urbanism and architecture portfolio peter steehouder

ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM PORTFOLIO

Peter Steehouder

Delft University of TechnologyBachelor in Architecture, Urbanism and Building Technology

+316 [email protected]

Noordmolenwerf 1513011DC RotterdamThe Netherlands

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

name: Peter Steehouderphone: +316 18121857email: [email protected]

1. CURRICULUM VITAE .................. 4 who is Peter?

2. DSM GIST ................................. 8 sustainable redevelopment in Delft

3. VAN BINNEN NAAR BUITEN .... 12 a childfriendly south of Rotterdam

4. KUNSTHAL .............................. 18 a new icon?

5. ZWOLLE REGION...................... 24 potentials of the middle sized city

6. SÃO PAULO WATERRING ......... 30 social justice in Brazil

7. PHOTOGRAPHY ....................... 36 how I see things

CURRICULUM VITAE

5PORTFOLIO PETER STEEHOUDER |

September 2014 - present(1 year)

September 2009 - June 2014(5 years)

September 2002 - June 2009(7 years)

Physical

Languages

October 2011 - present(4 years)

October 2007 - October 2011(4 years)

Computer

PERSONALIA

name Peter Steehouderborn 17/05/1990, Rotterdam (Netherlands)live Rotterdam (Netherlands)

tel. +316 18121857mail [email protected] Peter Steehouder

EDUCATION

Delft University of TechnologyMaster in Urbanism / Planned to finish in ‘16-’17

Delft University of TechnologyBachelors Degree in Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences

Comenius College Secundairy school / Pre-university education

WORK EXPERIENCE

Media Markt / Rotterdam AlexandriumStaff member of Customer Service

Albert Heijn / Capelle aan den IJsselAssistent department Delicacy and Cheese

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

AutocadPhotoshopIllustratorIndesign

SketchupRevitMayaMicrosoft OfficeDigital Sketching

PhotographySketchingLaser Cutting

DutchSpanishEnglishGerman

INTERESTS

Food and cooking, Movies, Soccer, Sports in general, Traveling, Theory in Urbanism and Archi-tecture, Martial arts, Friends and family, Design and Photography.

BIO

Born from a Indonesian mother and a Dutch father, I was always intrigued by the differences in cultures and how people differ from eachother in what they value in life and how they fill in their lives. Currently I am between the first and second year of the Master in Urbanism to figure out what makes me happy in life by traveling, reading and trying new things. The goal of my internship is to gain more knowledge and understanding of the profession and to broaden my horizon as an future Urbanist.

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PROJECTS



DSM GIST TERRAINSUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND HOUSING

YEAR OF STUDY2010-2011 Bachelor 3: Urban development and housing, TU Delft Faculty of Architecture.

PROJECT PLACEDelft, The Netherlands.

TYPE OF EDUCATIONIndividual and Group.

PROJECT DESCRIPTIONIt was the second year of the Bachelor, where the first steps where made as an Urbanist. Not yet capable of making nice renders and using advanced urban theories. The emphasis was on making a strong concept, involving precedent works and understanding different types of urban space. The project and the guidance of our tutor turned out really succesful, earning us a place in the final exhibition of best designs, but moreover a strong foundation for our body of knowledge.

The case of this project concerns the redevelopment of the former plant site of the DSM company in Delft. The plant site itself is replaced and the vacant area is considered as the ideal location for a housing project in the proximity of the city cen-tre of Delft. The project emphasis is the relation between the urban fabric and the typology of the single dwellings. Moreover, the objective is to break with the enclosed character, that this location historically has. And to create a new relation with the city and the many faces of Delft. The final design is ought to be sustainable through all levels of scale and is involved in all the stages of the design process.


THE SITE | The case area is located north-east to the city centre of Delft and concerns an old industrial site. On the south border, the case area is limited by a still active plant site and the famous Agnetapark. On the one hand it was crucial to block nuisance originating from the industrial area, but on the other hand a strong and open relationship with the Agnetapark was desirable. Therefore the new park connecting the Agnetapark multiplies the size of the total park by two, but moreover creates a strong relation with this characterstic face of Delft and entangles it in itself. On the north side of the case area, the area is limited by the river Schie, which poses a lot of potential qualities. In the design, living near the Schie was ought to be a major attraction for new residents and gave a new face to the industrialised quay of the Schie.


CONCEPT | Because of the characteristics of this area, there where a few interesting points that led to the concept. The industrial identity, the multiplicity of faces and the role of this area acting as a new connection between the previously disconnected parts of the city. The concept was to create a lively neighbourhood amidst of an industrial setting, to show the identity of the former plantsite, but also to give shape to the potential qualities that such an depreciated area offers.

The ambition of the project was to create a closed circle, a circle that connects the production of waste with the production of energy from a biogassystem. To make this cost-effective en-ergy demand per home was ought to be low, which means that the buildings take various measures to energy consumption reduce. The biogas plant not only produces CO2 neutral energy but is also yielded in a durable way. Where possible, use is made of objects already present on the site, this could include the many silos and tubes, which give shape to the discussed in-dustrial identity. Black water, fruit and garden waste are processed in the plant. However, it’s not just about waste from the district itself, a cooperation with the glass houses is also implied. The glass houses receive expelled CO2, which at combustion is released back. The heat and the power in return is provied for the neighborhood itself.


METHODS | During the project hand drawing skills and modelling where prominent in shaping and testing the design. Physical mod-els where made from the personal design, but also from existing projects to learn and understand different types of spaces. Later on computer models where used for the first time, to calculate the course of the sun and to create realistic situations. These skills turned out successful and kept being used throughout the whole study.



TRANSFORMATION STRATEGY FOR A CHILD-FRIENDLY CARNISSE

VAN BINNEN NAAR BUITEN

YEAR OF STUDY2012-2013 Minor: Stedenbouw in de Delta, TU Delft Faculty of Architecture.

PROJECT PLACERotterdam, The Netherlands.

TYPE OF EDUCATIONGroup.

PROJECT DESCRIPTIONThe first semester of the third year was elective and was full of opportunities. Triggered by the third design project, I chose to continue with Urbanism. However, for the first time, I was allowed to do extensive research and to do experiments with multiple research methods. This semester turned out very fruit-full and laid the foundation for me as an “Urban Researcher”. Our report was such a succes, that a by government funded organisation wanted to use our study in future policy.

The project itself embraced the socio-spatial problems of the South of Rotterdam and challenged to come up with creative and out of the box strategies. Here we where allowed to do extensive field research and tackle every single topic we per-ceived. After days of field research and collecting statistics we chose to work on a strategy to make the streets of Carnisse more childfriendly and appealing for childeren.


THE CASE | Throughout history the south of Rotterdam has been of subordinate importance, resulting in higher crime rates, less wealth and social injustice. Moreover, it is one of the most urbanized parts of the Netherlands and place for childeren to develop themself is scarce. Originating from this part of Rotterdam, it inspired me to come up with a fitting strategy and design to give space back to the youth. From our research it proved that on different scale levels, there is a big battle for space in which children are worst off. Specifically, this meant that interventions where desirable in the traffic network to make it safe and joyfull for children. But also a new design on street level, with respect to the current buildings and public space. Illustrated above is one of the fruits of our final propositions in one of the normative streets.


THE STRATEGY | As mentioned before, the root of the problem is located in the traffic structure. On a higher scale, this plead for a better use of the roads that connect the neighborhoods, so there are less dangerous crossings. But most of, all confining the roads that run through the streets to local traffic, so there is less ongoing traffic. This led to the “Groene Kamer” scenario, the “Groene Vinger” scenario and the “Groene Golf” scenario.

These scenarios are general propositions fitting different types of situations and are ought to create safe and versatile solutions for unsafe and monotonous street profiles. These scenarios where based on the de-gree of participation of local residents and the width of the street profile. The “Groene Kamer” represented the situation of a high degree of participation and a broad profile. The “Groene Vinger” represents a low de-gree of participation and a small profile. And at last the “Groene Golf” represents a high degree of participation and a small profile.


THE GROENE KAMER | The design of the Groene Kamer turns an anonimous and dangerous road into a safe and joyfull residential zone, which suits the needs of children growing up.


THE GROENE VINGER | The idea of the Groene Vinger is an derivative of the water square, in-vented by the Urbanists. It is supposed to be a multifunctional solution for a low participative situation. The design is low in maintenance and adresses the pressing is-sue of water nuisance by precipitation. The upper situation shows a “dry” situation, the second situation is after heavy rainfall.


THE GROENE GOLF | The Groene Golf is a scenario where cars can still pass, but have to slow down because of the bend. It is supposed to be a comprimise between the urge of traffic and a safe and challenging space for the residents.



KUNSTHAL ROTTERDAMA NEW ICON IN ROTTERDAM?

YEAR OF STUDY2013-2014 Bachelor 6: Building and Technology, TU Delft Faculty of Architecture.

PROJECT PLACERotterdam, The Netherlands.

TYPE OF EDUCATIONIndividual.

PROJECT DESCRIPTIONFinally arrived at the latest project in the Bachelor, I was instructed to design a new building for the Kunsthal in Rot-terdam. Although I was already convinced to do a Master in Urbanism. I was excited to accept the challenge, considering the relation that the Kunsthall has with its location and the repu-tation the Kunsthall brings with it.

In its fictional scenario, the famous work of Rem Koolhaas was burned in an accidental fire. The assignment required a new design, in which the “architect” is responsible for a new architectural, structural and climate design. While the Kunsthal does not have it’s own collection, it was essential that the new design was flexible and adaptive to different exhibitions. In addition, I adopted key principles of the design of Koolhaas. Therefore, principles of lighting and internal and external routing where taken as a starting point.

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KUNSTHAL

CONCEPT | The Kunsthal is located in the famous Museumpark by Jo Coenen and is build on the slope of the Westzeedijk, which provides for a very particulair relation between the build-ing and the park. In contrary to a Museum with it’s own art collection, the Kunsthal is a place where the pure experience is key, rather than the artifact itself. So in order to create the best possible experience, the play of light and dark, routing and lines of sight where taken as central elements. In the proposal for the new Kunsthal, this was mainly expressed by the design of the facades, the atrium with its play of lights (made possible by the light sheds). And finally the circulation throughout the whole building, which unites all the exposition halls as one. The illustration above is a representation of the park entrence, when crossing the bridge from the museum park.

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LIGHTS, CIRCULATION, SPACE |The external routing of the park cuts right through the building in the form of a glass atrium. The atrium is intended to form a space that is somewhat a compromise between outdoor and inside and forms a direct connection between the dyke and the park. Because of these hybrid spaces, the routing and play of risers attain even more emotion-al values. Moreover, between the various exhibition halls, people can meet before entering new exhibitions and contemplate about the previous experiences.

The atrium is designed in a way, so that it delivers mixed lightings. But without unnecessary heat load and depravation of the art collection. By doing so, dark and light places are created to give a superoir ex-perience, accordingly to the type of exhibition. The facades are designed similairly. The high, narrow openings allow enough natural light to enter. But without attracting the attention outside and preventing direct sun-light from entering from the sides. The composition of de windows look quite random, but are placed in such ways that rooms needy of coolness and darkness have less openings in the facade. Consequently, there are less openings in the south facade.

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REGIONAL DESIGN FOR AN EMERGING URBAN REGION

ZWOLLE REGION

YEAR OF STUDY2014-2015 Master 2: Spatial Strategies for the Global Me-tropolis, TU Delft Faculty of Architecture, department of Urban-ism.

PROJECT PLACEZwolle Region, The Netherlands.

TYPE OF EDUCATIONIndividual and Group.

PROJECT DESCRIPTIONIn the second phase of my first masters year, I got introduced to urban planning on a regional scale. For the first time inter-ventions where critical on a far bigger scale, so regional, na-tional and even European policy had to be maintained. Working through the scales had never become this real, where there had to be a design from regional scale to a local scale. I real-ly enjoyed this project because of the natural and ecological context of the case and the fact that I got a lot of experiences of a part of Holland I didn’t yet knew.

The context of this assignment is a globalizing world in which more and more cities and regions compete with each other. The case of this project is the emerging region of Zwolle and its surrounding cities. Zwolle is the economical centre of this region and is driven by the clustering of the smaller cities to one region and the position along key transport corridors. The assignment was to develop a regional design for the Zwolle region and its context for the next 50 years.


MID-SIZED UTOPIA | The Zwolle region is one of the most successfully grow-ing regions in the Nether-lands. The region is part of a belt of mid-size cities, located next to the Rand-stad. Open landscape and a coherent relation between urban and open spaces is considered to be the most valuable quality of these cities today. However, 60% of the people working in the region do not live here. As a result, those people do not fully participate in the economical growth of the region. The key goal for the region is to strengthen the spatial qualities that would enable further development. In order to maintain and stimulate the economic growth of the region in the future, the strategy is pro-posed first of all to attract and keep the peoples that already work in the region but do not live here, and then create spatial condi-tions for further develop-ment of the cities.

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The area addresses density of a neighborhood, district or municipality is the average number of addresses per square kilometer within a circle with a radius of one kilometer on 1 January.

INDUSTRY

industrial water way

new harbour expansion

new industries expansion

multimodal node

relocation of small businesses

WATER/NATURE

leisure oriented water way

the most important regional open spaces/ network

dykes

temporaly water storage in winter time

URBAN AREAS

new expansions

revitalisation of industrial areas

expansion planed by the municipality that can be

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Scheme of the strategy

INDUSTRY

industrial water way

new harbour expansion

new industries expansion

multimodal node

relocation of small businesses

WATER/NATURE

leisure oriented water way

the most important regional open spaces/ network

dykes

temporaly water storage in winter time

URBAN AREAS

new expansions

revitalisation of industrial areas

expansion planed by the municipality that can be

activators

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TRENDSSYSTEM

URBAN SYSTEM

DiscontinuityFragmentationPrivate propertyContradictory

PreservationNetworkAccessibilityReinforcement of differentiation

UndefinitionConflictive relation of activities

Harmonious relation of open spaces

INTERFACE/ INTRAFACE

PROPOSAL

Sprawl Low density and monofuctionalityZwolle-Kampen regional center development Growing bigger cities

growthshrinkage

Nodal development Reinforcing existing structureMixity and diversityDifferent living environmentsIdentities of the cities

growthdensification

OPEN SPACE SYSTEMwaterhighwayrailway

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PROPOSALS | By creating different living environments and economic conditions, the different cities in the region complement each other and create a coherent regional system. By im-plementation of the compact city model, it is possible to preserve the economic and spatial qualities of three different landscapes, agricultural, cultural and natural landscapes. Also, one of the biggest qualities of mid-size cities is the short walking or bicycling distance from the city (center) to the open landscape, the concentration of certain facilities and the feeling of being ‘outside’ in the green. By combining both the compact city model and the mid-size utopia idea of Daan Zandbelt, the strategy puts emphasize on the living qualities of the different cities in our region and spatial conditions allowing further growth allowing the most sufficient use of different landscapes.


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urban open space

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green axes going into the surrounding landscapeborder extension

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direct relationwith the nature/landscapecollaboration


ZWARTEWATERLAND GROWTH BY SHARING | The cities of Genemuiden and Zwartsluis play an important role in the regional strategy, where they have to offer a close relationship with its surrounding landscapes and the water. The two cities also have the practical qualities as being a small sized, compact city. However, the qualities of Zwartewaterland have to be maintained, in order to remain an interesting and innovative living environment to activate the area. To conservate the compactness of this cities it is proposed to convert the proximity of Genemuiden and Zwartsluis into a new symbiosis. In Zwartewaterland a stronger relationship between the cities is proposed, so they can improve the exchange of functions and provide for a better growth of both cities. Also because of the locality of the more traditional industry, a better work and living environment is created with new and diverse living environments. The main proposition is a slow traffic highway from south border of Genemuiden, to the by nature characterised north border of Zwartsluis. This green and blue corridor connects both city centers and is planned to stimulate function exchange and specialisation and strengthens the ties with nature.

Type 1Zwartsluis10 House/haLiving in nature

Type 3Genemuiden20 House/haRich living

Type 2Zwartsluis15 House/haRiverland

Type 4Genemuiden20 House/haLake estate


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Temporary StorageRoom for the river

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New ConnectionZwarte Water Bridge

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Consolidation of Inbetween areaNew Recreational Farm

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PLANNING AND DESIGN OF WATER RESILIENT CITIES IN DEVELOPING CONTEXTS

SÃO PAULO WATER RING

YEAR OF STUDY2014-2015 Master 2: Smart Infrastructure and Mobility, TU Delft Faculty of Architecture, department of Urbanism.

PROJECT PLACESão Paulo, Brazil.

TYPE OF EDUCATIONGroup.

PROJECT DESCRIPTIONThe last quarter of the masters first year was yet again elective. To develop myself as a versatile urban planner and designer, I was really interested to learn more about policy in a developing context and working together with students from Civil Engineer-ing. In my latest project I was permitted to do field research in São Paulo together with students from Brazil and Civil Engi-neering students from Delft.

The central question is how to Deploy and Design Landscape infrastructures to achieve a long term spatial framework that could guide and control urban development with ecological qualities and restored ecosystem services?


A UNIQUE CONEXT | The area lies in a unique natural context, due to the presence of water reservoirs and protected green areas along with their spatial qualities, however, the lack of basic infrastructures and the pressure of a rising, uncontrolled urbanization, sets challenges from an economical, social, but most of all, ecological perspectives. These issues needs a systematic reconfiguration of the spatial structure of the area along with their socio-economic, ecological and political implications. Again, the focus is about working through the layers; On a macro and a meso scale it’s about connecting habitats and connecting ecological corridors and patches (image above). On the micro scale you can see the influence of landscape infrastructures and the open green space network. These influences are even tangible up to neighborhood and street sections and perspectives, to understand the consequences of certain proposals. Accordingly, here is where certain technical proposals meet socio-spatial ones.


MICRO SCALE | At the micro scale the open space green network is superimposed on the existing structures and mainly three strat-egies are taken into consideration. On upstream areas, reforesta-tion with native plants and trees, on middlestream, more space for infiltration, on downstream room for the water and native plants and ladscape elements for recreations and water purification.

STREAM RESTORATION UPSTREAM open green space with urbanization

MIDDLESTREAM open green space with urbanization

DOWNSTREAM open green space with urbanization

MAIN INFRASTRUCTURE fea-tures and crossing

STREAM RESTORATION | The next step once we set these clear strategies at the micro scale was to jump into a more detailed areas and try to think of principles for relocation and the coexistence between the landscape infrastructures and the settlements. Here we developed 21 principles for Edges, Upstream, mid-dlestream, downstream and main infrastructure areas. The structural plan highlights the strategic intervention and design projects which will have to take place because of its strategic social and ecological importance, for example the Intemodality and transport hub, clearly visible both in the following proposal images.

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Up and middlestream restoration

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De�nes collective spaces

Sport and educational infrastructures

As triggers and magnets of urban development

100 m 300 m 500 m

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Tree

Existing buildings

Building with Social and cultural programmes

Facilities related to intermodality

Soccer �elds

Green open space

Open water

Water streams

slow network

Fast network

Proposed urban and collective recon�guration

Structural plan


RECOVERING BALANCE | The objectives of our project can be summarized in three actions: reconnect, rethink and relocate. reconnection is referring to initially dis-connected habitats. rethink is referring to the Urban structure, considering the importance of the natural systems. Finally, relocate is a process of re-creating vital urban nodes in a way that urban and natural habitats are taking in consideration their dynamicinterdependencies.

By deploying Landscape infrastructures at various scales we aim at defining natural structures that are necessary to support life, providing accessibility (the right to infrastructure) to a vast number of citizens.Despite being very hard to effectively account the eco-nomic benefits of ecosys-tem services, below it is an extensive list of “services” which nature provide to hu-mans at no cost, and which induce and steer various positive effects.



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FROM MY POINT OF VIEW | The final pages of my portfolio aim to give expression to my biggest pleasures, which are exploring and cap-turing experiences. The following images are shot with my Sony a5000 and are hardly edited. The images are captured during my travels and are intended to display culture, emotion and living and nature.

page 37 ........................ Lombok, Indonesia.page 38 ........................ São Paulo, Brasil.page 39 ........................ Vienna, Austria.page 40 ........................ Bali, Indonesia.page 41 a ..................... Bali, Indonesiapage 41 b ..................... Bali, Indonesia

Peter Steehouder

Delft University of TechnologyBachelor in Architecture, Urbanism and Building Technology

+316 [email protected]

Noordmolenwerf 1513011DC RotterdamThe Netherlands

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