The architecture in Sci-Fi Movies inspired me to design a deserted alien landscape.
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ENCLOSED OASIS
(Landscape-) ArchitectureThis is my graduation project for Station Nijmegen in the Netherlands.
Station Nijmegen has a surface area of circa 2 Hectares and perfectly designed for logistics, rather than the pedestrians. The area had so many little by little design revisions which led to a incoherent public space. Nijmegen is building some new amazing spaces, but the station has somehow been left behind.
ANALYSIS
L to R: Three areas, No sight, Barriers, Busroute
L to R: Pedestrian route, Sitting area/city beginning, Different architectual styles, Scale
The station is made for dinosaurs, not for humans
THE IDEA
The most important aspects I wanted to focus on are making a pedestrianfriendly cityspace, an intuitive wayfinding towards the city, follow trough with one existing architectual style, and bringing back the size of the square to a humane scale. This is brought to life trough a few principles.
Extrapolation of the Italian arches found on the site, which are designed by Sybold van Ravesteyn.
Creating height differences to make smaller spaces
Using the existing architecture to layout a grid, which gives room for arrangement of the square
Simplified layout
THE DESIGN
Siteplan
Grid taken from the existing architecture
Relaxing and functional area
Green/shadow and sunny/open areas
Watersystem, everything flows to the Oasis, where is being reused
airconditioning and smelltransfer with the windcatcher principle
New functions, sight, and walkingroute
Heightened busstation and route
In the Oasis
Section Oasis
Heightened busroad
Oasis from groundlevel
Section middlesquare
Arrival on the station from the city
Section functional sunny area
Section busstation
Arrival from trainstation
LOST MONUMENTS
(Landscape-) ArchitectureI started out the day with a design I had in mind for a museum. But after some mishaps with the 3d modeling software, I got inspired to make some monumental structures that are placed in the middle of nowhere. The designs are inspired by the Spomeniks which are placed all throughout former Yugoslavia.
Monument in the desert
Monument in the sea
Monument in wheat field
City-moatpark Gouda
(Landscape-) ArchitectureThe second assignment for the Major garden architecture was an assignment for a park on the city-moat of Gouda.
The city is famous for its cheese and stroopwafels. But the public space is not on the same level as these products. That is why the city needed a new modern design.
The location of Gouda within the Netherlands surrounded by the well known places.
Difference in outline of the peatlandscape
L to R. Enterances and route to downtown, Enterance and moat ambiance, formal outer ring and informal innerring
L to R: Greenstructure analysis, entrance and route in project area, sight from surrounding places.
Picture analysis showing the volume of an appartmentcomplex
Concept: accelerate, slowing down, and stopping
The concept comes from the analysis that shows that the inner and outring have a difference in usage. On the outering people move quickly from A to B, while the irregular placement of trees hinders movement and promotes lingering.
The other important aspect is that the blind spot, which can connect the center with the moat. This is an area with great potential, which will vanish if a big apparmentcomplex divides and blocks the space
Masterplan partial city-moat
Cross section acceleration outerring.
Transition from existing pavement
The three zones and their function
Detail design.
On a more detailed level you see that there are three distinctive zones, eacht ment for for a different target groups. The cultural and library zone are connected by a building with a public first floor.
Lazarussteeg
Cross section Lazarussteeg
Pavement detail around the pergola
Pergola construction.
Visual Lazarussteeg.
Koningsplein
Principle section illustrating shape of the
Detail koningsplein
Koningsplein visual
Section Koningsplein and Erasmushof
Walking route.
The walking routes decide where the placement of restaurants will be. These will be placed in the crowded area’s to promote even more lingering.
Koningsplein visual
Lazarussteeg
Detail stairs
Erasmushof visual
Conceptual Bridge
(Landscape-) ArchitectureThis was just a quick conceptual design of a bridge I had in mind. The idea is that the bridge is only accessible for bicycles and pedestrians. Under the arch of the bridge there is room for bars and restaurants.
The Maas theater, Rotterdam
(Landscape-) Architecture, Masterplans, University assignments
Masterplan 1:500
Maas theater Rotterdam
This was an assigment for school. We went for an excursion to Rotterdam, so we could get to know the place. After that we had 5 more weeks to finish the design.
For this place I wanted to create a space that is on the edge of open and closed. An area where people who pass by feel invited to go trough.
The clients wanted a space that was flexible in use. The concept i came with was a marionette theater. The exciting thing about this is, that the control of the arrangement is from above. The Pergola that is placed gives room for a small stage and various objects such as hammocks and theater-clothes.
Since Rotterdam has the top 5 biggest skyscrapers of the Netherlands, it now has the biggest pergola of the country.
Principle drawing
Masterplan 1:500
Principle of construction
View from pergola to the theater
View from the terrace to the pergola
View to the stage
Kugleknotte-system
Crossection floor connection pergola
Crossection stairbench
Stairbench
You can see the whole poster in Dutch here
Snowy Home
(Landscape-) ArchitectureIn the Netherlands we got a full 3 cm of snow this year! That crazy amount of snow was the inspiration for this image. The modeling and rendering is done in Blender. Finding the pictures for the image went rather quickly. The only thing that took a little bit of time was bringing the colors together.
Final Image
Blender Cycles render
Nauka Design 