Architecture & Dwelling

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1 MSc 1 Dutch Housing Studio Illustration by Axel Beem Coordinator Pierijn van der Putt Code AR1AD011 Location 1: Rotterdam 2: Amsterdam Option 1: Experimental Housing Experimental housing prototype was a household term in Dutch housing architecture in the 1960s and 1970s. Themes such as urbanisation versus suburbanisation, new housing typologies in historic contexts, community forming, and promoting new urban lifestyles were discussed, leading to the construction of housing prototypes such as Kasbah in Hengelo and Blaakse Bos in Rotterdam (architect: Piet Blom). Today, the emerging need for designing self-reliant cities, the worldwide issues related to newcomers, and the demand of developing open, flexible living environments confront architects with new challenges. This studio is based on an explorative approach in the design of new housing forms, to expand architectural knowledge on a notion of affordability, densification, new urban communities, and inclusive cities, in the Netherlands. To do so, students analyse the socio-political and architectural conditions under which the housing prototypes of the 1960s and 1970s were designed. Building upon the current housing issues in the Netherlands and related themes such as healthy living and shared-economy, students develop an innovative approach to the design of a residential neighbourhood in Rotterdam. Option 2: IJburg Lab Strandeiland (Beach Island) will be the newest addition to the IJburg archipelago in Amsterdam. Pampuskwartier is one of the two islands of Strandeiland and it is the location for Studio IJburg. The core ambitions for the entire Strandeiland are: agreen-blue living environment in a maximum housing density, a good-working public transport system, energy-neutral as much as possible by using and a development strategy that guarantees flexibility and speed. In order to meet these ambitions the goal of this studio is to further investigate which design space can be discovered within the tight urban design framework. IJburg Lab thus explores the double role of the block as a microcosm and as an urban continuum. An exploration of how types of public space, land development and building typology can offer a model to combine different styles of living, housing differentiation and change with urban planning coherence and urban continuity.

2 MSc 2 Towards an Inclusive Living Environment The Architecture of Slow City Birgit Jürgenhake Leeke Reinders Code AR0206 Location TBA The city is a crossroad, where people, rhythms and scales meet and exchange. It moves fast and changes quickly. However, cities also afford slowness, peace and quietness. How do these different time-spaces relate and interact? How and where do different daily routines and activities co-exist within the domestic and public environments of neighbourhood space? How to grow old and stay young in the city? This MSc 2 Studio focuses on issues of time and place in the living environments of elderly people by rethinking some selected neighbourhoods of a Dutch city (presumably Rotterdam). Students will do fieldwork and engage with real-life problems. After a profound analysis new concepts of co-habitation are developed in the architecture of domestic and neighbourhoods space. From this step, students will elaborate on one architectural object for the further development of a detailed design. The studio is emphatically looking for a cross-over between architecture and other fields of expertise. It aims to document and visualize the needs and living conditions of elderly today, as well as translate fieldwork into architectural design. The main questions that we address concern the everyday life of elderly in our cities. How do older people organize their daily lives? How do they relate to and interact with other publics? And how do elderly people experience social and public spaces and how do private spaces relate to public and parochial spaces? We will explore these questions by looking at the city as a multi-domain structure. We move from the human body and its senses through the interior and the house to the collective and public spaces of streets, squares and neighbourhoods. The neighbourhoods we focus on will be chosen in collaboration with the municipality of the city. We also work in close alliance with organisations involved in elderly care and housing. Your visions will open up new horizons in the discussion of and development of new concepts for an inclusive (slow) city.

3 MSc 2 Global Housing Studio Dhaka: Designing a Resilient Urban Community Dick van Gameren Nelson Mota Code AR2AD010 Location Dhaka (Bangladesh) Excursion Yes Costs ± Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh with a population of 17 million is one of the most densely populated cities of the world. The city is geographically located in the deltaic plain of three major rivers, Padma, Brahmaputra and Meghna, and surrounded by their tributaries. The studio will focus on an industrial area of Dhaka (Tejgaon), which has been recently earmarked for development as the city s new CBD. While this prospect of development suggests optimist scenarios, it also raises many questions regarding the spatial and social vulnerability of the middle and lower middle income urban community living on the eastern side of the site, next to the Begunbari canal. This studio will explore solutions to promote the co-existence of affordable housing with a new, vibrant CBD in the centre of Dhaka. The aim of the project is to rethink the post-industrial future of Tejgaon as a paradigm for a sustainable approach for the development of a water resilient urban community in a megacity such as Dhaka. This studio will be led by 2019 Visiting Professor Marina Tabassum (MTA Architects, Dhaka). Marina Tabassum was the winner of the 2016 Aga Kahn Award for Architecture with the project for the Bait ur Rouf Mosque. She has been involved in several initiatives with local communities in Bangladesh and designed projects ranging several scales, from residential blocks to master plans. Her work is characterized by a careful attention to climate, materials, site, culture, and local history. She is the academic director of the Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements. Participating in the studio requires a field trip to Dhaka from 21 April to 28 April The cost of the field trip is approximately 1.000,00 (return flight Amsterdam-Dhaka and accommodation in Dhaka for one week). Each participant in the studio should support this cost.

4 MSc 2 Global Housing Studio - Tema Treasures and Transformations Prototypes for local urban housing neighbourhoods in Ghana Dick van Gameren Harald Mooij Code AR2AD010 Location Tema (Ghana) Excursion Yes Costs ± The Republic of Ghana is going through a period of fast economic growth and intense urbanization. A regional power in the heart of the West-African coastal region, the multi-ethnic, multi-lingual and multi-religious country combines a long history of ancient kingdoms and successive colonial exploitations with succesfull economic enterprise, political stability and international collaboration. An ever increasing population and a constant migration towards the coast, have turned a landscape once flocked with fisherman s villages into a continuous urban development along the southern seaside. The city of Tema was planned from scratch in 1952 as a new town for the country s new and largest harbour in the greater urban area of capital Accra. Built and maintained under the authority of the Tema Development Corporation (TDC), the city s original and carefully designed schemes of housing and road layouts with landscaping, recreational areas and social amenities, do no longer meet the current needs and numbers of the large population influx. In the 2019 Global Housing Studio you will investigate the original ideas and current qualities of housing neighbourhoods in Tema, and design new models and prototypes for dwellings and neighbourhoods that answer the direct need of mass-housing while taking into account local cultural, economic and technical conditions. The course is set-up in close collaboration with the TDC and local universities, providing direct access to local knowledge and sites. A workshop week in Ghana from April 2019 is a mandatory part of the design course. Costs of this excursion (+/ ,- for flight and one week accomodation in Tema) are to be supported by each participant.

5 MSc 3 Dutch Housing Graduation Studio New Amsterdam Between Standard and Ideals illustration by Jarno van Iwaarden Pierijn van der Putt Theo Kupers Code AR3AD131 Credits 15 ECTS Location Amsterdam Like other Western-European countries, the Netherlands finds itself reconsidering the ideals that brought it to its present incarnation. The welfare state project needs critical reflection and has to be reconciled with new concerns like ecology, climate, overpopulation, mass-migration, a shifting global power balance, changing demographics, et cetera. The question is: how do we want to live and what kind of buildings do we need to make that possible? In the Dutch Housing Graduation Studio you will formulate a vision on the future of the city of Amsterdam and design a housing project that exemplifies this vision. By moving from idealistic manifesto to concrete building design, you marry the world of ideas with that of material form. The result is an inspired, idealistic but also realistic design proposal. The ambitious urban expansion plan of Haven-Stad is the impetus and recipient of your design. Up to dwellings are projected onto this area, the docklands north of Amsterdam- Sloterdijk, making it the largest urban development site in the Netherlands. Your contribution to this New Amsterdam is a residential building in the area around Minervahaven. Related courses In the first semester, we offer two courses besides the studio: Research Tutorial (AR3AD021) and Research Seminar (AR3AD011). These courses nurture and feed the design assignment. They support the topic research (Tutorial) and the design research (Seminar). We furthermore provide inspiring lectures, and a design workshop to kick-start your design process.