Bert Oostdijkurban planning and design

Play the cityFreelance work for Play the City Studio

Can you design self-organization?Providing affordable housing in Houthaven through building groupsMSc graduation project, TU Delft. Tutors: Ir. Leo van den Burg and Ir. Ekim Tan

Den Helder - Back on top! TU Delft design studio. Tutor: Dr. Ir. Franklin van der Hoeven. Team members: Yannick Angkotta and Caspar Lysen.

Waterstad dsm delftTU Delft design studio. Tutor: Ali Guney, Arch. A. and Ir. Seda Dalyan. Team members: Ingrid Setnes and Ka Wing Tjon.

Rotterdam - TRIPS TU Delft design studio. Tutor: Dr. ir. Stefan van der Spek. Team members: Fanying Zhang, Xia Hua and Katja Virta.

The terraces of De BinckhorstBSc thesis project, TU Delft. Turtors: Ir. Leo van den Burg and Ir. Denise Piccinini.

Urban Acupuncture by four NGO’sGraduation thesis in Planning, University of Amsterdam. Tutors: prof. Arnold Reijndorp and prof. dr. Willem Salet

urban strata ∙ shuiweiExhibition design for Doffice Shenzhen.

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Bert Oostdijkurban planning and design

Work experience:present: Architectural design intern at DOFFICE Shenzhen. Research and design work for a collateral exhibition of the Shenzhen Biennale (UABB), in and about the urban village of Shuiwei, as well as masterplan design for a housing development in Guangzhou

2015: Communication Assistant at Benelux Chamber of Commerce Beijing. Updating social media platforms (Wechat, LinkedIn, Facebook) and website, as well as graphic design work.

2013 - 2014: Trainee at Play the City Studio, a studio for collaborative urban design, especially through city games. The projects I have worked on include Play Brussels and Play Cape Town. I have done preliminary research (including actor mapping), game design and playtesting, the design of game tables, pieces, props and posters, wrote a successful grant application, interviewed prospective trainees, reported on game sessions through image and text.

2010: Research Assistant for the study trip ‘What’s up, what’s down: Cultural Catalysts in Urban Space’, organized by the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture. Identifying places, projects and personstofitthethemeofthetrip,collectingrelevantliterature,advising local organizers and updating the website during the trip.

2007 - 2009: Copywriter for Architectenweb.nl. Writing content for the online architecture encyclopedia Archipedia and embedding these articles into thedatabase.Lateroneditorthe‘front-page’newssection:finding, selecting and editing architecture news.

Language and software skills:

A graduate of both urban planning and urbanism, committed to understanding cities and quality urban design. Experienced working in China and aiming to build an urban design career here.

Education:2014 – 2015: Chinese Language and Culture at Communication University of China, Beijing.

2009 - 2013: Urbanism at Delft University of Technology MSc. Obtained. Thesis grade: 8.5 out of 10 Graduation studio: Design as Politics – We the People Participated in design workshops: Resilience and Democracy commissioned by Aedes Network Campus Berlin and in the Almere Poort Oost workshop. Thesis: Can you design self-organization - Developing Houthaven through building groups

2001 - 2008: Planning at University of Amsterdam MSc. Obtained. Thesis grade: 8 out of 10) Included a semester at UCL, The Bartlett School of Planning. Specialization: Urban and Regional planning

English ●●●●●German ●●●○○Mandarin (HSK3) ●●○○○Dutch ●●●●●

Photoshop ●●●○○Illustrator ●●●●●InDesign ●●●●○AutoCAD ●●●○○SketchUp ●●●●○ArcGIS ●●○○○

Other interests: • Urban Photography – my Creative Commons licenced photos are used on National Geographic Russia and other websites.• Playing guitar and writing, translating and adapting songs

urban strata ∙ shuiwei 城市沉淀 · 水围 doffice shenzhen

The exhibition consisted of three elements. The firstwas a ‘content street’ in which the story of Shuiwei was told through a series of pavilions, connected by a blue landscape which highlighted the varied urban life taking place there. Secondly, a series of urban interventions, such as an abandoned open space redecorated by local schoolchildren, let people see the area in a new light. Finally, a series of events communicated our reading of the hidden qualities of the place to Shuiwei’s residents.

With Doffice I worked on a collateral exhibition forthe 2015 Shenzhen biennial (UABB). In this exhibition in and about the urban village of Shuiwei, we examined how ‘villages in the city’ continue to retain their characteristics within Shenzhen’s generic urban landscape. I worked on the overall design and content of the exhibition, as well as the layout of specificpavilions.

Blue landscape connecting the pavilions of the ‘content street’.

Children from the Kindergarten decorating the blue park.

Great interest in the visualization of housing prices. Various data about shuiwei, mapped by height.

TheUrbanStrata-ShuiweiexhibitionalongJintianRoad,amajorshoppingstreetandtrafficaxisinShuiweivillage.

Can you design self-organization?Affordable housing in Houthaven through building groups msc. graduation project

Four structuring public spacesSightlines from city to water

Masterplan for Houthaven

Zaanhof structure (urban ring, village-like ring and green center) applied in Houthaven

My Msc. graduation project for urbanism illustrates how a site can be developed by building groups, while still providing affordable housing and urban quality.

In the housing sector, the municipality of Amsterdam now experiments with selling small plots of land to individuals and building groups, under the heading ‘self-building’. Over the past century, the social-democratic values of the housing corporations were a key element in making Amsterdam the mixed city it is today, but these seem absent in current self-building projects.

This urban plan for Houthaven contains attractive public spaces, partially taken care of by the buildings groups, alongside which building groups can combine living with business.

The process moves forward block by block. Building groups send in their ideas instead of their designs. A block supervisor chooses form these applications to createanappropriatemixgroups,sotargetsforfinancialstrength, affordable housing and neighborhood program are met.

Taking people with real proposals for building groups as the input, both idealistically and business-minded ones, I designed a type of city block which has open and closed sides. This way, the bock can contain different building group typologies and foster cooperation between them.

A matrrix visualising arious possible building groups typologies

can you design self-organization?Affordable housing in Houthaven through building groups msc. graduation project

QUE65with Bert Pijnse

van der Aa

Eurekawith Anne Stijnberg

SOEKwith Vincent

Reijnders

De Hoofden 4by Ferdi Koorneef

De Vrijhavenby Hein de Haan

Blijf-huiswith Cleo

Westermann

Our-Loftby Anton Brink

A possible future for Den Helder as an offhore center within the North Sea

Three zones in the urban block

Building envelope for the block provides the basic rules of where can be built. Because every side is different, the envelope allows for many different building group types. It allows adequate sunlight to each part of the block. This is a start for negotiations between building groups, led by the block supervisor.

construction obligatory (untill a certain height)construction allowed (untill a certain height)no construction allowed (in urban, village like and green zones)

Den Helder - Back on top! msc. design studio

Reinterpretations of the open agricultural landscape between Den Helder and Julianadorp: The Versailles gardens Wijdewormer polder Kootwijkerzand

The same landscape as a sweetwater recreation and water retention lake

A possible future for Den Helder as an offhore center within the North Sea

Den Helder is a shrinking city in the far north of Holland. Our plan aimed to revitalize the city as a whole, by stressing the relationship with the sea and the inland waterways. To do this the sea dyke is made more accessible, and the offshore industry is strengthened. We studied various ways to reinterpret the landscape south of Den Helder, and decided to transform it into an inland lake for recreation and water retention.

My individual project focused on the historical wharf of Willemsoord. By adding a tissue of dense low-rise housing, the culture and catering in the historical buildings will get the sheltered outdoor spaces and the customers they need to flourish. The ferry terminal will be moreintegrated with the culture on Willemsoord. OverviewoftheinfillforWillemsoorddockandsurroundings

This project aimed to see how the city can be improved by taking GPS data as the input for urban redesign. We gave GPS-trackers to people visiting Rotterdam city center from one of the four parking garages, and analyzed the data. Using ArcGIS and Excel, we determined parameters for each trip,suchasefficiency,numberofstops,durationandlength.The data showed most people who visit the center by car do so for single purpose trips. We want to encourage ‘low efficiency’ trips: encouragepeople to see the entire centerof Rotterdam as a destination, to wander around more, so people spend more money. To do so, we propose to make the center a loop, instead of the T-shape the GPS-data shows.

As an individual project within this loop, I propose to change the Sint Lucia block from a back alley to an attractive urban oasis of quality shops, bars and culture. This way the Sint Lucia square will become an attractive alternative to Stadhuisplein, a nightlife square deserted during the daytime.

Rotterdam - TRIPsmsc. elective studio

NR. OF STOPS

LENGTH

EFFICIENCY

DURATION

Data processing to determine trip length

Data processing for the number of stopsRelationshipbetweentriplengthandthenumberofstops,forvarioustripefficiencies

Basic Plan for Reconstruction of Rotterdam (1946) overlaid with trip data: centralization

Lijnbaan

Koopgoot

proposed Koolhaas' Cube

Lowefficiencytripsmapped Mediumefficiencytripsmapped Highefficiencytripsmapped Design proposal for a new cultural district

Impression of the revitalized St. Lucia Square

Current situation Visual clues to create a shortcut Indoor/outdoor connections Add functions in the plinth Paving and furnishing

Waterstad DSM Delftbsc. design studio

Using and reusing water in the homeUrban block alongside Kolenhaven

The urban plan for Waterstad DSM

Section through the Kolenhaven urban block and water villa’s

For this urban design for a brownfield site in Delft we designed aresidential neighbourhood closely tied to the water. Buildings are situated along canals dug perpendicular to Delftse Vliet. By concentrating green space on the tip closest to the center, we take advantage of the construction of the rail tunnel to create a new urban park for Delft. The banks of Delftse Vliet become a sport and leisure zone connecting to the city center. Two landmark towers and an open zone in between them provideanadditionalvisualconnection.Ameanderinghelophytesfilterfieldcleanswastewaterandprovidesabufferzoneagainsttherailroad.

As an individual project I designed an apartment complex along Kolenhaven, a pre-existing and wider canal. While most housing is placed directly along the water, this block is sparated from the water by a public quay. Large overhangs maximize the views over the water. Parking is integrated into the ground floor,bygivinghouseswithgradelevelaccesslivingroomsonthefirstfloor.

The terraces of De Binckhorst bsc. graduation studio

network layer

underground layer

occupation layer

The proposed green connection along the Haagvliet

Plan map for the site along Binckhorstlaan

Section through the Haagvliet and terraced park chamber

Functions in the terraced buildings

section

groundfloor

firstfloor

secondfloor

De Binckhorst is an aging business park, located in central The Hague. As part of a larger master plan to transform Binckhorst, I designed an area in between a canal and a main road, with a zone for mixed use along the main road and a park along the canal.

To connect to the blocky volumes of the existing Binckhorst, but also to the smaller scale of the park, the site calls for terraced buildings. Based upon the ‘Mountain dwellings’ building by BIG Architects, these buildings have housing on top, parking and superstores underneath, and smaller businesses facing the park.

The park consists of open grassy spaces, in which a number of enclosed park roomsarelocated.Heightdifferencesintheparkconnectittothefirstfloorof the terraced buildings, which contain the public program.

View of Binckhorst Castle and the terraced buildings

View of the terraced park chamber

game play illustrations play the city

Illustration of one phase of play during Play Rotterdam.

Play the City is a design studio specializing in collaborative design, in particular in urban planning through serious city games. Founded by Ekim Tan in 2011, the studio is based in Amsterdam, but able to do projects worldwide through its large network of freelancers. I worked fulltime from September 2013 untill August 2014.

During this time I worked on various projects, the most important of which were the Play Brussels and Play Cape Town Games. I also did preliminary research and design for potential projects in the Dutch City of Alkmaar, as well as the refugee camp of Al Za’atari in Jordan. I also worked on publicity and fundraising for the Play the City Foundation as a whole.

The publicity work included making isometric visualizations of previous games for an upcoming book. These included drawings explain the various phases of the play process, as well as more realistic illustrations of the game outcome.

Illustration of one phase of play during Play Noord.

Illustration of one phase of play during Play Oosterwold.

The game outcome of Play Noord, a game in which small entepreneurs and residents try to kickstart the development of and area with a masterplan on hold, in the north of Amsterdam. Illustration by Bert Oostdijk and Georgia Manousogiannaki.

Play Temporary Brussels was commissioned by ]pyblik[ for a masterclass dealing with possible temporary use of the Ninoofsepoortdevelopmentsite.Thesite isadangeroustrafficjunitionontheedgeoftheBrusselshexagon.Ahotelandofficedevelopment has been foreseen for a long time, but nothing is happening in the short term.

Play temporary brussels play the city

For this game I designed both the game table and the form which players used to document their proposals. By making players record of what they consume and produce in terms of money, food, energy and other cycles they become aware of the role of their proposal in the urban metabolism. I reported on the progress of the game live through twitter and wrote a report afterwards. choose the program

vote for the best idea

collaborate to produce, consume and design

develop your proposal for temporary use

Play Cape townplay the city

Play Cape Town is a game tackling the uneven development of the city. It makes players think on two scales: the metropolitan city, and the development of the centre of Khayelitsha, Cape Town’s largest township at the outskirts of the city. This way, a dialog between the large institutions(withmoneyandinfluence)andthelocal players (with local knowledge and contacts) can start.

In cooperation with people from the City of Cape Town, I mapped potential players: people and institutions active in the urban development of Cape Town and the Khayelitsha train station site. I wrote project proposals to apply for funding and worked on the rules and the play testing for Play Cape Town. I designed posters for the game room, and took part in the design of the Khayelitsha game table and new pieces made for Cape Town.

These game pieces represent the informal traders who have an important role in the economy of Khayelitsha.

This gridded map of Cape Town presents the different urban typologies of the metropolitan area, a sensitive issue because of its racial segregation, in a playful way. It can be used to identify sites for future games, where racially mixed development is possible.