Resume
Personal information:
Adres:
Van Hasseltlaan 686 2625 JS Delft
Education:
Jun 2011
Master of Science with distinction Architecture, Urbanism & Building sciences Major: Urbanism Delft University of Technology
Telephone nr:
+31630643766
Overseas experience:
May/Jun 2010
Globalisation; Research on the urban impact Argentina, Buenos Aires. 15 ects Masterscourse with on site research & collaboration with local university; participant. TU Delft University of Technology & Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseo y Urbanismo.
Aug 2006
Behind the image China, Beijing + Shanghai. 1 month Studytrip + research; participant. Stylos (study association of the faculty of architecture, TU Delft)
Experience:
2006 2011 (present)
Guide + Workshop facilitator, NAI (Netherlands architecture institute)
Languages:
Dutch (Native) English (Proficient)
Software:
Proficient: - Adobe: Acrobat, Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop, Premiere Pro (CS5) - Google sketch-up (8) - Microsoft Office Intermediate skill level: - Autodesk: Autocad / AutocadMap 3D, Maya
Cover illustration: Imaginative drawing of a city, produced around may 2000, by Author.
Sept 2008 - Jan 2009 (Parttime) Feb 2009 July 2009 (fulltime)
Treasurer / Organizing committee Indesem (international design seminar 2009), In cooperation with: Delft University of Technology & Stylos (study association).
Interests
This portfolio shows my work as urbanism student, at the Delft University of Technology, from the period of 2009-2011 As an introduction to my work I would like to introduce my personal interests related to the field of urban planning and design and thereby position myself within the professional field. I will do this by means of three themes:
Strategic design
The driving force behind a good project is unmistakably the role of the spatial strategy in relation to the design. A clear strategic concept should allow different actors easily to be involved in the design process. In addition the angle of an academic approach can be of value in the development of a spatial strategy and build a bridge between research and practice.
Date: Fall 2010 - Spring 2011 Context: Thesis project, TU Delft Department: Urbanism Chair: Urban design / Landscape architecture Prize: TU Delft, Archiprix selection 2011. Keywords: Urban Fringe, Flowscapes, Urban Morphology, Metropolitan form, Design experiment Introduction: The A4/ Vlietzone is both literally and by figure of speech a space in-between. Located between the Vliet and the A4 highway, this multifunctional area has gradually given way to impoverishment. Once a cultivated place in the countryside, where a multitude of country estates flourished, now a marginal place along the big bundle of spaghetti that is called the A4 junction, Ypenburg. Approach / Method: Through the case of the A4
Vlietzone, The graduation project addresses the Inherent qualities of the Urban fringe within strongly urbanized contexts and focusses on the way infrastructure often has been imposed on these fringe landscapes. By means of a design experiment the opportunities for a transformation of the Vlietzone have been defined in three spatial models, reflecting on a different treatment of infrastructure, program and landscape.
Outcome: Through the design experiment, the project provides a guide for action, stressing the analogy of the interventions proposed in the 3 models: - Provide legibility of the urban landscape through cultural historical identity and landscape grain. - Improve the spatial organization of the area through improved permeability and connectivity of the area and focus on the development of a distinctive road-allotment relationship.
Vlietscape
International zone
A4/Parkway
The context of the three models, of Vlietscape, International zone and A4/Parkway, shows the potential to activate the site of the Vlietzone in the larger structures of waterways, national highway networks and (public) transportation systems on the scale of the city region.
Design experiment
Vlietscape
3
am nd he id sc to Le To Zo et er m ee r To Yp en bu rg
2 1
To th e Hag ue
To
Yp en bu rg
Urbaninzation
Culture history
To
Th
Hag
ue
Waternetwork
500m
The model of the Vlietscape: uses the current isolated character of the area to exploit this as a quality, establishing a strong contrast between urban and rural land-uses within urbanised areas. The model uses the water network as a carrier for the development of a slowzone, focussed on urban agriculture, energy production and leisure, spatially organized by the countryestates & polderstructure.
Ditch
Reet
Ditch
Robinho park
Ditch
Willow forestry
Boezem
500m
20m
Design experiment
International zone
Model 2 explores the opportunity to create a new urban district, integrating the Vlietzone within the existing urban fabric. That also allows connections to be made with the isolated residential (vinex) extension areas and the citys central zone. And promoting the extension of the Hagues international activities around the landscape coulisse.
100 m
60m
100 m
500m
Int. Ring
International Institutes
Office - estates
A4
Sportszone
20m
Ypenburg residentialzone
Design experiment
A4 Parkway
The third model takes a more radical and less biased stance in discussions on urban rural dichotomy. Instead of categorizing infrastructure as a boundary of the urban fringe, the Parkway model introduces a qualitative infrastructural landscape that actively engages both urban program and landscape features. The case of the Vlietzone illustrates the harmonious merger and potential of linear structures in the urbanized landscape.
100 m
120m
Vliet
Residential zone
500m
20m
Generic principles
N
500m
500m
500m
Together the models clearly illustrate the complex assignment that exists for an urban fringe transformation, such as the Vlietzone. Ultimately the project does not intend one model or a joint model to be implemented - likely adding up to a range of already existing spatial claims. What the project does intend to offer is a number of spatial interventions that are recommended to improve the spatial organisation of the fringe These recommendation address the inherent problematics of the urban fringe and regardless from the programmatic infill, could be picked up in other contexts as well.
100
500m
500m
500m
Rail
70
100
A15
A15 Rotterdam
3
50 100
5
Railway
N200
Brettenzone Amsterdam
A44 Leiden
A44
Date: Spring 2010 Context: Globalisation - Elective course, TU Delft, Joint program with: University of Buenos Aires FADU, municipality of Avellaneda, municipality of Buenos Aires. Chair: Spatial planning & Strategies In cooperation with: Hanne van den Berg, Vytas Buinevicius, Karolina Konecka, Martine Tragter, Yu Zhang, Yuli Zhou Summary: Introduction: In the context of the globalization
course, by means of a lecture series, students were given insight into globalization processes and their spatial consequences in developing countries. Through joint analysis, the socio-spatial segregation, throughout the larger metropolitan region of Buenos Aires has been defined as the main problematic, having major affects on the case study area of the polluted Mantanza Riachuelo river basin.
Interventions: The intended spatial interventions, illustrated by the case of the Barracas design & manufacturing cluster, are the improved accessibility and expansion of formal urban structures in the villas and a densification of the surrounding industrial sites linking the production cluster plots & activities with the public space structure & networks of the villa.
Precarious Neighborhoods Urban Fabric Allotment park Productive zone Distribution area Private-owned recreation Waterfront recreation area Waterfront public space Regional facility Local center Main support roads for development Potential development zone
Drawing by Author
The case of theBarraccas industrial area illustrates a proximate 2-5 year process of both improving the conditions within the Villa, - by means of upgrading local infrastructure; the local street network, sewage & waterworks - as well as the development of the production & manufacturing cluster. The cluster will be developed according to the potentialities of a synergetic cooperation between local villa inhabitants, entrepreneurs & investors. Providing both a formal system, including an information center and outlet store, as well as a semi-informal system with local facilities managed by & improved housing for, the villa inhabitants.
Drawings by Author
Conditions
Diversity
Density
Definition
Connectivity
The aim will be pursued by a strategy of Inter/ acting: Based on the demands of increasing the density of economic activities on the island, an optimum in the diversity and connectivity of different Centralities will be established: This will be realized through the addition of new transportation connections and the upgrading of existing transportation networks (improving the node value of the centrality), as well as through the local spatial transformation of five selected economic centralities (improving their place value). In addition the centralities require to be established in a complementary and hierarchical relation, illustrated by the series of individual key projects.
Legends infrastructure existing national highway national railway metro line tram line proposed new highway new metro line new tram line new recreational route
Keyprojects:
Ridderkerk
Waalhaven
Lombardijen
Feyenoord
central spatial function commerce office creative industry sports sporting park recreational park recreation education residence medical facilities industry logistics and transportation station
Date: Spring 2010 Context: MSc 2 studio Urbanism, TU Delft. Chair: Spatial planning & Strategies
* Individual keyprojects within the regional strategy for the island of IJsselmonde:
Proposal: The proposal for Ridderkerk seizes the potential of the old historic dike structure to function again as the spine of the local community: a binding element for a variety of new cultural and economic activities. Stronger embedded in to local urban fabric - the dike will be rearranged for bicyclists and pedestrian, providing new spatial qualities. In addition: where the dike will meet a new tramline - that connects he village with the larger centralities on the island- a new node emerges; providing opportunities for further densification along the central square and park, as well as for a new bike transfer point (for parking, rental & repair) encouraging the use of the bikedike. In the light of this nodal development the dike also presents a potential to improve the tourism on the island of Ijsselmonde, allowing people easily to transfer and make a trip along the cultural relics along the dikeroutes.
Bikedike structure
Bikedike route
Dike transformationzone one stage 1 Industrial transformationaxis stage 2 Deltatechnology axis
New public transportation Shoppingcenter (consumers economy) Cultural relic Waterbus & Ferry
Additi Addition of programm organised aroun around Integration of different networks Technical Education & specialization Tourism, Dayrecreation
+Bike Bike parking & Rental
Ridderkerk choirs
Bike
Legend
Polder, main ecological structure Parks, main ecological structure Main devellopment axis Cultural, Recreational devellopment axis Stelling van Amsterdam, Cultural heritage Main roadstructure Ringroad Cross-connections Main (regional) bicycle paths Main railwaystructure Zuidtangent Railwaystation Public tranportation node Ecological cluster Ecological corridor Relation between ecological landscape and cultural develloment axis Sport facilities, interest area Representative addresses Haarlemmermeer, devellopmentzone (Future) Park 21 High density, innercity Medium density, row housing Projects 1 km Low density, residences Industrial / improvement area
Infrastructuur
Old dunes
Landscape
Legend
Ringroad/ highway Mainroad Sec. road Railway Bus (HOV)
border of greater agglomeration border of municipality
Polders, protected landscape Dunes, protected landscape Historic centre Old dunes Parks, main ecological structure National landscape
2005-2009
Early Urban design project, De staart, Dordrecht. Bsc3 Studio, Delft University of technology. Fall 2006
Fase I Masterplan
Fase III
Fase II
1e,2e,3e orde analysis reserach and proposal for Almere BSc 6 studio, De logische & intuitieve stad. Delft University of technology. Fall 2008
Design proposal, Mercuriuspark Nijmegen. MSc 1 studio, Socio-Spatial processes in the city. Delft University of Technology Fall 2010
Architectual design, Cebeco building, Rotterdam MSc 5 studio, Delft University of Technology Fall 2007
Quickscan Analysis & Mapping Beijing and Shanghai. Behind the image Participant of Study trip + contribution to publication & exhibition , Stylos. Summer 2006
Colophon:
1th version, 19 august 2011 Layout: Sven van Oosten Drawings: by author *unless otherwise mentioned For more information & digital version of this portfolio: www.issuu.com/soosten.
Backside illustration: 1th year student project, Redevelopment of a former industrial area. Fall 2005, Selected for exhibition at the faculty of architecture.