal and all the infrastructure that relates with it had been remove in several occasions along time. At present days, the harbour is intended to be moved once again, leaving this area as a vacant space, creating a hole in the city. As an urban reaction, the idea is to keep this empty space which will be generated and give it to the city, creating a new park in the area which will include this location in the structure of parks of Brussels. Furthermore, the project proposes the generation of a new primary element which will border the park in order to avoid the city to invade the space. Public Pools Program The Mundaneum was a project proposed by Paul Oulet, considered as a building that would hold together all the knowledge of the world. As a first reaction to the problem of Mundaneum, it is intended for the primary element to act as a counter project for the other parks of the city. In one hand, all the other important parks are located in the highest points of the topography while the project is proposed for the lowest part of it. Also, the other parks contain buildings that are in direct relation with the expression of power, either political or religious. The thesis proposed a project that will hold a program that is not related with power, but a project for people. As long as one of the main elements of the site is the presence of water, and, that public baths since Roman Empire had always been considered as monuments for people. It was decided that this program was the most suitable for the proposed building. Design Infrastructures are primary elements per excellence because they either can accelerate or retard the urban process. In order to create a primary element in this point it was decided to create a new infrastructure which at the same time will provide a service for the city, it will work with the canal and hold the public program. In order to do this, the thesis proposed to merge in one single element architecture and infrastructure. In this sense, the thesis creates a water treatment plant merged with the program of a public pool. The building takes the water from the canal, purifies it and uses it for the pools, giving the building the spirit of machine that creates its own elemental basis to generate leisure for people. The Building is composed by system of steel truss frame structures created by the repetition and placement of a basic element of 7,5 by 7,5 m, which allows to create a mega structure of 600m long by 260m wide capable to save long distances without support and hold the machinery needed for the infrastructure and to generate the spaces needed for the program. This steel structure composes the main load bearing system, which is revealed in the façade, giving the building the expression of a giant industrial machine. Furthermore, the main load bearing system holds together a serious of substructures that contain the inside spaces and are based on modular systems that come out from the dimensions of the main structure. The substructures change in scale from outside to inside, maintaining the monumentality of the infrastructure to the outside and transforming it to the scale of a building to the inside. At the inside, the process of water purification is revealed becoming part of the public program of the building. Metaphor The expression that was looked for the building is the expression of an old fabric in which the pools become a piece of purified water inside an space which may not be considered as a proper environment for this type of program, the purified pools come as a result of a process of the re use of the polluted water from the canal, as an analogy of how infrastructures generate the base for societies to work. This analogy becomes a metaphor of a Mundaneum, because there is no need for the project to stack pieces of knowledge production because society is the one that produces knowledge demonstrating that it can also be a project devoted for people as long as it creates an absolute outbreak in our traditional way of life, and this project creates that outbreak in an urban, architectural, and programmatic levels.

The project is an attempt to counteract the current neoliberal developments within the city, by strengthening the local means of production in strong relation to housing and education. Making use of the wastelands within the city and transforming them into productive areas.

St.Maarten is een van de eilanden van de Nederlandse Antilliaanse eilanden in de Caribbean. Door de prachtige stranden, dubbele nationaliteit en belastingvrije winkels is het eiland een aantrekkelijke toeristische bestemming. Met circa 800 schepen per jaar (bijna 1.000.000 passagiers) is St.Maarten nr.4 op de wereldranglijst van cruisebestemmingen. Wil St.Maarten haar positie behouden dan zal de haven van Philipsburg uitgebreid en verbeterd moeten worden. Dit geldt zowel voor het passagiers als het vrachtdeel. Mijn afstudeerproject is gemaakt binnen de TU Delft en is een schaduwontwerp van de werkelijke opgave die momenteel wordt uitgevoerd door Ballast Nedam en Arcadis Bouwinfra. Aandachtspunten bij het ontwerp zijn een heldere logistiek, een herkenbare identiteit en de specifieke eisen van het klimaat.

Het betreft de ontwikkeling van een innovatief woonconcept waarbij bijzondere openingen worden ingezet voor verrijking van de woonkwaliteit. Het 'Onderzoek naar Openingen', de gegeven locatie aan de Hofpleinlijn in Rotterdam en het woonconcept leidden tot een viertal woningtypes. Hierbij verrijken licht en zicht de kwaliteit van wonen. Van groot belang was, positieve impulsen te omarmen en negatieve prikkels te weren. Het concept is doorgevoerd op alle niveaus: zowel op stedebouwkundig niveau, als op de schaal van het gebouw, de woning en de details.

Skyport is an automated flying container port based on hybrid - airship and robotic technologies. It is part of a global, aerial distribution network called Skycraft, created in order to replace current freight transportation modes with a system that is more effiecient in terms of energy and flexibility, and has a minimum impact on the natural environment. The airship is composed of the automated, container storage towers in the gondola section and the social spaces on the upper envelope section. Although the two parts are structurely seperated, spacially, social and automated spaces nterpenetrate and infuse into one another. The envelope is surrounded by a social ring which houses the recreation and office spaces, and also is penetrated and cut by observation and viewing decks. The robotic facilities are relatively deisgned transperant and contain also observation decks so that the kinetic flows, of people and freight can be percieved by naked eye.

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