Danil Oort
I am Danil Oort, recently graduated with a Master of Architecture at the TU Delft. This portfolio consists of a series of selected projects showcasing and giving insight in my passion for architecture and design.
Important themes throughout the design proposals are the connection between buildings and public space, the relation of a building to its local (historical) context and the importance of materialisation in the architectural expression.
education
2022 - 2024 Master degree Architecture at Technical University Delft GPA 8.7, cum laude
2021 - 2022 Erasmus exchange Architecture at Technical University Munich
2018 - 2022 Bachelor degree in Architecture at Technical University Delft GPA 8.2, cum laude
email phone adress
daniloort9@gmail.com +31 6 57261498 willem buytewechstraat 55d, rotterdam
languages
2024 - ongoing Research and Design at Studio Jonas Lutz
2024 - ongoing Freelance Designer at Studio Danil Oort
2019 - 2024 Student Assistant at Technical University Delft
2022 Architecture Intern at Studio Nauta
work workshops
2023 Horst Arts and Culture Atelier with Stand van Zaken, Doorzon interior architects & Theo de Meyer
2023 - ongoing Founder and organizer at AD41 Festival
2021 Festival Production Intern at RoffaMonAmour
2020 Co-founder and Producer Podcast at Student association Stylos
2020 Artist booker festival at Student association Stylos
2019 Festival logistics at Student association Stylos
software
Dutch native Photoshop Indesign Illustrator Rhino Grasshopper Autocad English C2 German B1
Places of Edification
Master Graduation 2023-2024
Urban Architecture - Prof. Paul Vermeulen
The Urban Architecture studio posed the question what to do with open green spaces in cities, where space is sparse and highly contested. In this project set in Brussels, the site consisted of a large post industrial wasteland that turned into an accidental nature reserve, and becoming the home of many protected flora and fauna. My proposal for this site is a nature school and learning centre, which makes use of the site by turning it into a botanical garden. The school tries to create a newly formed
connection between the city and nature, both through education and through a new physical route leading through the building. The architecture relates to its complex context by blending elements of the rural and the urban. The materials used are natural and locally sourced, and kept without finishes to double as a learning tool. The gardens around the buildings all define and question the relations between man and nature in different ways, the centre being the paradoxical enclosed garden space.
From City to Nature 1:100 paper model
Proposal in Context
Proposal in Context
1:200 section
The Square Urban space and entrance to the school
Urban Facade The facade facing the square
the Balcony 1:20 model showing the inside outside relations
Under
Material expressions
1:20 model showing different material expressions through the section
Facade
1:20 model showing the facade composition
Entrance for a School
Master 2st semester - Material Lives 2023
Urban Architecture - Prof. Paul Vermeulen
The Material Lives studio questioned how to intervene in an existing building based on the existing material. The site constituted of a standardized pre-fab school building. Our intervention proposed a new entrance to the school, opening up the facade while staying within the prefab module. The intervention introduces the architectural language of industrial timber to the building. It is set back to create a buffer
space between inside and outside, and in this move allows the brick of the existing facade to flow in and the timber to flow outward, allowing materials to create interesting meeting points. The new opening follows the existing rhythm of the facade, but creates a more open and transparent inside outside relation through the window and door division.
Exterior axonometric drawing of the intervention in the facade
1:6 model, the intervention lifted above the existing floor
Material interplay
1:6 model showing a moment of exchange between material languages
The Window
1:6 model showing the quality of the large openable window
1:6 model, timber seen in view and section
Interior
1:36 model, intervention in relation to the interior context
Museum of Chicory Culture
Master 1st semester - 2022
Complex Projects - Prof. Kees Kaan
The Complex Projects Studio explored the theme of the architectural implication of change in the Dutch food system. In a future where the Netherlands will decrease its dependence on imports and exports, several goods will need to be replaced, such as coffee. MOCCU is a project that aims at bringing back the Dutch tradition of the production of chicory beverages as an alternative to coffee. Taking shape in the port of Rotterdam, the building materialises
from the leftovers of the harbour; cranes, ships, and quay walls become the main components for the construction. Overall, the project goal is to break the divide between the production and consumption of goods, creating a cluster of buildings and functions that pivot around Chicory: a production tower, a chicorybar, and an exhibition space.
MOCCU
Axonometric impression of the Museum of Chicory Culture
Wall
Chicorybar
Tasting room - R&D lab
Chicory production tower
Chicory field
Porticos
Terrace
Chicorybar
The tower Landmark and the lookout point
Cultivation
The Chicory field
Production
The Chicory processing tower
Pavilion under the Bridge
Bachelor 5th semester - 2022
Design Studio TU München
This is a design proposal following a research to explore possibilities for unused space underneath bridges in Munich. The design consists a community pavilion with an indoor and outdoor space to host a variety of different event, such workshops, small concerts and temporary exhibitions. A lifted up platform under the entire design forms an urban podium and visually connects the indoor and outdoor space. The outdoor space is defined by curtains, allowing to change it to fit different use cases. The bridge forms the ceiling to this part
of the design and this existing structure is thus highlighted in a way.
The light and temporary nature of the building is reflected in the architecture, using a light and easy to assemble steel structure. Furthermore, mostly prefabricated element are used and they are clearly visible as separate parts to strengthen this even more. Curved elements and steel detailing of the bridge is referenced in the design, creating a conversation between these two structures.
Bridge - Building
The Pavilion
Exterior
The Podium Space
Interior
The Workshop space
Analytical Models
Master Second Semester - 2022
Elective TU Delft
This analysis project explores the project Two Houses and Two Shops in The Hague, designed by Alvaro Siza. It focusses around the question how Siza‘s personal signature and architectural expression enter into a dialogue with traditional and local Dutch design elements. The research quickly led to a broader examination of Álvaro Siza‘s body of work and persona. The presented models that emerged at the end of the analysis process are an expression of
Siza‘s design tools: sketches, paper models and wood models.
The first model explores the different atmospheres of the interior and movement through the building. The second model analyses the building‘s integration into the existing context and the continuation of existing guiding lines through the medium of the sketch. The final model is an investigation of the different materials and styles coming together in the façades.
Sequential Sections
Model of sections of the building, abachi wood
Spatial Sketch
Model of urban context and building, soldered wire
Folding Facades Model of folded out facades, aceton print
AD41 scenography
AD41 festival
2023 - ongoing
Over the last two years, me and my sisters had the opportunity to organize two editions of AD41, an art, music and culture festival in the garden of our parents. We invited our close friends to collectively form a experience where everyone would partic-
ipate and contribute something. I worked on the programming and scenography. In the design I worked mainly with elements and materials that were already there, trying to enhance or the existing with simple interventions and materials.
Clothing Rack
With this project my aim was to make a clothing rack with little to no destructive transformations of the building elements. By the positioning of the tension cables
and steel tube profile, the rack is in balance without the need of extra fasteners. All the elements can be taken apart easily and used elsewhere if ever needed
STUDIO DANIL OORT - 2023
