Complex Cities Graduation Studio Profile. TU Delft

Graduation Studio Complex Cities profile and activities

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Graduation Studio Complex Cities

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Department of Urbanism, TU Delft

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Who we are

What we do

Research & Design Themes

Esteem indicators

Research and diffusion

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Who we are


InternationalMultidisciplinaryMulti skilled


Our Team

VincentQu Lei

DiegoAkkelies

Francisco Stephen

Architect, Oslo School of Architecture

(PhD at Oslo)

Architect, National Un. of

La Plata (Provincie

ZuidHolland)

Designer, Catholic

University of Chile (PhD at

TU Delft)

PhD, B. Arch, University of

Cape Town (PhD at TU Delft)

Architect, Tsinghua

University (PhD at TU Delft)

Professor of

Spatial Planning

Roberto

Architect and Planner, University of Sao Paulo (PhD

at TU Delft)

Verena

Architect TU Berlin, Atelier Zuidvleugel


Our missionThe Complex Cities Studio (short for Complex Ci t ies and Regions in Transformation under Globalisation) is a graduation studio of the Chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy, led by Professor Vincent Nadin. We are located at the Department of Urbanism of the Faculty of Architecture of the TU Delft.

The mission of the studio is to offer the best education and research in higher education in themes related to urban planning and design in a world that has become increasingly complex, thanks to

the expansion, acceleration and ubiquity of global processes.

The nature and shape of the future urban world is increasingly more complex. Large and complex as it is, this is the arena where spatial planners and designers should contribute to with their understanding of the way urban space is produced. It is their task to formulate tools and strategies to intervene in and organise space in order to mediate disparate interests, objectives and needs.


Research AND Design

The studio puts forward the idea that spa t ia l p lanners shou ld ac t as a r t i c u l a t o r s b e t w e e n v a r i o u s stakeholders producing the city. Spatial planners do that by assisting those stakeholders with translating disparate interests into spatial organisation that is beneficial for society. We do that

through the proposition of new forms of spatial organisation and spatial intervention, by envisioning new forms of associations between dif ferent stakeholders, by using innovative tools to promote sustainability and by articulating these aspects through RESEARCH and DESIGN.


Our main objectives The main objectives of the graduation studio are:

1. To research, conceptualize and visualize the processes, the productions, potentials and problems of cities (Space)

2. To lead students towards a clear understanding of strategic planning processes under contemporary productive, political and technological conditions (Globalisation)

3. To enable students to ‘think strategically’ and formulate specific spatial strategies for different cases (Strategy)


Our specific objectivesThe studio’s specific objectives are threefold:

1. Theoretical level: the aim is to give students insight in various urban theories concerning the formation and transformation of the city, as well as strategic spatial planning under new conditions resulting from rapid urbanisation and new governance conditions. In order to do so, it is necessary to analyse emerging urban spatial structures, new social and economic processes, place phenomenology and the renewed role of the State in Spatial Planning and Management.


Our specific objectives

2. Methodological level: the aim is to present various sets of methods in order to carry out research and analysis.

Examples are space and process mapping, system dynamics, network analyses, spatial modelling tools, spatial planning methods and spatial phenomenology.


Our specific objectives3. Practice-based level: Knowledge gained from the theoretical

and methodological levels will be applied on a specific site, implying the formulation of a strategy and the design of one or more spatial interventions.

The site is chosen by each student according to his/her own research interests. Staff may help students decide on cases and sites, as well as the scale of intervention.


For more specific information, please refer to

our guidebook, downloadable from our

website


http://www.spatialplanning.bk.tudelft.nl/over-faculteit/afdelingen/urbanism/organisatie/leerstoelen/ruimtelijke-planning-en-strategie/education/graduation-studio-complex-cities/

http://www.spatialplanning.bk.tudelft.nl/over-faculteit/afdelingen/urbanism/organisatie/leerstoelen/ruimtelijke-planning-en-strategie/education/graduation-studio-complex-cities/

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TaiwanBrazil

Our students come from everywhere


We believe that an international environment fosters tolerance and understanding, promotes new ideas and

helps prepare students for an international career


What we do


Spatial planning strategies and

design.

Our teaching domain


Research themes

Urban Form and Process(Qu Lei, Akkie, Stephen, Diego)


Example of study in urban form and process, taking the densification of the Westland area (South Holland) as a case. Measuring Urban Capacity, Dena Kasraian (Iran). This work was published in the Dutch magazine BlauweKamer.

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Research themes

Governance(Roberto, Diego, Vincent, Qu Lei)


Example of territorial mapping of stakeholders in a metropolitan project (Mumbai, India). “Changing economies: urban restructuring of the city of Mumbai in the context of changing economic conditions”, Susan Raju (India), 2009.

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Research themes

Metropolitan and Regional Development (Diego, Roberto, Francisco, Vincent)


Example of a regional/metropolitan vision, Permeable Morphology, Shenzhen Megacity, Feile Cao (China), 2010.

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Example of urban design supporting a regional/metropolitan vision, Permeable Morphology, Shenzhen Megacity, Feile Cao (China), 2010.




What students do (typically)



Research the theme, the process and the area and specify a problem in the area of spatial planning and strategy

The following examples are from Feile Cao, Permeable Morphology, Shenzhen Megacity Plan 2030+, Complex Cities, 2010





Conduct research using several techniques (ranging from traditional tools of research to research by design and design by research)





Mapping of ideas in literature

Spatial analysis contrasted to historical developments





Formulate a spatial strategy at metropolitan or regional level





Specify the spatial interventions (designs) that compose the strategy at the local level




Activators

Fringes

Water

Note that by ‘design’ we mean the design of systems of spaces and places, articulated with the strategy





Design (test) one key location Available at http://repository.tudelft.nl/view/ir/uuid%3Af586a773-08b2-4f89-a47f-5a280f85a0fd/




Step by stepP1: Understanding the Place/Process and Describing the Main Problem

Students present results of exploratory research and describe the main theme (problem) to be tackled, with a research question and a draft of the methods to be used, besides a preliminary statement of objectives


Step by stepP2: Work Plan with Problem and Theoretical Framework > VISION AND STRATEGY

Students deliver a complete work plan (thesis plan), with the description of the problem and the theoretical framework where this problem will be tackled (theory paper).

Students present a vision and a preliminary strategy, accompanied by interventions described (words + images) within a logical governance framework


Step by stepP3: SPATIAL STRATEGY AND KEY SPATIAL INTERVENTIONS

Students describe definite spatial strategy (image + words), accompanied by the description of key spatial interventions within a logical time and governance framework. Preliminary design of a key intervention.


Step by stepP4: DESIGN KEY INTERVENTION IN A PLAN

Definite lay-out of the strategy accompanied by the design of one o more key interventions at local level within a logical time framework (what happens when?) and governance framework (who does what?)

P5: FINAL STRATEGY AND DESIGN


Vision and StrategySpatial interventions (designs) are located in spatial framework and articulated within a time frame (what happens when?) and a specific governance frame (who does what?)


The role of design is twofold

Design is an analytical and communicative tool to help define and describe spatial qualities and the actions of the stakeholders in a real spatial setting

Design is material synthesis that integrates function, policy and culture in a spatial setting that can be assessed and discussed (materialization)


In summary: Developing a strategic vision

Understanding the processes and the driversLocating, specifying and contextualising

the problem (finding the right questions)Specifying the domain of research Specifying the problem within that domainSpecifying the interventions:

Spatial - where? to achieve what?Temporal - what happens when?Governance - who does what and by what authority?

Defining expected resultsEvaluating results against questions


Support lectures

The studio offers a series of lectures given by its members on relevant themes. Lectures take place in the first quarter (before P2)



Workshops and site visits

Site visit to Westland, organised by grad student Dena Kasraian


Esteem indicators


UfD-Strukton Master Award 2011: Analyse is steeds meer de basis van winnende aanbestedingen: Dena Kasraian.

Dena Kasraian wins UfD-Strukton Master Awards 2011

See the complete work HERE




Hanne van den Berg selected as ‘Best TU Delft graduate’

Architecture student Hanne van den Berg (MSc, Urbanism) has been selected for the UfD-Mecanoo ‘Best TU Delft Graduate’ prize for her graduation project entitled ‘Integrating the informal – Developing an integrative strategy for slum upgrading in Buenos Aires’.



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Aart de Koning wins KIVI-NIRIA CuperusprijsFormer student of SPS won this prestigious prize and we congratulate him! The prize is given every two years to the best master thesis in the field of transport planning in the Netherlands. Aart de Koning conducted research into a new public transport system for the harbour of Rotterdam. The jury specifically appreciated the way how his design makes use of opportunities that stem from the spatial economic context in the region and his ability to visualize his argument. Aart de Koning participated in an integral master education; his thesis was supported by mentors from both, the Chair of Spatial Planning & Strategy and the Department of Transport & Planning at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, TU Delft.



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Justina Muliuolyte and Tadas Jonauskis, former students of Complex Cities, win EUROPAN11 Architectural Competition

TU Delft spatial planning students win prestigious Europan award with proposals to transform a university campus into a self-sufficient Multitalented City.

Europan is a biennial competition for young architects under 40 years old organized by the Europan Foundation, with headquarters in Paris. The assignment is to design innovative housing schemes for sites across Europe. In 2011, there were 1826 projects submitted for 49 sites in 17 different European countries. The team formed by Justina Muliuolyte, Tadas Jonauskis (urbanists) and Lukas Rekevičius (architect) was one of 41 winning teams. Justina and Tadas are both former students of the graduation studio Complex Cities of the Department of Urbanism of the TU Delft.More info at: http://pu-pa.eu/ and http://www.europan-europe.com/e11/en/home/See the project at:http://www.issuu.com/justinamuliuolyte/docs/multitalented__city-winner_europan11_reims_france


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Research and diffusion


Research outreach seminars


In 2010: Urban form and process


Participation from 5 Dutch universities; 3 faculties of TU Delft. Publication in preparation.


In 2011: Urban Development in China


Future lecture seriesIn 2012: “Territorial Governance & the Dupuy Layer Approach” (Roberto Rocco)

In 2012: “The region”: Regional studies/ regional development (Diego Sepulveda)

Leading to publications


Partnerships


The free choice Globalization



It is a collaborative working process with international and local teachers, students and inhabitants, where an urban problem is tackled. The aim is to provide a strategy and a set of design oriented solutions for a slum area located in a municipality of 300.000 inhabitants adjacent to Buenos Aires, Argentina.Main themes: slum upgrading, developing metropolises, local intervention in a metropolitan context

What is it?


University of Buenos Aires (Prof. Flavio Janches and Masters studio)University of Palermo in Buenos AiresGSD HarvardArchitect’s association of Buenos Aires (support and jury)Municipalities of Avellaneda (Project area)Buenos Aires metropolitan area

Project partners


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Number students enrolled in Free Choice Globalization


Example of spatial strategy & phasing

Project Buenos Aires Acting on the border (2010). Authors: Mei Yen Chen b1530909 // Alena van der veen b1212184 // Nicola Isetta b1530895 // Rajjie Fakhrur b1535390 // Bjorn Dieleman b


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100%of our students have mentors from different chairs in the department of Urbanism


People we work with on a regular basis

Willem Hermans

Henco Bekkering

John Westrik

Maurice Harteveld

Frank vd Hoeven

Dirk Sijmons

Meta Berghauser-Pont

Thorsten Schuetze

Machiel van Dorst

Luisa Calabrese

Daan Zandbelt


Questions?

Please write to:

[email protected]

This presentation was prepared by Roberto Rocco for the educational assessment of

the Department of Urbanism of the TU Delft on Feb 17, 2011. Should you have any

queries, please write to us.


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Team members and contact details:Responsible Professor: Vincent Nadin, [email protected]: Akkelies van Nes, [email protected] Sepulveda, [email protected]

Francisco Colombo, [email protected] Lei, [email protected]

Roberto Rocco, [email protected] Stephen Read, [email protected] Balz, [email protected]

Visit our website: http://www.spatialplanning.bk.tudelft.nl/Address: Complex Cities Studio, Urbanism, BK, TU Delft Julianalaan 134, 2628 BL Delft/P.O.Box 5043, 2600 BL Delft, The Netherlands





















































































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Documents

Complex Cities Graduation Studio Profile. TU Delft