2016-2017

San Francisco Bay

Resilience by Design
Designing for uncertain delta-landscape futures
In collaboration with/ joint Urban Design Studio
UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design

TU Delft
Delta Urbanism Research Group
Architecture
Urbanism
Landscaoe Architecture
Hydraulic Structures and Flood Risk
Policy Analysis

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Delta Interventions
Graduation Studio
Architecture & the Built Environment Civil Engineering & Geosciences Technology, Policy & Management
TU Delft, Department of Urbanism & Department of Architecture
Delta Urbanism Research Group

Delta Interventions
Graduation Studio
20162017
San Francisco Bay Area Resilience by Design
Designing for uncertain delta-landscape futures

Studio Coordination
Delta Urbanism Research Group
Dr.ir. Taneha Kuzniecow Bacchin
t.bacchin@tudelft.nl
Chair Urban Design Theory & Methods, TUD A+BE
Prof.dr.ir. Han Meyer
Chair Van Eesteren, TUD A+BE
Prof.ir. Frits Palmboom
Joint Urban Design Studio
UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design
Prof. Peter Bosselmann

Graduation Mentors:
Chair Urban Design Theory & Methods, TUD A+BE
Prof.dr.ir. Han Meyer
Dr.ir. Taneha K. Bacchin
Chair Environmental Technology & Design, TUD A+BE
Dr. Fransje Hooimeijer
ir. Kristel Aalbers
Chair Landscape Architecture, TUD A+BE
Dr. Steffen Nijhuis
ir. Inge Bobbink
ir. Denise Piccinini
Chair Complex Projects, TUD A+BE
Prof.ir. Kees Kaan
ir. Stefan de Koning

In collaboration with
DIMI Delft Deltas, Infrastructure and Mobility Initiative, TUD
ir. Peter van Veelen
Section Hydraulic Structures and Flood Risk, TUD CEG
Prof.dr.ir. Bas Jonkman/ ir. Mark Voorendt
Section Policy Analysis, TUD TPM
Prof.dr. Frans Klijn/ Dr.ir. Tineke Ruijgh-van der Ploeg

Case study
San Francisco Bay
California
Delta Interventions website
www.deltainterventions.com
TU Delft website
http://www.tudelft.nl/en/study/master-of-science/
master-programmes/architecture-urbanismand-building-sciences/urbanism/programme/

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Delta Interventions Studio

20162017
San Francisco Bay Area Resilience by Design
Designing for uncertain delta-landscape futures

In the development of delta areas there has always been a strong relation with the water.
Not only does the delta offers great conditions for settlements and trading (which have
made deltas worldwide into high density areas), there is also the threat of the water.
For decades delta areas were developed with this balance between opportunity and threat.
In the Netherlands the water was more and more controlled until we had a safe fixed
situation leaving a landscape that is shaped by its need to protect the land against the water.
In urbanized delta areas detaching the city from the water almost became a luxury that only
the most developed areas could afford.
Due to a changing climate and changing insights concerning sustainable relations
between cities and waterscapes, new interventions will be needed to create a new deltalandscape. In addition to safety and better water-systems, there is a need for stronger
spatial identities and new cohesions of cities and their waterscapes. This is a task that
cannot be solved within one discipline; architects, urban designers, landscape designers,
civil engineers, policy analysts and decision makers will have to work together on different
pieces of this complex assignment. Delta Interventions therefore is an inter-disciplinary
studio which, on a wide variety of scales, deals with the necessary transformation of the
delta. The Studio is designed to reflect on both the Dutch delta as well as foreign deltas. We
set up connections with research institutes and universities in the United States (Houston,
New Orleans, Berkeley), China and South-West Asia, Argentina and Brazil to work on a joint
comparative Delta research and design project.
For the academic year 2016-2017 the focus of the studio will be the assignment provided
by the Bay Area Resilience by Design Challenge launched in April 2016 by Chief Resiliency
Officers from San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley, Bay Conservation and Development
Commission, Association of Bay Area Governments, Bay Area Regional Collaborative, San
Francisco Estuary Institute, SPUR, the Climate Readiness Institute, and the California Coastal
Conservancy. Inspired by New Yorks Rebuild by Design the design competition aims at
addressing challenges affecting the resiliency of San Francisco Bay Area neighbourhoods,
environment, and infrastructure in an era of climate uncertainty. In collaboration with the
University of California, Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Delta Interventions
Studio seeks to develop innovative projects to increase Bay Areas adaptive capacity
and local area performance in response to future uncertainty in climate and urbanization
patterns.
Within this scope of the delta, students are free to follow their fascination and choose
their own assignment (design, engineering, policy and management) which can vary from
buildings, constructions and public works to urban areas, landscapes and regions.
Since the development of the Delta is a contemporary issue that takes an important role in
governmental policies and national research programs, the studio will collaborate with several
professional organisations.

Research Group
Delta Urbanism
Delta Urbanism focuses on the need for new
integrated approaches in the design and planning
of urbanised delta areas. Deltas need a balance
among different claims and interests, such as
urbanisation, port- development, agriculture,
environmental and ecological qualities, flooddefence systems and fresh-water supply.
Balancing competing claims in deltas requires
new relationships to be forged between design,
engineering, science and governance. Delta
Interventions Graduation Studio led by Delta
Urbanism reflects on new interdependencies
between natural processes and societal practices
for the delivery of attractive and water resilient
urbanised areas, landscapes and regions. The
specific goal is the development of performative/
multifunctional designs and adaptive strategies for
the different dynamics and uncertainties shaping
the future of deltas.

Delta Interventions Studio Setup

Setup
The Architecture and Urbanism graduation tracks run in parallel. Whereas architecture
students start with their individual design projects from P1 onwards, urbanism students have
a larger overlap between their research and the design project in between p1 and p2.
For Landscape Architecture, CEG, and TPM students (who are more then welcome to join
the studio) we make a tailor-made program together with the responsible teacher from your
faculty.
p1

p2

week 1.10

Architecture

project

research

p1

Urbanism

research

p3

project

p2
research

p4&5

week 3.10

project

p3
project

p4&5
project

Courses
Architecture and Urbanism tracks have different obligatory courses aside of the Delta
Interventions Studio to follow. Below you find the course you follow in or as an addition to
the Delta Interventions Graduation Studio during your MSc3:

Urbanism students

Architecture students

AR3U012 Thesis Plan 4 ECTS

AR3A160 Research Methods 6 ECTS

parallel course

parallel course

AR3U040 Graduation Orientation 2 ECTS

AR3D010 Aspects of Water Related Design 5 ECTS

parallel course

course within the studio

AR3U100 Delta Interventions Studio 20 ECTS

AR3D020 Delta Interventions Studio 15 ECTS

course within the studio

course within the studio

AR3U022 Theory of Urbanism 4 ECTS

AR3U022 Theory of Urbanism 4 ECTS

parallel course

parallel course

Total ECTS: 30

Total ECTS: 30

Field Excursion San Francico Bay Area

Joint Design Studio TU Delft UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design
An excursion to the San Francisco Bay Area and Joint Design Studio between TU Delft
students and UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design students is organized in
week 1.7 from October 14th to October 21th, 2016. This excursion is optional for all
students joining the studio. Although we always try to find sponsors for part of the foreign
excursion, students should anticipate additional expenses.

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week 1.1

week 1.1
Tuesday, Sept. 6th

Studio
Calendar

Thursday, Sept. 8th

08:45 - 10:30

room
13:45 - 16:45

room

BK-IZ W

week 1.2
Tuesday, Sept. 13th

Thursday, Sept. 15th

08:45 - 10:30

room

room

13:45 - 16:45

BK-CZ F

BK-IZ W

week 1.3
Tuesday, Sept. 20th

room

AR3DI020 Workshop 'Delta Urbanism - Design Delta Interventions Part I'

AR3DI010 Aspects of Water Related Design (ARCH)

week 1.3

08:45 - 13:45

BK-CZ F

AR3DI010 Aspects of Water Related Design (ARCH)

week 1.2

13:45 - 16:45

AR3DI020 Introduction Delta Urbanism Research Group &

Delta Interventions Graduation Studio

AR3DI020 Capita Select 'Design Delta Interventions/

Water Seminar' - Session 1
DW-IZ 3 (160 1verd)

Thursday, Sept. 22th

08:45 - 10:30

room

AR3DI020 Workshop 'Delta Urbanism - Design Delta Interventions Part II'

BK-CZ F

AR3DI010 Aspects of Water Related Design (ARCH)

BK-IZ W

week 1.4

week 1.4
Tuesday, Sept. 27th

08:45 - 13:45

room

13:45 - 16:45

AR3DI020/AR3CP040 Capita Select 'Design Delta Interventions/

Water Seminar' - Session 2
DW-IZ 3 (160 1verd)

Thursday, Sept. 29th

08:45 - 10:30

room

AR3DI020 Workshop 'Delta Urbanism - Design Delta Interventions Part III'

BK-IZ Q

AR3DI010 Aspects of Water Related Design (ARCH)

BK-IZ W

week 1.5

week 1.5
Tuesday, Oct. 4th

08:45 - 13:45

room

13:45 - 16:45

room

AR3DI020/AR3CP040 Capita Select 'Design Delta Interventions/

Water Seminar' - Session 3
BK-CZ A

AR3DI010 Aspects of Water Related Design (ARCH)

BK-IZ W

week 1.6

Thursday, Oct. 6th

08:45 - 10:30
room

13:45 - 16:45

room

room

13:45 - 16:45

room

AR3DI020/AR3CP040 Capita Select 'Design Delta Interventions/

Water Seminar' - Session 5
BK-CZ B

AR3DI020 Design Delta Interventions Studio

Studio Space: 01+West 410 - Tables: 1.044 + 1.045
(Mezzanine Urbanism Studio)

week 1.7

FIELD TRIP TO SAN FRANCISCO BAY/ BERKELEY - FROM

October 14th to October 21th

week 1.8 >> week 4.11

13:45 - 16:45

room

BK-IZ Q

AR3DI020/AR3CP040 Capita Select 'Design Delta Interventions/

Water Seminar' - Session 4
BK-CZ B

week 1.6
Tuesday, Oct. 11th

08:45 - 13:45

AR3DI020 Workshop 'Delta Urbanism - Design Delta Interventions Part IV'

AR3DI020 Design Delta Interventions Studio

Studio Space: 01+West 410 - Tables: 1.044 + 1.045
(Mezzanine Urbanism Studio)

week 1.8 >> week 2.5

AR3DI020/AR3CP040 Capita Select 'Design Delta Interventions/

Water Seminar' - Sessions 6 > 13 (see detailed calendar)

Thursday, Oct. 13th

08:45 - 13:45

room

AR3DI020/AR3CP040 Capita Select 'Design Delta Interventions/

Water Seminar' - Session 6
BK-IZ Q

 UrbanRISKLab MIT School of Architecture and Planning:

Miho Mazereeuw, Aditya Barve, Barry Beagan, Kyle Barker, Phebe Dudek, Fei Hong, SunMin
Hwang, Chris Mackey, David Moses, Nicholas Polansky, Ulises Reyes, Mingx Zou

Design Delta Interventions/

Water Seminar
Delta Interventions Studio / Complex Projects Studio
Capita Selecta
Understanding dynamics shaping urbanized deltas and how to interven

Introduction

Session 1
Tuesday, 20 September

Waterscapes urbanism and architecture dimensions
Time/ speaker:

On Processes

09:45 - 10:30
10:45 - 11:15
11:30 - 12:15

Han Meyer
Frits Palmboom
Kees Kaan

Session 2

Tuesday, 27 September

Planning, decision making and negotiations
Time/ speaker:

09:45 - 10:45
Tineke Ruijgh


Hydraulic structures and flood risk
Time/ speaker:

11:00 - 12:00
Jeroen van den Bos
Stakeholder processes in planning, decision-making and implementation
Time/ speaker:

12:30 - 13:30
Leon Hermans


Session 3

Tuesday, 04 October

Ecology
Time/ speaker:

09:45 - 10:45
Steffen Nijhuis

11:00 - 12:00
Milo de Baat


Coastal morphology and morphodynamics of estuaries
Time/ speaker:

12:30 - 13:30
Speaker being confirmed
Session 4
Thursday, 06 October


Urbanization and economic exploitation
Time/ speaker:

On Instruments of Design

13:30 - 14:30
14:45 - 15:45

Carola Hein
Reinout Rutte

Session 5
Tuesday, 11 October

Reading/ designing for different dynamics of urbanized deltas
Time/ speaker:

09:45 - 10:45
Han Meyer
Session 6

Thursday, 13 October

Space and place narratives/ exploring by drawing

Time/ speaker:

09:45 - 11:00
Frits Palmboom

On Design

Session 7

Tuesday, 01 November

Designing with scales water sensitive design

Time/ speaker:

09:45 - 10:45

Nanco Dolman

Designing with scales nature as performative infrastructure

Time/ speaker:

11:00 - 12:00
Taneha Bacchin
Session 8
Tuesday, 8 November


Building with Nature
Time/ speaker:

Session being confirmed

Session 9
Tuesday, 15 November


Site-specific design cultural agency
Time/ speaker:

09:45 - 10:45
Joost Koningen

Site-specific design design principles
Time/ speaker:

11:00 - 12:00
Frans Klijn
Session 10

Tuesday, 22 November

Designing with time flexibility of the urban fabric/ program

Time/ speaker:

09:45 - 10:45
Birgit Hausleitner
Designing with time adaptive delta design
Time/ speaker:

11:00 - 12:00
Peter van Veelen

Session 11

Tuesday, 29 November

Resilience by design the transformation challenge
Time/ speaker:

09:45 - 10:45
Chris Zevenbergen
Session 12

Tuesday, 6 December

Designing with uncertainty hydraulic engineering

Time/ speaker:

09:45 - 10:45
Kristina Reinders


Designing with uncertainty subsurface/surface spatial design synchronicity
Time/ speaker:

11:00 - 12:00

Fransje Hooimeijer

Session 13

Tuesday, 13 December

Design thinking for integrated infrastructure engineering

Time/ speaker:

09:45 - 10:45
Joannes Visser
Complex projects
Time/ speaker:

11:00 - 12:00
Bert van Ekelen

12:30 - 13:30
Manuela Triggianese

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