Urbanism Portfolio Peter Steehouder

URBANISM PORTFOLIO

Peter Steehouder Master in Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences Certified in Infrastructure & Environment Design Delft University of Technology

Curriculum Vitae

PERSONALIA name born live

Peter Steehouder 17/05/1990, Rotterdam (Netherlands) Rotterdam (Netherlands)

tel. +316 18121857 mail petersteehouder@gmail.com LinkedIn Peter Steehouder

September 2014 - January 2018 (3 ½ year)

September 2009 - June 2014 (5 years)

September 2002 - June 2009 (7 years)

BIO My name is Peter and I am an urban designer from Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Inspired by the dynamics of the Delta city Rotterdam, my academic career has been characterized by the personal pursuit of an approach of Urbanism, which can cope with future trends - like climate change, technical innovations in the mobility system and the energy transition.

INTERESTS Food and cooking, Movies, Soccer, Feyenoord, Basketball, Traveling, Theory in Urbanism and Architecture, Friends and family, Design and Photography.

EDUCATION

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

Delft University of Technology Masters Degree in Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences, Infrastructure & Environment Design Certificate

TECHNICAL DRAWING Autocad Rhinoceros Revit Grasshopper

Delft University of Technology Bachelors Degree in Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences Comenius College Secondary school / Pre-university education, VWO NG

GRAPHIC Photoshop Illustrator Indesign Sketchup Maya Microsoft Office

WORK EXPERIENCE October 2011 - July 2017 (4 years)

Media Markt / Rotterdam Alexandrium Staff member of Customer Service

January 2016 - July 2016 (7 months)

POSAD spatial strategies / The Hague Internship

October 2007 - October 2011 (4 years)

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Albert Heijn / Capelle aan den IJssel Assistent department Delicacy and Cheese

PRODUCTION Photography Sketching Laser Cutting Digital Sketching LANGUAGES Dutch Spanish English German

Table of contents

1. CURRICULUM VITAE ....................................... 2 who is Peter?

3. FLOW-VELA-SCAPES ..................................... 6 reconnecting habitat

2. FLOW REVALUED ................................................ 4 A future-oriented approach of the Strategy of the Two Networks

4. GENERATION ENERGY ................................. 8 submission for IABR 2016

5. AGENDA RUITME VOOR DE STAD.... 9 connecting ideas

name: Peter Steehouder phone: +316 18121857 email: petersteehouder@gmail.com

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Flows Revalued

RESTORING THE LANDSCAPE | The main concept of the discharge system is to create sufficient multifunctional room, that guarantees a balance between the mobility and hydrology flows and by doing so create spatial quality under and around the highway infrastructures.

detention basin

A future-oriented approach of the Strategy of the Two Networks

detention basin/swale

YEAR OF STUDY September 2016 - January 2018 Master 4: Delta Interventions Graduation Studio

floodable retrofits

flood proof plains

green water square buffer park

PROJECT PLACE San Francisco, California, United States of America.

detention basin/swale

TYPE OF EDUCATION Individual.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION The aim of the project is to provide a method in which integrated engineering and urban planning and design will mitigate environmental crisis in a scenario of future technological interventions in mobility. Moreover, the aim is to revalue the Strategy of the Two Networks (S2N) in order to develop a conceptual framework that guides and structures this approach. The test-case is San Francisco, which is located in a valuable and unique (natural) context. However, this capital is under pressure of future dynamics, caused by decades of human interference without acknowledging the natural conditions of the Bay.

flood proof plains

detention basin bioretention basin bioretention basin

REVALUED S2N | In order to complement the S2N with future trends, conceptual building blocks (CBB) are constructed which categorize simplified representations of reality. The first CBB is the urban typology, which represent samples of the urban system along the highway. The second CBB is the mobility prototype which is the simplified representation of highway infrastructures in the project trajectory. The last CBB is the revalued guiding models and principles, which represent the core values of the S2N. Together they result in 5 typologies in a future scenario and 5 unique living environments that can be developed from this.

MOBILITY PROTOTYPE

URBAN TYPOLOGY

From the water flow perspective, the discharge system catches the runoff uphill and seeks to buffer and purify the water as efficiently as possible before reaching the bay water. Essentially, it aims to approach and improve the natural discharge system of San Francisco. In its course, the water gets purified and filtered through different technical innovations in the landscape.

raised infrastructure

REVALUED GUIDING PRINCIPLE

REVALUED GUIDING MODEL Local ROADS

ROOFS

CLEAN

Open gutter

Bioswale

Bioswale

Purification Bay water

Purification installation

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Infiltration Retention

Peak retention

Helofyt system

Infiltration, retention, purification

Quality

Quantity Delay

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Prevention Seperation

Delay

Water Flow Perspective

x3 Actor Perspective

Downtown Type

Flyover Highway Prototype

Centralised

x5

Flow Revalued

Downtown type

local parking

local traffic slow lane living environment

local treatment

fast lane living environment centralized parking

priority lane

Commercial type

centralized treatment

Mixed-use type

250 m

Residential type

DOWNTOWN LIVING ENVIRONMENTS | Utilizing the natural landscape of San Francisco, an ecological framework of bioswales with local treatment zones can act as a sustainable discharge system that manages the urban runoff on the one hand and enable urban quality on the other hand. Based on the ecological zoning of the slow- and fast-lane guiding principle a zone for high dynamic urban development and more tranquil urban development can be distinguished. The following map illustrates how an urban typology can be integrated in the discharge system, for a more concrete plan that shows how the system works.

Former-Industrial type

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FLOW-vela-SCAPES Reconnecting habitats

YEAR OF STUDY April 2015 - July 2015 Master 2: Smart Infrastructure and Mobility, TU Delft Faculty of Architecture, department of Urbanism.

PROJECT PLACE São Paulo, Brazil.

TYPE OF EDUCATION Group.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION The last quarter of the masters first year was yet again elective.

To develop as a versatile urban planner and designer, I was really interested to learn more about working in a developing context, together with students from other fields. In this project I was permitted to do field research in São Paulo together with students from Brazil and Civil Engineering students from Delft.

The central question in this project was how to deploy and design Landscape infrastructures to achieve a long term spatial framework that could guide and control urban development with ecological qualities and restored ecosystem services.

MICRO SCALE | At the micro scale the open space green network is superimposed on the existing structures and mainly three strategies are taken into consideration. On upstream areas, reforestation with native plants and trees, on midstream, more space for infiltration, on downstream room for the water and native plants and landscape elements for recreations and water purification.

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CONNECTING HABITAT | The project area is located in a unique natural context and possess great value due to the presence of water reservoirs and protected green areas. However, the lack of basic infrastructures and uncontrolled urbanization, sets challenges from an economical, social and ecological perspective. These issues need a systematic reconfiguration of the spatial structure; Through the scales it’s about connecting habitats and connecting ecological corridors and patches (image above).

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UPSTREAM open green space with urbanization

MIDSTREAM open green space with urbanization

DOWNSTREAM open green space with urbanization

MAIN INFRASTRUCTURE features and crossing

reinforced earth for public space

SĂŁo Paulo waterring

up- and midstream restoration

Sport and education

Living with nature landscape infrastructure defines collective spaces

Tree nursery

New collective sports facilities Tree Existing buildings Proposed urban and collective reconfiguration

transport hub and intermodality

Building with Social and cultural programmes

Facilities related to intermodality Soccer fields Green open space

reforestation

Open water Water streams

green edge and water pier

slow network Fast network

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Structural plan

STREAM RESTORATION | The next step - once we set clear strategies at the micro scale - was to jump into a more detailed scale and try to think of principles for relocation and the coexistence between the landscape infrastructures and the settlements. 21 Principles for Edges, Upstream, midstream, downstream and main infrastructure areas. The structural plan highlights the strategic intervention and design projects which will have to take place because of its strategic social and ecological importance, for example the Intermodality and transport hub, clearly visible both in images on the right side.

100 m

300 m

500 m

RECOVERING BALANCE | The objectives of the project can be summarized in three actions: Reconnect is referring to disconnected habitats.

Rethink is referring to consider the importance of the natural systems urban structure. Relocate is re-creating vital urban nodes, considering the interdependencies of urban and natural habitats.

By deploying Landscape infrastructures at various scales, the aim is to define natural structures that are necessary to support life, providing accessibility (the right to infrastructure) to a vast number of citizens, and at the same time utilizing its benefits for water management purposes.

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Professional experience POSAD spatial strategies

YEAR OF STUDY January 2016 - July 2016 LOCATION The Hague TYPE OF EXPERIENCE Internship, group and individual.

DESCRIPTION After the elective part of the Master course - inspired by the introducted themes affecting urban planning and design - I was very curious about the state of my newly gained knowledge, in the professional field. Therefore, the decision was made to dedicate the first half of 2016 to gain more experience and get to know what contemporary topics occupy the professional world.

Fairly quickly, POSAD spatial strategies accepted me as part of their office. As a member of the design team, I was mainly involved in visualizing plans and investigating the spatial consequences of the energy transition. Subsequently, I learned a lot about the energy landscape and what it takes for a city to be independent of fossil energy sources.

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E-ZINE GENERATION ENERGY SUBMISSION IABR 2016 | The project which I enjoyed involvement most, was the submission of the E-zine for the International Architecture Biennial in Rotterdam. POSAD created an E-zine for the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment with the aim of depicting the scale and coherence between the energetic and spatial challenges of the energy transition as clearly as possible. During the project, I was asked to step outside my comfort zone of urban design and think along about how traditional products of urbanism can be remodelled in an interactive tool for the ministry.

Internship POSAD

AGENDA RUIMTE VOOR DE STAD | In the project “Agenda Ruimte voor de Stad� - a spatial perspective for 2040 - the municipality of The Hague worked together with stakeholders on a future perspective for the city. Based on the results of several meetings, a spatial exploration of the 8 districts of The Hague was done. These spatial explorations focussed on spatial quality and the intensification of urban space. As a coordinating team, POSAD ensured the substantive coherence of 8 plans coming together and inspired the teams with contemporary themes of urban design. The challenge was to find the common values of all participating parties and to merge them all in one plan.

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