Portfolio 2025 - Jaap Koopmans by jaapkoopmans97

‘CREATING

THE EMPOWERED HEALING ENVIRONMENT’

MASTER GRADUATION: ‘HEALING BY TRANSFORMING’ | 2022

According to the Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM), there will be more focus on tackling the unhealthy effects of urbanization in the near future.

This together with the presence of a large stock of vacant buildings and other developments within these urban areas and the challenges which are formed by the developments in healthcare brings up the potential to create so-called healing environments. Although, mostly situated within a natural context, the question could be how to implement the design approach of a healing environment into an existing building within an urban context and what values it could bring to the surrounding neighborhood. Especially when given an user-centered (holistic) approach. This graduation design project explored in which way this user-centered design approach can be optimised by implementing certain ‘atmospheres’ within an existing context of a building in the station area of Leiden.

Cafetaria

Creation and testing of different atmospheres in VR. From top to bottom: sterile, biophilic, balanced

Cross-section of renovated and repurposed building

Cafetaria

Finals renders of project with the integrated different ‘atmospheres’ ‘CREATING

‘QUESTIONING

WOOD

AS ARCHITECTURAL-AND BUILDING MATERIAL’

MINOR SEMESTER: EXCHANGE IN AARHUS, DENMARK | 2018

During the third year, I attended a onesemester minor exchange program in Aarhus, Denmark. The program was called ‘Technology, Building Culture and Habitation’.

This program focused on hands-on development of new forms of architectural design, where materials and technology were explored at the university’s workshops, often through digital design tools and digital fabrication, Technology and building culture were studied through case studies, experiments and project development in relation to architectural expression, daylight, geometry, materials, fabrication and montage, as well as spatial, social, political and theoretical aspects. Wood was a key element during these studies. A final experiment was done in groups of two were we created a proposal for a facade design for the university where utilisation of the facade itself, together with the architectural expression, was important. The full portfolio can be found on my LinkedIn.

Technical elevations

Section fragment

‘THE

DESIGN AS A SOCIALLY BINDING ELEMENT’

BACHELOR GRADUATION STUDIO: ‘DE SPORTLOODS’ | 2019

For the bachelor graduation project, it was asked to design an accomodation for an academy of physical education (ALO) in the Schiehaven in Rotterdam together with multifunctional- and public functions. This design should incorporate all important design aspects learned through the whole bachelor, being it: context, architecture, building construction and climate design. Key elements of the design concept were: an open character; visibility from the dike; a structured roof-ground level connection; modularity; multifunctionality. This was eventually elaborated by using a boxin-box principle where all the different functions were spread out through the building under one roof or ‘shed’ (‘loods’ in Dutch). This box-in-box principle also contributed to forming a sustainable second-skin facade which made the whole building, in combination with other sustainable interventions, completely energy-neutral.

+5:

• Fitnessruimte

• Technical spaces

• Study spaces

+4:

• Study spaces

• Sports hall

• Storage spaces

• Changing rooms

+3:

• Small sports hall

• Classrooms

• Storage rooms

• Repro room

• Teacher’s room

+2:

• Classrooms

• Changing rooms

• Tribune of large sports hall

+1: Entrance

• Classrooms

• Large sports hall

• Entrance area

• Lecture hall

• Media Library

Ground level:

• Media library

• Changing rooms

• Cafetaria

• Multifunctional spaces

• Bike storage

• Sportlab

• Technical spaces

Dakvloeropbouw (skills garden)

Rc = 7,1 m2K/W

- Kunstgras afwerking

- ‘Subtubes’ verwerkt in ‘subtiles’ tbv. warmtecollector 30mm

- shockpad 80mm

- Drainagesysteem tbv verkoeling

- Thermische isolatie 250mm

- Lichtgewicht beton in het werk gestort

- Staalplaat tbv staalplaatbetonvloer

- Onder vakwerk gemonteerde Filva-T transparante akoestiek panelen

(Buiten)gevelopbouw:

- Vakwerk 1200mm tbv. dragende werking voor loodsdak.

- Stijl- en regelwerk tbv gevelplaten

- Klemmen tbv. vasthouden gevelplaten

- Polycarbonaat transparante golfplaten (ZTA = 0,81)

- (Op de kiepramen geplakte zwarte PV-cellen tbv opwekking energie -> wanneer in open stand, PV-cellen in optimale positie.

(Binnen)gevelopbouw Rc = 7,7 m2K/W

- Akoestisch wandpaneel absorlux 50mm

- Gipsvezelplaat 12.5mm

- EPS100 isolatie 270mm met houten stijlen voor wandconstructie

- Regelwerk tbv. gevelbekleding 25 x 100 x 2000mm

- Naaldhouten gevelbekleding (gebrand) 22 x 175 x 3100mm

Sporthalvloer opbouw:

- Linoleum vloerafwerking met ‘LEDcourt’ geïntegreerd

- Spaanplaat 18mm

- Verende drager

- Tussenvloer met vloerverwarmingsinstallatie (78 W/m2)

- Versterkingsbalken

- Warmte-isolatie

- HEA-300 stalen ligger met akoestische isolatie

- Verlaagd plafond voor wegwerken verlichting e.d.

- Afwerking plafond

‘FUSING TWO TOWERS TOGETHER AS ONE MIXEDUSE HIGHRISE BUIDLING’

MIXED-USE HIGHRISE PROJECT: MEGA | 2021

Within this project, I had the role as an architect within a group of eight people (architecture students and civil engineering students) where the goal was to develop an architectural design solution that connects and integrates all the information provided by the other disciplines which answers the question that is given in the design brief. In this case, a ca. 145.000 m2 gross design brief is given which asks for the integration of a large distribution hall with a Fab Lab and data centre. This all combined with a hotel and restaurant, residences and offices program within a high-rise building in a harbour area in Rotterdam. The big contrast between the program requirements in terms of e.g. spatial quality brings up a challenge for the architectural design. The three most important elaborated design elements were: monolithic ‘stacking’ of functions while shifting the blocks; a large atrium where different functions meet each other; combining two towers into one.