Master-Thesis
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The 'master Thesis' is the final research and development project of your school career and the only project in the 6th year.
For our master's project, we are building on our last year's project and continuing to work on that assignment.
My team
For this project, I worked together with Pibe Baartman, Stijn Hagman and Kristan Otten. I was the team leader for this project. To read about my experience during this period. Read about my POP(Personal development plan) below.
For more information about my teammates, their experience and other projects you can look into their portfolios.
Stijn Hagman: https://portfolio117960.jouwweb.nl/
Pibe Baartman: https://sites.google.com/view/portfolio118180
Kristan Otten: https://kristanotten.jouwweb.nl/
The client
The client for this project is Temp Architecture Urbanism. Temp was founded in March 2011 by architects Tom Bergevoet and Maarten van Tuijl. The latter is our contact person for this project.
Temp Architecture Urbanism focuses on designing beautiful, carefully detailed, flexible, and contextually well-integrated buildings that have a long lifespan. Their ambition is to make the world more beautiful, social, healthy, and sustainable.
"Temp" stands for time. They chose this name because they often work on projects where time plays a role, including experience with sustainability, transformation, circularity, phasing, and flexibility.
Temp collaborates extensively with experts in various fields, such as construction management, construction technology, construction costs, and related disciplines such as landscape and product design.
The project
Because we are continuing our Junior year project, our assignment builds on the previous one.
Assignment for Junior students
Our assignment for this project is to conduct research for the Temp project, which was commissioned by the Amsterdam Municipality to look at the integration of small-scale business space in Nieuw West. This sub-research will take place on Pieter Calandlaan, across from the Caland Lyceum. We will help by conducting research in the neighborhood opposite our school, in multiple steps.
We will start with an analysis of the current situation. We will do this by looking at the needs for business space from the neighborhood, as well as from the rest of the city. We will also conduct a spatial analysis of the neighborhood, which includes looking at the dimensions, types of architecture in the neighborhood, materials of the current buildings, and ownership of the current buildings. We will also conduct legal research to determine who owns the property and what legal processes we need to go through to get permission to demolish and build buildings on the location.
After the analysis, we will begin the design research. In the design research, we will investigate different topics for the new building that Temp can introduce in the neighborhood. For example, we will investigate how high the building can be and which materials should be used (should it match the rest of the neighborhood or not). We will also look at what an attractive perspective is for stakeholders (municipality, owners, residents, entrepreneurs...) when zooming out and looking at the entire street. We will use the design cycle for this. It consists of 6 steps. By going through the steps of the design cycle, problems, requirements, and solutions are presented in a clear and organized way. This makes communication between the client and the designer easier. Technical Design is a repetitive process, where sometimes previous phases of the design cycle need to be revisited and restarted. Sometimes a design does not meet the requirements and the cycle needs to be repeated.
Once we have the results of our design research, we will discuss them with the client and based on that, we will choose a final solution and design that idea.
When we are done with the design research, we will start working on the implementation of our idea. We will do this by creating a visualization, such as a model, drawing, or reference images. At the end of the research, we also need to write a clear final report so that everyone can understand it.
Assignment for Senior students
This year is mainly a design project and therefore has a fairly short and simple assignment.
We need to deliver a final design for the renovation of the garage boxes into the workspace. We will continue working on last year's prototype. This means determining who the building is for, choosing materials, creating a detailed design with dimensions, and making a model.
We have decided together with the client to develop Prototype 3.
Prototype 3 is a modern design, but very modest in its form. It is made of corten steel, alternating with wood and glass. The roof is accessible and will be provided with a cultivation layer so that bushes and even trees can grow on it. This roof terrace belongs to the workspaces below so that people can also work in the open air and in the sun.
We will continue working on and improving this prototype, using the design cycle as a tool to identify and process problems, requirements, and solutions in technical projects.