MSc1 Landmarks Studio La Défense, Photo Credit: Manuela Triggianese Albert Takashi Richters Stefanos Filippas Alessandro Arcangeli Negar Sanaan Bensi Research Coordinator Manuela Triggianese Code AR1CP010 Location Paris Costs 300 to 500 In collaboration with The City of Paris is facing new challenges towards the Olympics 2024, planning changes in the metropolitan area on several scales and creating clusters of urban development. In The Grand Paris plan the focus is the creation of a public transport network (train/metro) towards a better connection with the airports and TGV stations. Within the scope of this initiative, the GPE (Grand Paris Express) project will cover 200km of rail and 68 new stations with the aim of providing direct connectivity between suburban districts/neighborhoods and the city center. In 2025, for example La Défense will benefit from the interconnection of Grand Paris Express (Line 15) with the existing métro and RER lines already reaching this business area. In MSc 1 Landmark studio we will work on several station locations of the GPE (line 15) situated in dense urban areas of Grand Paris. We will perform a thorough urban research in order to understand the area s history and context, and to identify the Landmarks that are the subject for intervention. An excursion to Paris will be part of the programme. Related courses AR1CP040 - Complex Projects - Anatomy of a Landmark Seminar
MSc2 IN Cities - Design and Research Studio - Shanghai Photo Credit: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images Tutor Yang Zhang Code AR2CP010 Location Shanghai Costs 800-1200 *Please note that Shanghai and Datapolis topics share the same code. After enrollment, send your studio choice to the studio coordinator. in collaboration with MSc2 In Cities exposes students to the versatile layers of the city. It promotes speculation, independent thinking and collective work with the aim to position architecture into a broader social, cultural, political and economic context. In this studio, we focus on Shanghai which has grown to become one of the economic centres of the world. This, thanks to the old status as international trading harbour and China s economic reform in the 90 s. With its growth came political, cultural and technological influence on the country and abroad. Urban density, an increasingly hostile climate, wealth and modern consumerism have pushed public life into indoor spaces dominated by commercial activity. Privately and state-owned shopping malls and stations have become the new public spaces. To understand this phenomenon, we will investigate how this system works and its physical relation to urban landmarks, infrastructure and public transport. As future architects and urban planners we could question ourselves: what our position in this process can be? Can a new generation of public space rise out of what we might consider as junk space? On the other hand, with the increase of online shopping and a slowing down economy, is there any perspective for the huge amount of declining shopping areas that are an echo of the economic boom? The MSc 2 studio is a research project on the city, collaborating with CAUP, Tongji University. A 7-days field trip to Shanghai is included. During the trip, there will be lectures and roundtable discussions with local municipality, urban planners, researchers and influential local architects. Back in the studio, students must work both collectively and individually. Studio deliverables contain a collective research and individual presentations. These can include a short movie, installation, collages, models, book, online publications etc. Final projects will be exhibited together with work from CAUP, Tongji University.
MSc2 IN Cities - Design and Research Studio - Datapolis Photo: Tesla Factory, Fremont, California, USA Tutor Paul Cournet Code AR2CP010 Location N/A Excursion Not mandatory Costs 50 *Please note that Shanghai and Datapolis topics share the same code. After enrollment, send your studio choice to the studio coordinator. How is data shaping the way we live, work and interact with each other? By entering the information age, we -humans- have exploded our relationship with the world. We are today living in a world where data, algorithms and clouds are at the centre of our daily activities while we have increasingly become fully committed to stay connected with each other regardless of time zones, geographies or political borders. The ambition of the studio is to create an understanding of the architecture of the digital world and identify its challenges. They are critical components to the way our world functions today, yet most of the time, they have remained unknown to most of us: global internet cable networks, automated distribution centres, data centres, connected homes, public space surveillance strategies, climate change monitoring systems During the semester, students will be asked to study and analyse the physical impact of data on the spaces we design and inhabit; and translate these diagnostics into conceptual architectural ideas. The semester is divided in 2 chapters. Chapter 1 / research: Students develop a research on a selection of existing architectural typologies for which data plays a crucial role. Chapter 2 / vision: Students develop a conceptual architectural vision, reflecting the thesis developed in the research phase. The studio aims to connect the work of the students with experts on the topic. Site visits and meetings will be organised during the semester. Research books and large scale drawings will be produced by each student. Final works of the students to be exhibited as a collective show in a cultural institution in the Netherlands.
MSc2 Architecture and Urban Design Photo Credit: Roberto Cavallo Roberto Cavallo (Architecture) Maurice Harteveld (Urbanism) Steven Steenbruggen (Architecture) Boudewijn Almekinders (Landscape) Code Credits Location Excursion AR0067 12 ECTS Boston, Amsterdam Yes (Excursion abroad not mandatory) Costs 50 upto 900 in collaboration with MIT Boston AMS Amsterdam Metropolitan stations: places of transformation and innovation Interventions in the contemporary city need constantly to be grounded on sharp design approaches in order to respond adequately to the necessities of our times. Nowadays we meet in public atria and do shopping in malls; all kinds of buildings hybridized and became multi-functional anchors in the city. The railway stations of today are entangled with the urban tissue, airports have become cities, conference centres and world expos temporary change the urban composition, and museums are also leisure centres. The result is that in the recent decades the amount and the proportion of public space within urban buildings has steadily increased, with much of it forming part of a larger interior and exterior pedestrian network. On the other hand, the amount and size of public buildings within the urban context increased too, changing the way the contemporary city is constructed. However, still rarely designers approach the city as architecture or the building as urban design. For these reasons there is nowadays a great need of identifying the available design tools in order to plan effective future interventions in our cities. Particularly in the case of existing urban environments, design approaches require a conscious understanding of urban design as well as an adequate knowledge of changes in building typologies. In this experimental design studio, students of the MSc Architecture, MSc Urbanism and MSc Landscape Architecture work together in the examination of the urban space as architectural space and the architectural space as urban space. The project addresses urban areas showing attractive potentials but with a high degree of inadequacy in terms of spatial performance. Architecture & Urban Design will both help to identify desirable intervention strategies able to act simultaneously on different scale levels. In the spring semester of 2018-2019 we will be focusing on current and future challenges of station areas; students are free to choose among the case studies located in Boston and Amsterdam.
MSc3 New York Midtown Studio Photo Credit: Manuela Triggianese 432 Park Avenue residential skyscraper that overlooks Central Park, next to AT&T Building by Philip Johnson. Picture taken from Top of the Rock at the Rockfeller Center Manuela Triggianese Hrvoje Smidihen Stefan de Koning Olindo Caso Sebastian Janusz Code AR3CP010 Credits 15 ECTS Location New York Costs 1000-1500 (excursions abroadnot mandatory) In collaboration with local partners In New York Studio we will work on Midtown Manhattan. Nearly three-quarters of the existing square footage in Manhattan was built between the 1900s and 1930s. Rockefeller Center complex, for example, is part of the generation of urban renewal projects that helped to revitalize Midtown Manhattan at the end of the 20s and the most recent re-developments in the 60s. Midtown remains as the corporate centre with its glory inherited from the previous century. Nevertheless, the office and retail value of midtown are progressively in decline and there is a big rise in market demands for housing projects. Hudson Yards, real estate development under construction, is a great example of how the City is facing new urban challenges. The question is how can we design homes, neighbourhoods and liveable communities that can contribute to making Midtown mixed-used and diverse and open to all? The graduation studio consists of both individual and group work, focusing on different research topics tested on the same site. Each studio group needs to develop a vision, design scenario for the site, rendered by the individual project interventions. Individual design scenarios and group site visions should be strongly interconnected and constantly inform each other. Students are free to choose thesis topics and encouraged to develop designs individually, and consequently connect them into overall group strategy. Upon completion of the MSc3 students should be able to incorporate an understanding of the design process attained with regard to the collected data and research conclusions. Based on this understanding, students will be able to further develop the project design in Msc4, and focus on the program, circulation, structure, materialization of buildings, comfort and climate control. Related courses AR3CP040 - Complex Projects - City of Innovations Seminar