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PortfolioRuud van Gool

ruud van Gool MSc/Architect/August 2014/ruudvgool@hotmail.com/+4915737935441

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ruud van Gool, born in 1987, educated at the technical Uni-versity of eindhoven, the Netherlands, of which i graduated cum laude in architecture, Building and Planning in March 2014 with my graduation project a Bijlmer experience which was selected for the Archiprix 2014.

throughout my studies and extracurricular activities i have been working on a broad range of scales and typologies in urban contexts.

i consider myself a contextual architect, researching, deriving and designing from the fysical spatial, and the non-fysical social, economic, political and theoretical context.this context of spatial conditions and non-spatial interests then provides the tools with which a spatial intervention can be

designed to serve private and public interests.i am also a thorough conceptual designer, i meticuously re-search and test a concept on the range of scales present to come to a spatially coherent proposition on all scales.

My projects which show this approach are for example a Bijl-mer experience, a proposition which connects and redefines the Bijlmermeer neighbourhood with a series of coherent spa-tial, social and functional interventions.or the competition winning entry the Wheat labyrinth which proposes through cheap, temporary interventions which utilise the conditions present to connect the disconnected site with the city-centre on a spatial, social and functional level.

this portfolio is a selection of projects to show this approach.

aerial photo Bijlmerdreef, amsterdam

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PersonaliaSurname van Goolname ruudaddress Hobrechtstrasse 10 12043 Berlin Germanytelephone +49 (0) 1573 7935 441 email ruudvgool@hotmail.comdate of birth 06-07-1987Place of birth Breda, Nlnationality DutchBSn 1998.95.685

educationsep 2011- feb 2014eindhoven University of technology, NlArchitecture, Building & Planning, Master cum laude (with honours)

sep 2005 - jul 2012eindhoven University of technology, NlUrban Planning & Architecture, Bachelor

sept 1999 - jun 2005 Mgr. frencken College, Nl Bta/Gamma, Secondary school

extracurriculum oct 2010-jun 2011, 4 hours per weekStudent project work experience eindhoven, Nl, edHv flashville

aug 2012-jan 2013, 40 hours per weekinternshipBerlin, De, KuehnMalvezzi architekten Gmbh

may 2013-may 2014, 4 hours per weekPractice experience studygroup Nre/Picuskadeeindhoven, Nl, Studygroup nRe/Picuskade

languages Dutch, mother tongue english, fluentGerman, fluentfrench, basicitalian, basic

SoftwareSketchup, vectorworks, illustrator, indesign, excellentAutocad, good Photoshop, good/moderateArchicad, novice

aerial photo Berlin, Ritterstrasse

for my Masters graduation project i proposed a new, aesthetic way of experiencing the Bijlmermeer by the development of a cinematic route as a cohesive spatial and programmatic ele-ment along which i designed a motel, a daycare and a nightclub.the location of the Bijlmermeer is the largest Modernistic de-velopment in the Netherlands, which is situated to the south-east of Amsterdam that, like many similar Modernistic plans, had become a ghetto in the 80s.in 1992 a large-scale renewal plan was drafted in which more then 50% of the original ten story honeycomb flats was to be demolished and replaced by smaller scale housing Due to this renewal plan the original spatial structure of the Bijlmer has been lost, and i use the new spatial elements to propose a new way of spatially structuring the Bijlmer by em-bracing its pluriform manifestation as a starting point.Herefo

the modernistic grid infrastructure, which was one of the orig-inal spatial cohering elements, is now used to bind the different spatial urban fragments by creating a route along which these fragments can be experienced. first, the route is strengthened by creating a continuous spatial element by extending the existing rows of treesSecond, the scenes are strengthened by specifically applying these trees per scene in various landscaping methods.third, the borders of the scenes are strengthened by making interventions which alter the perception of the motorist, and thus makes him more aware of his surroundings.these infrastructural or architectural interventions then pro-vide an interaction point between the motorist and the pedes-trian by the program and by extending the spatial experience into the drive-on motel, the drive-in daycare and drive-by club.

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Map and photomontage of different interventions on the borders which define them by altering the perception of the driver due to either vertical (elevation) or horizontal movement (turborotonde, daycare, nightclub) or vertical and horizontal framing (motel, daycare and nightclub).

Light, artificial lighting either from side or topdirections of volume nightclub construction, frame nightclubisometric view: volume nightclub

view from balcony to main room, showing different use and voyeur-position

view from recesses showing the transfer of light through

the seperating opaque u-glass walls and the

compartmentalisation of the recesses

elevation from tunnel next to club showing different faades/construction and entrance stairs

elevation from entrance stairs showing manifestation of construction and main hall in faade

Underground floor, showing different fur-nishings in the recesses

Ground floor, showing the surrounding balcony and the main room. Here again different furnishing is used for different spaces and use

First floor, showing the tower and entrance volume and different faades with different relationships to the surroundings.

view from main room to balcony, showing different lighting and construction framework.

cross section at main stairwell into the tower, showing its relationship to the road

cross section at main room showing different proportions of space

Longitudal section at main hall, showing the different lighting and flow of space from entrance to tower.

longitudal section at the balcony and recesses showing different spa-tial characteristics of the two, due to the construction framework

light from patios alluminates coloured glassdirections of volume construction, frame daycareisometric view: volume daycare

view into the series of patios, in which the different colours and reflections make a spectaculair sight

Ground floor with rhythm of the construction with the classrooms and patios inbetween

First floor, which shows the doubleheighted classrooms and normal-heighted sleeping rooms, and the relationship of the volume with the road, showing the rhythm of the construction to the motorist1/750

Play of light on the rhythmic planes of con-struction, providing a surface to reflect the coloured light and alluminate the hallway

View of classroom and different levels, with a fixed cooking and water position in the back, and stairs which serve as storage on the groundfloor

crosssection at the communal space, showing the play-pit and the faade of the road-volume

crosssection at the patios, showing the different heights within the building and the ratio of open space versus covered space

longitudal section at the hallway, showing the relationship of the volumes and the motorist

longitudal section at the sleeping rooms, showing the different heights within the building1/750

Light, artificial lighting either from side or topdirections of volume construction, frame clubisometric view: volume club

view into one of the patios, in which the different ap-ertures; opaque, clear and open, and the relationship with the car are to be seen

Second floor motel,showing the towers and

90degr. turn of the rooms1/750

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elevation motelthe rythmic construction has an effect on the motor-ist and is the frame for different kinds of apertures1/750

view of the rhythm of clear and opaque, light and dark, and planes of construction in the motel hallway

Relationship of the hotel guest and the motorist, of whom the guest catches a glimpse as they race by

crosssection at motelroom, showing the relationship of the different levels of the motel

crosssection at a patio, showing the tower faade and faade of motelrooms

crosssection at the tower, showing the lobby and view-ing point

longitudal section at the patios, showing the switch in direction of the rooms in the towers and different

proportions of spaces 1/750

fASHioN DePArtMeNt Store AND fASHioN MUSeUMaMSteRdaM

the goal of this Masters studio was to research a range of typologies to come to a plea of the return of large scale types within inner city fabric, with the Amsterdam city centre as case study. the location is 50m from the Dam square, inbetween the small scale busiest Dutch shopping street Kalverstraat and large scale soon to be part of the Amsterdam red Carpet, rokin. the plot is di-vided by a typical Amsterdam alley, the Papenbroeksteeg.i designed a fashion department store accompanied by a fashion museum, each on either side of the alley, which gradually meet and mix. with the department store aim-ing to the target group of the shopper on the Kalverstraat, and the museum aiming to the tourist, wandering on the

Rokin. They both profit from each other by appealling to each others visitors and by using their relationship as a unique selling point.

i introduced an unusual type to Amsterdam, moving the entrances from the streetfaades to a court in the wid-ened alley, which now became a passage. the faade was one of the leading themes in the design. the very differ-ent conditions on both sides lead to different approaches to the faade and a developing faade from very open (department store) to very closed (museum). with alterations in depth of the brickwork i created a layered and speaking faade.

impression of the passage from the Rokin to the Kalverstraat, with the department store on the left and the museum on the right,

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the site near the dam square, with a national palace and the national monument, in the centre of Amsterdam.the existing building and plot is located around an alley connecting the shop-pingstreet Kalverstraat and the future Red carpet of amsterdam Rokin

the strategy of replacing the entrances to a newly introduced court and broadening the alley, elevating it to a passage, thereby creating much more very valuable display room

different faades, sense of character and appearance passage

Return horizontal elements of surrounding buildings on Kalverstraat faade; plinth and roofcrown

Return vertical elements of surrounding buildings on Rokin faade; plotsize

Progress from a very open to a very closed faade aperture

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Model Kalverstraatfaade

above; Kalverstraatfaade and below; Rokinfaade showing different faade styles on each side

concept of progressive interaction two typologies longitudal section at passage cross-section at passage showing different storey heights cross-section of court showing atrium and cores1/1000

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for this extracurricular project at eDHv, architects of identity, a design/communcations firm from Eindhoven, I participated in a project to design a mobile hotel for flash-packers, hypermobile urban professionals. this hotel will possibly be built for Brabantstad european Cul-tural Capital 2018. Brabantstad is a partnership between the large five cities of the province of Noord-Brabant in the Neth-erlands.

for this project, the client vrijetijdshuis Brabant, a governmental foundation concerned with leisure, explicitly asked eDHv to involve students. i worked together with eDHv and students from the Design Academy and industrial Design in eindhoven and the Art Academy in Utrecht.

My input was mainly very architectural: i researched Archigram on their views on the mobility of man. i did research into using and mixing archetypes as a way of showing identity and made modelstudies into what that could look like. Also, i made diagrams of possible ways of incorporating sus-tainability in the design. Towards the final product, our input decreased, but my re-search is still very recognizable in the final product. i enjoyed working with a real client and with the wide range of backgrounds of my colleagues.

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isometrics sustainable use hotel

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for this urban design project i designed an urban plan that incorporates several zones of different housing types, with a strong emphasis on collective and green space. the location is the Antwerp neighbourhood of Zurenborg in the southeast of the inner-ring city, where a big plot of former industrial area became available for housing. the goal of this studio was to investigate housing, the role of the neighbourhood in the city, and its relationship to the nearby highway ring.

the three zones are determined by their respective conditions regarding mostly traffic. The outer zone consists of five-story staircase access flats, shielding the plan of the traffic fumes and noise from the ring. the middle zone consists of four level ap-partments on the roadside, and rowhousing on the parkside. the inner zone in the park is made up by solely rowhousing.

each housing cluster is oriented on its collective space, which is seperated from the public space by a small increment in height. this stress on collective space is put to add a sense of com-munity, and to react to the strong border between public and private space in the rest of Zurenborg. Also, the pressure on the public space in the rest of Zurenborg is very high, and the plan relieves that by the abundance of green public space in Nieuw Zurenborg. Parking is situated underneath the building blocks, and the use of public transport is encouraged by pro-viding easy access to the citys public transport system.

three zones of housing types, with from left to right: rowhousing with private garage, rowhousing and

apartments with collective parking garage and stair-case access flats with collective parking garage

Ring of antwero with buildings/city observable from the highway in white, and obstructions in red. In light red the location of the project.

urban plan nieuw-Zurenborg showing development of the typologies from slabs to slabs with a head to open court blocks.all internal urban spaces are elevated with parking under-neath leaving a large park like area at the disposal of the inhabitants and the inhabit-ants of the dense Zurenborg neighbourhood north-west of the area

Map of use of public space and traffic and entrances,

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typical cross section of an apartment building near the highway cross section of the elevated street with rowhousing of different types

Plans of different types of rowhous-ing: consecutive floors from bottom

crossection of the elevated street of rowhousing with private parking

for this multidisciplinary project we designed a building that is fully a hotel in summer and for the greater part student housing in the rest of the seasons, accompanied by a range of added functions.the location is the rotterdam Schouwburgplein, for which we too made a new square design. the discipline i was responsible for was that of Architecture and Context.

the building is to be described as a a plinth reacting to condi-tions on ground level and a wide tower reacting to conditions on the highrise level, resulting in the characteristic jump in di-rections of plinth and tower.the atrium crossed with communal floors, which serves a so-cial and climatic purpose, and the vides visible in the faade are distinct features.

Besides the general design i personally worked out the plans and faades for the plinth. the result was a very interlocked and related plan that let different functions profit from each other and their surroundings. i designed a very horizontal faade, to be in contrast with the vertical tower. this horizontality was to be felt in the material (brick), window framing and the direction of openings. Also, to contrast with the lighter, floating tower, i used dark-antracite brickwork to stress its connection to the ground.

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impression of communal space in skygarden showing the interior and use of the skycourts*

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this study, which i contributed to during my internship at Kuehn Malvezzi Architekten in Berlin, had the aim to investigate the possibilities of an extention of the wien Museum, the city history museum of vienna on the his-toric, planologically and politically difficult Karlsplatz loca-tion.the existing wien Museum was designed by the wiener architect oswald Haerdtl, and the only twentieth century museumbuilding of vienna, showcasing an architectonic aesthetic unusual to the city.

with the monumental Karlskirche as the determining factor, urban conditions to which the extention should

comply were formulated and a range of urban forms and scales related to the volume of the requested program-matic additions were investigated and tested with mod-els.this led to three different proposals of possible exten-tions: Haerdtl 2, Solitr and Plateau, which were elaborated with impressions, programmatic plans and calculations and urban schemes.

the Plateau proposal was favoured by the municipal board and will be used as the blueprint for a future com-petition.

impression of a proposed connection of the existing elevated Haerdtl-bau with the Karlsplatz via a plateau, derived from the urban conditions*

early propositions, of which most were discarded

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for this architecture project i designed a single family home with strong tension between the public and the private space. the project is located in a peculiar trian-gular building block in the south of eindhoven near the inner city ring.

the initial phase was a research of the block itself on an urban level, of which to derive conditions to base your design on. the two other corners of the block were very much accentuated by a volume, so i proposed an ap-partment building to accentuate the remaining southern corner. then, another characteristic treat of the block was that it

was (clandestinely) permeable from several sides. i intro-duced a likewise passage near the proposed appartment building and situated the one family patio house next to it, creating a situation with tension between the public and private. Most design elements are used to cloud the border between public and private, like the use of glass bathroom bricks, the juxtapositioned entrance to the garden, the partial overhang of the first floor and the openness of the volume at the patio, which is partly ob-scured by the tree.

Patio and passage showing the play of the volume and walls with what is private and what is public

corner points and clandestine passages,the proposition is located on the top of image in red

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cross section through living room and stairs

view from the south-east showing the overhang of

the volume, juxtaposition-ing of the garden wall and the translucent glass bricks

creating tension between the public and private

Overhang first floor on the westside, creating tension between the public space and the volume

Public space between appartment building and house

longitudal section through patio and stairs longitudal section through living room, looking to the patio cross section through bedrooms 1/400

for the 24UP, the twenty-four hour student design competi-tion, the brief was to come up with ideas to revitalise the, re-cently opened for the public, former wheat processing factory terrain of De Heus in de province of Noord-Brabant capitol of s Hertogenbosch.

the main design philosophy is to create, by minimal interven-tions, conditions for developments by using the specific spatial qualities of the De Heus grounds and its factory buildings.

firstly we, connect the factory grounds with the city centre by elonging a possible recreation route along the Binnendieze canal along the embankments of the factory grounds. this is done by connecting the Binnendiezebrug with pedastrian stairs to the city centre and the factory grounds.

Secondly, we connect this route with the factory ensemble by the creation of the wheat labyrinth, a route through the fac-tory buildings along the path of the former production process.Hereby connecting the spatial and functional potentiality of the array of spaces inside the factory. this will be a path of urban exploring, unconsciously making the visitor aware of the his-tory of the terrain. this history and spatial quality will also be displayed outward, by strategically stripping the hull of silos, showing the history of the site.

thirdly, these spaces will then inhabited by an array of func-tions which can use the now accessable spatial qualities of the factories. these functions, cultural, commercial or recreational will add a functional liveliness to the area making the De Heus grounds a unique experience.

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on the left the scaffolding stairs to connect the lavender recreational route along the Binnendieze with the inner city and the factory grounds and on the right the scaffolding stairs connecting the fuchsia internal wheat labyrinth with the earlier mentioned recreational route are shown.

Strategically stripping the faades to show the history and former function of the wheat factory, in this case the silos.

award ceremony during the Bai nightFrom left tot right: alderman Geert Snijders, me and Jasper Massink

impression of the simple connection by scaffolding stairs to the Binnendieze-bridge from the embankment, creating a recreative route along the dieze-canal

view from the Binnendieze-bridge looking onto the scaffolding stairs and pier connecting the city with the former factory grounds and buildings

image of the model, showing part of the embank-ment with the faades of the characteristic walk-ing bridge stripped and one of the silos pierced to enhance the spatial experience. in the right silo a scaffolding stair is erected,making the ensemble accessable from the north*

an impression of the factory grounds by night, showing the route guided by light, acting as a guide inside and a beacon on the outside. This light route is also an extention of the route along the Binnendieze, which is alluminated by street lights.

impression of one of the walking bridges connecting the dif-ferent buildings from the ensemble. The top of the corrogated iron faade has been cut away creating a great vantage point towards the city, the canal and the rest of the factory buildings.to the top right of the image the machinery of the wheat processing route is seen.

ruud van Gool MSc/Architect/August 2014/ruudvgool@hotmail.com/+4915737935441