Portfolio Elan 16/11/2015

Elan is a 23 year old student, halfway to completing his Master of Landscape Architecture education at the TU Delft. He was born in North Vancouver, Canada to a half japanese/half canadian father and a dutch mother. Being brought up bilingual gives him the ability to speak fluent english and dutch. He has always been interested in the three fields of the built and unbuilt environment, Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape Architecture. Finishing his Bachelor degree in Architecture, which consisted of a reasonable amount of Architecture as well as Urbanism, he sought to broaden his view by starting a master education in Landscape Architecture.

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Workexperience:Hospitality employee (07/2014 now) Sushi Company

Hospitality employee (02/2011 08/2014) Number 1 Snacks

Promotion worker (03/2011 08/2012) Boost Group

Salesperson (07/2010 - 08/2010) Gamma, Schiedam

Basketball trainer (01/2009 - 05/2009) SBV Juventus, Schiedam

Assistent (02/2009 - 05/2009) Argos Eropuit, Schiedam

Education:Master Landscape Architecture (08/2015 now) TU Delft

Bachelor Architecture (08/2011 07/2014) TU Delft

VWO+ - N&G and N&T - (08/2004 - 07/2010) SG Spieringshoek

Nevenactiviteiten:Committee member: Treasurer (01/2015 11/2015) Urban & Landscape Week 2015

Basketball (09/2006 - now) SBV Juventus, Schiedam

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PROJECTS

Gebouw en Constructie The design of a pavilion in the harbour of Rotterdam.

Stad en Woningbouw The design of the cleared railway zone of Delft.

Klein Openbaar Gebouw The design of a library for the faculty of Architecture at the TU Delft.

Interactive Environments: Ditto The design of an interactive environment, to create closer communication between patients at a child oncology hospital and their families.

Gebiedsontwikkeling The design of Blaak/West-Blaak, where ten students play the role of different stakeholders in the designprocess. I played the role of landscape architect.

Gebouw en Techniek The redesign of the Kunsthal in Rotterdam.

Villa Urbana The design of an abandoned quarry, which creates room for nature as well as recreation.

Teatro Urbano The redevelopment of the urban Rotte in Rotterdam.

Dutch Waterscapes: Design of a Leisure Landscape The design along the agricultural Rotte north of Rotterdam. The design aims to make the watersystem insightful and create space for recreation.Smart Infrastructure & Mobility The design of solutions for the rising watercrisis in Sao Paulo, Brasil.

Aqua Terra The design of a vision for the city of Ostermundigen, Switzerland. The city is a satellite city of Bern.

Huis en Verankering The design of a neighbourhood in the dunes of the Hague. This neighbourhood contains 10 lots, of which one is designed with house and garden.

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The Third project of the Bachelor of Architecture education, was the first confrontation with Urbanism. Here the proj-ect location was the Spoorzone Delft. The Railway that crosses and splits the city of Delft, is being relocated to an underground network. This frees up the area that was formerly used by the train. The municipality of Delft demand-ed two types of housing. The first being for student, which the city is lacking. The second being high segment hous-ing for the alumni of the TU Delft. There is a big trend of graduates that move to other cities in the country, for better housing and job opportunity. In groups of two students, masterplans were made for this location. The buildingblocks within the masterplan were conceptually designed.

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A mass study with blocks the size of an average apartment guided the design in an early fase. Another strong ele-ment of the forming of this design, was the search for aspects that create the strength of the innercity of Delft. The diversity of facades and the dimensions of street profiles were further analysed and given a contemporary esthetic. The design aims to limit the occupation of public space by private space. To achieve this three dimensional urban-ism is used to gives back the footprint of the housing, by the creation of rooftop parks. The water that runs through the area connects a watersystem to create a closed loop, which improves the water quality by stimulating move-ment.

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The second project of the Master track of Landscape Architecture at the TU Delft brings us to the peat river Rotte that runs through the city of Rotterdam. Since the redirection of the Rotte outside of the city, the water of the Binnen-rotte has come to stagnation. Therefore strongly reducing its water quality and esthetic quality. The designs will aim to bring quality along the urban Rotte. The project consists of a macro scale design by designteams of 4 students and micro scale design that is designed individual. The introductory analysis will be done in interdisciplinary teams of 20 students, consisting of Urbanism and Landscape Architecture students.

CITY TEATRO URBANO

FractalizationFractalization

Walk Lines

Rotterdam has a lack of recreational routes. The recreational network is constantly obstructed by other networks. Inhabitants of Rotterdam therefore use public trans-port or their car to drive to recreational areas, instead of starting their recreational activity from their doorstep. This design aims to create a recreational linear system that connects the innercity of Rotterdam with the recreational nodes outside of the city. The route along the Rotte is in constant entanglement with other routes, mainly car roads. Instead of making the recreational route along the Rotte, this design propos-es it to be on the Rotte, to avoid confliction with other networks.

As a guiding theme the idea of three times nature was implemented. This idea shows three representations of na-ture in the design, namely the garden, the cultural nature and nature in its truest form. The garden here is the type of nature that is closest to our home, in this case the garden is placed near the vibrant city, the Binnenrotte mar-ketsquare. The cultural nature is in the form of Peach tree walls. The implementation of peachtrees in an urban envi-ronment and a cold climate seems impossible, but centuries ago Paris had a thriving peach industry in the city. By planting peachtrees close to walls, the walls would emit warmth during cold periods, which it collected with its mass during warmer periods and therefore creating a microclimate for the trees. In Paris they called it Murs pches. In Vancouver they are currently setting up a similar project where they grow fruittrees in the city. Vancouver, Paris and Rotterdam share similar climates. The representation of raw nature is done by the Rotte itself. By opening up the Rotte to the Maas in a managed and coordinated way, the Rotte will experience the same fluctuations as the Rotte in a tamed manner. The Fluctuations will be made visible by elements that occur and disappear with the flows of the water.

The third project of the Master track of Landscape Architecture regards the traditional dutch landscape, the pol-der. In this project the cultural Rotte will be regarded. The main demand is the creation of a recreational landscape, where the complex watersystem is made insightful. The scale of the design is left open, for the student to decide.

POLDER DUTCH WATERSCAPES

The area of intervention, Terbregse veld, has undergone many changes over the course of history. All of the area surrounding the Rotte used to be peat landscape. In the 17th century the extraction of peat started in the area. This caused the area to become a peat lake. To create land for agriculture, they created ditches and pumped the water into the Rotte to be transported to the Maas and finally the sea. Remnants of these ditches are still visible today. During the baby boom period, the polder was filled with sand to create ground for housing. This process was not completed before the financial crisis started. The empty grassland remained unused untill they placed a baggerde-pot in the middle of the open field.The design combines the different elements of the history of the area into one recreational area. The baggerdepot structure is kept but transformed into a secret water garden, where nature can reclaim the area. A wooden path runs over through the area and over the watergarden. The path breaks through the dike to direct views to the ditch pat-tern that is still in tact. The path curves around a part of the field that has not been modified to refer to the historical layer of sand that was put on. On this field many migrating birds land which is a beautifull sight for cyclists in the area.

The route that runs through the area follows the direction of the water. The water movement is made insightfull through visual movement, sound and also touch. The rain water that falls on the location is gathered in the water garden. As soon as the waterlevel gets too high the water is pumped upwards with fountains that spray the water into a higher basin. The water from this basin falls into a waterbody that leads into a stream that is directed towards the polders boezempump.

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The fourth quarter of the mastertrack of Landscape Architecture is open for electives. The Smart Infrastructure and Mobility elective brings a nice combination of Landscape Architecture, Urbanism and Civil Engineering. This com-bined with the complexity of the metropolis of Sao Paulo creates an interesting case. The developing country of Brasil faces many challenges. Brasils biggest city, Sao Paulo, is currently facing a severe drought, but also floods. This problem can be linked directly to the deforestation along its water reservoirs. This deforestation is intertwined with the rising of informal settlements along the water reservoirs. These informal settlements are created because of a lack of affordable housing for the lowest segment of the population. In a multidisciplinary team, consisting of an Urbanist a Civil Engineer and a Landscape Architect, the social and watertechnical challenges are faced synergeti-cally.

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So Paulo is facing the biggest water crisis of this age. Droughts and floods terrorize daily life of the So Paulo in-habitants. As of lately this Billings reservoir does not have the ability of refilling itself up to full capacity after periods of drought. The city itself lacks the absorption capacity to cope with heavy rainfalls.The informal settlements lack open public spaces. Daily life is focused on private space rather than on public space. This leads to a decreasing sense of community in informal settlements, which in turn leads to littering and contamination of the water.By creating open spaces both water issues as well as social issues could be tackled. However, these open spaces need to be reserved and/or regulated, because it is in the very nature of informal settlements that they tend to occu-py and extend into open spaces. This requires the people to understand their own need for open space.The design of Sponge City, designed by a Civil Engineer student, an Urbanism student and a Landscape Archi-tecture student, aims to give shape to the creation and maintenance of open space. The natural streams were mapped and rated by their urgency for intervention. The streams that run through infor-mal settlements have a bigger urgency. The area around streams are further analysed to where the need for open space is most needed. This can be because of hazardous building location that should have their informal housing removed, or because of their proximity to infrastructure. One stream has been pinpointed to become a pilot project for the area, because of its high urgency and high potential for quality. During this pilot project the community will participate and be educated on the protection of these streams. After this pilot project the community can play a leading role in the further protection of streams.

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URGENT PROJECT: SPRING PROTECTION, MIDDLESTREAM OR DOWNSTREAMRelocating people, creating spring protection, water storage and filtration

URGENT PROJECT: SPRING PROTECTION, MIDDLESTREAM OR DOWNSTREAMRelocating people, creating spring protection, water storage and filtration

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The houses that directly conflict with the protection of the spring will be removed.

The inhabitants of the area will use their newly gained knowledge to protect unbuilt springs in the area.

URGENT UNBUILT SPRINGS: SPRING PROTECTION

REMOVE HOUSING ON TOP OF SPRING

The houses that were removed will be brought back in the direct vicinity.

BUILDING OF SOCIAL HOUSING &PUBLIC SPACE AROUND SPRING

An area along the middle stream will be cleared of houses to make place for a watersquare.

REMOVE HOUSING OFF MIDDLE STREAM LOCATION Along the sports fields a

filtering park will be built. This area is already without direct program, therefore construction can start immediately

BUILDING OF FILTERING PARK

Simultaneously with the filtering park the ecoport will be built. Therefore the two projects can create synergy.

BUILDING OF ECOPORT

A watersquare will be built. Along this new square the houses will be replaced for the inhabitants, whose house was cleared.

BUILDING OF SOCIAL HOUSING &WATER SQUARE

The housing will be brought back further from the stream to create room for a network between public spaces.

REMOVE HOUSING ALONG STREAM

The spring will be protected by a concrete construction. In this construction pipes are placed to insure a constant flow from the spring. During this protection the inhabitants will be taught how to protect a spring.

PROTECTION OF THE SPRING

Along the stream a network between public spaces will be created. The facades along these archs will be improved.

BUILDING OF PUBLIC SPACE AND FACADES

The pilot project is finished. With the information that was gathered of the successes or fails of the project, the other streams can be intervened in.

PILOT PROJECT IS COMPLETED

The inhabitants start with protection of the remaining springs.

REMAINING UNBUILT SPRINGS: SPRING PROTECTION

The pilot project is finished. With the information that was gathered of the successes or fails of the project, the other streams can be intervened in.

PILOT PROJECT IS COMPLETED

The inhabitants start with protection of the remaining springs.

REMAINING UNBUILT SPRINGS: SPRING PROTECTION

The streams will have three places of intervention, namely the upstream (source), middle stream and the down-stream. The upstream source will focus on protection. This protection used to be done by local communities, but has decreased over time because the sense of community has also decreased. The middle stream focusses on the collection of rain water of the catchment area. This collection will be in the shape of a water square. In the pilot project the water square is linked to a school. This will maintain the liveliness of the square, which directly influences the sense of community. The downstream will act as a filter for all the water that was caught in the catchment area. This filter area should host a function to make sure it is not taken over bij informal settlements. In the pilot project there was already a park with sportfields along the stream. By filling the unused spaces around the sportfields with filtering plants and river meanders, the water quality will rise, before the water ends up in the Billings reservoir. The Billings reservoir is the water source for the whole metropolitan area of Sao Paulo. The water is not only a source for household water, but also provides 60% of the energy through hydropower.

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The Landscape Architecture mastertrack is a relatively new mastertrack at the TU Delft. Most bachelor students are not well informed to what the field of Landscape Architecture consists of. The goal of the exhibition is to give insight into the field and mastertrack. The exhibition is designed and built up by 20 students during a four week period.

EXHIBITION

The design of the exhibition narrates a designprocess. The four elements it consists of are the toolbox, the archives, the design and the experience. The toolbox contain materials that landscape architects would work with, like sand, bricks and plants. The archives contain all types of inspiration for designs. This can be a documentation of a land-scape, the recordings of the sounds of a landscape or another design that inspires your design. The design element shows the projects of students of the mastertrack of Landscape Architecture. The final element, the experience, tries to create an experience of a landscape architectural design. From a sitting element the view of the visitor is pointed towards a wooden box. In this box a landscape is projected on the wall and its reflection is projected on the ground like a reflection pool. The reflection is not its complete reflection, but it is the image of that same landscape that was changed. Examples of these changes are, winter and summer, high tide and low tide or the before and after of an intervention.

Every year Polis, the student association of the mastertracks of Urbanism and Landscape Architecture, organises the Urbanismweek. This year eight students formed the commission of the newly renamed Urban & Landscape Week. The commission consisted of six Urbanism students, an Architecture student and a Landscape Architecture student. The Urban & Landscape Week aims to form an international platform for dialogue and discussion through a series of lectures and symposiums given by professionals from both academic and practice background. This years commision aimed to fully incorporate the Landscape Architecture mastertrack in this yearly event.

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U r b a n & L a n d s c a p e W e e k 2 0 1 5raw the line

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This years theme Draw the Line acts as an overarching theme, dealing with various subjects and topics. During the week, many different issues were addressed, but all were directed to inspire the audience to (re)think their po-sition in the fields of urban and landscape design. We believe that being aware of your own boundaries can help in developing as a designer or planner but also as a human being.

The structure of the week is set up to create a mix of inspiring stories and interactive workshops. Draw the Line has its focus on engaging in debate with each other, to search for boundaries, positions and viewpoints together, to discover for ourselves where we would Draw the Line.

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FHIH

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Networking

ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

POLIS

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Networking

CULTURAL ALUMNI EVENT

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DUALITYDraw the line between

urban and landscape

Built environment duality has

never been as simple as building

versus nature. It is more an

insight of planning impact in city

context.

Urban and landscape designers

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within this execution. But, do they

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natural expressions?

Tuesday 13/10

DISCOVERYDraw the line: drawing

as a skill

Drawing embodies design directions

to think about, to contemplate, to

discover, to improve, to eliminate.

Integration between what is inside

mind and outside gesture will result

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Design products are significantly

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design ethics.

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DIALOGUEDraw the line between

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practices in order to bridge the

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This multiscalar interconnections

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everything represented in this

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DIORAMAExhibition day

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discussion, Diorama is a day of

reflections as well as first further

actions for ubanists and

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line, in multiple paradigms that

should matter.

12.30 - 13.45

Lunch lecture

URBAN AND LANDSCAPE

DIRK SIJMONSTU Delft / H+N+S

12.30 - 13.45

Lunch lecture

COMMUNICATE BY DRAWING

JONGENS VD TEKENINGENStudio for Visual Thinking

12.30 - 13.45

Lunch lecture

ETHICS OF DESIGN

PETER KROESTU Delft / TPM Faculty

12.30 - 13.45

Lunch lecture

COLLABORATIVE PRACTICES

KRISTIEN RING (USA)AA Projects / Univ. of South Florida

12.30 - 16.45

Exhibition

PARTICIPANTS WORKAt the Oostserre

15.00

Farewell speech

BEWOGEN BEWEGINGDIRK SIJMONS

Aula

14.00 - 16.45

Parallel workshops

REGIONAL VISION

ZUID HOLLAND PROVINCE Francisco Colombo

& Jeroen van Schaick

CITY AS AN ORGANISM

.FABRIC Bas Driessen

URBAN FRINGE TRIP

FRITS VAN LOONTU Delft

14.00 - 16.45

Parallel workshops

DRAWING AS ANALYSIS

VAN EESTEREN CHAIRFrits Palmboom

& Paul Broekhuisen

DIGITAL VISUALISATIONDESIGN INFORMATICS CHAIRPaul de Ruiter

ANALYSING THROUGH SKETCHING

JOHAN MEEUS

14.00 - 16.45

Parallel workshops

ETHICS IN PEDAGOGY & PRACTICE

DANA MCKINNEY (USA)Harvard GSD

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCES

UN STUDIOImola Berczi

WHY COMPETITIONS?

OMADavid Gianotten

14.00 - 16.45

Parallel workshops

THE MAKING OF

HANS VENHUIZEN Game Urbanism

BOTTOM-UP PRACTICES

ZUSKristian Koreman

COLLABORATIVE COMMUNICATION

UNLABFrancesca Rizzetto

& Andreas Faoro

17.00 - 17.45

Debate

F. COLOMBO

J. VAN SCHAICK

BAS DRIESSEN

FRITS VAN LOON

Moderator: Daniel Jauslin

17.00 - 17.45

Debate

F. PALMBOOM

P. BROEKHUISEN

PAUL DE RUITER

JOHAN MEEUS

Moderator: Rosa Stapel

17.00 - 17.45

Debate

DANA MCKINNEY (USA)

IMOLA BERCZI

DAVID GIANOTTEN

Moderator: Marta Relats Torante

17.00 - 21.00

Debating caf + closing

ROUND 1: POSITION OF THE DESIGNER

MICHIEL VAN IERSEL Non fiction / IABR 2016

ZEF HEMELUniversity of Amsterdam

WOUTER VANSTIPHOUTTU Delft / Crimson

ROUND 2: HOW TO DESIGN IN THE FUTURE

MAURITS DE HOOGAmsterdam Municipality

JEROEN ZUIDGEESTMVRDV

RIENTS DIJKSTRAMaxwan / TU Delft

Moderator: Bart Cosijn


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Elan Redekop van der Meulen10th july 1992

Gerrit Jan Mulderstraat 6A2 3023 RE Rotterdam

[email protected]

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