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FLOWSCAPES LABORATORY THE scheveningen BLUE historische LIGHT binnenstad DISTRICT REFLECTION REPORT #P4 PIERRE OSKAM station HS de binckhorst To the attention of: Den Haag creatieve industrie Caballero evenementen verzorginstehuis fabriek Geraedts, Ir. R.P. cultuur Burg, Ir. L.P.J. van den kennis Loon, Ir. F.D. van Haagse hogeschool rottermeren Tolbrug park drievliet het bieslandse bosch historische toerisme Delft binnenstad industrie Delft de rotte laakhaven rijswijk pottery oostpoort woonboten historische binnenstad DSM terrein kennis herbestemming kralingse plas de oude molen Tu Delft blaak Lijm &cultuur verbinding stadsdriehoek Delft station cultuur de zweth midden-delfland wijds uitzicht en natuurbeleving het blaakse bos open polders herbestemming bochtafsnijding landbouw Centraal de markthal weidevogels Schiehallen kruithuis ov fiets station blijdorp erasmusbrug spaanse polder indus- Rotterdam triege- veerhaven bie verbinding Schiedam station metro van nelle het park ontwerpfabriek groen rustpunt en overstap de toko cool- de euromast Spangen eindhalte bij stadsicoon haven aansluiting metro historische Schiedam binnenstad marconi torens Delfshaven Merwe-vierhaven transformatiegebied historische binnenstad katoen- veem creatieve broedplaats atelier lieshout REFLECTION REPORT P4 THE BLUE LIGHT DISTRICT Experiment site: the Schie, South Holland, The Netherlands Graduation process P.Y.Oskam Phone: +316655884281 E-mail: [email protected] #Keywords: Bridge control houses, water system, development strategy, top down, bottom up, participation, succe- sion, network, urban acupuncture MENTOR TEAM TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Urbanism, Chair of Landscape Architecture F.D. van Loon [email protected] TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Urbanism, Chair of Urban Compositions L.J.P van den Burg [email protected] External Examiner: TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Management of the Built Environment, section of Design & Construction Management R.P.gereadts [email protected] In collaboration with: Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology MSc Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences MSc track Landscape Architecture GRADUATION LABORATORY: FLOWSCAPES CHAIR OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Februari 2015 - Februari 2016 THE BLUE LIGHT DISTRICT REFLECTION REPORT P4 Pierre IJsbrand Oskam December 9th 2015 11:15 - 11:45 Room R Faculty of Architecture, Delft To the attention of: Geraedts, Ir. R.P. Burg, Ir. L.P.J. van den Loon, Ir. F.D. van REFLECTION The reflection report is a targeted summary Aspect 3: pages 8-10 of the effects of encountered steps in the pro- • the relationship between the methodical line of cess of the Landscape Architecture gradua- approach of the graduation lab and the method tion studio: Flowscapes. This report includes chosen by the student in this framework answers to the four official desired aspects that highlight the justification of research, Aspect 4: pages 10-11 theory, method and their interrelated context • the relationship between the project and the and the discipline. wider social context Further details of the plan will be discussed in the the P4 presentation, the 1. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RE- moment where the design decisions are SEARCH AND DESIGN communicated. Noted literature does not The research of this project goes hand in hand necessarily work to strengthen the reflection’s with the design. First, the duality of research credibility, but merely gives an indication of by design and v.v. design by research, gives what kind of literature stood me by, writing an idea of how these two aspects are interre- the final thesis. lated with the process. Figure 1 illustrates this duality. Aspect 1: pages 4-5 • the relationship between research and design Design by research: defining boundaries from outside Aspect 2: pages 7-8 From this approach, I searched in literature • the relationship between the theme of the for answers that allowed me to understand graduation lab and the subject/case study basic rules in, for example, how to make chosen by the student within this framework public space that invites people, or how to (location/object) understand the process of participation and 4 DEFINING A PROBLEM FROM ‘INSIDE’ AND FROM ‘OUTSIDE’ SHOULDERS OF GIANTS EXPLORING INTUITIVELY Figure 1. Defining the problem and it’s framework by personal Figure 2. The flowscapes concept: infrastructure as land- experimenting and from ‘shoulders of giants’ (Image by scape and landscape as infrastructure. The flowplace: the Author). right circumstances where two flows that intersect create a combination of infrastructure landscapes (Image by Author), what spatial elements are required due to the with myself. After having drawn, I discover literature. These aspects gave me principles to what I meant with the drawing. It structures hold on to, when brainstorming only made me my ideas, and brings me closer to the core of feel lost: that gave too many options. Another the problem. It makes the ideas and theories example: the choice for a building material come alive for a moment, what gives the time was too specific to find out with sketching. to judge the design scientifically, practically For this, I went into a research of what the and emotionally. general elements of the water system were. The concept together with the analysis of the In this project, the design by research came, water system, brought me to a simple solution: in most cases, second. The drawings and sheet pilings (further explaination in the pre- experimenting with small models came first, sentation). what raised a lot of questions in me. To answer these questions, I looked for approval in Research by design: exploring borders literature. Some I already absorbed partly in from inside the inventory phase, others I found new, when In research by design, which tends to be the the veil of what my topic actually was, became natural overhand in my approach, is develop- thinner. ing a greater knowledge of for example the lo- The act of designing is used as a re- cation by implementing design ideas in it. This search tool, as well as research is used to help does not only give an indication of how the myself define the paths of designing. I think landscape is composed, also the proposed the combination of both freely experimenting implementation brings a greater understand- and knowledge of creating restrictions are ing what I actually think (unconsciously) is the inevitable for innovation and research. problem of the case. The reflection of seeing my own drawings, is as having a dialogue 5 Figure 3. Different infrastructres can be linked by the creation Figure 4. In axeggerate, the use of several places can of a ‘Flowplace’. This stimulates interaction between different provide a strenghening of the water system, and highlight flows, and has impact on its nearby surroundings (Image by (vacant) places on this system (Image by Author). Author). 2. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ditions for urban development, but also have THEME OF GRADUATION AND THE spatial, ecological and socio-cultural qualities SUBJECT/CASE STUDY CHOSEN BY THE themselves’. STUDENT WITHIN THIS FRAMEWORK The flowscape is a combination of The flowscapes concept perceives infrastruc- looking at infrastructures both as vital organs tures as more than a type of connection from A for its surrounding, as the way it forms an to B. The term does consider the infrastructure organism with its surrounding elements. The as a type of space with its own meaning. If a first three pictograms in Figure 2 illustrate the structure is a constellation of dots connect- landscape as infrastuctures and infrastructes ed by lines, the infrastructure is the kind of as landscapes. Looking at infrastructures as relationships that these lines and dots form. the potential carrying bones of complex spac- The flowscape, can be considered as the third es, Sybrand Tjalingii2 created the two networks dimension of the structure. It considers the model that considers the combination of water place of movement as a landscape on its own. and traffic networks as the carrying structure In ‘Urban landscape infrastructures’ for urban landscapes. S. Nijhuis and D. Jauslin1 explore the complex- In the project, the search for an ity of the urban landscape infrastructure as the ultimate form of the flowscape was the inspi- flowscape. ‘Urban landscape infrastructures ration. The bridge is a perfect example of a facilitate and frame flows of people, living flowscape: this place exist because of differ- organisms, materials and information. Urban ent movements of flows in the landscape. It landscape infrastructures are not only support is a landscape as an infrastructure. A device, structures that direct, facilitate and create con- to make it physically possible to transport 1 Nijhuis, S., & Jauslin, D., (2015). Urban 2 Tjallingii, S., (2015). Planning with water and landscape infrastructures. Designing operative landscape traffic networks. Carrying structures of the urban landscape. structures for the built environment. Research In Urbanism Research In Urbanism Series, 3(1), 57-80. doi:10.7480/ Series, 3(1), 13-34. doi:10.7480/rius.3.874 rius.3.832 6 WHAT DOES THE WATER SYSTEM MEAN FOR THE NETHERLANDS? WHAT LOCATIONS ARE POTENTIAL WHAT STRATEGY ENABLES OPEN INITATIVES? WHY IS IT DISCONNECTED? CONNECTORS? HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS: A GRAND DESIGN MENTAL MAPPING FLOW PLACES SUCCESSION WATER AS A BACKBONE PLACES DEFINED BY BETWEEN TOP DOWN - BOTTOM UP OPEN ENDED STRATEGY