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projects.

01 City of Re-Collection

Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Program: Mixed use, Urban Plan, Stragtegy
Size: -
Year: 2017 – 2018
Status: Student work
Team: Jaap van den Hoogen, Gracie Grew

City of Re-Collection seeks to examine ways to rethink the relationship between people, cities, and the waste they generate, designing a new avenue for public engagement with recycling and the municipality’s waste strategy.

The purpose of this document is to:

1. Provide an introduction to Copenhagen’s waste sector and it’s future challenges.
2. Intervene in existing waste management debates by offering a new vision of its possible future.
3. Present a new medium for public engagement with municipal waste strategy.

City of (Re) Collection was developed as a speculative design project. We hope it will make a difference to Copenhagen Municipality’s waste strategy, intervening in existing waste management debates by offering a new vision of its possible future.

02 Social courtyard

Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Program: Mixed use, Social Housing and Landscape
Size: -
Year: 2017
Status: Student work
Team: Jaap van den Hoogen, Fredrik Lindahl

“The Social Courtyard” is the emblem for bringing back the diversity of the original mix of people and spaces which used to occupy Vesterbro and especially Istedgade. We found that the street and the area in general are gentrifying. It’s becoming a wealthy part of town, where it’s only for the privileged to live. This can be seen as one of the major problems of modern Copenhagen, and we therefore want to redirect the direction of the gentrification to include a more mixed and diverse group of people.

Can these problems be solved on the streets, or is it more of a housing problem? Skyrocketing housing prices make it harder for the less affluent, creating a growing gap between the rich and the poor. The municipality is currently changing the roads and public spaces around the area, investing millions into the street and neighbourhood, and while this could be seen as a positive change, doesn’t it actually increase housing prices even more, pushing out the poor and the original Vesterbro inhabitants?

What if we could tackle the problem from the other side, by transforming the way people live in and around their courtyard. As seen in the past, the courtyards used to be filled with housing, creating much higher densities in the city, providing housing for a larger group of people. Our plan will keep the current openness of green spaces, but will bring back some housing. Gentrification researcher Loretta Lees shows in her research that mixing different groups of people doesn’t automatically make the groups interact. We will therefore also provide multiple spaces for social interaction, called ‘’piano spaces’’.

03 Algae Harbour

Location: Dunkirk, France
Program: Mixed use, Urban Plan, Landscape
Size: -
Year: 2017
Status: Student work
Team: Jaap van den Hoogen

Industrial living is a strip of 13 dwellings bridging the housing area and the small industrial buildings and creative offices. On one side of the building the existing industries stay in its form, but behind the old wall of the Hunter Douglas site a new housing area is created. All the blocks are connected via bridges on multiple levels. The "living with levels" masterplan has tried to create a new level where people could live during floods.
The masterplan rises from the water all the way up to a tower overlooking the new created dock and the rest of the river Maas. These levels could be used on multiple scales e.g. for walking, for water transportation, for water cleaning and as a new living level.
The concept of bridging the working with housing and living with levels is the main point of my design. On the ground floor an open plinth is created with shops, creative workplaces, small offices and a restaurant. Five of the units have a connection with the living above. An internal stair connects the dwelling with the working unit underneath. Above this plinth a collective garden and path is created were all dwellings have their main entrance situated. This green zone has a collective vegetable garden and also functions as a buffer during heavy rainfall.
Then there are two types of dwellings a larger and smaller type. Each are made of CLT walls with wooden floors which can be placed but also left out to create a flexible dwelling were voids can easily be made and walls be placed. The southeast façade can be placed outside but also more inside to create balconies.

04 Industrial Living

Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands
Program: Mixed use, Urban Plan, Landscape, Housing and Offices
Size: 60.000 m2
Year: 2017 –
Status: Student work
Team: Jaap van den Hoogen

Industrial living is a strip of 13 dwellings bridging the housing area and the small industrial buildings and creative offices. On one side of the building the existing industries stay in its form, but behind the old wall of the Hunter Douglas site a new housing area is created. All the blocks are connected via bridges on multiple levels. The "living with levels" masterplan has tried to create a new level where people could live during floods.
The masterplan rises from the water all the way up to a tower overlooking the new created dock and the rest of the river Maas. These levels could be used on multiple scales e.g. for walking, for water transportation, for water cleaning and as a new living level.
The concept of bridging the working with housing and living with levels is the main point of my design. On the ground floor an open plinth is created with shops, creative workplaces, small offices and a restaurant. Five of the units have a connection with the living above. An internal stair connects the dwelling with the working unit underneath. Above this plinth a collective garden and path is created were all dwellings have their main entrance situated. This green zone has a collective vegetable garden and also functions as a buffer during heavy rainfall.
Then there are two types of dwellings a larger and smaller type. Each are made of CLT walls with wooden floors which can be placed but also left out to create a flexible dwelling were voids can easily be made and walls be placed. The southeast façade can be placed outside but also more inside to create balconies.