Architectural portfolio March 2019

PORTFOLIO ELISE VAN HERWAARDEN 2019

Dear reader, I’m Elise van Herwaarden, a 26- year old recent graduate from the TU Delft Faculty of Architecture. Before you lies my portfolio, which shows you the variety of work I’ve done over the past years. Covered are academic projects done during my MSc Architecture at TU Delft, competition designs and projects I worked on as a freelance architect and intern at Sou Fujimoto Architects in Tokyo and NieuwpoortLuteijn Architecten in Rotterdam.

Altogether I’ve worked on all scales possible, ranging from a two-kilometer infrastructure to exhibitions and landscape interventions. Despite this variety I’ve developed a strong preference for research-based projects, that not only consider the here and now but include uncertainty as a consequence of time and context too.

I’m an enthusiastic, hard-working and representative woman who likes to read, travel, present and create.

Enjoy!

Elise

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CONTENT

CURRICULUM VITAE

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I ACADEMIC

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The Mongstad Experience Global Baans Ahmedabad

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II PRACTICE

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Living in a Church Mirror / Mirror Taiyo No Kane Exhibition Design

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PERSONALIA

LANGUAGES Dutch English Spanish French German

native fluent basic basic basic

EDUCATION 2015 - 2019

EXPERIENCE

AutoCAD +++++ InDesign +++++ Illustrator +++++ Photoshop +++++ SketchUp +++++ Rhinoceros ++++ Revit +++ Vray +++ Grasshopper + Office

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Delft University of Technology MSc Architecture

Graduation studio - Delta Interventions, North Sea: landscapes of coexistence - awarded a 9 out of 10 MSc2 studio - Global Housing, affordable dwellings for growing cities MSc1 studio - Interiors, Buildings, Cities; tools for design

2011 - 2015

SOFTWARE

ir. Elise Charlotte van Herwaarden ‘s Gravendijkwal 75a 3021 EE Rotterdam The Netherlands +316 30 51 67 67 elisevanherwaarden@gmail.com January 23rd, 1993

February 2017 - now

October 2017 - July 2018

February 2017 - April 2017

June 2016 - October 2016

2011

Delft University of Technology BSc Architecture, Urbanism & Building Sciences

Freelance Architectural Designer

Independently executing design tasks for individuals and small design firms. Work examples include competition designs for NieuwpoortLuteijn Architecten, building permit drawings, impression drawings for private clients.

TU Delft Delta Urbanism Research Group / Delta Interventions Graduation Studio

Student Assistant - support of the work of dr. ir. Taneha K. Bacchin & dr. ir. Hamed Khosravi for the Research Group and Graduation studio. Exhibition design, curatorial activities and communicative role between facillity management, studio participants and tutors.

Sou Fujimoto Architects

Architectural Intern in Shinjuku, Tokyo - creating digital and physical models, generating and editing renders, early stage research.

Projects: 1.

Taiyo No Kane (built) 2.

Shiroiya Hotel (construction) 3.

“Project in Japan III” (construction)

NieuwpoortLuteijn Architecten

Architectural Intern in Rotterdam - was granted many responsibilities throughout all phases of the design process in this young office, varying from preliminary design initiatives. to technical drawings, building permission requests and client meetings.

Projects: 1.

House in Rotterdam (built) 2.

Living in a church 1 (built) 3.

Living in a church 2 (competition entry) 4.

Admiraliteitsstraat (built) 5.

Living in a factory (idea) 6.

Living in a shop (competition entry) 7.

Building permit drawings and calculations for various projects

De Laen Makelaardij b.v.

PR- & Administrative Assistant at this Real Estate agency.

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CURRICULUM VITAE

OTHER 2016

2014

2013 -2014

2013

Head of Planning

StuKaFest Delft Responsible for the lineup of this yearly event, where student rooms are transformed into stages for cultural performances.

Chairman

Studuction Festival Committee In charge of the organisation of the biggest music student festival of Delft, 2500 visitors.

Chairman

‘Vicie’ committee Organisation of film and photography related activities in Delft.

Committee member

Lorre Festival committee Organisation of a yearly music festival, 1000 visitors.

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I ACADEMIC

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THE MONGSTAD EXPERIENCE FACILITATING A TRANSITION IN TIME, FUNCTION AND SPACE Team: Type: Function: Year: Location:

Solo Thesis Architectural infrastructure 2018/2019 Mongstad, Lindas, Norway

‘The Mongstad Experience’ is a research-based theoretical project which addresses architectural infrastructure as a facilitator in the transition of industrial sites with a highly uncertain future. The Mongstad refinery is used as case study because of its exemplary role in the transition towards a CO2 neutral future of refineries worldwide.

406 m

348 m

290 m

232 m

After visiting the site and researching the oil industry and its related spatial expressions, an answer had to be found to the question of ‘how to facilitate a transition in time, function and space’ within the scope of the Mongstad refinery and its potential future.

174 m

116 m

1969

1980

1991

2002

2013

2024

Oil + gas contribution to GDP volume Norway (USD). Source: Norwegian Petroleum Directorate & OECD Economic Outlook 102 Database.

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Bridging the gap between land and water, industry and nature, oil and post-oil, pollution and sustainability and perception and reality became the aim of the project. While considering three extreme future scenario’s, an architectural infrastructure was designed. The main function is supporting a productive, yet sustainable, future. Besides this it enhances the natural surroundings and causes people to critically reflect on the business, which is taken care of by adding a ‘guided’ visitors route.

Scenario I

The project was carried out in broader context of the interdisciplinary ‘Delta Interventions’ graduation studio at TU Delft, themed ‘North Sea: Landscapes of Coexistence’. The oil industry was taken as critical system defining this Sea as a territory, and it’s environmental impact as political and geological driver for modern-day disputes.

Impression of exhibition and models to be found

Research-, project-, building technology report to be found

HERE

Today

Scenario II

greening (transformation)

greener ways of energy production

Scenario III

HERE

continuation (extension)

infinite oil extraction

loss of function

abandonment of land post-oil

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Future

Mongstad

1 - Academic

Bergen

Experiential scheme 9

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While at utmost employment, the infrastructure occupies as much as two kilometres, stretching from the hills onto the fjord. Underway it crosses through the refinery’s boundaries, carries pipelines and guides traffic and visitors. It tells the story of Mongstad in the broader context of the oil industry.

The story is supported by nine concrete interventions (nodes) that both frame what’s to be focussed on, and interact with the steel structure.

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Aerial image with nine concrete nodes

1 - Academic Site map with infrastructure and concrete interventions

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node 1

node 4

node 7

node 8 12

node 9

node 2

node 5

node 6

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node 3

movement + noise

interior node 1

node 2 Portfolio Elise van Herwaarden movement + noise

node 3

movement + noise

node 4

All nodes have been designed using clear rules, giving them permanence and a highly symbolic appearance. Their basic shape is the same 15 x 15 x 15 grid as used for the steel module, however, in this case a monolithic cube was the starting point. An impression is given of how all of these nine nodes have been developed into detail.

Click the link on the left side to experience the nodes with sound and movement.

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node 5

movement + noise

end of route

1 - Academic

movement + noise

node 7

node 8

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section node 1

Beams HE360 - CorTen

Walking path

Columns HE360 - CorTen

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Beams HE360 - CorTen

Foundation Concrete 150 + 150 mm

Soil Flattened where needed

The infrastructure is a minimal yet precise intervention, which allows for [uncertain] future life to unfold¹. It’s adaptable to uncertainty by being modular.

One module spans 15 x 15 x 15 metres, built up from HE profiles. Modularity is ensured by using large amounts of CorTen steel, solely connected by nuts and bolts. The module can be repeated in two directions in order to become a linear element. ¹ Stan Allen, Infrastructural Urbanism (1999).

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Main module

Expanded metal CorTen

Tube profile 200 x 200 mm - CorTen Grating h = 25 mm - CorTen HEB profile 200 x 200 mm - CorTen

1 - Academic

U profile 175 x 175 mm - CorTen

Columns HE360 - CorTen

Beams HE360 - CorTen Slitting holes Nuts + Bolts

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GLOBAL BAANS AHMEDABAD A SLUM REPLACEMENT PROJECT IN AHMEDABAD, INDIA Team: Type: Function: Year: Location:

Robyne SomĂŠ, Elise van Herwaarden Academic Affordable housing 2016 Gulbai Tekra, Ahmedabad, India

Gulbai Tekra is a slum-like area in Ahmedabad, India. A strong sense of community can be experienced, but nevertheless, living conditions are poor.

Considering potential of local materials such as bamboo and loam, and the ability of locals to partially develop their own living environment, we designed an all-inone dwelling unit with sloping walls, containing a maximum of six houses. The unit is stackable in multiple directions, and leaves space for passages and streets as communal areas. Because the construction is relatively easy to understand, slum dwellers can potentially build these units themselves.

In this region, people tend to appropriate as much space surrounding their property as possible. For this reason we designed a catalogue with different options to modify parts about the unit.

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Axonometric impression Gulbai Tekra

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Module walls Loam and plaster mix

Columns Diagonal bamboo nodes

Ground plane Walls with loam and plaster, Ventilation openings

Exploded axonometry single module with multiple homes

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1 - Academic

Roof Start of a new module

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Neighborhood impression - 5 years from now

Neighborhood impression - 15 years from now

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1 - Academic

Neighborhood plan - ground level

Neighborhood plan - level + 1

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Neighborhood impression, daytime

Neighborhood impression, nighttime

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1 - Academic

Workshop ‘building with bamboo’

Bamboo nodes study

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II PRACTICE

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HOUSE IN ROTTERDAM INNER CITY HOUSING TRANSFORMATION Team: Type: Status: Year: Location:

Elise van Herwaarden, Flip Nieuwpoort, Ben Luteijn Housing, transformation Built 2016-2017 Schutterskwartier, Rotterdam, Netherlands

As freelance architect I contributed to the design of a family dwelling in the centre of Rotterdam. The design was made for a young couple, and consisted of two single dwellings that had to be combined into a contemporary home.

The design team I was part of thought of how to create a spacious and light unit, tackling the difficulties belonging to a pre-war house. We managed to do so by removing a complete floor, opening up the back facade and leaving the plan as open as possible.

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LIVING IN A CHURCH TRANSFORMATION OF ‘BAUMANNKERK’ Team: Type: Status: Year: Location:

Elise van Herwaarden, Flip Nieuwpoort, Ben Luteijn, RvdW Architecten Competition entry, transformation Unbuilt 2017 Overschie, Netherlands

As entry for a closed competition we delivered the design for the transformation of the Baumann church in Overschie into a dwelling complex. The principle used was to respect the pre-war heritage that makes the church unique in the Rotterdam area.

Dwellings in the church are maisonettes, with long windows and stairs in an interior void to create spacious, light units.

Raw design sketches made by RvdW Arhictecten, detailed drawings done by Flip Nieuwpoort and me, impressions and axonometry done by me.

Portfolio Elise van Herwaarden Section of entrance hall

Section of entrance hall 28

II - Practice

Section of public area

Section of dwellings

Section of entrance hall 29

MIRROR / MIRROR BIENNALE FREE FROM PRECONCEPTIONS Team: Type: Status: Year: Location:

Laura López Iglesias, Daniel Martin de los Rios, Elise van Herwaarden Competition entry Unbuilt 2018 Giardini, Venice, Italy

Spanish pavilion Blind door (x4)

Belgian pavilion

1 x 1 room

Dutch pavilion

Performance space

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As competition entry for the open call by the Belgian, Dutch and Spanish pavilions for the 16th architecture biennale in venice, our team proposed a simple, yet bold, intervention.

This long, mirroring wall is intended to provide the visitor with a Biennale experience that is free from any preconceptions. Visitors can’t immediately see the three pavilions: these are eresed from their view. At the same time, the wall optically doubles the public space: an area beloning to everyone, stimulating a social and intellectual exchange without the ‘borders’ a country specific pavilion implies.

Multiple doors are integrated in the wall, providing direct access to either the pavilions interiors, a tiny room and a performance space. The design was made considering a temporal character and the low budget as preconditions.

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Actual plan

Perceptual plan

II - Practice Impression giardini

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TAIYO NO KANE MAEBASHI

LANDSCAPE FOR TARO OKAMOTO’S ‘BELL OF THE SUN’ Team: Type: Status: Year: Location:

Sou Fujimoto Architects, Japanese team Landscape Design Built 2017/2018 Maebashi, Gunma Prefacture, Japan

As an intern at Sou Fujimoto Architects I worked on a landscae project, revolving around the ‘Bell of the Sun’ artwork by Taro Okamoto.

The Bell of the Sun was to be relocated to Maebashi, part of the Greater Tokyo area.

I made the 3D model of the artwork and landscape in Rhino, worked on numerous renders in Rhino and Photoshop, created physical models as to be seen below, and finally also came up with different options for the landscape that was to serve as a podium for the prestigious artwork.

Portfolio Elise van Herwaarden Early stage rendering

Presentation of one of the physical models 32

Impression landscape final design 33

II - Practice

Elevation final design

EXHIBITION DESIGN D-i STUDIO / DELTA URBANISM GROUP

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EXHIBITION I Territory as a project One-day symposium and exhibition December 11th, 2017 Speakers + design critics: Pier Vittorio Aureli Marina Otero Verzier Godofredo Pereira Supervisors: Hamed Khosravi Taneha K. Bacchin Curatorial team: Elise van Herwaarden Geert van der Meulen Gerben van den Oever 34

II - Practice

EXHIBITION II North Sea: Landscapes of Coexistence Final studio exhibition June 22nd - June 25th 2018 Conveners: Hamed Khosravi Taneha K. Bacchin Curatorial team: Elise van Herwaarden Geert van der Meulen Gerben van den Oever

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