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Jasper Spigt – Best BK Student of Thursday 19 November, the best student of our university was honoured with the UfD-Mecanoo Awards. With eight competing faculties, this annual award is awarded by the Universiteitsfonds. This year, the best student of the Faculty of Architecture was Jasper Spigt, who graduated at the Architecture & Dwelling studio with a housing project for the city centre of Rotterdam.
Beste BK-student: Jasper Spigt Birgit Jürgenhake
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Everybody dwells. Hence, the issue of dwelling is ever-recurring, always presenting a relevant and topical perspective to the architecture discourse. But whereas a few decades ago it was still fairly clear whom we were building for, nowadays the situation is not so straightforward. The dynamics transforming today’s society have made designing residential buildings much more complicated. The future dweller and his or her requirements are unknown to the architect. Individual and collective lifestyles are fragmented, unpredictable and fluid. Also, living is combined with working and consumption patterns move in ways that have not been seen before. New spatial configurations of a higher density have to be developed for our cities.
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The need to rethink dwelling now and in the future was the starting point for the graduation studio “New Concepts for Dwelling” as run by the chair of Architecture & Dwelling. The studio focuses on contemporary and future urban lifestyles and their architecture on the scale of both the dwelling and the city. Against the background of changing social patterns, emerging technologies and the urgent need for sustainable solutions in housing, we reconsider and rework existing architectural concepts in order to enable city dwellers to feel at home in the city. How to match the configurations of urbanization and architecture with the changing patterns of everyday life? How does one live between the places of work, home, school and consumption? What kind of home and what kind of urban environment suit our 21st century lifestyles?
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Living between openness and intimacy For his final project Jasper Spigt focused on the transition zones between the public and private spaces, their borders and boundaries, as we find them in the city and in housing complexes. It was his assumption that these intermediate spaces enable people to negotiate and produce their own space within the larger urban situation, to truly feel at home in the city. Various dualities such as the collective and individual, open and intimate, exposure and protection, quiet and noise, were carefully investigated by Jasper by analysing case studies ranging from Dutch to Japanese examples. The goal of the research was to understand the architectural means and concepts, by which such transitions, borders and boundaries such as the ones between the public and private realm are established, both in historic times as in our day and age. The site Jasper chose to develop offered an excellent, yet challenging opportunity to test his ideas, since it presented sharp contrasts and confrontations between opposite qualities. The project site is directly adjacent to the Hofpleinlijn in Rotterdam, a 6 metre high railway structure that will lose its function as of next year. The dense neighbourhood is inhabited by migrants, making it a veritable, multicultural melting pot. Inspired by his research, making transitions and connections became the leitmotiv of Jasper’s approach. The difference in height between the streetscape and that of the raised railway track for instance, was negotiated by a cleverly sloping,
green deck under which various programmatic elements as a car park found a natural place. At the same time, the green deck provided a walking route to the apartment buildings and the park projected on the former railway. The idea of making transitions and connections is consistently elaborated at the scale of the residential towers and individual apartments, too. There is among other things a collective front terrace to every apartment, and inside each house there is interplay between the collectively shared rooms (not just living rooms, but also meeting rooms and working spaces) and the most private “cocoons” which provide the inhabitant with the luxury of total calm and privacy. Detailing and materialisation are all in function of these transitions as well, thus creating a spatially rich and diverse environment for the inhabitants. In short, Jasper Spigt presents a most sophisticated and intelligent answer to today’s questions, enabling dwellers to enjoy the best of both worlds – the quiet of privacy as well as the messy vitality that comes with living in the city. This year, the award for Best Graduate of TU Delft went to Ir. Evelien Pingen, of the Faculty of TNW.
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