Architecture Portfolio Boris Popma

Undergraduate Portfolio

Boris Popma

2009-2012sept 2012

Content

INTRO

IntroductionResume

PROJECTS

Bibliotheek BouwkundeKetelmeer museum

SupertrampHaven Sauna

Social HybridTabula SublismComposition: Urban Square

Light up the PubMarqt-luifel

Varik House

StraatjutterFaculty Logo

PUBLICATIONS AND REFERENCE

Study Project = SPCompetition = C

Own Initiative = OI

Public buildingPublic building

Temporary structureParasitic + Climate design

Housing + Urban design(Utopian) landscape + Parametric

Form study

InteriorFront design

Modification

Product designGraphic design

SPSP

SPSP

SPSPSP

1st prize CC

OI

OISP

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Introduction

Dear reader,

The following is a documentation of my architecture study projects and design or architecture-related activities throughout my bachelor at the TU Delft. By showing a great variety in type and scale of projects, I wish to show my current attidtude towards architecture and my all-round abilities as an architectural designer. Since this portfolio consists of small scale product and graphic designs, medium size interior designs, large scale building designs and even larger landscape and urban designs, it covers

many areas of the wide spectrum of architecture.

Besides study projects, the portfolio also contains competition designs and own initiatives. The presence of these projects show my proactive attitude towards architecture, not just as a study subject, but more as a genuine interest and a serious

ambition of mine.

The following projects are thought out designs that were approached with an utmost serious vision, either guided by a TU Delft or EPFL professor or generated through intensive teamwork in varying formations. The projects have always been preceded by profound research (technical, urban, architectural, social, etc.), if possible a visit to the site and when relevant a meeting with the client. This to be able to work within a relevant context and to create a well rooted design. This portfolio aims to show and

explain the results of these studies, investigations and design processes.

Boris Popma


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Introduction

Dear reader,

The following is a documentation of my architecture study projects and design or architecture-related activities throughout my bachelor at the TU Delft. By showing a great variety in type and scale of projects, I wish to show my current attidtude towards architecture and my all-round abilities as an architectural designer. Since this portfolio consists of small scale product and graphic designs, medium size interior designs, large scale building designs and even larger landscape and urban designs, it covers

many areas of the wide spectrum of architecture.

Besides study projects, the portfolio also contains competition designs and own initiatives. The presence of these projects show my proactive attitude towards architecture, not just as a study subject, but more as a genuine interest and a serious

ambition of mine.

The following projects are thought out designs that were approached with an utmost serious vision, either guided by a TU Delft or EPFL professor or generated through intensive teamwork in varying formations. The projects have always been preceded by profound research (technical, urban, architectural, social, etc.), if possible a visit to the site and when relevant a meeting with the client. This to be able to work within a relevant context and to create a well rooted design. This portfolio aims to show and

explain the results of these studies, investigations and design processes.

Boris Popma


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Resume

JOBSjan - july 2012 | Student assistent professor Nanako Umemoto

Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH)

oct 2010 - dec 2011 | High school teacher in ‘art and physics’ (crafting course)Wateringseveld college Den Haag (NL)

sept 2009 - mar 2010 | Excursion CommissionStudent Association Stylos TUDelft

july 2008 - jan 2009 | cashier and assistent accountmanager ING Bankseveral ING offices in Amserdam (NL)

aug 2005 - mar 2008 | interviewer market researchIBT Market Research Amsterdam (NL)

jan - may 2006 | internshipDuyts Buildingconstructions and Engineering Amsterdam (NL)

Boris Popma ( born 27 - 07 - 1990, Amsterdam )Jacob van Lennepkade 4 / 3hoog

1053 MJ Amsterdam, the Netherlands

[email protected]+31 6 215 737 62

PERSONALIA

EDUCATIONsept 2009 - aug 2012 | Bachelor Architecture (bArch)

Technical University Delft (NL)

feb - aug 2012 | Participation international joint studio ‘Memorial Landscape’Sendai School of Design + Tokyo University (JP)

feb - aug 2012 | Master 2 (ERASMUS)Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH)

oct 2010 - aug 2012 | Honors Program ArchitectureChallent TUDelft (NL)

sept 2009 - aug 2010 | Propedeuse ‘Cum Laude’Technical University Delft (NL)

sept 2002 - july 2008 | Gymnasium VWO, specialisation Nature&Health + Music ‘Cum Laude’Sint Ignatius gymnasium Amsterdam (NL)

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SKILLS| Languages

Dutch ( mother tongue )English ( fluent )

French ( B1 )German( basics )

| Software

Autodesk AutoCadAutodesk Maya

RhinocerosGrasshopperSketchup Pro

VRayAdobe CSMicrosoft

| Other

Physical model makingLasercutter and CNC cutter

INITIATIVESsept 2012 | concept design for 4 apartments in Antwerp, Belgium

aug 2012 | Competition Entry Marqt Front Design

Front design supermarket branche

aug 2012 | Competition Entry Marqt Front DesignFront design supermarket branche

aug 2012 | Varik HouseModification proposal for farm

sept 2011 - ... | Straatjutter ( co-founder )Product design

june 2011 | 1st prize Interior Competition BouwpubInterior design faculty bar

dec 2011 | Excursion AntwerpOrganisation excursion for fellow students

feb - aug 2009 | Travelling through South-America, South-East Asia and China

INTERESTS| Architecture ( Theory )

| Photography| Guitar playing

| Crafting| Travelling


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| library interior with 3-storey bookcase and view on the faculty of architecture

Bibliotheek Bouwkunde

Due to space limitations, the faculty of architecture has decided to place the faculty library in a new building. 3 areas are designated for a possible extension, the parking area, the square at the main entrance and the westside court. I have chosen the main etrance to design the new library. The square has a great potential with its monumen-tal facade and entrance, but also as the center of the building and as the program’s center of gravity. The area however offers a lot of limitations in terms of possible vol-

umes, foundation construction and light.

The library’s shape is the key part of the design. With its narrow and transparant foot-print, the square on eye-level has hardly changed, but its space is borded to define a clear court in front of the entrance. On the library’s ground floor an espressobar is

located to stimulated the activity within the court.

The bookcase is the center of the new library and is an integrated structure 3 stories high. The rest of the program is placed around this center bookcase space. The com-pact division of the different spaces allows the volume to stay as smal as possible and

thereby balance with the large monumental university building

project library for faculty of architecture TU Delft

date april - july 2011

location Julianalaan, Delft, the Netherlands

status/type 4th semester bachelor project (TU Delft)

public building | Bibliotheek Bouwkunde | impression + description

| new library situated at main entrance of the faculty of architecture

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| library facade facing the faculty of architecture

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| library facade facing the faculty of architecture

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public building | Bibliotheek Bouwkunde | impression + section

| Section

a - a”

b - b”

c - c”

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| Ketelmeer Museum on the Ijsseloogdijk, view from Ketelmeerdijk

Ketelmeer Museum

public building | Ketelmeer Museum | impression + description

| aerial photograph Ketelmeer Museum on the dike of the Ijsseloog

The Ketelmeer Museum houses a permanent exhibition about the dredging and the history of the Ketelmeer and the Ijsseloog. The exhibition shows and explains the dynamic and tense relation between clean water and the dredge residu resevoir. The museum emphasises this tense and dynamic balance by its rotating and shifting gesture, balancing on the dike slope and slipping in the Ketelmeer. Its geometry is a reaction to the circular reservoir, whereas the texture, opacity and color correlate with the continuous and reoccuring patterns given by the clouded skies and wrinkled water surface. The surrounding geometrical and textural elements have been combined to

come up with this specific mass.

The inside offers a sort of scaffolding from which, through the facade with changing opacities, new perspectives of the surroundings are offered, from each specific place

inside.

project museum about dredging

date january - march 2010

location Ijsseloog, Flevoland, the Netherlands

status/type 2nd semester bachelor project (TU Delft)

| aerial photograph Ketelmeer

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Ketelmeer Museum

public building | Ketelmeer Museum | impression + description

| aerial photograph Ketelmeer Museum on the dike of the Ijsseloog

The Ketelmeer Museum houses a permanent exhibition about the dredging and the history of the Ketelmeer and the Ijsseloog. The exhibition shows and explains the dynamic and tense relation between clean water and the dredge residu resevoir. The museum emphasises this tense and dynamic balance by its rotating and shifting gesture, balancing on the dike slope and slipping in the Ketelmeer. Its geometry is a reaction to the circular reservoir, whereas the texture, opacity and color correlate with the continuous and reoccuring patterns given by the clouded skies and wrinkled water surface. The surrounding geometrical and textural elements have been combined to

come up with this specific mass.

The inside offers a sort of scaffolding from which, through the facade with changing opacities, new perspectives of the surroundings are offered, from each specific place

inside.

project museum about dredging

date january - march 2010

location Ijsseloog, Flevoland, the Netherlands


| aerial photograph Ketelmeer

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| Program 1 cinema2 technical room3 entrance4 exhibition space5 museum office6 patio (exhibition+restaurant terrace)7 restaurant8 view platform9 view platform

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ground floor

| Plan

1st floor 2nd floor 3th floor roof

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| view towards Ijsselmeer

| Disks

The facade, as well as the program, is divided in 4 disks. Each disk contains a specific type of program to create an efficient lay-out of the construction, the ventilation shafts, the pipelines and the routing.

| Perspectives

The museum focusses on the dynamic and tense relation between the clean water and the dredging residu resevoir. Eventhough the geometry of the building is simple, the perspectives offered from its interior and roof are diverse. This is caused by the changing opacity of the facade and the subtle rotation of the envelope box.

| Opacity

The opacity changes in the facade, from opaque to translucent and from transparent to open air. The opacity correlates with it’s adjecent program, for instance, it’s totally opaque around the cinema. Besides, the changes contribute to the manipulation of the several perspectives and the view of the surroundings.

building | Ketelmeer Museum | plan + program + concept +impression

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| building placed on Morro da Urca, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

| building placed on Morro da Urca, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Supertrampa world travelling expo

Supertramp is a world travelling expo building that has a detachable and rebuild-able structure and facade, of which the composition can be adjusted to suit a specific climate, from Beijing winters to New York summers. To make this climate kameleon like facade possible, ETFE pillows with different coatings are used. Since the building is point symmetrical, pillows can be switched from bottom to top. This, in combination with the cantilever of the construction, allows the facade to use or either reflect the sun’s heat. Openings in the ceiling and floor make air streams possible to stimulate natural ventilation. The 2 boxes inside, the restaurant + kitchen and lecture hall work

as heat sources for the rest of the building. (see diagrams)

The building expresses an alien or ufo like shape and texture, to make it as unrooted in any country it would ‘land’. Besides, the topic of the exhibition is climate change on every location this topic is focused on local problems, consequences and solu-tions. This is why the surroundings should be the decor of the expo, the view merely

deformed by the doublecurved plastic pillow facade.

project detachable world travelling expo

date january 2012

location cities all over the world


in collaboration with Eke Wondaal

temporary structure | Supertramp | impression + description

| flexible facade principle

| ventilation principle

| heating principle

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| Section

| Plan

groundfloor 1st floor

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temporary structure | Supertramp | section + plan + program

1st floor 2nd floor 3th floor

| Program 1 entrance hall2 museum shop3 restaurant4 bar5 open kitchen6 conference room7 exhibition space8 lecture hall

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| building placed on hill near Florence, Italy

| building placed on the coast of Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

| building placed on ‘the forbidden city’ square, Beijing, China

temporary structure | Supertramp | impression

| Diagram

| construction steps

| integration of construction and ventilation

| Buidling shape

connecting component principle

| during construction

foundation steel structure staircases + elevator floors walls

The hollow tube steel construction is chosen to simplify the construction of the building. Because of the point symmetrical shape, only 8 different elements are used, decreasing material organisation significantly. This type of construction is also suitable since it has the potential to combine another function in its hollow core. In this design, the mechanical ventilation travels through the inside of the construction elements. Thereby eliminating the presence of ventilation shaft and more important, avoiding installation time. This is because the pavillion should be as efficient as possible.

The shape of the building, with its 4 cantilevers, gives space to 2 big open areas where large groups of people can walk around and big installations can be placed. The middle, cross-shaped floor gives the feeling of a floating platform, since the underneath is not seen and the facade moves a bit inward to the footprint shape of the building, a square.

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temporary structure | Supertramp | diagram + impression + details

| details

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| Katoenveem, old cotton warehouse, with parasital structure

Haven Sauna

Haven Sauna is a parasitic building which uses the concrete construction of an old cot-ton warehouse in the harbour of Rotterdam. The parasite also uses the shelter given by the old warehouse from rain and wind. The goal of the project was to find a suitable function to add to the warehouse and design it entirely, from construction to facade detailing to climate design. I chose to house a sauna. This choice was mainly inspired by the surroundings of the building, which are the opposites of comfort and relaxation: traffic, pollution, concrete piers and chilly salt waters. These elements could make a clear contrast and thereby a sort of balance with the addition of something smooth,

organic and comfortable. The result is a paradoxical experience.

The Sauna building is mainly inside the old warehouse but pops out through the con-crete facade now and then, to provoke a realisation of the strong contrast by users inside, but also outside the building. The pop outs correlate to the strict sauna ritual

inside as well.

As core of the program and the sauna ritual, the sauna itself differentiates with the wooden structure. The concrete box that is the sauna radiates left over heat and by its

texture, refers to the grey and chilly outdoors.

project parasitic building in former cotton warehouse

date september - november 2011

location Vierhaven, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

status/type 6th semester bachelor final project (TU Delft)

parasitic + climate design | Haven Sauna | impression + description

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| view of sauna floor with concrete sauna in the back

| relaxation room with view over the harbour of Rotterdam

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parasitic + climate design | Haven Sauna | impression + plan + progam

| Program 1 entrance2 changing rooms3 showers4 1st relaxation area5 sauna6 massage room7 outdoor platform8 cold water bath9 2nd relaxation area

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ground floor

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1st floor

2nd floor

3th floor (roof terrace)

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| improvised outdoor pool in adjecent harbour

| sauna ritual route and ritual

| sauna ritual route and ritual applied in design

| placement of building elements in existing structure| climate design diagram

| Inspiration

Before the Keilehaven ( the harbour where the sau-na is located ) was partly closed, people of Rotter-dam used its waters to dip and have some outdoor exercisement. This improvised pool is no coinci-dence, since the harbour geometry creates small bays that can be used as save swimming areas, eventhough large ships pass by just a few meters away (see picture). These man made shores have great potential to facilitate activities on the edge of leisure or outdoor activity and industry. This also counts for the Haven Sauna, which not only uses the atmosphere of the harbour to offer a certain experi-ence for its users, but also uses the fysical properties of the harbour and the old cotton ware house.

To produce energy and deal with the great amount of ventilation that is being needed caused by the moist interior, a nearby positioned wind turbine is used for its electricity and suction force. The consistent temperature in the Maas river is used to heat the water, used in the Haven Sauna. Within the building water heat is re-used and sauna left over heat is used to heat up the interior spaces. This way, the building is not just rooted in its context atmospherically and constructively, but also climate wise.

To fit the program, the sauna ritual, into the specifically shaped building mass, caused by the structural system, the traditional steps of Finnish sauna bathing was used. This is a circular route that can be repeated several times. An important step is the outdoor cooling down and breathing. In the design of the Haven Sauna, the circular route is transformed into an 8-shaped route. Not only to emphasise the idea of continuity, but also to make an outdoor cooling platform possible on the top of the old warehouse, that provides a view over the harbour of Rotterdam.

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parasitic + climate design | Haven Sauna | inspiration + diagram + section

a - a”

b - b”

| Section

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parasital + climate design | Haven Sauna | details

| Details

| cantilever

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| facade with shop boulevard facing harbour

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Social Hybrid

The housing block is located in a previously designed urban plan. The main goal of this specific block was to come up with a design and division of different apartments and houses for inhabitants of different social and economic classes. Also a shop boulevard along the historical harbour and a large parking is included in the design. The geometry of the building shows a differentiation in housing types. Two small towers contain apartment and the gabled roofed parts are single family houses. The shape of the gabled roofed houses refers to the traditional storage buildings in Delft located along harbours and canals. However, the facade of these houses are designed as one continuous pattern, to deconstruct the traditional division of storage buildings. This

way the block is conceived as one element.

Within the block is a collective courtyard which flows into the adjacent park. Underneath the courtyard lays the parking area, with personal parking places but also open places

for visitors and shoppers.

The plan of the block shows a great variety of different types of houses (A,B,C,D,E,F), see plan on next page. Eventhough they share the same structural division and measurements, I have tried to come up with different plans to create a typological

hybrid for different inhabitants with different possibilities and different needs.

project housingblock in earlier designed urban plan

date nov 2009 - jan 2011

location Gist terrein, Delft, the Netherlands


housing + urban design | Social Hybrid | impression + description

| situation

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Social Hybrid

The housing block is located in a previously designed urban plan. The main goal of this specific block was to come up with a design and division of different apartments and houses for inhabitants of different social and economic classes. Also a shop boulevard along the historical harbour and a large parking is included in the design. The geometry of the building shows a differentiation in housing types. Two small towers contain apartment and the gabled roofed parts are single family houses. The shape of the gabled roofed houses refers to the traditional storage buildings in Delft located along harbours and canals. However, the facade of these houses are designed as one continuous pattern, to deconstruct the traditional division of storage buildings. This

way the block is conceived as one element.

Within the block is a collective courtyard which flows into the adjacent park. Underneath the courtyard lays the parking area, with personal parking places but also open places

for visitors and shoppers.

The plan of the block shows a great variety of different types of houses (A,B,C,D,E,F), see plan on next page. Eventhough they share the same structural division and measurements, I have tried to come up with different plans to create a typological

hybrid for different inhabitants with different possibilities and different needs.

project housingblock in earlier designed urban plan

date nov 2009 - jan 2011

location Gist terrein, Delft, the Netherlands


housing + urban design | Social Hybrid | impression + description

| situation

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housing + urban design | Social Hybrid | impression + urban design + model + diagram

| Urban plan

| Diagram

different functions

| housing block situated in urban plan | housing block

houses / apartments resulting geometry shop boulevard along harbour

houses

apartmentblock

courtyard

parking +shops

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| landscape design

Tabula Sublism“ain’t no mountain high enough”

The proposal consists of a series of intensive, almost geographical, measurements made in the landform of the Sendai coastal area. Measurements made to act in a more resistent and preserving way for the existing types of land use. The aim of the design is not to protect a certain economy and culture, like a dike or a breakwater wall. But rather to create a living ground in which it’s land use, culturally, agricultur-ally and economically, and it’s infrastructure, is adapted to function in a mountainous landscape, which protects a percentage of the land use with it’s elevated grounds. These elevated grounds serve as preservers of the coastal use, as a seedbank of all the

fragments of this coastal society, avoiding the chance of a tabula rasa.

The inundation zone from the previous tsunami is used as a starting point from which a transformation of the landscape gradually merges into it’s adjacent topographies or urban, more built, conditions. Through determining high and low points, ridges and valleys, the grounds in between these two occured as an inevitable reaction of the mesh we used to manipulate the landscape. With this method a multidirectional or perhaps non-directional pattern of ridges and valleys was created, partially influenced by external forces, as the river flows, main infrastructure and breakwater positioning, and partially influencing the smaller stream directions, secondary transport networks

and marshland occuring.

The hills are populated using a threefold division of the existing area land use. The three categories are organised and clustered to be able to function as an independ-ent unit. But at the same time serve a larger network, spread out over the entire area, to supply overproduction to the adjacent, such as Sendai. This organisational idea is based on the Igune, the traditional farming community present on the site. Protected by a wall of trees, this unit is selfsufficient by producing rice, growing vegetable and keeping some cattle. The agglomeration of the three types of hills can be seen as an Igune XL, whereas the small family community has been extrapolated to a large village

scale, overproducing rice as well as energy, heat and potable water.

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project landscape design for the redevelopment of tsunami-struck Sendai coast

date february - june 2012

location Sendai, Japan

status/type 2nd semester master project (EPFL)

in collaboration with Michael Hartwell

landscape + parametric | Tabula Sublism | aerial photograph + description

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| aerial view from ocean

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The three types of hills designed, all serve a specific program and have their own per-formative ambition, which results in an equally specific architectural expression. The greenhouse hill is a hotspot for rice production using a hydropnic system to boost the efficiency. Cuts in this hill that serve as lightshafts for the stacked rice boxes, create hot air collecting atria which make this hill a significant heat resource for it’s neighbours. The second hill is also a hybrid, with a water collecting bassin on top, combining habi-tation, traditional rice terraces and water treatment. The third hill, with it’s irregulary terraced surface, provides a ground for more urban conditions, on which housing blocks, connected to form entangled strips, create a diversity of left over spaces as courtyards, pockets, alleys, tunnels and bridges, all to serve the circulation of this vil-lage and the disclosure of it’s housing, by that becoming a complex structure of public spaces. This hill stores heat in it’s internal water reservoir, but mainly houses the work-

ers of the surrounding industries.

The scale of the design proposal is determined by this hill agglomeration unit. The slight hierarchy present within this unit, is absent in the overall plan. This plan is a combination of a mountainous landscape, made accesible by a partly bridging infra-structure network, to which all hill agglomeration units are connected, merging with it’s adjacent natural or urban conditions. For this reason the scale of the overall plan is undetermined and can be continued along the entire coastal area, to function less as

a local solution, but more as a national coastal strategy.

landscape + parametric | Tabula Sublism | model + plan + description

| fieldtrip pictures

| hill agglomeration plan

traditional ricefields

greenhouse

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The three types of hills designed, all serve a specific program and have their own per-formative ambition, which results in an equally specific architectural expression. The greenhouse hill is a hotspot for rice production using a hydropnic system to boost the efficiency. Cuts in this hill that serve as lightshafts for the stacked rice boxes, create hot air collecting atria which make this hill a significant heat resource for it’s neighbours. The second hill is also a hybrid, with a water collecting bassin on top, combining habi-tation, traditional rice terraces and water treatment. The third hill, with it’s irregulary terraced surface, provides a ground for more urban conditions, on which housing blocks, connected to form entangled strips, create a diversity of left over spaces as courtyards, pockets, alleys, tunnels and bridges, all to serve the circulation of this vil-lage and the disclosure of it’s housing, by that becoming a complex structure of public spaces. This hill stores heat in it’s internal water reservoir, but mainly houses the work-

ers of the surrounding industries.

The scale of the design proposal is determined by this hill agglomeration unit. The slight hierarchy present within this unit, is absent in the overall plan. This plan is a combination of a mountainous landscape, made accesible by a partly bridging infra-structure network, to which all hill agglomeration units are connected, merging with it’s adjacent natural or urban conditions. For this reason the scale of the overall plan is undetermined and can be continued along the entire coastal area, to function less as

a local solution, but more as a national coastal strategy.

landscape + parametric | Tabula Sublism | model + plan + description

| fieldtrip pictures

| hill agglomeration plan

traditional ricefields

greenhouse

housing

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height lines

| Design parameters outcomes

water directionexisting village + rice fieldskept intact

road network hill type zoning

hill program zoningstarting point parametric topography design

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bars (bridges) connecting hill communities

road networkprimary + secondary

river shorelinespotential flood areas

rivers + irragation canals

topography

preserved villages

preserved rice fields

design footprint

| Parametrised design layers

landscape + parametric | Tabula Sublism | design parameters + design layers

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bars (bridges) connecting hill communities

road networkprimary + secondary

river shorelinespotential flood areas

rivers + irragation canals

topography

preserved villages

preserved rice fields

design footprint

| Parametrised design layers

landscape + parametric | Tabula Sublism | design parameters + design layers

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| square with surrounding building mass

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| square with surrounding building mass

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Composition: Urban Square

The given geometry are the wooden blocks that represent buildings. The design is a square on which shapes, volumes and textures are placed to create a composition. The square consists of a line of vertical elements that border the square’s territory, in which two volumes are situated. One is long and gradually rising from the square’s flat surface. The other one is cube like, but deformed and cutted by extended lines of the existing geometry. Both volumes are connected by a U-shaped ground material

differentiation.

The result is not only an aesthetic composition of volumes and textures, but also a study about balance in mass, color and thickness. The result is a realistic design for a

fictional square, based upon compositorial values.

project volume and texture composition for a fictional square

date december 2009

location -


form study | Composition: Urban Square | model + description

| top view square

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| the Bouwpub interior with ‘roof’ shaped lighting fixture

| the Bouwpub interior with ‘roof’ shaped lighting fixture

Light up the Pub

The Bouwpub is a fantastic place to have a drink with fellow students. But the atmosphere and style of the interior of this facultybar can still be improved. In our opinion not much is wrong with the floorplan and the materialisation in bare wood. The possibilities to redesign lie in the vertical space. The high ceiling offers the Bouwpub a lot of potential for spatial quality. But the ragged ceilings and lack of ornaments does not invite people

to look up. The open area between the visitors and the ceiling is dull.

Our solution is to hang a huge lighting fixure in the open space. This element works as a false ceiling and has the effect the space feels more compact and comfortable. Nevertheless, the open structure makes it possible that people can see between and through the fixture. This way, the experience of the high ceiling remains, but the space

as a whole is upgraded.

project interior design for a bar

date june 2011


status/type 1st price in student competition

in collaboration with Clemens van der Linden + Max Hart Nibbrig

interior | Light up the Pub | impression + description

| previous situation

| solutions

| improved situation

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| longitudinal section showing PPC pipes with differentiated lenghts

| plan showing light height by color intensivity | PPC component

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| longitudinal section showing PPC pipes with differentiated lenghts

| plan showing light height by color intensivity | PPC component

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| Lighting Fixture

The lighting fixture is composed of standard PPC pipes and pipe connections. This material suits well with the look and feel of the other materials in the Bouwpub. Because the vertical pipes differ systematically in length they form a ‘roof’ of inclined surfaces that are illuminated by more than 360 sparkling lights.

interior | Light up the Pub | section + plan + component principle + model

| PPC component | view from entrance

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| night view of arcade at Marqt Utrechtsestraat, Amsterdam

Marqt-luifel

Marqt is a supermarket that sells honest eco products and its appearance is characterised by raw materials like scrap wood, bare concrete and visible shafts and pipes. They ask for a new front design that can be applied at all their shop facades. These facades differ greatly in appearance and geometry, there are monumental ones but also modern new built ones. So the competition asks for a recognizable but flexible

and adaptable design that relates to the interior atmospere.

We have designed not just a design, but more a strategy how to build up a component that can be adjusted depending on the facade. For this we came up with a system with traditional market signs, these will become the main feature in the appearance of the

facade of the Marqt.

In the component, a steel raster, steel profiles and construction lamps are the elements. They have a neutral look and give space to the signs to pop out and catch the attention

of the passerby.

project front design for supermarket branche Marqt

date august 2012

location Amsterdam / Haarlem / The Hague, the Netherlands

status/type Public competition entry

in collaboration with Inez Tan and Linda de Geus

front design | Marqt-luifel | impression + description

| booklet design

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Marqt-luifel

Marqt is a supermarket that sells honest eco products and its appearance is characterised by raw materials like scrap wood, bare concrete and visible shafts and pipes. They ask for a new front design that can be applied at all their shop facades. These facades differ greatly in appearance and geometry, there are monumental ones but also modern new built ones. So the competition asks for a recognizable but flexible

and adaptable design that relates to the interior atmospere.

We have designed not just a design, but more a strategy how to build up a component that can be adjusted depending on the facade. For this we came up with a system with traditional market signs, these will become the main feature in the appearance of the

facade of the Marqt.

In the component, a steel raster, steel profiles and construction lamps are the elements. They have a neutral look and give space to the signs to pop out and catch the attention

of the passerby.

project front design for supermarket branche Marqt

date august 2012

location Amsterdam / Haarlem / The Hague, the Netherlands

status/type Public competition entry

in collaboration with Inez Tan and Linda de Geus

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| booklet design

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front design | Marqt-luifel | model + impression

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| Marqt Utrechtsestraat, Amsterdam

| Elevation

| canopy component

| canopy component

| canopy component

| canopy component


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The signs are about 1200mm×800mm and contain a picture of a product or employee, together with a slogan which is used to express the company’s vision on food products. The signs can change and can adapt to certain sales, holidays or themes. They show something of the inside of the Marqt that is normally kept hidden behind a monumental facade.

Below is a part of a component exploded to show all of its ele-ments and how they are connected. The construction is simple and doesn’t damage to monumental facade. By adding the lights, during evening a checkered pattern is project on the street, drawing even more attention of passerby.

front design | Marqt-luifel | elevation + sign design + exploded view

| Sign design

| Exploded view

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| front facade with new bay window

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Varik House

Possible modification plan for farm: light, space and functionality. Throughout the life of the building many adjustments have been made to deal with changes in lifestyle, technology and the safety of the building. The current situation shows these differents additions clearly and has become a spatial and functional mess. The goal of the design is to come up with a low-budget plan, that can transform the building into a

sellable and habitable house, without making large interventions.

Three extensions have been added to the building, the bay window to make a more spacious and light living room, the one at the entrance to create an entrance hall and one at the back of the building to place the central heating boiler. By replacing the staircase and the bathroom, a large entrance hall is created, where once was a smal 1 by 1 space. Because the staircase has been rotated and moved, the kitchen and livingroom become one connected space, accentuating the length of the house, by keeping one wall clear, from front to back. The window bay extension on the front enhances the appearance of the front facade and through its 4 glass surfaces lets in an abundance of light. Besides it visually and spatially establishes the relation between

the livingroom and the front yard.

The new position of the staircase allows a different division upstairs, making it possible to make two separate sleeping rooms, with in the middle a compact roof windowed

bathroom with shower and a separate toilet.

project modification of farm

date september 2012

location Weiweg, Varik, the Netherlands

status/type proposal

in collaboration with Clemens van der Linden

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| view from bay window

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| Perspective plan modificated

ground floor

1st floor

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| Plan current

| Plan modificated

ground floor

ground floor

1st floor

North

1st floor

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| Plan current

| Plan modificated

ground floor

ground floor

1st floor

North

1st floor

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straatj u t t e r j u t t e r j u t t e r

straat straat

| PVC birdhouse

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The abundance of high quality and/or beautiful materials, devices and other objects to be found on the street, led us to the idea of regenerating these objects, solely or combined, to give new life and function to those that had already been disposed. The design proces is very intuitive and starts with analysing the object’s possibilities. After this, either a certain need, a poetic input or an inevitable purpose for the object, de-

termines the goal.

Two examples are shown, a birdhouse, which camouflages itself inbetween drainppes, and an Ipodcharger / night lamp, which combines a hi-tech fashion object with a biodegradable cardboard tube. Other objects are a candleholder out of brick and a

bench out of a bicyclestand with scrap wood seating.

Straatjutter is merely an activity to stimulate creativity and to open the eyes for, and appreciate, what is around us.

Straatjutterproject product design with waste material

date november 2011 - now

location -

status/type realised products / own initiative

in collaboration with Daan Vulkers

product design | Straatjutter | products + description


straat straatstraatj u t t e r j u t t e r j u t t e r

straat straat

| cardboard tube Ipod charger

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The abundance of high quality and/or beautiful materials, devices and other objects to be found on the street, led us to the idea of regenerating these objects, solely or combined, to give new life and function to those that had already been disposed. The design proces is very intuitive and starts with analysing the object’s possibilities. After this, either a certain need, a poetic input or an inevitable purpose for the object, de-

termines the goal.

Two examples are shown, a birdhouse, which camouflages itself inbetween drainppes, and an Ipodcharger / night lamp, which combines a hi-tech fashion object with a biodegradable cardboard tube. Other objects are a candleholder out of brick and a

bench out of a bicyclestand with scrap wood seating.

Straatjutter is merely an activity to stimulate creativity and to open the eyes for, and appreciate, what is around us.

Straatjutterproject product design with waste material

date november 2011 - now

location -

status/type realised products / own initiative

in collaboration with Daan Vulkers

product design | Straatjutter | products + description


straat straatstraatj u t t e r j u t t e r j u t t e r

straat straat

| cardboard tube Ipod charger

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| color research

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Faculty Logo

A logo for the faculty of architecture has to meet with several requirements. Simplicity comes first, it has to send out a straight forward message. The logo should be simple and efficient. That is why a clear typography has been chosen. The faculty of architecture and architecture in general is a global issue and the faculty as well as the university should provoke its international ambition. The logo should be understood and be appealing internationally. This is why English is the used language, but also why the logo can be read without knowledge of a certain alphabet nor language. The two lettres, F and O ( Faculty Of ) are placed in a way to form a key. The key shape indicates the relation with a building and protection but also suggests the possibility to open a door. In this case this door can be interpreted twofold. A door of a building and a door to new knowledge. Concluded, the logo represents the KEY TO ARCHITECTURE.

project logo design for the new faculty of architecture (TU Delft)

date may 2011



graphic design | Faculty Logo | research + description

| logo placed on faculty facade | logo

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Publications and Reference

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| publications

Organized by　主催 :

Kengo KumaYusuke ObuchiMatthias Kohler

Participating Studios　参加スタジオ :

Studio OBUCHI(University of Tokyo)

Studio GRAMAZIO & KOHLER(ETH Zurich)

Organized by　主催 :

Kengo KumaYusuke Obuchi

Jesse ReiserNanako Umemoto

March 19th, 201212:00-15:30

University of Tokyo, Hongo CampusEngineering Building No.1

Department of Architecture, 2nd Floor2012 年 3 月 19 日　12:00-15:30

東京大学工学部 1号館　建築学科 2階製図室

Participating Schools　参加校 :

University of TokyoPrinceton University

École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneUniversity of Hong Kong

Columbia UniversityCalifornia College of the Arts

Tsinghua UniversityOsaka Sangyo University

Nagoya institute of Technology

March 20th, 201210:00-12:00

University of Tokyo, Hongo CampusEngineering Building No.1

Department of Architecture, 2nd Floor

2012 年 3 月 20 日　10:00-12:00東京大学工学部 1号館　建築学科 2階製図室

Sponsored by　協賛 :

東京大学大学院工学系研究科Global 30国際交流企画

JOINT MIDTERMREVIEW

大学間国際共同課題合同講評「東日本大震災被災地域から構想する都市／建築」

JAPANSTUDIO

2012

RoboticFabricationin Architecture

大学間国際共同課題合同講評「建築分野における

ロボティック・ファブリケーション」

JOINT REVIEW

| exhibited at Tokyo University | exhibited at Sendai School of Designproject presented by prof. Umemoto

| interviewed about study project and related excursion to JapanEPFL website

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June 6, 2012 To Whom It May Concern:

It is my pleasure to recommend Boris Popma. He is pursuing a Bachelor of Architecture at Technische Universiteit Delft and will graduate in July 2012. Boris was an outstanding student in my spring 2012 advanced graduate design studio “Tabula Sublimis” at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. The studio responded to a call by Tohoku University to develop low-density programming (such as parks, memorials and low-rise housing) at the site of the 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake. The students’ projects addressed these concerns as minimal expectations on the way to a more ambitious large-scale urban vision that synthetically combined infrastructure, landscape and building within one coherent assemblage.

Boris‘s comprehensive strengths immediately became evident, as this studio is a good measure of a student’s capacity to balance research and design. His project raised many challenging and interesting issues relating to the development of an urbanism combined with infrastructure, and rather than addressing the issues in a conventional manner he always returned to his original research and uncovered novel solutions.

His proposal utilized a field of sculpted landforms, comparable in scale to the mountainous regions situated inland from the Japanese coast. Running in a multi-directional pattern along the coastline, these new landforms acted both as protection from future tsunami threats and also as the framework for a new urban condition. The overall landscape redistributed existing networks of water distribution, agriculture, and infrastructure, creating self-sustainable urban clusters whose performance was inspired by traditional Japanese farming communities (Igune). Industrial, agricultural, and residential programs were housed within each grouping of ridges and valleys. Strategically placed local infrastructure created a symbiotic relationship of program within each community, while larger infrastructure connected the settlements to each other and the broader region of Sendai. The flexible scale of the proposed plan could not only function as a local solution, but also as a national coastal strategy. His solutions advanced his previously known methods of program deployment and encouraged new ways of thinking about coupling infrastructure with agriculture, housing and cultural programming. During the studio site visit to Japan, Boris emerged as an organized leader of his peers. He is an open and engaging individual who contributed much to the overall success of the studio through his attention to detail, hands-on approach, participation in discussions, and in his constructive criticism of his colleagues’ work. His strengths lay in his persistence and strong willful manner. In closing, I would unreservedly express my support for Boris. I am confident that he will distinguish himself as a top student in future classes, as he did in mine. If you have any questions I would be delighted to speak on his behalf. Sincerely, Nanako Umemoto Visiting Professor, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL, Spring 2012 Principal, Reiser + Umemoto, RUR Architecture, PC

| recommendation by prof. Nanako Umemoto

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