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CONTACTLand+Civilization Compositions

+31 (0) 6 520 [email protected]

eendrachtsweg 713012 LG rotterdam

the netherlands

OUR WAY OF THINKING

We are living through a time that:

Connections get stronger between the professions, which are engaged in the

shaping of built form and space, and the differences amongst them are blurring.

Glocal economical context, environmental issues and emerging social issues are

leading the way to a new set of priorities.

A new generation of urban thinkers is emerging.

Process is more prominent than the product.

Land+Civilization Compositions is a Randstad [NL] and Istanbul [TR] based office

that works and collaborates on issues related to built form, with a portfolio

scope from research to design.

JASON HILGEFORT

urbanist, architect, public space designer

Jason studied urban planning and design at The University of Cincinnati and architecture at The University of British Columbia Vancouver. His work experience ranges from New York (Ehrenkrantz Eckstut and Kuhn), to Los Angeles (Behnisch Architekten) to Mumbai (Rahul Mehrotra). From 2000 to 2004 he worked with Sustainable Urbanist and innovator Peter Calthorpe. After joining Maxwan A+U in 2007, he was involved in the ongoing projects Moscow A101, Central District Rotterdam, and Barking Riverside in London. Also, Jason lead Maxwans numerous competition victories including South Harbour Helsinki, Basel Public space Masterplan, Kiev - 23 Parks, Ostrava Black Meadow, Marstall Platz Hannover, Magdeburg DE, and in Kaunas, Lithuania. Besides his work at Maxwan, he won Europan 11 in Vienna. Since then he formed Land+Civilization Compositions for investigating issues ranging from daily objects, to infrastructures, to cultural research. He is also a contributor to uncube magazine with writing on architecture and beyond.

PARTNERS

MERVE BEDIR

architect, researcher

Merve Bedir graduated from Department of Architecture I METU, in 2003. She was involved in a variety of projects in Turkey, Egypt, Georgia until 2008, when she moved to the Netherlands for her PhD at Faculty of Architecture I TUDelft. She was involved in EU projects about urban regeneration and reuse in Salzburg and Copenhagen. Merve was a freelance curator for the Netherlands Architecture Institute in 2012, where she coordinated two main projects on the reuse of buildings and urban transformation in Turkey. She curated Vocabulary of Hospitality for Studio X Istanbul and One Architecture Week 2015 in Plovdiv Bulgaria for EDNO. Merve taught different workshops and courses for The Hague Art Academy, Middle East Technical University, Lusofna University, Columbia GSAPP, TUDelft, Piet Zwart Institute, ... Currently Merve is organising and designing a kitchen+garden complex for refugees and local people in Gaziantep. Her work has been published in magazines like MONU, Volume, Zivot, uncube, as well as several academic journals. She is a blogger for Cairobserver and Failed Architecture.

RECENT WORKS

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

ONE ARCHITECTURE WEEK 2015UN-COMMON RIVER. A 10 DAY ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL

This is an experiment of commoning the Maritsa River. Commoning as questioning the nature of the river as a border. A border between nature and culture, north and south, European and non-European, private and public Commoning as the action of connecting, sharing, making, opening, relating and producing together. Commoning as exploring new co-existences and not as creating a substitute to the existing.

Ideas, seeds, water, air, cultures and spaces, which we collectively produce each and every day, all of those are common(s). They are the results of collective efforts, research, thought and creation through time and regions. During ONE ARCHITECTURE WEEK 2015, we will be exploring the networks in Plovdiv and creating new ones locally and across countries, through spaces of collective action along and across the river, on and under the water. We will be reading, listening, living, debating, sun-bathing, imagining, rowing, learning, doing, producing and re-producing.

_FESTIVAL_EXHIBITION_LECTURE & DEBATE_INTERVENTIONS

Plovdiv, Bulgaria 2015architecture week

client: EDNO

program: architecture week, film screening, lecture, debate, exhibition, workshop, event, expedition...

AFORMAL.ACADEMYRE:LEARNING THE CITY. THE SCHOOL PROGRAM FOR SHENZHEN BIENNALE

The notion of learning, like our comprehension of cities, is undergoing a massive transition. As opposed to the classical top-down, checking-boxes, fixed-systems; we need to REread and REform the process of acquiring knowledge. Often peoples defining educational moments are intense, dynamic, diverse moments/experiences/places out of the norms of the classroom and school. RELearning is a spatial and co-creational knowledge exchange, where professors, both foreign and local students, lecturers, local craftsmen, in-town guests, local researchers, exhibitors, and citizens crash together in a free flowing information exchange creating a process of multi-layered learning across disciplines, for all.

The academy will REthink the object as the core manner of perceiving architecture and urbanism. It seeks frameworks that enhance the REinterpretation of buildings, the REmaking of our cities, and the REimagination of our daily lives. In the largest metropolitan region in the world, amongst some of the newest and oldest cities, in an area with an ongoing legacy of east/west co-engaging; we will learn by operating within an adapting building, on a transforming city, and amongst an ongoing Biennale. The Aformal Academy is not merely a of series educational workshops parallel to the Biennale; it is a hybrid of learning by making, exhibition, and social space; at once the public at large with the evolving library of provocations and spatial archive of explorations.

_EDUCATION_CURATORIAL_COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT_ARCHITECTURE _URBANISM_LANDSCAPE

AGORAPHOBIAA FILM ON URBAN TRANSFORMATION IN TURKEY

The current wave of resistance against government action was triggered by the cutting of trees at Gezi park, just off Taksim Square in central Istanbul, in order to construct a large shopping mall in the form of historicist Ottoman military barracks. It is no coincidence that the unrest started with a police crackdown of protests against urban regeneration: urban issues form a major component of the protestors demands and urban regeneration has fuelled widespread discontent with public authorities.

In a country that is dealing with emergent issues of governance and economical development related to urban design and spatial planning, how is it possible to transform neighbourhoods and provide housing for the masses at an unprecedented speed and scale? Which role will a recent law play, that makes 6,5 million buildings eligible for transformation and demolition? Opposition is also growing. Protests have been staged against the demolition of culturally significant neighbourhoods and the displacement of communities. Critics point to the destruction of nature and the creation of dormitory towns, which lack amenities and public space. A significant amount of newly built high-rise housing could remain unoccupied.

This raises the question of how mass housing and regeneration could be better tailored to satisfying communities needs. What role can architecture and planning play in an industry that shows little concern for local contexts? And how might the experiences of local designers and planners, as well as colleagues from the Netherlands or UN-Habitat be relevant to these issues? In order to find answers, the architects, planners and a film crew travel from Ankara to Bursa and Istanbul consecutively. As part of their investigation, they visit transformation sites and interview the authorities in charge, scientists and local inhabitants.

_CURATORIAL_FILM PRODUCTION_URBAN TRANSFORMATION

Ankara, Bursa, Istanbul, TR 2012workshops, debates, excursions, conferences, road trip

client: Netherlands Architecture Institute

program: housing, community building, urban transformation, public space

collaborators: Middle East Technical University, Chamber of Architects Bursa, Building Information Center Turkey

funding: DutchDesignFashionArchitecture, Dutch Consulate-Istanbul

VOCABULARY OF HOSPITALITYEXHIBITION ON MIGRATION, REFUGEES AND URBAN SPACE

Until last year (2013), Turkeys regulations on refugees have partly referred to them as guests, implying that, Turkey is a transition country. The word guest comes from the same linguistic origin with the words host, ghost, hostile, hostage, hospitium, hospitality and describe the varieties of relationship between the host and the guest. The complexity inherent in this relationship includes several obligations and tensions: Why is the guest at the door? Where did he come from? What is his name; in fact, does he have a name? What does he want? Do I have to open the door? The responses to these questions determine the rules of hospitality.

This exhibition on migration and refugees in Istanbul was comissioned by Studio X Istanbul and was an annex to Archis travelling exhibition: Architecture of Peace.

_EXHIBITION_CURATORIAL _MIGRATION

Studio X Istanbul 2013exhibition

client: Studio X Istanbul

program: exhitbition, side events

artists:Banu CennetogluMetehan OzcanAuguy LufuluaboAbd Nova and Basem NabhanAlican InalUlku OktayArtikisler Collective

collaborator: Archis, Studio X, Columbia GSAPP

PAMFLETSERIES OF LECTURES, CONFERENCES AND DEBATES ON CITY FORMATION

Cities began as the gathering of individuals, with shared interests. In a return to its origins, the current formation of our urban habitat has come down from the ivory tower to include a multitude of actors musicians, chefs, graffiti artists, community organizers, ecologists, as well as corporations, politicians, architects, and urbanists. Rotterdam has long been at the forefront of urban development and has always profited from being embedded in an international discourse. In recent times, with the loss of The Berlage Institute and the Netherlands Architecture Institute, a strong platform for international debate is painfully missing.

PAMFLET invites innovative international voices back to Rotterdam to share their experiences and engage them into a debate with the Dutch practice.

_DEBATE_ARCHITECTURE _URBANISM_COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

BOSTAN: A GARDEN FOR ALLA REFUGEE COMMUNITY GARDEN+KITCHEN+RESTAURANT

This project is developing a garden+kitchen+restaurant project run by refugees for Gaziantep (Turkey) inhabitants. Bostan creates a vocational education environment and socio-economical value for refugees. Refugees role/perception in society transforms from the guest to the host.

Today in Turkey, only 1/4th of the refugees live in camps, where they are provided with all state services. Whereas 3/4th of the refugees end up in cities, where they get very little help from the state and aid organizations. Refugees, unless they obtain the legal status, are not allowed to work; mostly cannot benefit from health and education services of the states in which they seek asylum. This makes them into mere consumers, some locals even see them as parasites.

The garden and the restaurant provide a possibility for refugees to set up their own business, hence create economical value. Food/Kitchen/Cuisine becomes a cultural space of diversity/sharing/experiment. For instance, rice is cooked in many ways among Syrians, Kurdish, Turkish, Caucasians, Afghans, Iranians, the kitchen could become a catalogue of recipes. A Self sufficient complex is obtained, where the initial support transforms into sustainable socio-economical capital.

_EXHIBITION_CURATORIAL _MIGRATION

Studio X Istanbul 2013exhibition

client: Studio X Istanbul

program: exhitbition, side events

artists:Banu CennetogluMetehan OzcanAuguy LufuluaboAbd Nova and Basem NabhanAlican InalUlku OktayArtikisler Collective

collaborator: Archis, Studio X, Columbia GSAPP

_CURATORIAL_REUSE_RETHINKING PUBLIC SPACE

Istanbul, TR 2012curatorial, matchmaking, design

client: Galata Greek School FoundationNetherlands Architecture Institute

program: refunctioning a school building into a cultural center

collaborator: Group A, O+A, Perplekcity, Doepel Strijkers, Architectuurstudio Iris Schutten, Eva de Klerk, ABOUTBLANK, ZU Mimarlik, Daphne Mimarlik, arkiZON, NAI, GGSF, Benaki Museum, Goulandri Foundation, (special thanks: Aya Ince, Laki Vingas, Osman Kavala, Korhan Gms)

funding: DutchDesignFashionArchitecture, Dutch Consulate-Istanbul

supporters: Istanbul Culture and Arts Foundation (IKSV), Caf Nero, Aegean Airlines, Dafni Hotel

VOIDS IN THE CITYREUSE OF GALATA GREEK SCHOOL

How to reuse a vacant school building in the heart of Istanbul? Which role can architecture play in reprogramming a monument? And how vacant building become a reference point for the Greek minority? How to rethink public space in the current context? In collaboration with the Galata Greek Foundation, the Netherlands Architecture Institute organized workshops to look for answers for these questions.

A model of social, cultural and ethnical diversity until the 1930s, Istanbul started to lose this characteristic due to policies against ethnical minorities. A recent law has restored the rights of ethnical minorities, which allows them to reclaim properties that once belonged to their communities. The Galata Greek School is the first of these reclaimed properties. The Greek population in Turkey dropped from 200000 to 2000 in the last 70 years, leaving several buildings that belong to them empty. These properties are the voids in the city, to be reactivated and brought back to urban life. Through colloquiums and workshops scenarios are developed around concepts of courtyard of cultural experiences, by the Rum for the city, and learning by playing. The scenarios constantly interweaved architectural design with phasing, financing, organization, creation of new coalitions and branding.

METRO MOVIESA POP-UP SHORT FILM FESTIVAL IN PUBLIC SPACE

Metro Movies is a pop-up short film festival connecting and celebrating the city. Central topic will be the city, a place where people come together, share their dreams and generate new ideas that shape our world. Metro doesnt only stand for metro but also for Metropolitan.

Next to improving public space, Metro Movies wants to be a platform for filmmakers, filmlovers, and everybody who likes to inspire and get inspired. Further, the location of the festival literally happens under the metro line, at the station. The space is between two divided communities that of the Bijlmer, an diverse, mixed income, social housing area, and Amstel III, an suburban office park. The project at least for a day, brings these to communties together via the common interests of culture, food and public space.

_CURATORIAL_FILM_ARCHITECTURE _URBANISM_COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

ROTTERDAM POINTS OF VIEWPUBLIC CAMPAIGN FOR VOTER DETERMINED COMMUNITY INVESTMENT

Rotterdam has lots of space but few real places. There are many dramatic spaces, but few places to pause and appreciate these great moments. Rotterdams public space does not embrace the citys own special spatial qualities.

Water is throughout the city, but the remainders of the harbor do not adequately link the citizens to the water. And these waterfronts showcase Rotterdams best side.

Our plan is to take five points on the waterfront and transform them to hotspots. We will create one hotspot for every district of Rotterdam the north, south, east, west and center.

Via design competition a cutting edge pavilion and public space will form a great space in the city. An open design competition will allow a promising young Rotterdam based architect to build the place. The place will programmed with diverse events and offer top notch food and drinks. In the end, everything is done by Rotterdam makers and entrepreneurs - from chefs, to musicians, to dancers, to all of us.

_CURATORIAL_ARCHITECTURE _URBANISM_COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

URBAN DESIGN

URBAN CURRENT[S]A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF MEDELLIN

A river, by definition, refers to movement. Only if we interpret the Medellin River area as a single geographic entity composed of natural elements (fauna and flora) and artificial (history, culture, mobility) do we understand that the opportunity presented by this call goes beyond the area defined for the contest.This is why we consider it important to think of the river territory beyond a simple design of public space. It is the opportunity to re-structure and establish a framework for the future development of Medelln.

Ideas of history and identity are key to any city. Currently many cities choose to erase/cover undesirable history and forms of the city with classic forms of public space. Our proposal is to as much as possible to reuse the existing city forms and to reinterpret them in a more contemporary, people friendly manner. This is will remain more true to the citys collective memory, provide a richer public space and be massively more efficient in terms of investment spending.

_MASTER PLANNING_PUBLIC SPACE_LANDSCAPE DESIGN_INFRASTRUCTURE

Medellin, Colombia 2013competition

client: city of Medellin

program: Public space design, pavilions, bridges

site area: 423 hectares

collaborator: Taller 301, openfabric

VIENNA SIEMENSVISION FOR EVOLVING INDUSTRIAL AND OFFICE AREA TO DIVERSIFY USES

Learning from the qualities of the historical Leopoldauer Platz/ Angerdof typology, a ring of boulevards are set in place. These allow for public activities civic, commercial, gardens, etc to take place in the middle of the street. A place where the diverse community members can meet and mingle.

Siemens is currently a very inward focused site user. The development of the site will allow for Siemens to share/showcase some of their numerous innovative technologies, allowing community members to interact with the technology, for Siemens to get feedback on their work, and for Siemens to become a strong member of the community.

The triangle encapsulates the diversity of the entire area to come with industry, office, hotel, and residential all present on the plaza. The area space is generous to allow for events. These can start immediately. A series of events can be hosted to give more interest to the area and notify the region that the area is going to adapt. They can act as a bit of a PR campaign for the future. Additionally, the area can feature some old relics of some of Siemens past glories. Old turbines and other items, properly lit, will give the area a richness, history, and sense of awe. Ultimately the design is driven by the site itself. The local ecology, history, and contemporary urban realities merge to form an inextricably beautiful whole and form the pathway forward.

_URBAN DESIGN_ARCHITECTURE_LANDSCAPE DESIGN

Vienna, AT 2013competition

client: city of Vienna, Siemens

program: housing, office space, community buildings, commercial, and a public square

collaborator: Artur Borejszo, Leena Cho

DREIECKSPLATZ A TRIANGLE COHERES HOUSING, COMMERCIAL, AND SOCIAL FACILITIES

Located between the Vienna Ring and Vienna Woods, the site embraces the marks of both environments urban and nature as a basis for future development. Currently surrounded by houses with a large amount of private green space, what is needed in the site is a generous, quality public space that will invite and sustain diverse groups of community to gather, live and work by. Major forms of transit bus, tram and bicycle anchor three corners of the triangle-shaped plaza with an integrated train platform in the middle. Various residential, commercial and social programs both frame and spill out toward the public triangle and support its liveliness. Green space is maximized at all different scales, fostering health, education and social interactions, while each kind of nature from wild woods to herb garden defines the atmosphere of individual housing zone.

_ARCHITECTURE_PUBLIC SPACE_LANDSCAPE DESIGN

Vienna, AT 2011competition unanimous 1st prize

client: city of Vienna, railway company

program: housing, community building, commercial, and a public square

site area: 2.2 ha

collaborator: Artur Borejszo, Leena Cho, Andreas Karavanas

LOTUS PARKLEVERAGING SHARED OPEN SPACES TO PROVIDE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY

Lotus Park is a small informal settlement strategically situated adjacent to the Nyanga train station on the embankment of the canalised Lotus River. Unlike most informal settlements, Lotus Park is well structured both spatially and socially. The fine grain urban fabric comprised of single story shacks facilitates pedestrian movement and displays an intricacy of nuances in public and private thresholds and appropriation of space. Given the chance however, this vibrant community will embrace the opportunity to make Lotus Park their home. The Density Syndicate investigates how density can contribute to the social economic empowerment of the Lotus Park community. In comparison to other urban agglomerations, Lotus Park has a relatively high density of 220 p/Ha. The goal of the Density Syndicate is not to increase the density, but to create more indoor and usable outdoor area. By addressing this reconfiguration on the cluster scale, the benefits of both collective financing and participation planning can be maximised.

_MASTER PLANNING_PUBLIC SPACE_URBAN STRATEGY_INFRASTRUCTURE

Cape Town, South Africa 2014

client: City of Cape Town, INTI, ACC

program: Housing, retail, religious, education, public space, infrastructure

site area: 2.5 hectares

collaborator: Doepel Strijkers, Jakupa, CORC, VPUU

_PUBLIC SPACE_URBAN STRATEGY_INFRASTRUCTURE

Nairobi, Kenya 2015

client: UN-Habitat, IFHP, Making Cities Together, INTI

program: Retail, religious, education, public space, infrastructure


collaborator: Rodeo, Avanti, Placemakers, Cave

MUST SEEDA SCALED STRATEGY FOR COMMUNITY LEAD PUBLIC SPACE IMPROVEMENT

Must seed is a strategy for gradually scaling up the model of Mustard Seeds Courtyard in Dandora, Nairobi. The courtyards are not only a physical space - they are also a model structure, a way of organizing the local community in manageable units. Through the Changing Faces challenge, the courtyards have taken on a role as social catalysts, where different groups in the neighborhood have different interests and different parts to play in the use and maintenance of the space: kids play, teenagers and adults can find jobs doing maintenance, as court guards, or even set up small businesses inside the courtyards. The next step is to include even more groups, cater for even more events and most importantly - create jobs.

Must Seed is developed as a step-by-step strategy to scale up from the courtyards to the streets to the whole neighborhood of Dandora with the leave-way, the dumpsite, the abandoned factory area nearby and the Dandora train station area as bigger opportunities for development further into the future. Ultimately, the strategy could be a city wide or even nation wide way to tackle the use and management of public spaces. As Charles Gachanga, CEO of Mustard Seeds would say: If you change Dandora you change Nairobi. If you change Nairobi, you change Kenya.

UNFINISHED ARCHIPELAGOPROPOSAL FOR BORDER BETWEEN TIJUANA AND SAN DIEGO

The proposal continuously eschews nationality and sovereignity, instead focusing on the human experience. The border line is thickened, allowing space for everything. The waters of the Tijuana River flow freely between the two countries, with the inadvertent symbolism via the absence of a delineating fence. The space for the river currently is an expression of engineering. It is for no one; therefore the reclamation of this area does not represent a seizing of space from anyone or any place. The proposal is to return the river to nature and people. A dot on the map is formed- a physical acknowledgement of crossing time. Nevertheless, it is more than a border, more than a margin for people to cross from one side to the other, but a place to be, to linger within. Amidst the chaos of the area, a group of floating island is formed- a decolonizing archipelago. There is no completed building, but a provision of a shared infrastructure for continuous and spontaneous occupation and evolution. Like nature, the space is never finished.

_ARCHITECTURE_PUBLIC SPACE_LANDSCAPE DESIGN_INFRASTRUCTURE_SPECULATION_BORDER

Border between Tijuana and San Diego, Mexico-USA 2014competition

client: comptetition

program: Public space design, pavilions, archipelago building

collaborator: XSXL

I'm gonna tell you there's no black and no whiteFreddie Mercury

Private

Public

NOLLI FOR THE 21ST CENTURY The classic Nolli Map of Rome is an iconic repre-sentation of public and private spaces in the city.

Yet it has always been, literally, too black and white. The feeling one has as one enters a court-

yard or sits on a balcony are neither singularly public nor private. The common spaces on site

embrace this reality and celebrate it both formally and in terms of ownership realities.

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Weve entered the Green Age, with a worldwide trend for park making; the Guggenheim effect has given way to the Highline effect. While the Highline a park as a successful incinerator for urban renewal as well as a top destination - is a new phenomenon, Sokolniki has a long layered history that has been evolving over the years.

By looking backward to the heritage of the park, one can see the way forward for the future of Sokolniki. The roots of a resilient park that is well linked to its city and its citizens is already in its nature. It is not about adding another layer of trendy thinking to Sokolniki. It is about setting up a process of allowing the parks classic qualities to perform in a modern manner. It must evolve like any natural system, yet learn from its past like all cultural space: Evolutionary Heritage.


Sokolniki, Moscow 2015competition

client: city of Moscow


site area:

collaborator: Taller 301, LOLA

FLEXIBLE BASE

The base can host an array of programs, allowing spaces for the evolving needs of the community over time. The spaces at the edges against the public space can accom-modate more public programs for the community and for visitors.

GENERIC DIVERSITY

A simple grid, with a simple roof, and generous height allows for a variety of uses to occupy the spaces. This permits parking, plantings, retail, worker spaces, to lightwells, and much more. These give the site greater diversity and exibility.

3 IN 1

1.1. No soil removal. Much is sealed under the new parking surface. 2. No ooding issue. New soil is brought in for new spaces and plantings, and is high enough to protect development. 3. Free underground parking. No need to dig, the thickened base can accommodate parking and other programs.

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THICKENED PUBLIC BASE

TheThe base, which is owned by the municipality, grants the city the ability to remain an important actor at such a key site, and to retain custody over the public realm. On top of the base, the city will develop several exible buildings, at varying scales, and subsequently sell them to private entities.

LAPPING SPACES

Each building type has an intentionally ambiguous space. These leftover spaces are owned by multiple tenants. The spatial inhabitation must be resolved between the parties. This also allows for the development of exible uses over time.

MIX PUBLIC | PRIVATE

A series of spaces in the pubic realm are managed and maintained by private collectives of different scales, giving them a sense of ownership. Meanwhile a series of public functions are scattered within the private domain, helping to activate and provide security for the spaces.

THICKENED PUBLIC BASE

TheThe base, which is owned by the municipality, grants the city the ability to remain an important actor at such a key site, and to retain custody over the public realm. On top of the base, the city will develop several exible buildings, at varying scales, and subsequently sell them to private entities.

LAPPING SPACES

Each building type has an intentionally ambiguous space. These leftover spaces are owned by multiple tenants. The spatial inhabitation must be resolved between the parties. This also allows for the development of exible uses over time.

MIX PUBLIC | PRIVATE

A series of spaces in the pubic realm are managed and maintained by private collectives of different scales, giving them a sense of ownership. Meanwhile a series of public functions are scattered within the private domain, helping to activate and provide security for the spaces.

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PUBLIC SPACE DESIGN

SOKOLNIKI - EVOLUTIONARY HERITAGEA PUBLIC PARK STRATEGY FOR ONE OF MOSCOWS LARGEST PARKS




Sokolniki, Moscow 2015competition - 3rd prize

client: city of Moscow


site area:

collaborator: Taller 301, LOLA

Rotterdam has a structure of the urban farming projects that could become an alternative food landscape

the Schie canal is connecting the innercity of Rotterdam to Midden-Delftland and Westland

Er is weinig (financiele) ruimte voor innovatie in de landbouw (NRC)

Veel geld gaat naar relatief weinig organisaties

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_RESEARCH_FOOD SYSTEMS_LANDSCAPE DESIGN

South Holland 2015research

client: Stimuleringsfonds, City of Rotterdam, South Holland Regional Government

collaborator: LOLA

tomatos are the biggest export product of the Westland

De hoofdrolspelers binnen de bestaande voedselketen

Zijn er mogelijkheden om de keten te verkorten en de afstand tussen boeren en burger te verkleinen?

Wildernis langs de Spoorsingel

Voedseltuin Rotterdam

Wildernis langs de Spoorsingel

Voedseltuin Rotterdam

SEEDING MEMORYSTRATEGY FOR THE LONG TERM ADAPTATION OF OLYMPIC SPORT PARK

The sites legacy for Korea, Seoul, and the world is immense. It represents for many the emergence of Korea on the global platform. This history must be respected, but not treated as a static relic. The power of the site must be leveraged to bring forth a rich layer of surfaces and subsurfaces fertile for future legacies.

Urban ecologies, like natural ones, have life cycles. The strategy is to enhance already assumed large infrastructural gestures to allow space for experimentation, expansion, and even death of spatial programs. The space must not be redesigned to be once again static, awaiting its next redesign in 30 years. It must set forth a series of systems to allow for the site to grow and adapt with its city, its country, its people and the global society.

_MASTER PLANNING_LANDSCAPE DESIGN_INFRASTRUCTURE

Seoul, Korea2015competition

client: city of Seoul

program: Public space design, pavilions, bridges, building renovation, infrastructure

collaborator: openfabric

ERKESAN AGRICULTURAL RETREAT

The site, in rural turkey, called for a retreat amongst an organic farm. To link all of the programs together, a spine was formed around the river and is topped with a fabric protecting from the elements as well as providing visual identity. It culminates at the entrance of the site in an observation tower, with framed views to the distant and local landscapes.

The requested hotel program was transformed to create a contemporary take on the traditional regional village typologies; while the individual units were clustered and set amongst the farming landscape in direct contact with the sustainable agriculture. And a series of play spaces are set within the organic vegetable gardens.

The design was about allowing all of the program, thus the visitors, to connect with nature. Therefore, farming and natural systems lead the design strategy.

_MASTER PLANNING_LANDSCAPE DESIGN_ARCHITECTURE

Cerkes, Turkey 2013competition

client: losev foundation

program: landscape, hotel, recreation, restaurant, play spaces, camping, observation tower


floor area15,000 sqm

collaborator: Deniz Okten

ARCHITECTURE

building A as seen from the waterfront

CENTRAL MOSQUE OF PRISTINATRADITIONAL MOSQUE RE-INTERPRETED TO A CONTEMPORARY DESIGN

A Mosque is a common space for prayer, where the individual communicates amongst the crowd. Also, it is the focal point of the community, organizing everyday life around it. The design focuses on these two axes: the praying of the individual and it as a community center. The integration of traditional elements with a modern language is an essential part of the design.

The base of the prayer hall program relates the adjacent uses, binding them all together. Continuing this line of thought, a Hamam is incorporated to our design, the shops are solved in an Arasta typology, tying the mosque further to its community and its history.

The traditional dome, revak, and a courtyard forms are kept, but modified to the site context with a contemporary formal quality. The Ottoman master builder Sinan used domes for two reasons: to create the largest uninterrupted, unified volume and to maximize interior light. The design achieves these intentions but emphasizes the praying of the individual by integrating tubes in the design.


Pristina, Kosovo 2013competition

client: city of Kosovo

program: Prayer hall, hamam, conference center, commercial, library, gardens

site area: 8,100 sqm


collaborator: Taller 301

THE OPEN MUSEUMA MUSEUM FOR CONTEMPORARY ART

In a country like Russia, transparency is a goal for society. This project can represent that step forward. Instead of being a closed box filled with art, the museum can truly open to the people. It can expose not just the works, but the workings of the museum. Even a passerby can witness the full spectrum processes of the art world. One need not buy a ticket to engage with art.

The building provides a series of windows on each exhibition/event, drawing people into the museum and even forcing those uninterested in art to engage with it. The facade will act as a giant billboard to society.

More than merely a sculpture garden, this active plinth will mix public space, event space, and exhibition space. It acts as an active red carpet to the main entrance, permitting glimpses into the spaces below, giving a sense of anticipation along the approach to the museum.

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Moscow, Russia 2013competition

client: national center for contemporary art

program: exhibition, artist residency, retail, archive, plaza, park

site area: 17 hectare site, 300 ha study area


collaborator: Marcin Koltunski

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OPEN SOURCEIf you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.-Marcus Tullius Cicero

Knowledge is not about libraries or books or the internet. The accumulation of knowledge is essentially the foundation of civilization. Libraries have traditionally been the locations to store the information. Now libraries have the opportunity to be much more. They are the hubs to access, share, and to discuss knowledge. They no longer are mainly about storage and preservation. They are about ease of access and about gathering of people.

Further, the nature of how the information is shared has changed. With the advent of digital technology space no longer needs to be spatially ordered. Spaces can be much more dynamic and flexible, allowing for users to shape them more freely. The users themselves can form new ways of gathering and sharing knowledge with each other. The library is their tool to be interpreted.


Daegu, South Korea 2012

client: City of Daegu

area: 3,500 sqm

program: Library, social center, event space, caf, childrens play space, public space

collaborator: Artur Borejszo, Ignas Uogintas, Dalia Zakaite, and Grisha Zotov

URBAN FABRICINTERIOR PUBLIC SPACE INSTALLATION, EVENT/PRODUCTION SPACE

The old Singer Factory is located at Hoogstraat 170, next to the Vlasmarkt. After the WWII, Singer was one of the first to open a factory in Rotterdam, in order to produce jobs within the recovering city. Today, the factory is no longer functioning.

The SingerSweatShop, an artist collective, is currently activating the building. UrbanFabric strives to reveal and emphasize the urban quality and value of this particular space within the city. For this, a fabric is introduced as an abstract agent merging the history and present reality of the place. Additionally, the venue will offer a place to pause and have a coffee, drinks, and snacks along the zigzag journey. The space will feature a series of installations and performances relating to fashion and architecture. Urban Fabric is a project in the context of Architecture festival ZigZagCity.

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Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 2014festival

client: ZIGZAG CITY FESTIVAL

program: architecture festival, film screening, lecture, debate, exhibition, workshop, event, expedition...

TUGBAAN ENTRY INTO THE METIS ART GARDENS FESTIVAL

According to several myths and beliefs [Ayyavazhi, Armenian, Assyrian, Chinese, Celtic, Georgian, Iroquois, Norse, Mesoamerican, Mesopotamian, Persian, Turkic mythologies and Bahai, Christianity, Judaism, Kabbalah, Germanic paganism, Rastafari, Serer, Swedenborgianism, Taoism beliefs], the inverted tree: tugba, balances the macro cosmos and the micro cosmos. It can symbolize the human being, or all human beings in the world. It suggests that life does not come from the earth but from the sky. In some tales it is referred to as the tree of life, bringing the entire human environment into being.

Apart from the mythical origin of the upside down tree, this project speaks to the Canadian logging industrys realities and its aggressive treatment of nature as an industrial product. The rawness of the roots being upended and exposed symbolizes the raw violence inherent to the act of logging.

On an experiential level, the inverted trees question the standard relationship people establish with trees. The proximity of the roots allows the visitor to relate to the tree in a different way. The visual experience becomes almost tactile. The visceral sense of seeing the unseen the roots of trees engages with the viewer and asks them to forever reexamine their every day moments with trees.

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Quebec, Canada 2013competition

client: redford gardens

program: art garden

site area: 200 sqm

PLACE OF THE BED IN A ROOMFor any room, does the room change when we change the place of the bed? If not, what is different?-Georges Perec, Especes despaces, 1974

This competition on philosophy and perception of architectural space asked for a graphical representation to this question. Different contributors to the competition approached the question within a scope from reformulating it to upscaling it from the room to the urban.

From the jury report: Variety in perception, themes on light, sound and other elements of space, associations on the meaning of bed, the role of memory were the common aspects of all submissions. Besides, in many submissions the changing parameter was claimed to be the perceiver/user, and in some of them it was the room (space).

Our approach departed from the Deleuzean concept assemblage. We made an experiment with a glass box filled with water, ink dropped in water, and the stone in the box. These elements represented the room, the individual, change, and the bed, respectively. Through this experiment, instead of trying to answer this philosophical question, we tried to ask the question again in a different formulation and document the experiment by photographing it.

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Istanbul, TR 2010competition, 2nd prize

organizer: MEKANAR, Istanbul

program: representing a question by graphical means

collaborator: with Deniz kten and Zeynep Oguz

TEACHING/RESEARCHEXAMPLES OF RESULTS

A series of examples of research and explorations done in assorted Universities and Academies in regards to the city

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STAPLETON REDEVELOPMENTTHE REDESIGN OF THE FORMER DENVER AIRPORT

Informed by both the existing and former uses of this airport site, a series of mixed-use neighborhoods were created alongside wildlife habitat, industrial development, and a variety of open space typologies. This project was a winner of the Stockholm Partnership for Sustainable Cities Award in 2002.

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Denver, USA 2000-

client: ForestCity and the City of Denver

program: 30,000 residents in 12,000 homes, 10, plus, schools, an 80 acre (320,000 m2) Central Park, a commuter-rail station, 10,000,000 sq ft (930,000 m2) of office space, 1,500,000 sq ft (140,000 m2) of retail, and 1,100 acres (4.5 km2) for parks and open space.

site area: 4,700 acres (1900 ha)

collaborator: Wolff Lyon and EDAW

low density area

eastern quarter

southern quarter high density area and central park

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Moscow, RUS 2006-ongoing

client: Masshtab Management Company Ltd.

program: 116000 dwellings, 1185000 m2 commercial, 910000 m2 industrial, 530000 m2 retail, 604000 m2 social infrastructure, 600 ha leisure park space, 4 tram lines connecting to the Moscow metro system, 1 university, 60 schools, 150 kindergartens, 2 hospitals

site area: 8100 ha

with: URS and H+N+S

PROJECT A 101A NEW TOWN FOR 320000 RESIDENTS SOUTH-WEST OF MOSCOW

In 2007, Maxwan completed the 6000 ha master plan, dubbed Project A101, after having won an international competition in 2005. This is arguably one of Europes largest urban projects. Working closely with the client, engineers, landscape architects and a host of local consultants, the masterplan was approved by the regional planning authorities. The project features 116000 homes of varying size and type, 13 mixed-use centres, a business park (500000 m2 office floor space), a new university and an entirely new network of roads and public transport. Establishing a high level of social infrastructure, the development will include 2 hospitals, 20 health clinics, 60 schools, and 150 kindergartens. Our first priority was to develop a socially sustainable city where the inhabitants have all the necessary public amenities within an accessible distance. architects and urbanists maxwan

BARKING RIVERSIDE, LONDON, UKMASTER PLAN FOR NEW MIXED USE COMMUNITY ON THE THAMES

The Barking Riverside project proposes housing for 25000 people and will be built within the next 20 years on one of the largest underdeveloped sites in Greater London. The breathtaking site on the northern bank of the river Thames lies at the heart of the Thames Gateway Development, not far from Canary Wharf and the Lower Lea Valley (site of the 2012 Olympics). The design provides 11000 homes, urban facilities (shops, bars, restaurants, recreation, sports), schools, a large new park, a number of public squares, ecological values, and an animated riverfront resulting in 2000 new jobs. Accessibility to the river will be one of the features increasing value for the new residents and the inhabitants of the adjoining borough alike. The master plan describes in detail the structure and quality of the urban space, also outlining the plans development within the next 20 years.

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London, UK 2004 - on going project

client: Barking Riverside ltd.

program: 11000 houses, 22000 m2 retail/leisure, 2000 m2 health care, 3 schools

site area: 180 ha

collaborator: Karres + Brands landscape

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ROTTERDAM CENTRAL STATIONMASTERPLAN FOR THE AREA ADJACENT ROTTERDAM CENTRAL STATION

Rotterdam is building a new train terminal in the heart of the city. It will provide accommodation for high-speed links to and from Amsterdam, Paris and London, as well as a Randstad-rail connection, new subway station and bus terminal. Over 70 million people are expected to visit the new hub every year. Maxwan has developed an urban Master plan for the 1km long, 20 ha area surrounding the new Central Station. It provides a key to the transformation of an isolated, unattractive business environment into a well connected, lively part of downtown Rotterdam.

The Master plan stresses the importance of a coherent and well-managed development of a large number of projects within the area. These projects include public space design, a new bus terminal and several property developments totalling up to 600.000 m2 of mixed uses. For each project, a set of guidelines is provided that will secure high quality design of the public realm and its buildings.

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Rotterdam, NL 2007 - ongoing client: dS+V Rotterdam

task: master plan, improvement of public space network, traffic and public transport facilities site area: 20 ha


educational axis event square with auditorium

canteen student housing

student housing library

promenade faculty of art and design

WENZHOU KEAN UNIVERSITY, CNMASTER PLAN FOR NEW CHINESE, AMERICAN UNIVERSITY CAMPUS

Universities are more than merely places of study. Universities today are places for living, working and studying. Students want active, diverse, lively places. Cities offer these conditions. And urban places want to take advantage of all the student life, research technologies, etc. Our design preserves and enhances great existing natural qualities of the site. Proximity to the hills, gives the project a great backdrop, and the campus structure frames views, while existing water systems are linked to become the backbone, framework, and key feature for the entire campus network.

A campus is not a singular place. It needs different identities to give each area character. In relation to their context, program, and geographic setting, each area takes its own identity. The proposal suggests a variety of gardens, giving each area identity and a series of intimate, diverse moments to interact with nature.

The brief called for a grand central library. The proposal instead creates an active learning district. Besides the main library, the library program is separated into a series of faculty specific libraries. The libraries along with a restaurant function act as the front face of each building. Behind that front face other public spaces are included lecture halls, grand stairs, event spaces, etc. This essentially results in one big public space for learning filled with activity and places to hang out learn and share knowledge. Living and Learning are complex and intertwined. The proposal creates a series of interconnected spaces that allow for complex university life, to unfold in ways that are welcoming to students, faculty, and to the public at large.

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Wenzhou, CN 2012

client:

Kean University, Wenzhou

program:

education, housing, retail,

recreational, office

site area:

70 ha

floor space:

400.000 m2

with:

Ector Hoogstad Architects


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GENEVA, CHSUSTAINABLE INDUSTRIAL, LEISURE AND HOUSING COMMUNITY

Located at the junction of three distinct forms of development - agricultural, suburban and industrial - the challenge was to retain the qualities of the existing, while creating something new. On site, there are already many existing beautiful elements - farm houses, green houses, and existing trees. Keeping these is the first step toward long term sustainability, while allowing for a longer memory and understanding of the sites history.

Rather than insert standard suburban development with manicured greenways slicing through; the design made the entire site feel natural and then provided links to the riverway via intense swaths of raw nature. This set the green framework for the site. This green grid forms a Mondrian meets Pollack grid. Where the more regular large scale street network runs through the industrial area and transitions to a more loose, finely-knit, informal, and small scale pedestrian and bike passages leading to the more pastoral riverfront residential.

This transition from industrial to pastoral is further embraced by choosing to not develop the site following the guidelines of standard zoning. Instead we propose a more integrated gradient of building types from southwestern big box industrial to northeastern small scale residential to promote a smooth transition of programs and building types. This simple gesture has several advantages: it provides a wide variation in housing and open spaces on the site, encourages ecological richness, and a more socially sustainable community.

Because of the desire for an active neighborhood core with lively frontages on both sides of the Main Street, the proposal located the urban center within the district. This means a shift of the main street from the southern, traffic-intensive border to the core of the site. The main street will host the highest density residential, mixed with shops and will extend further east toward the sports and leisure activities. It connects to the regional transport and landscape networks and therefore to downtown business links, cultural arenas, and the larger ecological systems.

Inspired by current uses on site - green houses - future development will incorporate living machine technology. This will capitalize on sites existing fertile soils. A few key living machines will serve as local icons and centers for green education, visitor information, locals centers, and centers for energy and ecology.

_MASTERPLANNING_COMPETITIONGeneva, CH 2010

Client: Stadt Genf [City of Geneva]

Program: housing, industrial, sport, retail, culture

site area: 60 ha

In collaboration with:JDS / Julien de Smedt Architects


QINGPU, CHINAA CITY DESIGNED AROUND WATER

Water plays a central role in our proposal for the Qingpu master plan, just as it has been central to previous generations of residents in the area. The existing water ecology and culture is used as a foundation for a series of new public spaces that will allow each member of the community to connect to water: doing business, walking or playing. The five waters of Qingpu are designed to create specific atmospheres which form the basis of the citys identity and make it special and recognizable.

New business developments on the south side of the central avenue form small open spaces along a historic canal. Housing on the North side creates intimate spaces connected through a natural park along the main waterway, while cultural uses and retail spaces line the main waterway in the West. Marinas and docks along the eastern canal provide direct access for boats to the waterway system and finally the grand fountain on the central avenue is an expression and a symbol of the communities connection to water.

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Qingpu, CN 2009competition

client: city of Qingpu

program: 500000 m2 offices, 100000 m2 public space design

site area: 60 ha


view towards Guggenheim

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overlooking Guggenheim towards market

SOUTH HARBOUR HELSINKI, FI

RETURNING THE HARBOUR TO THE PEOPLE

Maxwan was awarded the highest prize for their competition entry STADI TERASSI in the Open International Ideas Competition South Harbour Helsinki, out of 201 submissions. The jury report states that the (Maxwan) proposal respects its environment in terms of the cityscape, and is an innovative, stylish and well substantiated totality and that new buildings are of high quality and have been uniquely and skillfully solved.

The South Harbour in Helsinki has a rich history, which is currently masked by a myriad of strictly functional spaces. This project sets out to do the obvious return the harbour to the PEOPLE of Finland. A few large scale shifts make room for a diverse series of small-scale, water-oriented public uses that ensure a lively space throughout the day and all the seasons. These moves together add up to creating a true Stadi Terassi or Helsinki Terrace, a place for people spilling out from the inner city, and for guests arriving from the waterside. All can find a place along the water to actively engage with its history, culture, and public life.

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Helsinki, FI 2011-12

client:

City of Helsinki

program:

public space, harbour facilities,

ferry terminals, market hall,

museum, cultural facilities, retail,

offices, housing, parking

area:

23 ha


KAUNAS, LT

MASTER PLAN FOR A SITE BETWEEN THE HISTORIC CENTER AND THE RIVER

The historic urban fabric of Kaunas had its ties to the Neris River severed in the 50s with the construction of the Lituanica factory. Our proposal provides five connections from the historic centre directly to the river. Between a series of urban blocks, an outdoor room is formed with an individual character. As these links extend out toward the river each provide a different manner of interacting with the preserved natural riverfront. Each forms a variety of new public programs, like grand terrace, pedestrian bridge, amphitheatre etc. The program for the site demanded five monocultures. The major program retail - forms a small scale urban tissue, creating a network of shopping options. The housing component is terraced over the retail, allowing for private out-door spaces with views in all directions. To the east of the site a major transit hub is created. A new municipal office complex is situated above the transit hub, forming an iconic entrance element for the city centre. The demand for a cultural program is on the western edge of the site, providing adjacency to the historic Kaunas Castle, as well as forming a tilted green roof allowing for a large green space to look out over the river and the Castle itself. With all of this urban tissue sitting atop a hidden and easily phaseable super parking structure.

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Lithuania 2009competition 1st prize

client: UAB Baltisches Haus, city of Kaunas

program: commercial, offices, housing, cultural, hotel

site area: 13 ha

total floorspace: 90.000 m2


POMPENBURG

A NEW HILL TOWN IN THE HEART OF ROTTERDAM

The Pompenburg site in the centre of Rotterdam is split in two by the entrance to the River Maas railway tunnel. The structure has been appropriately tainted by tile and graffiti and presents an insurmountable barrier. In our Pompenburg scheme, the rail-tracks are covered by a public deck that hides the tunnel from sight and reconnects the two halves of the site - and therefore two halves of the city.

To lift the existing grade level up to the desired height, we propose to build relatively cheap parking facilities on grade. The roof of the parking is the deck, the bridge, and the connection. The deck connects to the top of a former railway viaduct through Rotterdam North, which will be made accessible for slow traffic. Thus a new route is created between the commercial centre and the residential areas in the north. To the east the deck connects seamlessly with the existing Pompenburg road, providing a new route between the central station and the dense residential quarters around Blaak Market. Thirdly, a new bridge will connect across Schiekade, allowing direct access to the Central District surrounding Rotterdam Central Station.

_MASTER PLANNING_DESIGN GUIDELINES_PUBLIC SPACERotterdam, NL 2007 - ongoing client: Taskforce Pompenburg

program: 100,000 m2 of housing, office, education, horeca, leisure, culture, retail

task: master plan, improvement of public space network site area: 5.8 ha


ARCHITECTURE

KMC CORPORATE OFFICEA FRESH ICON HIGHLIGHTS TRADITIONAL COOLING SYSTEMS

Located in CyberCity, Hyderabad, this corporate building employs the idea of a double skin as a visually dynamic faade, as well as a screen that humidifies the air entering the building to create evaporative cooling for the interiors. The inner skin of the building is a reinforced concrete frame with standard aluminum windows. The outer faade comprises of a custom cast aluminum trellis with hydroponic trays and drip irrigation, integrated for growing a variety of plant species. The trellis also has an integrated misting system in order to control and regulate the amount of water released to the plants and used when required to cool the building or cleanse the faade of dust in the hot and windy summer months in Hyderabad. The principal of the facade is inspired by the idea of a double skin that allows a modulation of light and air through the building. This is in contrast to the business-as-usual idea of the green-wall, which is a simple application on a surface purely serving an aesthetic, not a performative function.

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Hyderabad, IN completed 2012

client: KMC

program: office, communal spaces, plaza

PRINCE OF WALES VISITORS CENTREPAVILION-LIKE SPACE FORMS A NEW ENTRANCE TO A HISTORIC MUSEUM

The visitors centre is located at the entrance of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS), formerly the Prince of Wales Museum, a Grade I heritage structure in Mumbai. The contemporary structure expands upon the footprint of a previously existing multipurpose hall, and is a part of an expansion plan for this prestigious urban landmark. The centre fulfills various programmatic functions, ranging from the integration of baggage collection and storage, to ticketing and security, as well as a museum shop, two hundred seat auditorium, and rest rooms.

A lightweight, stainless steel clad elliptical roof creates a covered verandah for circulation, integrating disparate visitor programs into a consolidated and modest, yet contemporary form. Glass and metal surfaces exist as a visual counterpoint to stout basalt stone of local heritage structures.

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Mumbai, IN completed 2011

client: CSMVS

program: office, info center, storage

HATHIGAON ELEPHANT VILLAGEA HOME FOR BOTH ELEPHANTS, THE TRAINERS, AND THEIR FAMILIES

A housing project for a 100 elephants and their Mahouts (care-takers), Hathigaon (or elephant village) is situated at the foothill of the Amber Palace and Fort near Jaipur. The design strategy first involved structuring the landscape that had been devastated by its use as a sand quarry by local sand suppliers, to create a series of water bodies to harvest the rain runoff, as this is the most crucial resource in the desert climate of Rajasthan. With the water resources in place, an extensive tree plantation program together with seeding the site to propagate local species.

The water body was a critical component of the design, as it also facilitated the bonding between the mahout and elephant, through the process of bathing an important ritual both for the health of the elephant as well as their attachment to their keeper.

The housing units are organized in clusters and situated on portions of the site that are not used for the landscape regeneration. Courtyards and pavilions supplement the otherwise small spaces that are allocated in the budget for this essentially low-income housing project. The site planning thus employed a system of clusters to create a shared community space at different hierarchies to build a sense of community among the inhabitants.

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Jaipur, Rajasthan, IN 2011

client: city of Vienna, railway company

program: housing, community buildings, commercial, and landscape

THINK TANK RETREATA SIMPLE, OPEN STRUCTURE FOR VISITORS TO MINGLE WITH NATURE

Located in the verdant environs of eastern Goa, the Think Tank Retreat is composed of eight living units and a health center. The ancillary programs of the health center (massage rooms, a conference facility and kitchen) are imagined as independent boxes that are integrated with a common plinth under a large pitched roof. The intimate spaces above the boxes serve as multipurpose decks for meeting, yoga and meditation.

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Valpoi, Goa, IN completed 2009

program: sleeping rooms, multipurpose spaces, landscape design

HOUSE NRENOVATION AND ADDITION TO A SEASIDE VILLA

Built in 1938, this Noordwijk seaside villa was battered by the salty sea weather over the decades and the house was in need of renovation.

Additions bring new distinctive features to the house, while respecting its original character. Extending into the back garden with floor-to-ceiling glass on three sides is the new living room, which maximizes light and views from among the treetops towards the garden and further out to the sea. In the opposite direction stretches the new kitchen, incorporated in a single precast concrete block. Its color contrasts to the existing house while harmonizing with the surroundings. Both extensions of the new kitchen and living room are clearly separated from the existing structure with glass slits, through which the sky dramatically bursts.

The spiral staircase connecting the uppermost levels elegantly uses the balustrade to support the treads, with the laser-cut pattern blending from closed to open for structural efficiency and recalling the breaking waves.

In addition to these major components, the entire house is renewed in a manner complementary to the original house

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Noordwijk, NL completed 2012

client: private

program: Single family home

total floorspace: 500 m2

collaborator: Structural Engineering: F. Wiggers Varsseveld


TBILISI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTTbilisi International Airport is the main airport serving Tbilisi, the capital city of Georgia. It is located at a distance of 17km to the south-east of the city. The airport connects the city to various international destinations such as London, Paris, Moscow, Istanbul, Dubai and Frankfurt. The whole airport was renovated in 2007 to increase its passenger handling capacity to 2.8 million per annum. The airport served 1.06 million passengers in 2011.

The airports old terminal building, which was designed in a Stalinist architectural style, was opened in 1952. It was designed with a symmetric axes and monumental risalit floor plan. A new terminal with international design architecture was constructed in 1990. In September 2005 TAV signed a build operate transfer (BOT) contract with Joint Stock Company Tbilisi International Airport for design, construction, operation and maintenance of overall airport renovation. The operational license is valid for 20 years.

The renovation project was initiated in January 2006 and completed in February 2007. It involved construction of a new terminal building with an area of 24 500 m2 and a capacity to handle 2.8 million passengers each year. A parking lot with an area of 5 570 m2 with parking capacity of 200 vehicles was also constructed. A 47 400 m2 apron, 6 285 m2 of service roads, 14 500 m2 of connecting roads, 23 000 m2 of taxiways and a runway, with an area of 46 765 m2, were added to the existing infrastructure of the airport. The renovated terminal has three passenger boarding bridges, 25 check-in counters, five boarding gates and three baggage claim carousels.

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Tbilisi, GO 2006competition unanimous 1st prize

client: Georgian Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure

program: Airport, Build, Operate, Transfer (BOT)

terminal area: 14 500m2

site area:110 000 m2

collaborator: TAV Design Office, Suha Afacan, Orkun Yenen, Unsal Susam

ESENBOGA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTAnkara Esenboga International Airport serves the capital city of Turkey and is one of the most modern airports in Europe. It is located in Esenboga, about 28km north-east of Ankara itself. The airport was selected as the best airport by the International Airports Council of Europe (ACI Europe) in the five to ten million passengers category. The airport handled 8.5 million passengers and recorded 72 244 aircraft movements in 2011, which marked an increase of ten percent over the previous year. The average daily traffic of the airport in 2011 was 175 aircraft movements and 21 000 passengers.

Esenboga International Airport is the result of a competition won by a Turkish firm called EDDA in 1998. The tender applied Building-Operate-Transfer (BOT) model and TAV Holding won the tender. TAV Design Office was held responsible of project development and implementation under the consultancy of EDDA. The project also covered re-functioning of the existing terminal. The terminal building has a total area of 183 135 m2, with a capacity to handle more than ten million passengers per annum. Airports construction was commenced in September 2004 and completed one year ahead of schedule. It became operational in October 2006. The terminal has an apron of area 296 000 m2, a duty free area of 2 387 m2 and also a food court arena of 5 200 m2. It has 19 passenger boarding bridges, 36 passport control booths, 102 check-in counters and 38 moving stair-sets. A large multistorey parking lot was built at the airport along with the passenger terminal, in 2006. It has an area of 120 000 m2 with 4 050 vehicle parking spaces.

An environmentally-friendly Cogeneration Station was installed at the airport in 2007 to generate electricity for use in the event of a power failure. This system allows power generation from natural gas, which is a cheaper and safer option. The Cogeneration Station also provides a Wastewater Heat Recycling System and ABS Chiller System to generate heat in winters and reduce heat in summers. This system also enhances the system efficiency and reduces carbon emissions. The airport terminal is designed to make maximum use of natural daylight to help reduce electricity consumption for artificial lighting.

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Ankara, TR 2004-2006competition, 1st prizeproject development

client: Turkish State Airport Authority

program: airport, Build, Operate, Transfer (BOT)

terminal area:183 135 m2

site area: 543 614 m2

collaborator: TAV Design Office in consultation with EDDA, ARUP, GMW, Bureau Veritas, van der Lande, EADUC

ATLANTIS HOTELDELUXE HOTEL AND HOLIDAY RESORT

This hotel project is the result of one main question of the developer: How to make it possible that the hotel guests stay in rooms for a short time and spend as much time as possible in the common areas.

Our response was to make the rooms comfortable and luxury enough but just enough, hoping that the guests will want to leave the rooms soon after they are finished with their initials demands within the room. In addition we designed the main circulation as complex as possible, so that the guests wander more in the hotel and discover the little niches here and there with cafes, bars, shops, etc.

Atlantis De Luxe Hotel and Resort is a LIMAK investment with an indoor area of 40 000 m2, located in Belek Tourism Center of Antalya. In this 5-star Hotel, there are 400 rooms and 30 holiday houses; 14 main halls, an exhibition area of 1 500 m2 and a convention center with a closed space of 4 100 m2, an auditorium for 1 100 persons and 4 separate halls for 75 persons. There are 11 pools in the facility, including an aqua park and two olympic swimming pools.

The project was initially developed by Atelier T, Istanbul, and developed later on by LIMAK Architectural Project Department; under the consultancy of Atelier T.

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Antalya, TR 2000design project by Atelier Tconstruction and operation by LIMAK Holding

client: LIMAK Holding

program: hotel, holiday resort

project area: 4500 m2

site area: 20 000 m2

collaborator: Atelier TLIMAK Architectural Project Department

LOVE COVEA VISUAL SHOWCASE OF MARITIME AND POP MUSIC ACTIVITY

Forming a true icon of the maritime and pop culture industries, the space is more than simply formally symbolic or a series of closed boxes; it functions as a visual display of bustle of the actual workings and events of pop and maritime culture. By exposing the reality of the maritime and pop industries, people can engage with these cultures.

Site StrategyIn Taiwan in general, and in Kaohsiung specifically, open space is a precious commodity. The choice was made to maximize the available open space on site. The ability to interact with water is integral to the public space design.

The BuildingThe building is a connecting structure from east to west, creating a vibrant retail bridge with views out over the cove. The building is given a thin profile, in order to press the activities against the faade, giving the public greater visual access, while also providing those in the building constant views out toward the harbor.

Logistics and EntrancesThe public space is laid out for simple functionality. There are three zones for parking, directly accessed from the adjacent streets. These zones also allow for loading and logistics straight up into the building. Covering these three areas is an undulating public space.

_URBAN DESIGN_ARCHITECTURE_LANDSCAPEKaohsiung,Taiwan, ROC 2010Competition

Client: City of Kaohsiung

Program: Cultural - Pop Music Center, Marine Center, Large Performance Hall, Music Rehearsal Space, Small Performance Halls


RED HILL RISEUSING A OFFICE DEVELOPMENT TO FORM A TOWN CENTER

The essence of the assigned task is to provide a successful office space development. The single greatest determinant of an offices economic value is the desirability of its location. Therefore, the design of this project does more than merely deliver high quality offices; it creates great spaces to work; AND to shop, drink, sit in the sun, meet a friend, and much more. By subtly manipulating simple, efficient material, structural, and energy systems, we create a rich, layered series of spaces and places for people.

Truthfully, sustainability is about more than the number of points one can acquire from a checklist about social impact, ecology, and energy; it is about long term economic value. But to achieve those long term goals, one needs a smart, short term strategy. This proposal maximizes current resources and potentials urban, infrastructural, cultural, ecological and building systems - to create a high initial return.

Ugly is never sustainable. In the end, the most sustainable thing one can do is make a beautiful space that people love. By embracing the sites existing potential and designing strategically to harness and enhance those qualities, the project generates a greater social, ecological, energy value; therefore, economic sustainability. A place people WANT to be.

_URBAN DESIGN_ARCHITECTURE_PUBLIC SPACEPrague, CZ 2013

Client: KKCG

Program: office, retail, culture, parking


PERFORUMPERformance + FORUM

The competition program required a collection of varying and related spaces. Instead of trying to press all of these assorted spaces with differing needs into one singular form, the design allows each spatial component to take on its own form. This permits each programmatic element to work independently and efficiently. The varying spaces are not compromised functionally in order to fit into a certain form. With this independence comes a need for cohesion. A grand forum was formed to elegantly resolve this issue. It not only provides formal coherence, but also social cohesion. It creates a space to hang out, bump into, or a moment to sit and watch people. The walls of the grand forum are more than merely edges of a mixing chamber. They provide literal windows into the activity of each program - vignettes into the life of the building. For each program there is an opportunity to retreat to the comfort of their own space, while the grand forum allows users to mix with each other - like public space - with the comfort of climatized space.

_ARCHITECTURETallinn, ES 2011

Client: City of Tallinn

Program: Ballet school, music school, high school, elementary school, performance halls, and dormitory


MARSTALL PLATZ HANNOVER, DETWO HOUSING BLOCKS WITH A WELL PROPORTIONED PUBLIC SPACE

Currently, the space is a parking lot with open ends toward city centre shopping district and the Leine River, while the long sides are bound by a residential district and a red light district. Given its central location and its surroundings rough bite, the site is a perfect habitat for young creative people. Our first step was to treat the space as an extension of the citys pedestrian network, linking it to the Leine River. The next step was to place a building on each of the ends of the space. This move gave greater definition to both the city centre and the river edge, and created a well proportioned public space. In the centre of this public space lies a multifunctional surface with a slightly tilting topography. While the ground level is slowly descending toward the river, the central surface is following the opposite slope. In this way, the square is transitioning from a sunken square, to an at grade passage, into a stage. The sunken square creates a water surface in summertime and an ice surface in wintertime; the stage allows concerts and open air cinema, student fashion shows and more. Two glass pavilions are located on the north side of the plaza to activate the street. They can be used for selling food or drinks in summertime, to renting ice skates in wintertime.

_ARCHITECTURE_PUBLIC SPACE

Hannover, GER 2010competition 1st prize

client: city of Hannover

program: two mixed use buildings and a public square

site area: 1,5 ha

total floorspace: 18000 m2

collaborator: LOLA landscape architects


G2C HOUSESUSTAINABLE FLOATING HOUSE ON AMSTEL RIVER

A floating house is actually another Amsterdam dwelling typology. Its difference from other dwellings is not only the fact that it doesnt rest on pilotis. Floating, in this case, has many consequences, ranging from rocking pendant lights to different mortgages, risks of water quality, scaffolding to walk in all weather conditions, etc. Much of what on earth is routine, needs to be re-invented here: Technically, legally, financially, urbanistically and organizationally. The competition of Amsterdam Municipality asks for a sustainable floating house on Amstel River.

Our approach was to make the house off the grid: Employ any potential Amstel can offer into the house to make it free/sustain itself.

We started with writing a scenario on the lifestyle of the family living in the house: Narrating the daily life of the household during one week, and in a year: How many hours they work, which days of the week they work, what to the children do, their hobbies, how long they go on holiday in a year, etc.

We employed a variety of technologies: Lifting the house from the ground by means of which using air flow to full extend; obtaining electricity from water flow, and from wind by turbines and sun by solar panels for hot water and electricity.

We insulated the house: Producing the details of the dwelling so that it is well insulated from outside weather conditions, good windows, etc. Gathering the necessary materials from the closest location was essential.

We calculated the efficiency of the house from the beginning: We started with modelling the energy efficiency of the house from the initial step, modelling the energy requirements of the household. At every step we updated our model to see the change in energy consumption levels.

_ARCHITECTURE_SUSTAINABILITY_FLOATING TECHNOLOGYAmsterdam, NL 2010competition, honourable mention

client: Amsterdam Municipality

program: single family dwelling on water

site area: approx. 30 m2

collaborator: Ebami Tom, Yaron Tam, Roy Wijte, Sine elik, Monika Konrad

PUBLIC SPACE DESIGN

_MASTER PLANNING_DESIGN GUIDELINES_LANDSCAPE DESIGNAntwerp BE 2009-ongoing

client: city of Antwerp (AG Stadsplanning)

program: (national) sports facilities, youth clubs, landscape park, recreational park

site area: 85 ha

collaborators:Karres + Brands (landscape) 1010 architecture urbanismGoudappel Coffeng (traffic)


RUGGEVELD ANTWERP, BEURBAN / LANDSCAPE / RECREATIONAL / SPORTPARK ON THE CITY EDGE

The ambition for the Park Ruggeveld is to combine recreational needs of Antwerp and Deurne with ecological functions of the Groot Schijn and Koude Beek valleys, in such a way that a very accessible, multi-favoured urban park appears. The masterplan offers a patchwork of diverse activities and atmospheres, held together by a strong and unifying public backbone. Our vision offers answers to three major questions: How to unify Ruggeveld and Boterlaar-Silsburg into one coherent space with strong connections to the surrounding parks and streets; How to reveal the existing ecological assets of the two valleys and transform them into a prominent feature of the park; How to resolve the fragmented nature of the site into a strongly recognizable identity. The plan introduces the principle of the seams. The seams act as an organizing structure to define open spaces and form a network connecting all program elements such as soccer fields or youth clubs. The seams are designed with bending paths, in a setting of abundant trees, to offer an unexpected experience with surprises around every corner. They radiate out to the edges to form entrances and also to complement the character of the surrounding streets. Awarded the prestigious Flemish Spatial Planning Prize for the most innovative and exciting initiative on environmental quality and sustainable spatial development.

BLACK MEADOW OSTRAVA, CZA NEW CULTURAL CENTRE

Ostrava is bidding to become the 2015 Cultural Capital of Europe. Within this frame, Ostravas ambition is to upgrade their cultural centre on the so called Black Meadow site, an area between the old city centre and the Ostravice River. The focus of the competition was to create an identity for the area as a whole, while linking the city centre to the river. Maxwan literally designed a black meadow in the form of a beautiful landscape park surrounded by a unifying ring of existing and new buildings. Streets are extended into the site, forming a shared surface, allowing for restricted auto use and free movement for pedestrians, while leaving a core open space. A slow steady slope descending from the rings edge to the riverfront is created, with existing trees preserved on a series of grassy mounds. Where the mounds are not preserved a new black paving is inserted, creating a flowing paved public space. The open space is envisioned as an extension of the river itself and connects the city centre to the Ostravice River. The project creates a new type of open space - a Cultural Meadow, where art, family, music, dance, literature, architectural, ecological and social programs can hang out together.

_MASTER PLANNING_URBAN DESIGN_LANDSCAPE DESIGN _ARCHITECTURE

Czech Republic 2010competition 1st prize

client: city of Ostrava

program: concert hall, exhibition hall, centre for modern music, school, creative incubator combined with a school of arts and management, housing site area: 20 ha


23 PARKS AND 1 BRIDGEA NEW VISION FOR A HISTORIC SERIES OF DISJOINTED OPEN SPACES

This project sets out not to create one park, but many great parks. Given the shear

scale of the project the idea is not to create a singular grand vision, but to create a

framework for thinking about the idea of a park that is intrinsically related to how to

successfully implement the park over time. In reality, most parks are composed of a

series of separate spaces that are somehow bound together. This design embraces

that reality and showcases it. This diverse set of spaces combined with the four

binding elements, shown raw, gives the park its distinct identity.

The park blends the historical with the contemporary. The view of the panorama of

the park is highly valued by the citizens of the Ukraine. Historically, the hillside was a

series of beautifully undulating hills that are now masked by a mass of monotonous

trees. By diversifying the hillside, both in terms of planting and in terms of program,

the park will reveal and represent a much deeper meaning to the Ukrainian people.

At the time of the design, Kiev was preparing for the 2012 UEFA football

championship. As part of the design of the park project Maxwan resolved a missing

gap in the primary pedestrian connection by creating a bridge. Avoiding assumed

formal or structural gestures the design strives to create a signature place within the

park. Besides functional crossing, the bridge is also a place to linger and enjoy the

view. At night when the most spectacular football moments of the tournament will be

projected on Europa plaza, the illuminated bridge will become the icon of the games.

_MASTER PLAN_PUBLIC SPACE_ARCHITECTURE

Kiev, UA 2011

client:

City of Kiev, C

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