programme revealed - TU Delft

B NIEUWS #11
26 APRIL 2011
PERIODIEK VAN DE FACULTEIT BOUWKUNDE | TU DELFT
INHOUD
2/3 Nieuws
INDESEM '11: Programme revealed
The value of design
Isocarp's conference
4 Nieuws
Studievoortgang anno 2011
Academic's exchange
5 BK In Focus
Public Building:
Research & education. Fall 2011/12
6/7 BK In Depth
Celebrate people
Review of the welcome symposium for
Prof. Dr. Michael Braungart
8 BK In Focus
Façades for the future
9 Project
The creation of a European Plaza.
Railway station in Amsterdam South
10 Forum
Designing is communicating: R. Rocco
Column: Robert Nottrot
Cartoon: Thomas de Bos
11 Herijking BK
Review (‘Herijking’) of the
Faculty of Architecture (‘11-‘14)
12 Agenda
FOOD
EQUALS
WASTE...?
8 TILLMANN KLEIN “IT IS REMARKABLE THAT REGARDING
FAÇADE TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT, WESTERN
EUROPE IS LEADING BY FAR”

2 NIEUWS
KORT NIEUWS
Addendum BN 10
In het artikel ‘Architectuur van
de politiek’ (B Nieuws 10) mist
er cruciale informatie. Hoewel
XML architects het initiatief
namen, werd het onderwijsproject
georganiseerd samen met
Christoph Grafe (Interior Architecture)
en Hans Teerds (Public
Building). De afdeling Interior
Architecture heeft het onderwijs
gecoördineerd.
B Nieuws 10, pagina’s 06 - 07
Bouwkunde wint
prijs
De faculteit Bouwkunde van de
TU Delft heeft met het project
BK City een belangrijke Europese
prijs voor het behoud van
Cultureel Erfgoed gewonnen: de
EU Prize for Cultural Heritage/
Europa Nostra Awards 2011.
bk.tudelft.nl
Call for new editors
B Nieuws is looking for new
editors to join our team. Since
three of our lovely editors will
probably leave the editorial board
after the summer, we are looking
for new talents in writing, editing
and InDesigning. So do you have
the skills and are you interested
in working for the periodical of
the Faculty of Architecture, please
send an e-mail to:
bnieuws-bk@tudelft.nl
Winnaar STYLOS
folly bekendgemaakt
Het ontwerp is van Martin Fiala
en heet 'Act of Folly'. Vanaf nu
zal STYLOS zich voornamelijk
bezig gaan houden met de
vergunningen en het zoeken van
sponsoren. Naar verwachting kan
de folly volgend studiejaar
worden gebouwd op het
voorplein. Voor meer informatie,
check de website van Stylos.
stylos.nl
INDESEM IS
ALMOST
HERE!!!
B NIEUWS 11 26 APRIL 2011
INDESEM ’11
PROGRAMME REVEALED
INTERNATIONAL DESIGN SEMINAR (INDESEM), WHICH ALTERNATES EVERY
OTHER YEAR WITH BK BEATS, IS JUST AS LEGENDARY, ALBEIT FOR ANOTHER
REASON. THIS YEAR‘S EVENT IS NO DIFFERENT. FILLED TO THE BRIM WITH
INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED LECTURERS, A BOOK LAUNCH A FILM NIGHT
AND A MINI-SYMPOSIUM, THIS IS ONE OF THE FEW EVENTS STUDENTS
SHOULDN‘T MISS.
BK–City This year's InDeSem, discusses the
influence of digital information and social
media on (our perception of) architecture and
human interaction: “because InDeSem 2011 is
somewhat theoretical and conceptual, we
invited the relevant theorists and academics,
but also designers and artists who deal with
the more practical side of the theme”, says
Milou Joosten, a member of the organizing
committee. The list of speakers therefore
features such renowned academics as Saskia
Sassen, Arie Graafland, to the young interactive
artist Daan Roosegaarde and a founding
member of Archigram, Sir Peter Cook. Another
person who won’t be missing is Herman
Hertzberger, the spiritual father of InDeSem
and a social architect par excellence.
The event kicks off on the 13th May with a
mini-symposium, in which international
speakers, as well as our faculty’s own heavy
hitters will introduce the topic to the eighty
participants of the Indesem workshop, as well
as the general public, which is welcome. The
weekend programme includes a book launch
at V2 Institute in Rotterdam on Saturday 14
May, while Sunday features a movie night
(which is only available to the participants).
On Monday 16 May, Indesem will return to the
faculty, where it will stay until its end on 20
May, the day of the public presentations of the
workshop results and a final debate.
The lecture programme, which is free to all
interested, might still undergo a few minor
changes, but the times and places of each
lecture are already negotiated. “We might
have to shift one or two speakers, but the rest
is already confirmed”, Joosten informs and
assures that the Indesem website will be
updated as soon as any changes occur.
For now, the last preparations are under way,
but it seems that Indesem 2011, if the organizing
committee succeeds in its plans, will
definitely be one to remember, at least until
Indesem 2013. (PS)
PUBLIC LECTURES INDESEM 2011:
13 May 2011 / Opening Indesem 2011 by
Karin Laglas / Mini-symposium featuring
Andreas Angelidakis, Arie Graafland, Saskia
Sassen and Kas Oosterhuis, debate moderated
by Deborah Hauptmann
14 May 2011 / Book presentation of
‘Sentient City’ by Mark Shepard and Martijn
de Waal and moderated by Michiel de
Lange (non-participants €4)
16 May 2011 / Lectures Herman
Hertzberger, Chris Speed, Marcos Novak
17 May / Lectures Adriaan Wormgoor,
Warren Neidich, M. Christine Boyer
18 May / Lectures Frans Vogelaar, Daan
Roosegaarde
19 May / Lecture Neil Leach
20 May / Final presentations / Lecture Sir
Peter Cook / Jury debate
For more details go to indesem.nl
InDeSem 2009

THE VALUE OF DESIGN
AFTER THE SUCCESSFUL PREVIOUS EDITIONS OF THE SYMPOSIUMS OF ‘THE VALUE OF DESIGN’ IN
2005 AND 2008, THIS YEARS EDITION FOCUSES ON THE THEME ‘FACING THE INTEGRATION‘. THE
THIRD OF MAY 2011, THE AUDITORIUM OF THE TU DELFT WILL HOUSE THE PROGRAM, WHICH
CONTAINS A LIST OF INTERESTING SPEAKERS FROM THE FIELD OF ARCHITECTURE AND FROM THE
FIELD OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING.
TU DELFT – With this year’s
symposium, five extra names can
be added to the impressive list of
speakers of international renown
architects and structural engineers
which where invited during
the years. People like Frank
Gehry, Ben van Berkel, Renzo
Piano, John Zils, Jörg Schlaich,
Jean Nouvel and Richard Rogers
among others all contributed to
the earlier editions.
This time two engineers and
three architects will attend the
symposium and give their point of
view on architecture and
structural engineering, but they
will especially focus on the
overlapping areas of these two
disciplines. Whereas from the
THIS YEAR, THE DR. IR. MARC
JACOBS FOUNDATION WILL
AWARD A TRAVEL AND
CONFERENCE GRANT TO A
MASTER LEVEL STUDENT FOR
THE ISOCARP INTERNATIONAL
CONGRESS. THE 47TH EDI-
TION OF THIS CONGRESS WILL
BE IN WUHAN, PR. OF CHINA
FROM 24 TILL 28 OCTOBER
2011.
WUHAN – The Dr. Ir. Marc Jacobs
Foundation provides the award
winning student with air fare,
hotel, meals and admission fee for
the ISOCARP Congress, as well as
the ‘Young Planners Workshop’
(21-24 October) that precedes the
conference.
This year’s ISOCARP Congress
will explore different aspects of
urban liveability vis-à-vis the
challenges that cities and towns
are facing as the growing
urbanization continues to evolve.
Dr. Ir. Marc Jacobs used to be the
chairman of the Dutch delegation
of the international organization
ISOCARP, which is an international
association of experienced
professional planners. Jacobs was
closely involved in the continuing
global development of ISOCARP,
but he passed away in 2008, age
43. As PhD researcher he distinguished
himself with a thorough
dissertation: his study of multi-
field of Architecture Ken Yeang,
Francine Houben and Richard
Horden are invited, and from the
field of Structural Engineering
Niccolò Baldassini and Andre de
Roo are asked to position themselves.
All of them are invited
because they have different views
towards their profession. After
their personal presentations a
discussion should uncover the
similarities and differences
between the different speakers.
The discussion will be led by Prof.
Ir. Rob Nijsse who is maybe the
best known design engineer of
the Netherlands. He is part-time
professor design engineering at
the Faculty of Civil Engineering in
Delft and he will act as Chairman
of the conference.
ISOCARP’S CONFERENCE
nodal urban regions contributed
significantly to the scientific
underpinning of regional planning
and design. And as professional
he brought in many projects of
different sizes from vision to
implementation, for example
Schiedam, Rijswijk and Vlissingen;
the last three years he did so
as self-employed consultant.
The foundation with Jacobs' name
now tries to contribute to the
further development of urban
design and planning as both a
practical and a scientific profession.
The purpose of the foundation
is to advance the development
of urban planning and
design by widening the international
orientation of students
attending Dutch academic
The symposium is organized by
Stichting Dispuut Utiliteitsbouw
(U-Dispuut) in collaboration with
Arcadis and the TU Delft. U-Dispuut
is the student association for
the department of Building
Engineering of the Faculty of Civil
Engineering of the Delft University
of Technology.
For more info please check: valueofdesign.nl
(FvdZ)
PROGRAM:
12h30 – 13h30 Lunch
13h30 – 13h45 R. Nijsse
13h45 – 14h30 F. Houben
14h30 – 15h15 N. Baldassini
15h15 – 16h00 R. Horden
16h00 – 16h30 Coffee break
16h30 – 17h15 K. Yeang
17h45 – 18h15 A. de Roo
Areal view on the city of Wuhan
institutions. The foundation
invites Master students from:
- Delft University of Technology:
Faculties of Architecture, Civil
Engineering, and Geosciences,
and Technology, Policy and
Management at Delft University
of Technology;
- Eindhoven University of Technology:
Faculty of Architecture;
- The Spatial Planning Departments
(planologie-afdelingen) of
the Universities of Amsterdam,
Groningen, Nijmegen, Wageningen
and Utrecht
Applications must be submitted
by May 15, no later than 12 pm.
For the requirements for the
application and more info, please
check marcjacobsfoundation.eu
(FvdZ)
NIEUWS 3
VAN DE DECAAN
De
honeymoon
voorbij
Zo, het zit erop, mijn eerste
honderd dagen. De ‘honeymoon
period‘ van een nieuwe
baan. Een periode van
welwillende verwondering over
en weer. Aftasten. Een periode
van verkennen en je een beeld
vormen. Langzaam ontdek je
hoe de hazen lopen. En na een
tijdje komen de eerste echt
taaie problemen voorbij. En
voor je het door hebt hoor je er
gewoon bij. Zo voelt het nu wel
zo’n beetje. En het voelt lekker.
Ik zie veel dingen die goed
gaan. En uiteraard zie ik ook
dingen die volgens mij anders
en beter kunnen. Maar een
haakse bocht? Een nieuw
‘grand design’, een nieuwe visie
waarbij alles overhoop gaat?
Dat lijkt me niet! Laten we
werken vanuit het bestaande;
koesteren waar we goed in zijn,
kritische zelfreflectie, een
beetje meer focus hier en daar
misschien, stroomlijnen,
ontdubbelen, ontsnipperen,
ontrommelen en soms
misschien ergens mee durven
stoppen. En blijven aanpassen
aan de veranderende wereld
om ons heen. Een beetje de
RMIT aanpak; ontwikkelen
binnen de bestaande context.
Helemaal van deze tijd.
Inmiddels heeft natuurlijk
ook het ‘echte werk‘ zich bij me
aangediend. Van curriculumbesluit
tot de eerste hoogleraarbenoemingen
en maatregelen
om de studieduur te beperken.
En onvermijdelijk ook de
herijking. Daar waar de andere
faculteiten hun plannen voor de
herijking al hebben moeten
indienen en deels al aan het
implementeren zijn, hebben wij
uitstel gekregen in verband met
mijn start afgelopen januari.
Maar uitstel is geen afstel.
Inmiddels zitten ook wij er
midden in. Begin juni moeten
we ons plan voor de herijking
afhebben. Zoals we al wisten
moeten we fors bezuinigen. Dat
vergt lastige keuzes, we zullen
slimme oplossingen moeten
verzinnen. Met ingang van deze
editie verschijnt er in elke
B Nieuws een vaste rubriek
over de herijking om jullie op
de hoogte te houden over de
stand van zaken. Mijn honeymoon
period is voorbij. Ik ben
nu onderdeel van BK City. En ik
zet er graag samen met jullie
m’n schouders onder.
Karin Laglas
Decaan

4 NIEUWS B NIEUWS 11 26 APRIL 2011
STUDIEVOORTGANG
ANNO 2011
EEN GEMIDDELDE STUDIEDUUR VAN 7,6 JAAR IS TE
LANG. HET ONDERWIJS OP BOUWKUNDE MOET
SLIMMER EN BETER. B NIEUWS SPRAK MET
CHRISTIAN VAN EES, DIRECTEUR ONDERWIJS.
Een van de nieuwe maatregelen met betrekking tot
studiebaarheid, het bindend studieadvies (BSa), werd in
2008/2009 ingevoerd. “In 2010 hebben 140 studenten een
negatief studieadvies gekregen”, zegt Van Ees. Dit
betekent dat zij al na het eerste jaar van hun studie
moesten stoppen. En dat is hard nodig, want de faculteit
Bouwkunde TU Delft is nogal populair onder nieuwe
studenten. Dit jaar hebben zich ongeveer 550 eerstejaars
ingeschreven. Maar de Bsa lijkt zijn vruchten te hebben
afgeworpen. Enkele jaren geleden haalden elk jaar een
tiental studenten hun P-in-Eén. Van het jaar 2007/2008 was
dit ongeveer vijftig, en toen was er een sprake van groot
succes. Van de laatste lichting eerstejaars hebben ruim
negentig studenten hun P-in-Eén gehaald.
De numerus fixus wordt nu ingevoerd, om het aantal
nieuwe Bachelorstudenten tot 450 te beperken. “Dit jaar
gebeurt dat nog door middel van gewogen loting die puur
op de cijfers van de middelbare school is gebaseerd, maar
we willen er zeker van zijn dat studenten weten waar ze
aan beginnen. Daarom willen wij voor het academisch jaar
2012/2013 decentrale selectie invoeren. Daarin zouden
studenten na tijdige aanmelding een online enquête
kunnen invullen, en dan een aantal tests ondergaan,
waarbij hun ruimtelijke inzicht wordt getoetst”, aldus Van
Ees. Op vele andere architectuuropleidingen in het
buitenland wordt dit allang zo gedaan.
Verder wordt de studievoortgang verbeterd door een aantal
andere maatregelen, zoals de Harde Knip. Dat sommige
studenten niet aan hun master kunnen beginnen zonder
dat hun bachelor helemaal af is, ook als het maar over twee
of drie studiepunten gaat, lijkt op het eerste gezicht niet
logisch.“Maar”, betoogt Van Ees, “we willen dat studenten
hun master met een schone lei beginnen. Het is ook de
bedoeling dat in de toekomst enkele kwartaalontwerpstudios
in de master in het tweede kwartaal beginnen”.
Daardoor kan een student in het eerste kwartaal van een
semester een aantal theorievakken volgen en nog een
bachelorvak herkansen, en in het tweede kwartaal gewoon
met een ontwerpstudio beginnen. Er zijn overigens geen
plannen om numerus fixus of decentrale selectie voor de
Masteropleiding in te voeren.
Hoewel de langstudeerboete een jaar is uitgesteld, na een
debat in de Tweede Kamer, is dit volgens Van Ees geen
reden om mogelijke verbeteringen aan studeerbaarheid
niet te onderzoeken. “Wij denken bijvoorbeeld aan onderwijsblokken,
waarin een vak, kort maar intensief, in
blokvorm wordt gegeven, onmiddellijk gevolgd door een
tentamen. En dat dit zich in een volgend blok herhaalt. Ook
denken wij aan compensatie, dat studenten met een goed
cijfer voor een vak, een slecht cijfer van een ander vak
kunnen compenseren.” Ook kunnen de huidige studievoortgangsregels,
zoals de BSa mogelijk in de toekomst
worden aangescherpt; uiteraard wordt ook gekeken naar
andere manieren van lesgeven, met meer persoonlijke
aandacht en contacturen, hoewel dit “moeilijk” te combineren
valt met de bezuinigingen. Deze laatste maatregelen
worden nog onderzocht en staan dus nog niet vast. Maar
wat er ook gebeurt, een ding is zeker: studeren op
Bouwkunde zal nooit meer hetzelfde zijn. (PS)
ACADEMIC'S
EXCHANGE
STUDENTS TAKING PART IN A ‘STUDY ABROAD‘ PROGRAM
HAS LONG BECOME COMMON AT OUR FACULTY. BUT ALSO
TEACHING AND RESEARCH STAFF CAN GO ABROAD AND
EXPERIENCE DIFFERENT TEACHING/RESEARCH METHODS
AT DIFFERENT SCHOOLS OF ARCHITECTURE.
One such person is professor Bige
Tunçer, a teacher and researcher
of Computational Architecture at
the TU Delft who is currently a
visiting professor, lecturing and
coordinating research at the
Eidgenössische Technische
Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, one of
the top architecture schools in
Europe. This, however, did not
happen by chance. “I was
approached by Prof. Gerhard
Schmitt from ETH, who was in my
PhD committee, with the offer to
be a visiting professor there at his
chair called Information Architecture.
I did not apply for this job, I
was offered this job personally.
Prof. Schmitt moved to Singapore
to lead the Future Cities Laboratory
project that is a part of SEC
(Singapore ETH Center) and my
job at ETH is to temporarily lead
his chair, especially the research
component”, says Tunçer.
Zürich (source: Wikipedia)
This isn't Tunçer's first stay in
Switzerland either. She started
teaching there in 1996, before
moving to Delft. And like Francine
Houben, who also lectured in
Switzerland for some time, she
noticed that there is a slight
difference between the Swiss and
the Dutch students. “ETH
students, like Delft students, are
very bright and they understand
the material very fast. They do
however ask fewer questions and
make fewer comments. I can
always tell the exchange students
from the Swiss students by the
way they behave during class.
Both have advantages and
disadvantages for the teacher, but
I like to treat university students
as intellectual adults, therefore a
healthy critical and vocal approach
does not disturb me. I am in
favour of it. The most important
issue for me is that students come
prepared to class and that the
teacher and student can hold a
productive and constructive
critical dialogue together.”
Of course, one of the main
advantages of teaching and
researching at a school of
excellent academic standing, such
as the ETH, is the opportunity to
see different teaching methods
and compare them to the practices
at TU Delft. “The main
difference that I noticed in my
field of expertise, Design Informatics,
is that the informatics related
courses at ETH are separated
from the design studios. When I
showed the work that we do with
the students here in Delft to ETH
students I got many positive
comments”, says Tunçer.
And how would she compare the
overall educational strengths of
each institution? “ETH has the
policy and vision to attract and
hire internationally excellent
people for research and teaching.
This is very important for the
short and long term success of the
faculty and the university, both
for research and teaching. The
students can select from a
number of design studios during
their bachelor, which I find
positive as well. Delft students do
not have a choice of various
design studios during the
bachelor semesters. Another
advantage of ETH is that the
curriculum doesn't change often
as is the case in Delft. Delft, on
the other hand, has a long design
tradition and is strong in the
integration of design and technology
and it also has a great
building”.
Tunçer will stay at her post as a
visiting professor until the end of
June 2011. Then she will return to
Delft, but is not opposed to taking
a visiting position again, because
as she states “it is very healthy
for an academic to experience
another university. This allows
them to widen their horizon and
learn new things.” (PS)

PUBLIC BUILDING
RESEARCH & EDUCATION. FALL SEMESTER 2011/12
THE TIME TO CHOOSE NEW COURSES IS UPON US AGAIN. AS ALWAYS B NIEUWS IS HERE TO
HELP! THINKING OF PUBLIC BUILDING DEPARTMENT? MAYBE THIS WILL HELP YOU DECIDE.
MSC 1 MSC 3/4
Public Realm
Tutors: Tom Avermaete,
Sien van Dam, Jorge Mejia.
The program of the Médiathèque
epitomizes the coexistence of two
different layers of the public
realm: a layer of traditional urban
public space and a more recent
layer represented by developments
in the worldwide web.
This studio is a collaboration with
the Schools of Architecture in
Casablanca and Rabat (Morocco)
and wants to investigate which
tools, instruments and approaches
are available to architects to
operate within a cultural condition
that is not their own.
Border Conditions & Territory
Tutors: Micha de Haas,
Filip Geerts, Sang Lee.
These studio’s consist of investigations
of urban interaction,
expression and its boundaries.
The studio’s are designed to
promote the use of drawings and
models for investigation, experimentation
and trials.
Studio 1: Territory in Transit.
This studio offers the possibility
to research the role of architectural
interventions in the context of
the contemporary territorial
(r)evolution. The site of the public
territory is the city region,
consisting of a number of architectural
strategies with a certain
(permeable) autonomy. The studio
focuses on new developments in
the Dutch Maasvlakte.
Studio 2: Socio-Political Contexts
of Architecture.
This studio deals with the
influence of the notions of time,
memory and history on urban
conditions, the representation of
these notions in architecture and
urban planning, and the influence
they have on the personal
individual design process. The
subject is a temporary building for
the new Dutch National Historical
Museum.
Studio 3: Experimentation in
Architectural Design.
The overall objective is to produce
a public site in Rotterdam where
the idea of contingency is a
pronounced feature. Such places
include many types of buildings
in which social encounters occur.
These encounters may be planned
(appointments and schedules: a
congress center or a movie
theater) or by chance (serendipity
and spontaneity: a cafe or a bar).
Theory
Architectural Studies
Architectural Reflections
Architectural Design, lectures
MSC 2
Public Space and Beyond
Special IABR-edition
Tutors: Ekim Tan, Hans Teerds,
Daan Zandbelt.
This special edition of the MSc2
Public Realm design studio is
connected to the Rotterdam
International Architectural
Biennale 2011 with its theme
‘managing the unmanageable’. It
will investigate the organization
of diverse, conflicting powers on
the highly urbanized territories of
both Istanbul in Turkey and the
Randstad in The Netherlands.
Theory
Seminar. Readings on the Public
Realm: Landscape
Public Realm
Ankara. Tutors: Alper Alkan,
Nicolas Deboutte, Michiel Riedijk.
Rotterdam. Tutors: Susanne
Komossa, Nicola Marzot.
Innovative concepts and typologies
for public buildings in the
Netherlands that address the
search for a new public realm can
only be reached by understanding
the crucial moments in urban and
architectural practice such as
sustainability, stacking of
functions, public safety, accessibility
etcetera.
Studies and design proposals for
the site can provide the new
program in relation to the city’s
future development.
Border Conditions & Territory
Henriette Bier, Stefano Milani,
Oscar Rommens,
Marc Schoonderbeek.
The graduate projects will focus
on ‘mapping of the city’, which
means both the uncovering of the
invisible aspects of the city and
an unveiling of different dimensions
‘besides the obvious’ will
form the starting point.
Studio 1: Beirut.
This studio will develop architectural
research and design projects
that are related to and situated in
urban conditions as well as
embedded in the larger scale of
the territory. The exploration of
the urban border conditions in
Beirut will be combined with the
time-related processes of the
landscape as well as contemporary
developments with respect to
connectivity, infrastructure and
RUBRIEKSKOP BK IN FOCUS 5
For more info, log on to:
www.tudelft-architecture.nl/
chairs/public-building/education
or email:
info12-ac-bk@tudelft.nl for MSc1/2
info34-ac-bk@tudelft.nl for MSc3/4
the pre-war intense planning
activities and the post-war city
reconstruction.
Studio 2: Madrid Periphery
The ongoing colonization and
appropriation of the landscape
around Madrid has resulted in a
fragmented periphery where
specific urban border conditions
have emerged in a vast territorial
setting. The contemporary
debates involving social, ethnic,
religious, societal and economic
developments, will be analyzed,
as well as the specific forms of
resistance that have an influence
and effect on the spatial configuration
of the city.
Theory
Research Methods
Seminar: Research Methods
Tutorial: Research Methods
RESEARCH
Architecture and the City
Public Building/ Public Realm,
Composition and Tectonics
This research group focuses on
and questions the mutual
relationship among public
buildings, public spaces and the
public realm. The architecture of
the city and its actual qualities
form the main framework of this
research.
Boarders & Territories
This research group focuses on
the study of complex spatial
mechanisms and systems within
contemporary cities and territories,
as they constitute the
contextual basis of architectural
interventions.
Revisions
Changing Ideals and Shifting
Realities
This research group focuses on
the investigation of design
approaches, attitudes and
positions in the context of
existing and merging architectural
cultures.

6 BK IN DEPTH B NIEUWS 11 26 APRIL 2011
CELEBRATE
PEOPLE
FRIDAY APRIL 15TH , THE OOSTSERRE WAS THE THEATER OF THE BUILDING TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT. RIGHT IN THE
HEART OF BK CITY A SYMPOSIUM WAS ORGANIZED TO WELCOME PROF. DR. MICHAEL BRAUNGART AS A NEW VISITING
PROFESSOR AT THE FACULTY. AND AFTER A PROGRAM FULL WITH INTERESTING SPEAKERS TO INTRODUCE BRAUNGART TO
DELFT, THE CRADLE TO CRADLE GURU HIMSELF GAVE US SOME NEW FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
BY FLORIS VAN DER ZEE AND
MARCELLO SOELEMAN
Clearly, something was going to
happen this afternoon. Extra
chairs were put in front of the
orange grandstand and even a
stage was built, which also raised
expectations for the people
passing by. Not all seats were
occupied when Karin Laglas
opened the symposium, but as
the program proceeded, the
number of interested students,
researchers, staff members and
others increased as well. And
there was quite some interest
from the outside professional
world, which is very happy with
the arrival of Braungart at the TU.
It was a pity, though a previously
encountered problem, that the
presentations on the enormous
screen in the orange hall were
barely visible due to too much
daylight. On the other hand, the
Oostserre was a perfect location
not only to introduce Michael
Braungart to the TU Delft, but
also to show the whole BK City
community the knowledge and
interests of the people within the
Building Technology department,
concerning research on energy
and materials in relation to
sustainability.
Prof. Ir. Peter Luscuere, professor
of Building Services at the
department of Building Technology,
was the initiator of the
welcome symposium and the one
strongly encouraging Braungart
to come to Delft. He managed to
put together an interesting list of
speakers, containing researchers,
PhD candidates and professors.
Luscuere was the chairman of the
day and he gave a presentation
on bio-based materials. Very
inspiring was the talk by Ben
Bronsema with a presentation of
his PhD research called ‘Earth,
Wind and Fire’. Not only his
research on how to make use of
natural resources in building
production like wind and sun was
interesting, especially his enthusiastic
way of presenting showed
his joy of doing research even at
the tender age of 76.
Dr. Ir. Michiel Haas explained in
his presentation his idea of
0-materials. This could be
compared with the concept of
0-energy buildings that do not
have any negative influence on
the environment in terms of
energy. According to Haas one
could use a same kind of reasoning
concerning the use of materials.
After Andy van den
Dobbelsteen’s talk on Cradle to
Cradle (C2C) in the urban
environment and his call for cities
to become “intelligent organisms”,
PhD candidate Michael
Bitterman was the last one to
present, before Braungart would
speak for the first time at this
faculty. Bitterman is developing a
way to quantify C2C. According
to his belief C2C could be seen as
a concept to measure the quality
of a design. This is done by
‘neural computation’, a tool
designers could use to design
buildings, according to Bitterman.
After all contributions by people
from the faculty, the apotheosis of
the afternoon was the presentation
by Michael Braungart
himself. With his typical way of
speaking, softly, even a bit
mumbling, though clear, he got
the attention immediately. Of
course a large part of the audience
had been waiting for this
part of the program and he
probably did not disappoint
anyone. His lecture consisted of a
waterfall of one liners but was
also a continuous story in which
he wanted to look back at what
his concept of Cradle to Cradle
had reached so far in The Netherlands
and how to continue from
here. The main message he
wanted to put forward related to
C2C, is that it should really be
seen as a tool and not as a goal.
Nowadays people and companies
try to minimize their footprint, but
according to Braungart this is
actually the wrong way to think.
He explained that approaching
everything in a negative way, in
terms of reducing and minimizing,
“HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF
OVERPOPULATION OF TREES?”
nothing valuable can be reached.
Rather one should search for
ways in which human activities
actually benefit the environment.
His way of arguing made his
ideas really clear and coherent,
although he put it in a powerful
and almost amusing way: “If
carbon neutral is the highest goal,
you can not exist. Even a tree is
carbon positive! It should not be
about carbon neutral. This does
not celebrate the human being.
And have you ever heard of an
overpopulation of trees?”.
And as he continued he stated
that “zero emissions should not
be the aim, because then you
cannot live. Even when you shoot
yourself right now, you will have
emissions”. Or: “Stop talking
about product life cycles. Products
don't have a life, the only living
products are children”. In this
way he confronted the audience
with their assumptions and
beliefs. Braungart tries to make
people enthusiastic by telling
them that a more human approach
should be adopted.
According to this view, human
beings should be celebrated.
People should not try to deny, but
have to accept that they exist and
actually make use of their
possibilities. Because, he believes,
that if people feel accepted
they are willing to share as well.
And this is important since we
should search together for ways
to establish a positive footprint
rather than to try to minimize it.
“We want to be good for economy
and culture, but for ecology we
are simply too much. This is why
the footprint should be positive to
contribute to the total system.”
He concluded with another
positive message. He will be in
the faculty once a month and he
will be there for everyone who
wants his advice or who is willing
to set up an initiative and needs
his help. He is even willing to
give some internships to those
who are interested. So do not
hesitate and create a C2C-roundthe-table-group
as soon as
possible! Building Technology for
one is starting up a Cradle to
Cradle Atelier for students who
are interested to do their graduation
work in the area of C2C and
will make maximum use of the
regular presence of Michael
Braungart.

“
85% of the ‘sustainable energy’ that is produced in Holland is produced by incineration.
Says: Peter Luscuere
Why: In The Netherlands, much of our waste is burned (rather than dumped on landfills). And we dare
to call that sustainable energy. By burning, we take out a lot of potentially recycled materials from the
environment and just harvest the thermal energy.
We only use 3% of the potential of natural gas to heat our homes.
Says: Peter Luscuere
Why: The law of conservation of energy doesn’t hold up for exergy. Exergy is defined as the amount of
work that can be gained from raw energy: it roughly equals 100% for all forms of energy (rotating axle,
electricity, oil, coal and gas) but heat. Unlike energy, exergy from heat can be destroyed. A boiler burns
natural gas with a flame temperature of 1200° Celsius. But to heat our house, we don’t need 1200° C
but 30° C. By the time this temperature is reached, only 3% of the original exergy is left. It’s like
shooting a mosquito with a cannon.
We will be done with fossil fuels and uranium within 75 years.
Says: Andy van den Dobbelsteen
Why: the latest oil prices exceed 120 dollars per barrel and experts say
they’ll exceed a record 150 dollars within months. This is a serious
problem, noticeable in increased prices of almost everything we buy.
Research says that fossil ánd uranium resources will be depleted within
55 to 75 years. Therefore, we need to become independent of these
resources and only use them to build sustainable systems.
Cities should become intelligent organisms instead of an
intensive care patient.
Says: Andy van den Dobbelsteen
Why: Buildings are now only kept alive via pipes, ducts and other
services. Disconnecting our buildings from these services would instantly
stop them from functioning. And when we talk about reducing our
energy, water and material flows, we still talk about the same pipes,
ducts and services. We need to find ways to close and connect our flows,
turning them into cycles, making our buildings and cities more intelligent.
Left to right: Ben Bronsema, Peter Luscuere, Michael Braungart, Michiel Haas,
Michael Bittermann, Andy van den Dobbelsteen
Ethics only work on Mother Theresa.
Says: Michael Braungart
Why: Al Gore says that sustainability is about ethics.
But he’s wrong. The problem with ethics is that they
disappear when you really need them, when you’re
under stress. And we will be far more under stress in
the future. You don’t need ethics to go Cradle to
Cradle. A little self esteem is enough.
If you make the wrong things perfect, they’re
just perfectly wrong.
Says: Michael Braungart
Why: Energy efficiency is a farce. We really have a
design problem. We still talk about reducing energy
use and call this the highest goal. But less bad is still
not good. When reducing energy we still use the same
damaging processes that cause the greenhouse effect
in the first place. We should stop being energy
efficient and start being effective, start designing the
right things.
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On this page you can find a
collection of quotes, taken from
the various lectures of the
symposium. The full symposium
is published on Collegerama:
collegerama.nl/tud
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We don’t have an energy problem.
Says: Michiel Haas
Why: The sun provides us with 10.000 times more energy than what the
world needs. So we don’t have an energy problem, we have a conversion
problem. And we will solve that. The possibilities are endless: zero-point
energy, solar, wind, fresh-salt water, geothermic, the list goes on.
According to Jacobson and Delucci a fossil fuel free world, powered only
by renewable energy, is possible by 2030. It’s even cheaper than going
on with fossil fuels or nuclear energy.
Making 0-material buildings
Says: Michiel Haas
Why: analogous to 0-energy buildings, 0-material buildings provide their
own materials. These materials are manufactured from a renewable
origin, from bulk materials or via recycle or reuse, made and processed
with renewable energy.
The idea of the uomo universalis is
becoming obsolete
Says: Michael Bittermann
Why: we, as architects, can hardly
obtain enough knowledge in our lifetime
to claim expertise on all the different
topics regarding sustainability (energy,
materials but also architectural aesthetics)
yet we like to give ourselves this air
of being the uomo universalis. This idea
is becoming obsolete regarding the vast
diversity of knowledge we nowadays
would need to have to make holistic
assessments such as sustainability.
Computational methodology (neural
computation for example) could assist
us in quantifying and judging Cradle 2
Cradle concepts and goals.
The term carbon neutral is perverse. You can only be carbon neutral when you
don’t exist.
Says: Michael Braungart
Why: Humans emit carbon dioxide through breathing. The term carbon neutral doesn’t
respect people, it doesn’t celebrate humans. It’s saying, “I’m not here.” When mentioning the
term carbon neutral, it’s often illustrated with a tree. But a tree is not carbon neutral, it’s
carbon positive. If a tree would be carbon neutral we would be dead. Trying to reduce our
‘carbon footprint’ is equally perverse. Why reduce, avoid, minimize when you can be carbon
positive? Then our footprint can’t be big enough. Cradle to Cradle is about celebrating the
human footprint.
”
Stop talking about energy. It’s not oil, it’s soil. And phosphate.
Says: Michael Braungart
Why: It’s unbelievable that in The Netherlands, we still talk about the energy problem. We will
solve that, when we learn how to harvest the energy from the sun. The real problems are
topsoil and phosphate. These are essential for a proper carbon management (alleviating the
greenhouse effect) and food production and they are being depleted in a worrying rate.
Topsoil is lost and phosphate (in our waste and our excrement) is burned, removing important
nutrients from the environment. This makes a closed cycle, where waste equals food, impossible.

8 BK IN FOCUS
B NIEUWS 11 26 APRIL 2011
FAÇADES FOR
THE FUTURE
AS FAÇADES BECOME EVER MORE COMPLEX, OUR OWN FACULTY IS FINDING WAYS
TO LEAD DEVELOPMENT WITHIN FAÇADE TECHNOLOGY. THE INTERNATIONALLY
ORIENTATED FAÇADE RESEARCH GROUP, PART OF THE BUILDING TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT, AIMS FOR INNOVATIONS THROUGH COLLABORATION.
BY MARCELLO SOELEMAN
Façade Research Group
The façade research group of the
Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft
was initiated by Ulrich Knaack to
“explore future possibilities for
the building envelope”. Alongside
a graduation variant within the
Building Technology graduation
studio, the Research Group is also
organizing the annual Future
Envelope conference and has
published a series of books on
façades which are now mandatory
for the Bachelor education.
Tillmann Klein, one of the
partners of the research group:
“Façades are of course an
essential part of any building. Not
only do they determine a building’s
expression, they also
demonstrate very clearly the
tightrope architects and engineers
walk on between the crafts
of tailor-made façades and the
standardization of industrial
systems. We operate within that
transitional field, collaborating
with experts on very diverse
subjects to find innovation for
building envelopes.”
European Façade Network
The international façade Master is
set up as a collaboration between
several universities: Bath (GB),
Delft (NL), Detmold (DE), Donostia-San
Sebastian (ES) and Luzern
(DE). The website describes the
network as “a meeting point for
Science, Technology, and Industry
about research, teaching and
exchange on façade knowledge.”
When attending the Building
Technology variant Façade
Design, you are also participating
in the events organized by the
European Façade Network.
Future Envelope 5: Technology
Transfer
The annual conference ‘Future
Envelope’ is being held at the
Book covers of the conceptual
‘imagine’ series, produced by
the Façade Research Group
faculty once again, on Thursday
19 May. The fifth edition of the
conference has the topic ‘Technology
Transfer’. As other fields are
constantly providing us with ever
more intelligent and smart new
technologies and materials, the
building industry seems to lag
behind. This conference aims to
MORE INFORMATION
For more information, please
visit the following websites
Façade Research Group:
doc.bk.tudelft.nl
European Façade Network:
facades.ning.com
Future Envelope:
bk.tudelft.nl/futureenvelope
FUTURE ENVELOPE 5:
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
8:30 Registration
9:15 Opening speech
9:30 - 11:00 Session 1
Wim Poelman – University of Twente
Andreas Fuchs – University of
Applied Sciences Stuttgart
Anne Beim – The Royal Danish
Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
11:30 - 13:00 Session 2
Hans van Rennes – Spyker (to be
confirmed)
Remco Akkermann – TU Twente
Dirk J. Broer – TU Eindhoven
14:00 - 15:30 Session 3
Stephen Ledbetter – University of
Bath
Wolfgang Priedemann –
Priedemann Building Envelope
Consultants, Berlin
Peter Russell – RWTH Aachen
16:00 - 17:30 Session 4
Daniel Dendra – founder
anOtherArchitect, Berlin
Kasper Guldager Jørgensen – 3XN
Architects, Copenhagen
Bruce Nichol – Front, Facade
Design and Consulting, New York
give some answers to the
question, “what do we need to
know to utilize high tech and
smart materials and technologies
in façades?”
The conference day will feature
several people from a wide
variety of industries, each with
their own expertise, who can
provide valuable insights into
how such technologies might be
applied in building façades: for
example integrating building
services in façades, or applications
of glazed structures. There
is more going on than the
conference however. Klein: “The
Cover of the book belonging
to the third Future Envelope
conference, held in 2009
conference day is actually part of
a workshop week, organized by
the European Façade Network.
The network organizes such a
conference twice a year, the
Future Envelope conference being
one of them. During the workshop
week, students from the international
façade Master program
work together on a topic related
to the conference.”
Books
Aside from the graduation
program and conferences, the
Façade Research Group also
produces several books. One of
these is the ‘Imagine’ series: a
conceptual approach towards
façade technology, exploring
novel ideas such as ‘deflatables’
and rapid prototyping. The papers
and conclusions from the ‘Future
Envelope’ conference are collected
as well and bundled into
book form.
Other collaborations
Aside from the European Façade
Network, the Façade Research
Group at BK also seeks collaboration
with other universities. For
example, students of St. Louis
University (Minnesota, USA) have
visited Delft for workshops on
façade refurbishment, and some
teachers from Delft will spend
some time teaching in St. Louis. A
similar cooperation with Penn
State University (USA) is also
under way. Klein: “It is remarkable
that regarding façade
technology and development,
Western Europe is leading by far.
This is of course partly due to the
European climate, which asks for
innovative solutions, but the USA
for example also has much
potential. We’ll be exchanging
knowledge and ideas with
universities there to bring
development further.”

Given condition
The location of the project is Amsterdam South, an area
built by the concept of open planning in the 1970’s. Since
the 1990’s the city of Amsterdam has been planning to
build a new centre for the area: ‘Zuidas’. The blueprint of
the project was too optimistic and since its design it has
been on hold. The original plans envisaged the accommodation
of high speed trains and although these never
arrived, many individual skyscrapers were built by private
investors around the existing railway station.
Potential
Despite these conditions, this location plays an important
role at a geographical level. Travelling by Thalys from this
location you can arrive in Paris or London within three
hours; the NS railway system will take you to any Dutch
city connected to the system within three hours, and it is
connected to the A10 ring road making easy access for
motor vehicles to the location. Due to the advantage of this
geographical location, different kind of activities from a
European level to a local level can converge here, creating
vast potential for various events.
Vision
The proposal is to design a high speed railway station creating
the possibility for the design of other urban necessities
due to the scale of the project. Within this realm of potential,
a basin is created that will function as a plaza that can
absorb various events and activities from a European level
to a local level.
Basin
To combine the basin with the railway station, a roof with
a double function is proposed. This roof will function as a
cover for the platform of the railway station underneath
and also as a basin to accommodate events and activities
on top. The commercial program of the project is located
around the basin to increase the potential of activities.
Moreover, circulation from the main entrance to the main
platform is manipulated to pass through the basin so that it
does not lose the vitality of activities.
Four points
Only four points are appointed to support the roof structure
as the roof is built on top of the existing railway tracks.
This minimizes the foot print needed to implant structures
in between existing buildings. Furthermore, the locations
of these four points play an important role in the existing
urban context. By introducing different program to each of
the four points, the periphery of the station will be enhanced
as it is currently disconnected and fragmented.
PROJECT 9
THE CREATION OF A EUROPEAN PLAZA
Railway station in Amsterdam South
BY JANG-HWAN LEE, GRADUATE FROM THE CHAIR OF BUILDING TYPOLOGY, HYBRID BUILDINGS.
Four points of the station
Railway station basin

10 FORUM
COLUMN
Toeval
bestaat!
"Moet je nu weer horen!",
zegt mijn vrouw en er volgt dan
een verhaal, dat altijd een
ongelooflijk toeval betreft. Ik
ken haar inmiddels 34 jaren en
weet daarom dat zij verhalen
nooit mooier maakt dan waar zij
feitelijk verslag van doen. De
verhalen zijn ook nooit
tweedehands; zij is er altijd
deelgenoot van. En hoewel mijn
zoon nog steeds probeert
statistisch bewijs te leveren
voor zijn scepsis ten aanzien
van het toeval in de verhalen
van zijn moeder, weet ik nu
beter en luister steeds
aandachtig, met in mijn
achterhoofd de gedachte, dat
ik nu toch eindelijk eens deze
spelletjes van het lot moet
opschrijven. Mijn overtuiging,
dat er meer is tussen hemel en
aarde dan wij gezamenlijk
aannemelijk achten, groeit
aanmerkelijk als ik zelf in het
verhaal voorkom.
Ik ontmoet mijn dochter om
haar te steunen bij de bezichtiging
van een woning in Delft,
waarvoor zij door haar positie
op de lijst van woningzoekenden
eindelijk is uitgenodigd en
daarom is zij met haar vriend
ruim op tijd. Ik heb de buurt al
verkend en met enkele
bewoners de sfeer besproken.
Samen wachten we op de dame
van de woningbouwvereniging.
We bekijken de woning met
gepast enthousiasme en met de
vrees dat er andere kijkers
langskomen. Die komen en
staan ook hoger op de lijst,
maar 'de dame' besluit met
ondertussen door mij ingestraalde
empathie, dat zij te laat
zijn - zij had tenslotte al weg
kunnen zijn - en feliciteert mijn
dochter. Dan gaat de telefoon:
"Moet je nu weer horen! Onze
zoon belt net om te vertellen,
dat hij een huis heeft gekregen
in Utrecht".
Een paar dagen later, vrolijk
door het mooie lenteweer,
nodigen mijn vrouw en ik een
bekende aan ons tafeltje op het
terras. Wij kennen hem
decennia, groeten hem altijd,
maar zonder dat er ooit een
echt gesprek op volgt. We
hebben elkaar veel te vertellen
en vragen hem ook naar zijn
zus. "Ja, het gaat nu weer goed
met haar. Zij woont in Delft.
Aan het Nassauplein. Op de
hoek van de Theresiastraat".
Het toeval wil dat zij de
aanstaande buurvrouw is van
mijn dochter!
Robert Nottrot
Delft, 10 april 2011
Designing is communicating
The idea that scientific research
gets in the way of creativity and
inspiration seems to be widespread
among design students
who deal with the city. The word
‘science’ is indeed rather scary. It
evokes images of white sterile
laboratories where defenceless
rats are dissected. Or nerdy
physicists trying to solve useless
problems on very messy blackboards.
Think of Sheldon arguing
with Koothrappali over a formula.
Science is of course much more
than that. And scientists can be
incredibly cool people. They are
usually the first ones to acknowledge
that creativity and inspiration
are essential elements for
success.
The word science has a very
interesting origin. It comes from
the Latin ‘scindere’ (to separate,
to cut) leading to ‘scire’ (to know)
meaning ‘to separate one thing
from another’, to ‘distinguish’. In
fact, science is the great journey
into building a shared understanding
of the world, by allowing us
to separate assumptions and
vague beliefs from facts and
reality.
Ever since the Greeks came up
with the idea of ‘knowing
yourself’ (gnothi seauton),
humans have been struggling
with the idea of knowing themselves
and the world around them.
But does anyone really know
him- or herself? Does anyone in
fact know the world?
It seems a very ambitious goal to
reach, but people keep on trying.
They do so in the most varied
manners: by exploring their
relation with themselves and with
forces-they do not understand
(e.g. through religion), through
the expression of the self (e.g.
through artistic activity) or by
methodically investigating how
things work (through research
and methodical experimentation).
Science is about creating new
knowledge about something;
knowledge that integrates
existing knowledge and that can
be shared with others. Why share
it? Well, what fun is there in
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keeping what you find out to
yourself? But the main point is:
once you build a shared understanding
of something (say, an
urban problem), then you are
prepared to ACT and intervene in
a relevant way.
Science is about sharing and
cooperating, thus creating
common understandings and new
knowledge in order to solve
problems that affect not only you
and me: problems that affect
society. By sharing and cooperating,
we create unexpected
synergies and new understandings.
And true creation and
innovation can take place.
But what does all that have to do
with design? Well, I would like to
ask you a simple question. Why
do you design? And who for? I am
sure you design to create beauty.
Let me suggest that perhaps you
also design because you want to
solve problems in the real world,
so that others will benefit from
your ideas.
Designing is perhaps one of the
greatest ways of exploring reality
and creating new possibilities for
people. But your design or plan
will only be effective if the ideas
you have and the goals you propose
are shared by investors,
politicians and citizens.
But how do you know the
problems you want to solve are
the right ones? Yes, you read in
the newspaper that there are ‘problem
neighbourhoods’ everywhere.
But why exactly are they
problematic? Do their problems
have anything to do with their
CARTOON by Thomas de Bos
@
spatial features? If you want to
solve those problems, I guess you
would have to find out what they
are first.
No, you are not a social scientist.
You are a designer and perhaps a
planner. Therefore, your task is to
design and plan. Let’s explore
another aspect of it.
Once you make a design or a plan,
what happens with it? If your
design has societal relevance,
then many actors will be
interested in the solutions you
propose. And if you do a good job,
then those actors are going to be
able to look at your design and…
discuss it. You don’t expect
people will just invest their
money in your ideas without
discussing them first, I hope.
Designs must be beautiful and
inspiring, so that people will be
enticed by them. But they must
also respond to those problems
you set off to answer in the first
place. And if other people discuss
them and come up with yet better
ideas, then your designs or plans
are INSTRUMENTS: instruments
for communication and building
up of even better solutions.
Roberto Rocco, Assistant
Professor, Spatial Planning and
Strategy
An extended version of this text,
together with references, can be
obtained from: issuu.com/
robertorocco/docs/designing_
is_communicating

REVIEW (‘HERIJKING’) OF THE
FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE (‘11-‘14)
BY HERMAN VAN SCHOFFELEN
In 2010, the Executive Board
decided to implement budget
reductions amounting to 45 million
euro and asked the faculties to
reorient their teaching and
research activities, in addition to
working with the supporting
directorates to reassess their
support services. Last year, the
faculties and the University
Corporate Office were charged
with submitting plans for organising
their budgets and releasing
the requested resources. Due to the
appointment of a new Dean, the
deadline for submitting the plan
was deferred until 1 June 2011 for
the Faculty of Architecture. The
plan should provide for the
structural savings that the Executive
Board had specified in 2010, in
addition to self-supporting
operations in 2014. The Board
established that the review would
entail personnel reductions of
approximately 250 fte for TU Delft
as a whole, about half of which
would be realised through redundancy
and the other half through
natural attrition. The review will
very probably also have consequences
for the employees of the
Faculty of Architecture.
The faculty has already realised
considerable savings in 2009 and
2010. The Executive Board has
made 30.1 million euro available to
the faculty for the financial year
2011, and it has accepted an
operational budget shortage of 2.8
million euro. From 2014, the
department can have no more than
28.5 million euro in the first flow of
funds and shortages on the
operational budget will no longer
be allowed. With regard to the
current budget (2011), the faculty
must realise additional savings
amounting to nearly 5 million euro.
A portion of these savings must be
realised in terms of personnel
expenses. The faculty will take
advantage of natural attrition and
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Julianalaan 134,
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Editorial Board
Anne de Haij
Sean Simpson
Peter Smisek
Marcello Soeleman
Floris van der Zee
encourage early retirement in
order to minimise the need for
mandatory redundancies. Furthermore,
material costs and expenses
on the building will be restricted
as much as possible.
The department chairs are
preparing the plans to realise
significant reductions in their own
departments, and they will discuss
these plans with the Dean and
each other. In this process, the
department chairs will also
identify areas in which it would be
possible to realise innovation and/
or investment. Chances to increase
the second and third flow of funds
will be included in these plans.
The supporting services will
develop proposals to bring down
the costs of the services.
At the end of this year, the OTB
Research Institute will join the
faculty. The OTB Research
Institute is facing its own
budget-reduction requirements.
The departments of Building
Technology (BT) and Construction
(CEG) are developing proposals
for joint chairs. The Director of
Education and the new programme
director for Bachelor’s degree
programmes are developing
proposals for measures that will
increase the quality of the
Bachelor’s degree programmes
and allow students to complete
their studies in less time, while
also reducing the costs of
education. A numerous clausus
will be implemented in the
upcoming academic year, which
will reduce the number of students.
The Executive Board has commissioned
the entire review. Deans
will supervise the review measures
within their own faculties.
Karin Laglas has established the
Steering Committee for the
Review of the Faculty of Architecture
for the purposes of plan
development. The steering
committee consists of Karin
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Marten Dashorst
Ania Molenda
Robert Nottrot
Linda de Vos
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Drukkerij Tan Heck, Delft
Laglas, Hans van Wamelink,
Maurits de Hoog, Herman Schoffelen
and Helga van der Kolk and
will be supported by Liesbeth van
der Veen. The steering committee
has identified major and minor
action steps with regard to the
review, and it has asked those in
charge to develop plans for
addressing these actions. The
resulting 21 plans are listed in the
box. The diagram shows how the
plans relate to each other.
The steering committee will
oversee the development of plans,
assess their feasibility and
effectiveness, and integrate them
into a faculty-wide implementation
plan before 1 June. The MT will
obviously be closely involved in
drawing up the plans. The Dean
will submit the implementation
plan to the Board for approval. The
Faculty Personnel Committee will
be informed about the plans, so
that they can prepare their own
evaluation. The Executive Board
will evaluate the faculty’s implementation
plan and discuss it with
the Works Council. Where
possible, the Works Council will
involve the Faculty Personnel
Committee in its assessment.
After the implementation plan has
been approved, the faculty will be
asked to elaborate and implement
the measures.
Any reorganisation measures that
may be necessary will be worked
out in detail only in or after the
summer. This will take place
according to the requirements of
the reorganisation code, and the
plans will be re-submitted for the
approval of the Board and the
Works Council. A number of
mandatory redundancies will
possibly be unavoidable in this
process, which will be extremely
painful for employees who are
affected. We would like to start
supporting all employees who are
at risk of experiencing this
situation, as well as their supervisors,
as early in the process as
possible. In these cases, our HR
advisors will individually apply the
Delft UT Social Plan and amendment
to redundant employees.
Contributors
Karin Laglas
Herman van Schoffelen
Thomas de Bos
Jang Hwan Lee
Robert Nottrot
Roberto Rocco
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right to shorten and edit
articles, or to refuse articles
that have an insinuating,
You will be informed about the
progress of the plans and measures
through B Nieuws and an
informative page on the website
of the Faculty of Architecture
bk.tudelft.nl/herijking. Your
supervisor will inform you about
developments in your department
or service component. If you
already have questions about
your legal position, please contact
your HR advisor. Additional
information about the Review
process in general can be found
on the employees’ portal or on the
following website:tudelft.nl/
herijking.
ACTIONS REVIEW ’11 - ’14
Organizational structure:
Refining departments (1), Top
structure faculty (2), Office
Dean (3), 100% Research (4),
Management departments and
Secretariats (5), Integration
OTB (6)
Integration small working
groups: TWF in U (7 ) Hyperbody
in BT (8), BT and RMIT
(9), DSD & History and Berlage
Chair in A (10), Media Studies
& Modelling hall (11)
Scientific Staff: Chairs &
staffing plan BK (12), Preparing
reorganization (13)
Efficiency & effective education:
Affordable education (14),
Restriction intake (15)
External funds Education and
Research (16)
Material costs and overhead:
Purchase (17), BK-City-Slim &
Moving in OTB (18), ICT
infrastructure (19) ,
Summer Closure (20)
Management Control &
Information (21)
discriminatory or vindicatory
character or contain
unnecessary coarse language.
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the author(s) concerning the
reason for its deciscion,
directly after it has been
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AGENDA
B NIEUWS 11 25 APRIL - 15 MEI 2011
WEEK 17
Movie
Celebration
26.04.2011
Celebration is the latest version
of the American Dream, a
beautiful, pristine and crisp town
built by the master of make
believe Walt Disney. Is Celebration
a dream come true in a
world gone wrong?
Room B/ BK City / 18.00/
€5 - €7 including pizza
Explorelab 12
Information
Minor Event
26.04.2011
For all information about the
program, check the website!
minors.tudelft.nl
Lunch Lecture
Serious Gaming
27.04.2011
Lunch lecture organised by Polis
about the use of computer
modelling within the urban
design profession. Ekim Tan will
talk in the Serious Gaming
lecture about her project The
Responsive City. How can we
model the world with serious
games to create an urban
context?
Room A/ BK City/ 12.45
polistudelft.nl
Event
Real Estate Career Day
27.04.2011
De Real Estate Career Day is dé
effectieve schakel tussen
studenten of starters en
bedrijven binnen het vastgoed.
Deze dag biedt de kans om
kennis te maken met bedrijven
en je een stap dichterbij je
carrière te brengen.
Oostserre/ BK City/ 08.30 -
21.30/ €5
recd.nl
Capita Selecta
Catalysts Interventions
in Urban
Transformation
28.04.2011
The main goal of these Capita
Selecta lectures is to give a more
detailed insight into the
strategies followed in urban
transformations. This Thursday
lectures by Paul Vermeulen (De
Smet Vermeulen Architecten,
Gent), Christine de Ruijter (AWG
Architecten, Antwerpen)
Room A/ BK City/ 18.00
buildingtypology.nl
Symposium
Bezeten van Zitten
28.04.2011
Tijdens het stoelensymposium
zullen vier sprekers hun visie op
het ontwerp belichten. De
sprekers zijn: Moshé Zwarts, oud
professor Bouwkunde en
architect; Kees de Boer, designer
bij Ahrend van IO; Stan Wagter
van KNIQ en bouwkunde
student; Dirk van der Kooij, van
Design Academie Eindhoven.
sprekers.
Oostserre/ BK City/17.00-20.00
stylos.nl
WEEK 18
Symposium
The Value of Design
03.05.2011
The Value of Design 2011 is an
afternoon symposium on
architecture, structural engineering
and the overlapping areas of
these two disciplines. A number
of top architects and engineers
give their views on this subject,
focusing on the symposium's
theme of 'Facing the Integration'.
For this edition the following
speakers will give a presentation,
from the field of Architecture Ken
Yeang, Francine Houben and
Richard Horden and from the
field of Structural Engineering
Niccolò Baldassini and Andre de
Roo.
Aula/ TU Delft/ 12.30 - 18.00
valueofdesign.nl
WEEK 19
Movie
Destino & Un Chien
Andalou
10.05.2011
Two films by Salvador Dali which
are beyond your imagination,
where nothing seems what it is.
In ‘Destino’ the surrealistic worlds
of Walt Disney and Dali collide,
while ‘Un Chien Andalou’ is a film
by Bunuel and Dali released in
1929.
Room B/ BK City / 18.00/
€5 - €7 including pizza
Explorelab 12
Capita Selecta
Catalysts Interventions
in Urban
Transformation
12.05.2011
How can design and research
studies anticipate and adequately
respond to the transformation
and restructuring processes of
the contemporary city? The
Capita Selecta lectures focus on a
number of both 'research by
design’ projects and contemporary
examples from practice,
where the interplay between new
interventions and urban context
gets another dimension. The
main goal is to give a more
detailed insight into the
strategies followed in urban
transformations. This Thursday
lectures by Hans van der Heijden
(bureau biq, Rotterdam) and
Julian Lewis (Office East, Londen)
Room A/ BK City/ 18.00
buildingtypology.nl
InDeSem
Losing Ground
13.05.2011
Opening of InDeSem 2011 with a
mini-symposium in room A.
Welcome speech by dean Karin
Laglas and welcome word by
chairman Joris Hoogeboom will
be in the Oostserre at 12.00.
Speakers this afternoon are
Andreas Angelidakis, Arie
Graafland, Kas Oosterhuis, Saskia
Sassen. The following panel
discussion will be moderated by
Deborah Hauptmann
Room A/ BK City/ 12.00 - 18.00
indesem.nl
SPOT-
LIGHT!
Visies voor een Europees
Cultureel
Instituut
Architectuurstudenten van de
Technische Universiteit Delft
hebben zich beziggehouden met
de vraag hoe een cultureel
instituut eruit moet zien dat
genoeg capaciteit heeft om plaats
te bieden aan culturele uitwisseling
tussen Europese landen en de
presentatie van een gemeenschappelijke
Europese cultuur. Op 26
april presenteren de studenten
enkele geselecteerde ontwerpen
en discussiëren daarover met Daria
Bouwman (Oostenrijkse Ambassade),
Petra Prinsova (Tsjechisch
Centrum), Dr. Barbara Honrath
(Goethe-Institut) en Christoph
Grafe (Vlaams Architectuurinstituut).
De modellen en ontwerpen
waarover wordt gediscussieerd,
zijn van 27 t/m 29 april tijdens de
openingstijden van de bibliotheek
te zien in het Goethe-Institut
Rotterdam.
26 april 2011/ 19.00/ Goethe-Institut
Rotterdam/ Westersingel 9/
Rotterdam/ goethe.de
TENTOONSTELLINGEN
Visies voor een Europees
Cultureel Instituut
Goethe-Institut/ Rotterdam/
27.04.2011 - 29.04.2011
Farming the City
ARCAM/ Amsterdam/ 25.03.2011 -
07.05.2011
The pilgrim, the tourist,
the flaneur and the worker
van Abbemuseum/ Eindhoven/
26.02.2011 - 20.08.2011
Rotterdam Woont
City Promotion Centre/ Rotterdam/
31.03.2011 - 31.05.2011