CP_Complex Projects

29/11/2021

Inclusive Stations book is out!
https://books.bk.tudelft.nl/press/catalog/book/799
Inclusive Stations is the second publication of the elective course City of Innovations Project which is organized around speculating and forecasting future scenarios for the city of Rotterdam.
Through considering the way these networks have shaped the city by weaving the urbanites of the city center(s) and suburban areas, this elective has been focused on three station locations which act as gateways to the city center of Rotterdam: Meijersplein Airport station, Rotterdam Alexander rail-metro station and Slinge metro station. The ‘6 Visions X 3 Locations’ chapter is a systematization of the work of 27 masters students with input from designers of the City of Rotterdam, Delta Metropool Association and De Zwarte Hond.
The elective “City of Innovations Project - Inclusive Stations’’ is connected to current research and design studios of Complex Projects group at the Department of Architecture dealing with the role of infrastructure as a catalyst of urban developments. This output is a follow up of recent publications by Complex Projects, such as: “Living Stations” (2020), “Amsterdam 2050” (2019) and “Stations as Nodes” (2018) published by TU Delft open.

22/11/2021

A toolkit for attractive sustainable station areas News - 11 November 2021 - Communication BK How to make stations still interesting places ‘to go’ and ‘to be’ for all in the post-covid situation? And how can we improve the mobility transition so that it fits seamlessly and creates public sp...

11/05/2021

12th May / 09:15-10:00 / Georg Vrachliotis (Professor at TU Delft)
12th May / 10:00- 10:45 / Guillaume Pitron (Journalist, author and documentary filmmaker)
Students presentation (15 min): by Pedro Pantaleone & Cyriac Levet
Discussion : 11:15 - 12:00
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This lecture series was organized by the TU Delft Faculty of Architecture, Chair of Complex
Projects.

09/04/2021

DATAPOLIS 21 (edition IV) / Announcement: Lecture Series
As part of the coming DATAPOLIS 21 MSc2 studio, we are incredibly happy to reveal the full lecture series programme starting on the 21st of April.
The weekly lectures will be accessible via Zoom. (See details below)
This lecture series is organized by the TU Delft Faculty of Architecture, Chair of Complex Projects.
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21st April / 9:15 - 10:00 / Stavros Kousoulas (TU Delft)
21st April / 10:00 - 10:K45 / Tanja Herdt (Associate Professor at TU Delft)
Discussion : 11:00 - 11:45
29th April / 9:15 - 10:00 / Andrej Radman (Associate Professor at TU Delft)
29th April / 10:00 - 10:45 / Arman Noroozian (Post-Doc at Institute for Information Law)
Discussion : 11:00 - 11:45
6th May / 9:15 - 10:00 / Tobias Borsdorff (Scientist at SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research)
6th May / 10:00 - 10:45 / Gökçe Önal (PhD at TU Delft)
Students presentation (15 min): by Federica Longoni & Filip Romaniuk
Discussion : 11:15 - 12:00
12th May / 09:15-10:00 / Georg Vrachliotis (Professor at TU Delft)
12th May / 10:00- 10:45 / Guillaume Pitron (Journalist, author and documentary filmmaker)
Students presentation (15 min): by Pedro Pantaleone & Cyriac Levet
Discussion : 11:15 - 12:00
19th May / 13:45 - 14:30 / Victor Munoz Sanz (Assistant Professor at TU Delft)
19th May / 14:30-15:15 / Peter van Wingerden and Minke van Wingeren (Floating Farm)
Students presentation (15 min): by Hannah Zhu, Fola- Sade Victoria Sshinusi, Vittoria Poletto
Discussion : 15:30 - 16:15
26th May / 9:15 - 10:00 / Stijn Grove (Director at Dutch Datacenter Association)
26th May / 10:00 - 10:45 / Niels Schrader and Roel Backart (Designer and Photographer)
26th May / 10:45 - 11:30 / Lucas de Ruiter (Architect)
Students presentation (15min): by Jaka Korla, Daniela Mikova
Discussion : 12:00 - 12:45
2nd June / 16:00 - 16:45 / Marina Otero Verzier (Research Director at HNI)
2nd June / 16:45 - 17:30 / Beatriz Colomina (Professor at Princeton University)
Students presentation (15 min): by Allard Meijer & Hanna Rudner
Discussion : 17:45 - 18:30
Setareh Noorani (researcher at HNI) will be taking care of curating the lectures and seminars.
Zoom Id: 253 877 9455
Password: 372237
For more information, please contact teaching assistant Léa Alapini:
L.J.K.Alapini@student.tudelft.nl

26/03/2021

Are you going to enrol to MSc1 and MSc3/4 design studios upcoming fall 2021 offered by the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment TU Delft? You can join us to the information session of Complex Projects on Tuesday 30th March at 12:45. CP will present the fall program. Zoom link: https://tudelft.zoom.us/j/97999368229
More info: https://www.tudelft.nl/onderwijs/opleidingen/masters/aubs/msc-architecture-urbanism-and-building-sciences/master-tracks/architecture/programme/studios/complex-projects

22/02/2021

On Friday, 26 February, Kees Kaan and Vincent Panhuysen of KAAN Architecten will participate in a webinar organized as part of the collaboration between both TU Delft and Lebanese Amercan University. This webinar will address the topics of reconstruction, urban planning, and heritage, connecting the...

09/02/2021

The book has been published as a part of the elective course City of Innovations Project which is organized around speculating and forecasting on future scenarios for the city of Rotterdam.

09/02/2021

Are you interested in doing a PhD at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment TU Delft? Would you like to become a member of our group? Application for fully funded phds are still open - Apply before February 19th.
https://www.tudelft.nl/over-tu-delft/werken-bij-tu-delft/vacatures/details?jobId=1842

1. Impact: for a better society at a top international university2. Open international community with multidisciplinairy teamwork 3. Excellent facilities for research, education and innovation 4. Room for personal growth 5. Good employment conditions

26/10/2020

MSc2 Electives:

INCLUSIVE STATIONS_ In the Future of Public Transport 2040 scenario both main (big) stations and smaller transit-nodes are indispensable links in integrated mobility to ensure an optimum journey and seamless travel solutions, creating efficient and attractive multimodal interchange hubs both within and outside urban areas. Apart from various services (e.g. restaurants, shops and parcel pick-up and drop-off points) within the hubs, the immediate vicinity offers opportunities for spatial development (homes, offices and other amenities). Students will be asked to investigate which function do the (selected) rail-metro stations fulfill in the network and in the environment, now and in the future.

CAMPUS UTOPIAS_ For modernist architects, like Pierre Jeanneret, Giancarlo di Carlo, Vilanova Artigas and James Stirling, the university campus was a challenging experimentation ground. Conceived as a society on its own or a city in small the campus offered administrators, architects and urbanists the opportunity to project some of their most ambitious visions for a better society on the academic community. The course focusses completely on research.

AREA_ Still struggling to provide for their basic needs of shelter, health and income, our planet is suffering from environmental degradation, resource depletion and climate change. The AREA studio will focus on the built environment’s role in this uncertain future and how to improve this toward a habitable planet for humanity.

MAKING_ Making is a special course that combines research and design with a practical hands-on workshop, focused on designing and making objects of concrete with specific, innovative properties and expressions.

INTERACTIVE ARCHITECTURE PROTOTYPES_ The workshop focuses on applying Design-to-Robotic-Production and Operation methods for the development of architectural hybrid assemblies ranging from micro levels, as material systems, to meso and macrolevels as building components and buildings. In this context, hybrid assemblies will be explored by designing and robotically producing a three-dimensional structure that consists of various components assembled into an integrated whole.

26/10/2020

Ms3/4 Graduation Studio

BEIRUT
Once called ‘Paris of the East’, the Lebanese capital was devastated by a shocking blast in August 2020, leaving hundreds of fatalities and thousands of injured. Dwellings, public institutions, healthcare facilities and infrastructure were left in shambles. Lebanon had already been facing its worst humanitarian, socioeconomic and financial crisis since the 1975-1990 civil war, leading to widespread protests for political reform in 2019. Exacerbated by the impact of sanctions and dwindling US dollar reserves, as well as the effects of the global pandemic, Lebanon’s economy has been in a free-fall. The recent explosion at the port of Beirut, damaging almost half of the city, is just further compounding the turmoil.
The explosion should be considered as an impetus for change. Parallel to immediate humanitarian relief and early recovery, the city needs to establish long-term measures to return to a path of stability and development. In collaboration with the Lebanese American University and its Institute for Environmental Studies and Research, the studio will address Beirut’s multiple acute challenges, notably its protracted socio-economic crisis, the reconstruction of its urban fabric and the restoration of its heritage taking in consideration the future requirements of a modern and divers society and its role as an (inter-)national cultural, political and economic centre. The graduation studio comprises of both individual and group work, focusing on independent research topics investigated on a shared site. Studio groups develop a vision (design scenario for the designated area) supported by individual project interventions. Students are free to choose thesis topics and are encouraged to develop designs individually, while strongly connecting them to the joint strategy. Upon completion of the MSc3, students will be required to conclude their research by translating it into the design brief. The Msc4 students will provide a design answer to this self created assignment, focussing on context, program and flows, structure, materialization, comfort and climate control on multiple building scales.

26/10/2020

Msc2 Research and Design Studios:

DATAPOLIS:
‘The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data.’ The Economist, 2017. What is the ‘cloud’ and how is data shaping the way we design cities and buildings in this ever more connected world? By entering the information age, we -humans- have changed our relationship with the physical world. We are today living in a world where data, algorithms and ‘clouds’ are ubiquitous to our daily activities while we have increasingly become fully committed to stay connected with each other regardless of time-zones, geographies and political borders…
The aim of the studio is to create an understanding of the physical impact of data on our world today. During the semester, students are asked to critically study the physicality and the impact of data on our built environment; and to translate these diagnostics into conceptual architectural visions.

INTERACTIVE ARCHITECTURE
Focus of the studio Interactive Architecture (IA) is on the impact of physically built robotic environments and robotically supported building processes on architecture. The studio operates at the scale of architectural inserts situated within the urban context. This semester the inserts are at urban furniture scale and are located in Randstad, which is the megalopolis in the central-western Netherlands. The studio employs Design-to-Robotic- Production and -Operation (D2RP&O) processes that link computational design to robotic materialization and operation by integrating all functionalities (from aesthetic appeal to functional comfort, structural strength, and interactive behavior) in the design of building components. The studio is introducing students to the D2RP&O of interactive urban inserts, while revisiting today's societal challenges such as rapid urban densification, scarcity, migration, pollution, climate change.

26/10/2020

Join us for SPRING Semester 2021 Studio Information meeting on Wednesday 28/10 from 12:45 to 13:45 via ZOOM

Zoom Link:
https://tudelft.zoom.us/j/96572529577?pwd=aC9DaGUrUEFnTjQvUG9tdWdrQUtmQT09

The Chair will present the following courses:

• MSc3/4 Graduation Studio:
1. BEIRUT

• Ms2 Research and Design Studios:
1. DATAPOLIS
2. INTERACTIVE ARCHITECTURE

• Ms2 Electives:
1. INCLUSIVE STATIONS
2. CAMPUS UTOPIAS
3. AREA
4. MAKING
5. INTERACTIVE ARCHITECTURE PROTOTYPES

19/04/2020

Join us for Fall Semester 2020 Studio Information meeting on Thursday 23rd April at 3-3:45 pm via ZOOM.

Find more information in the link below:

https://www.tudelft.nl/en/education/programmes/masters/architecture-urbanism-and-building-sciences/msc-architecture-urbanism-and-building-sciences/master-tracks/architecture/programme/studios/complex-projects/

The link to the event is: https://tudelft.zoom.us/j/94020741970 and Meeting ID: 940 2074 1970

19/04/2020

MSC 3 Complex Projects: The graduation studio consists of both individual and group work, focusing on different research topics explored on the same site. Each studio group needs to develop a vision, a design scenario for the site, rendered by the individual project interventions. Students are free to choose thesis topics and encouraged to develop designs individually, and consequently connect them into overall group strategy. (case study : Hotel New York located on the Wilhelmina Pier in Rotterdam).

Find more information in the link below:

https://www.tudelft.nl/en/education/programmes/masters/architecture-urbanism-and-building-sciences/msc-architecture-urbanism-and-building-sciences/master-tracks/architecture/programme/studios/complex-projects/

The Q&A session will take place on Thursday 23rd April at 3-3:45 pm via ZOOM.
The link to the event is: https://tudelft.zoom.us/j/94020741970 and Meeting ID: 940 2074 1970

19/04/2020

MSC 1 Complex Projects – not integrated with BT: The design studio “Dutch Change” by introducing the cultural and built environment of the Netherlands, aims to help students to get familiar with the multiple aspects that define a building. By identifying and making decisions on the balance between what to change and what to remain of the Dutch architectural culture, students will explore and design new architectural concepts and building types. (case study in Rotterdam).

Find more information in the link below:

https://www.tudelft.nl/en/education/programmes/masters/architecture-urbanism-and-building-sciences/msc-architecture-urbanism-and-building-sciences/master-tracks/architecture/programme/studios/complex-projects/

The Q&A session will take place on Thursday 23rd April at 3-3:45 pm via ZOOM.
The link to the event is: https://tudelft.zoom.us/j/94020741970 and Meeting ID: 940 2074 1970

16/02/2020

Complex Projects Chair Opening - 2020 Spring Semester