Twelve former architecture exchange-students exhibit their projects until 8 June in the Achtherhal. The projects illustrate the interaction between the typically free Dutch architecture that the students learned during their stay in Holland and their own specific backgrounds.
According to the architects that chose a Dutch design problem for their final project, they were mostly influenced by the ‘free’ and ‘radical’ design approach that is so characteristic of Dutch architecture. According to Benjamin Clarence, the organizer and designer of the exhibition, the objective of the exhibition is to show Dutch influences in foreign projects. “Studying in Delft has been a great mind opening experience, a breath of air that allows each one from that time on to imagine solutions that we all considered as inconceivable,” says Clarence, who is also one of the exhibitors.
The exhibition shows the ‘richness and diversity’ of the synthesis between the designers personal approach, which is often rooted in historical architecture, and what they have learned during their stay in Delft.
The projects exhibited concern several designs for a new Rijksmuseum at Schiphol, the Rotterdam Central Station district, the Rijnhaven port, the Randstad and the renovation of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. One projects deals with a specific theoretical problem.
According to Beatrice De Carli from Italy, and co-designer of a Randstad project, what makes the Randstad special is the fact that it was largely “formed by the will of men. This form of openness to many possible futures with respect to the organization of the environment and at this scale is strikingly Dutch and deeply pervaded every aspect of our project.”
De Carli however says that exactly because they were foreign designers, they were able to detect the lack of cohesion between the design of different districts in Dutch territorial planning. De Carli: “Territorial planning is highly developed and very efficient in the Netherlands, but it hasn’t been as capable in developing integral visions.”
For Paul Galindo Pastre from Spain, co-designer of a project for Rotterdam’s Rijnhaven port, the Dutch context translates itself in the relation between architecture and water: “Historical models highlight the diversity of urban development that results from a functional approach to building beside water. The history of waterside towns makes clear that current problems of rising water levels are only one more chapter in the Dutch struggle with water.”
With his project, Pastre proposes urban development along the shoreline of the Rijnhaven. Different parts of the city currently end at the shoreline without any connection with each other and the river. Pastre says that by promoting urban development along the harbor’s shoreline, integration will take place between the different parts of the city and the river.
According to the architects that chose a Dutch design problem for their final project, they were mostly influenced by the ‘free’ and ‘radical’ design approach that is so characteristic of Dutch architecture. According to Benjamin Clarence, the organizer and designer of the exhibition, the objective of the exhibition is to show Dutch influences in foreign projects. “Studying in Delft has been a great mind opening experience, a breath of air that allows each one from that time on to imagine solutions that we all considered as inconceivable,” says Clarence, who is also one of the exhibitors.
The exhibition shows the ‘richness and diversity’ of the synthesis between the designers personal approach, which is often rooted in historical architecture, and what they have learned during their stay in Delft.
The projects exhibited concern several designs for a new Rijksmuseum at Schiphol, the Rotterdam Central Station district, the Rijnhaven port, the Randstad and the renovation of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. One projects deals with a specific theoretical problem.
According to Beatrice De Carli from Italy, and co-designer of a Randstad project, what makes the Randstad special is the fact that it was largely “formed by the will of men. This form of openness to many possible futures with respect to the organization of the environment and at this scale is strikingly Dutch and deeply pervaded every aspect of our project.”
De Carli however says that exactly because they were foreign designers, they were able to detect the lack of cohesion between the design of different districts in Dutch territorial planning. De Carli: “Territorial planning is highly developed and very efficient in the Netherlands, but it hasn’t been as capable in developing integral visions.”
For Paul Galindo Pastre from Spain, co-designer of a project for Rotterdam’s Rijnhaven port, the Dutch context translates itself in the relation between architecture and water: “Historical models highlight the diversity of urban development that results from a functional approach to building beside water. The history of waterside towns makes clear that current problems of rising water levels are only one more chapter in the Dutch struggle with water.”
With his project, Pastre proposes urban development along the shoreline of the Rijnhaven. Different parts of the city currently end at the shoreline without any connection with each other and the river. Pastre says that by promoting urban development along the harbor’s shoreline, integration will take place between the different parts of the city and the river.
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