WORKSHOPS
Urban space
Social and Environmental Impact
Bio-Based-Building
Major Themes
Sub Themes
use and meaning of space
food production
waste management
energy consumption
& production
water-, wind-, light-, temperature- management
bio-based materials
reuse
and recycling
health
W3
W3: FULLY BOOKED - NO LONGER AVAILABLE Lydia Fraaije-Beukes, Master of Science , studied Architecture and Theory in Technical University of Eindhoven and had her bachelor, Building Engineer , in Avans University of Applied Science ’s. She worked in Venhoeven CS Architecten B.V. (2006 – 2008) and in 2006 she created FRAAi architecten. Since 2013, she is member of BiomimicryNL and in 2015 she became also a member of Studio Lyil. Among her projects are : Light Artwork 'Touching a Nerve' and Jury member Illuminade (Amsterdam Light Festival), Workshop Biomimicry (Rotterdam), HUMATICA: interactive clothing - Wearables, Autartic Centre Togo based on Biomimicry principles (Work in progress) and ‘MOVING UP’ (Karin van Pinxteren and Bosch Architecture Initiatief). She gave a lot of lectures in the past such as ‘The Ssense of tXtile’ (Gerrit Rietveld Academy, 2005), Biomomicy and architecture (Architectencafe Middelburg, 2015). more
Ilse van Rosmalen, is the founder and the owner of Architectuurstudio IR, a multidisciplinary agency dealing with urban planning, architecture, interior design, design and research, since 2011. She studied in Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences ,University of Utrecht and Delft University of Technology (TUD). In 2011 , she participated in Interdisciplinary Excellence Program (Amsterdam) with "Bruto Buurt Geluk" a design: Plein ’40-’45 , in 2012 in 6th Healthy Housing Award , an international contest with The Membrane House . She worked as architect in OvO associates architects, Studio Senz (2013-2015) and Vicoma Engineering (2015). In 2015 , in collaboration between Architectuurstudio IR and FRAAi architecten they created Studio LYIL in ‘s-Hertogenbosch. more
W3 theme: Biomimicry - An introduction to Nature Inspired Design.
What can we learn from nature about how to design our built environment? Nature has 3.8 billion years of research and development knowledge. In this workshop we will give you an introduction how to apply this knowledge to the built environment. By designing dwellings in an old school building within a specific ecosystem you will learn how to design with nature in mind. Part of the design is how to design with one or more of the following theme’s: use of urban space, waste management, energy consumption and productions, water-, wind-, light- en temperature management, bio-based materials, re-use and re-cycling, health, disassembly and innovation building materials.At the end of the workshop you will have a basic knowledge about Biomimicry and how you can implement the knowledge of nature into your design process.
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W4: FULLY BOOKED - NO LONGER AVAILABLE Jasper Sluis (born 06-06-1978) finished his MTS technical school fine mechanical engineering and electronics. Learned during the rebuilding of two old houses some basic and advanced knowledge about building constructions. At Heiman’s (top 4 biggest building company of the Netherlands) he invented the terratube, a tube that solves under the ground without harming nature. Fulfilled for two years a position on innovations and commerce. Started his own company Dofactory as a response on all the brainstorming but less actions he saw. Dofactory is based on the golden circle Why, How & What. He added the term Do to this circle. Besides Why How, What and Do he works a lot with 3d printing and laser cutting. This knowledge leaded to the design and fabrication of a medical suitcase that is sold in the USA. He is a practical person that likes learning by doing but always with a smile... Besides his own company he is a member of the lectureship Bio Based Building. He was a key team member during the build of the first non-compromised bio bridge that was made in 35 days and located @TUE Eindhoven. During the next half year he’s the project leader of 3 bio based projects that will answer on the question how to re-use bio waste in new products.
Willem Böttger (born 25-12-1965, Amsterdam The Netherlands), studied physics at the University of Amsterdam, was researcher and developer at TNO in the field of solar energy and building physics. Did research on photovoltaic cells at Ecofys and was senior strategist at Essent. Now he is leading the firm NPSP which distinguishes itself in the rapidly growing market for composites by her use of natural materials. NPSP brings her Biobased composites to market under the name Nabasco®. In 2011 NPSP won the gold Excellent Enterprise Award from the Dutch Rubber and Plastic industry. From 1th may 2015 he holds the title ‘lecturer’ at the Bio Based Building lectureship at CoEBBE, Avans & HZ Universities of Applied Science where he is responsible for research on the topics of bio based (building) materials.
W4 theme: Myth Busters: From dummy to biobased material professional in 5 days.
-The myth busters approach.
In 5 days you will learn some basic techniques op working with biobased materials. We are going to build street furniture and testing it to the max to see the pro’s and con’s. Day 1 and 2 will be used to learn working with natural fibre / PLA sheets, vacuum technics and designing a) a piece of urban furniture and b) a test procedure. Day 3 and 4 will be used to build and set up the test procedure. Day 5 will be used to test on strength, fire resistance, user-friendliness and a lot more ... What sub-theme especially are you addressing with your workshop? Bio based materials, Urban development, Building processes and techniques, Myth Buster type of testing.
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W7: Jameel Hadidi (born 1965, Homs Syria), Doctor – studied medicine at the university of Aleppo and started working as an oncologist. Concerned about the psychological wellbeing of his patients Jameel added plastic surgery to his practice and continued studying, teaching and working in Dubai and Libya. Fleeing the war in Libya he arrived in Denmark and gave lectures. After trying all possible regular and legal means to bring his family to Europe he was obliged to make the crossing by boat. It took them three days. He, his wife Sana (microbiologist) and two daughters survived and finally reached the Netherlands in 2015. Since then, institutions took control of the course of the family’s live. Actually it consists in waiting at asylum centres for decisions made on their sake, by others... Between 1989 and 2007, Jameel worked on the restoration of the Monastery Mar Musa near Homs that has been bombed by ISIS. While living at AZC Tilburg (2016) he participated in a workshop at Avans University of Applied Science and designed a spiritual space: a copy of part of the Mar Musa compound. Together with students of the Academy of Building and Infrastructure, he realised a straw 1/1 model of it. For Jameel the breath-taking temporary construction symbolised the live of a refugee.
Hilde Vanwildemeersch (born 1973, Veurne Belgium) Since about ten years ago Hilde is giving workshops and lectures on straw bale building and is advising architects, constructors and self-builders on this building method.She was part of the Casa Calida team where she helped organizing the 2009 European Straw bale Builders Gathering and helped starting the first Leonardo project to develop an official European course for straw bale building professionals. In 2012 she was co-founder of Het StroBuro cvba, a building company for straw bale and hemp lime projects. She was responsible for the promotion, the workshops and lectures, the counseling and networking, and the sale of straw bales for building and hemp lime mixture.Now she founded Woonder cvba, a co-operation for natural building. We consist of building professionals and other natural building enthousiastics. We want to provide a strong forum for the building method of the future! Working together gives the best opportunity for natural building to become feasible and obvious and for people to live and work in really healthy, comfortable and ecological buildings.
Els van den Veyver (born 1962, Antwerp Belgium), MA – studied: arts (in Situ), Academy of Antwerp; Philosophy at the University of Antwerp. Combining a variety of disciplines, Els’ artwork has been shown at solo- and group-exhibitions, in Belgium, The Netherlands and abroad (Tokyo, Bangkok…). Since 1993 she works as a lecturer at Avans University of Applied Science, Tilburg, the Netherlands. Besides giving courses in design and theory, she coordinates the minor Architecture, participates in the research-group LEAN and workes as program maker. Els’ supervision of graduation projects in architecture results regularly in unusual successes (award-winning projects i.e. Avans-thesis- award, career-offers,...). She was workshop assistant at ECOWEEK Thessaloniki 2015; initiated and assisted a workshop with students of different disciplines (art and design, civil engineering, building engineering, architecture and urbanism) at the Venice Architectural Biennale 2016. Crossing borders of disciplines, Els is a PhD candidate in philosophical aesthetics: she investigates if art (architecture incl.) can affect our world and how.
W7 theme: Building a monument for a refugee with straw and earth.
In general: This workshop results in a sustainable monument for refugees in the city of Tilburg. It consists in meeting and working with asylum seekers while learning how to and actually build with straw and clay-plaster. The bias is multiple: social and cultural interaction, bio-based building techniques, spatial quality, urban context. The workshop is open for students from different fields (building and architecture, art and design, social studies…).
Design context: In 2016 the refugee Jameel Hadidi designed a space for meditation (see his CV above) in memoriam of the destroyed Mar Musa compound (Homs, Syria: a place for “Christian and Muslim Syrians to meet in mutual respect”). Jameel Hadidi will help the students in understanding and realizing the experiential and symbolic characteristics of the space. This design, having its roots in Syria, will be constructed with local materials: straw protected with clay (Dutch earth). The design has to be adapted to the available building-location in the city of Tilburg.
Straw building technique: Students will learn about the elements and building methods of (bio-based) straw building: foundation, walls, roof, plaster. They will gain experience and skills by: building up straw walls and reinforce them with bamboo harvested on the spot, cleaving straw bales, working with clay-plaster and testing the soil. Characteristics of the material like acoustics will reveal themselves in the process. As the monument will not result in a regular and long lasting straw bale building, it will not be completely executed following the art of straw bale building. However, as these differences will be explained, students will be fully introduced in the practice of building with straw.
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W11
W11: FULLY BOOKED - NO LONGER AVAILABLE Wouter Stoer (born 10-8- 1979) graduated at Delft Technical University in 2004. Before starting to work in the office of Onix NL in Groningen in 2005 he worked for one year in the office of of Micha de Haas. As an architect Wouter was responsible for the design of a Multifunctional Accommodation in the city of Enschede and a Multifunctional Accommodation in the village of Rottevalle near Drachten. In the design of both buildings sustainability plays an essential role in both reduction of energy use as in the (re)use of materials. Previous experience with re-used, detachable materials was gained by the design and construction of a (temporary) pavilion at the festival of Noorderzon August 2010, Groningen. Recently Wouter is involved in the (collective) design of 13 Private houses near the stadium of the local football club FC Groningen and in the design of a new visitor center at the island of Texel.
W11 theme: Mega furniture.
Building a giant furniture out of reused and/ or detachable wooden scaffolding planks, crates and pallets.The students are encouraged to build an object or space with wooden (bio- based) packaging materials (pallets and crates) and scaffolding planks without connecting mechanical as far as possible. Afterwards most of these materials can be recycled.
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W13: Cornelis Nuijten (born 19-10-1987) studied Architecture and Construction Engineering at Avans University of Applied Science. In 2010-2011 Architecture at Academic (Master of Arts) Rotterdam. Academy of Building Arts. 2012-current, Architecture (Msc.) at University (Master of Science) Eindhoven Technical University. He worked as project manager and technical draftsman at MKA Architecten adviseurs (2011-2012). Activities: composing ground plans, detailing, renovation, reallocating, constructive intent. Owner of Artisan Design from 2014. Freelance at Hamer and Hark. Activities: technical drawing and the building of tree houses and playground interior.
W13 theme: Crafty. PROPOSAL
Relevance The goal of this workshop is to research the importance of making within the design process. As we are exploring how we could use wood as a bio-based demountable material to form a small structure, we research the potential of wood within contemporary demands of the built environment. We will work towards the development of a wooden joint that allows us to answer this contemporary demand. Wood, after all, has started its rebirth as thé bio-based material of the 21st century.
The program consists out of 1 day of designing and 3 days of making. The amount of time on designing and making are not necessarily clustered, we will be switching from designing and making whenever necessary. This is how you will be reflecting on your own designs by putting them into practice and vice versa. In this workshop all applicants will be working as a group in which small groups may be formed to research different varieties of possibilities. A research through design and making in various scales, ranging from 1:200 up to 1:1. We will build a wooden pavilion at the end of the week based on the principle of the joint we will develop together. Due to modelling in our research, we will be able to make an exposition of these models in our own pavilion. Be aware of the fact you will be working with your hands and woodworking tools.
Learning You will be learning how ‘the feeling of making’ and contact with materials affects your way of thinking. I believe with a better understanding of materials and how to apply them, we have a chance of making the build environment greener, more interesting and more beautiful than it already is. On the other hand we will automatically experience a way of communicating with scale models.
W9
W9: FULLY BOOKED - NO LONGER AVAILABLE Gëzim Paçarizi Born in Prizren, Kosovo . Started his career as an artist. He travelled extensively to study both new and old architecture. As he explains in his lectures it took him more than 20 years to become an architect. He still sees it as knowledge, which has to be discovered by travels, a tutor and deep thinking. He graduated architecture in Geneva University, Switzerland in 1993. After the Kosovo War he was active in designing, building and town planning. During the 2003-2008 he designed some of the most important and significant Kosovar after war buildings. His buildings in Kosovo are all made of local materials with local labour. They don’t try to copy traditional buildings through formal elements but by responding to the local conditions and the way of life. They are both traditional and modern at the same time. His architecture is based on human experience and well being trough simplicity and order. He believes architecture should make peoples lives better and improve human condition. In 2014 he represented Kosovo in Venice Biennale, where he made a strong statement with his “Shkami tower”. He has lectured in many occasions in Prishtina, Skopje, Tirana, and Tetova. He has led several workshops in Prishtina (Ecoweek 2015) and Tirana Architectural Week. He was twice a visiting critic in DIA Bauhaus (Dessau Institute of Architecture). Actually he is a partner of PHARC architects in Geneva and POLITBYRO studio in Prishtina.
Argjirë Krasniqi is a freelance architect, graduated of the University of Prishtina, Department of Architecture, and was elected by CEEPUS to be an exchange student at Vienna University of Technology, Department of Spatial Development, and Infrastructure & Environmental Planning. She has worked in several architectural and design studios in Kosovo, Albania and Switzerland. Argjirë is the founder of a non-profit organization, ECOciety which has the mission on environmental awareness, social responsibility and sustainable architecture, designing and building differently aiming to bring changes to the city and community. She has been tutoring and participating in many architectural workshops around Europe. A tutor in ECOWEEK Thessaloniki 2015 and a participant in EASA- European Assembly of Students of Architecture in Spain and MEDS -Meeting of Design Students in Slovenia. She is the principle initiator and organizer of ECOWEEK Prishtina since 2014. Member of several environmental NGOs around the world and winner of the best green and innovative project in 2016 in Kosovo.
W9 theme: Build with void.
Building a structure with recycling natural materials.
In our workshop we will design an object as ‘an open space’ placing in an empty area. First we will discuss the subject of these spaces in the history of architecture, its significance, and its power as a symbol of ideas. We will try to develop our ‘space’, in accordance with the area where we will build it. Its size, its form and its building technique will be developed during the half of our workshop. The second part will be the building itself. Students will be able to build what they have previously designed. The project will maximize participation of students in designing and building process, which both parts will be important and will be studied as such. After the workshop everything will be dismantled and everything will go back to where it came. Everything will be recycled and we will produce no waste.
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W10: Wouter Klijn (born 28-10-1961 Baarn, the Netherlands). Studied Naval Architecture in Dordrecht. Worked as project leader for Fuji Film Tilburg and via REEF bv Eindhoven at: DAF-Trucks Eindhoven, Tilburg University, Cosource Best, and ASML Veldhoven. Since 2009 active as board member of the Dutch Straw bale Building Association (SBN) and attended straw bale building courses in Belgium and the UK. Since 2011 workshop leader on courses in building with straw for the Dutch Association. Was four years member of an European Leonardo Da Vinci partnership for a professional training in building with straw. Stopped working as project leader in 2015 to have more time to work for the Dutch association and assist self-builders with training on the job and practical support and for more time to experiment with straw bale constructions. Have high interest for building methods, detailing of straw bale construction, building physics and inner climate. And since 2016 taking steps in the development of prefab straw constructions for renovation and for small and tiny houses.
W10 theme: Renovating with straw ‘de Roomley’.
Renovating an existing building with bio based materials. In Udenhout, just outside of Tilburg, De Roomley is waiting to be renovated. Within the lector ship Bio Based Building we are investigating how this can be done by only using bio based materials. Twoςςςςς groups of 8 students studied the problem in detail and made mock-ups. One group installed their mock-up in January this year, the second group will install theirs during ECOWEEK2017TILBURG. In this workshop we are going to analyze the proposals of the students and make suggestions to improve their designs. The workshop will involve planning, designing and executing of window and door details, detailing the roof trim and the connections between the facades and the ground and make new mock-ups. It will be part of a bigger 4 year project to renovate ‘De ROOMLEY’ solely with bio based materials.
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W5: Paul Kersten (born 10-04-1990, Tilburg the Netherlands) works as designer and researcher at OKRA Landscape Architects. He graduated in architecture and urbanism from TU Eindhoven and Avans University of Applied Sciences. Besides his work at OKRA, he was also researcher and teacher at the TU/e.
W5 theme: ‘Wilhelmina channel’. How to connect the water canal to the city of Tilburg again?
In this workshop, we will focus on how the Wilhelmina Canal Zone in Tilburg can be reconnected to the city. The water canal was initially made for industrial use and connects Tilburg and Eindhoven to one of Europe’s major rivers, The Meuse. Nowadays, efforts are made to increase the industrial and logistic use of the river again. But besides being valuable for industry, the canal could at the same time be a great 12 km long green-blue zone in the city of Tilburg. However, instead of welcoming it as a valuable public space, it seems that in a spatial sense, the city has turned its back to the Canal Zone. During ECOWEEK 2017, we will investigate and design possible ways to reconnect the water to the city. This can be done on all different kind of scale levels, ranging from a regional scale to the scale of a piece of furniture. Doing this, we are not only interested in the spatial issue, but also very much in the theme of social sustainability.We will work in small groups which will work in strong collaboration. You’ll be asked to collect and report your work by producing videos during the week.
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