Blok 4, year 2, (Apr - May 2013)

TKO

Technische ontwikkeling: Kennis en Ontwerp -  Technical development: Knowledge and Design

Assignment: 1. Create a series of tiles with patterns. 2. Create a 3D ball consisting of tiles.

Product: 1. Multiple tiles that are made out of gips and have a shape like a bird with a small pattern. These are made by laser cutting them out of wood, creating a mould by vacuum packing and then pouring gips.
2. Multiple triangular tiles of gips that are glued together. The shape is formed by making a ball out of pyramids and cutting away some parts. The gips was poured into foam moulds.  

Reflection: Making patterns in AutoCAD was a new way of using this software. 

ABO

Algemene Beeldende Ontwikkeling - General Expressive Development

Assignment: To do research about colour and composition.

Product: a series of paintings.

Reflection: Perspective can be created by letting the colours fade out to white at the horizon. Also placing large (close by) and small (far away) objects gives a sense of deepness.

Paprikas, my favorite

Composition

Collection

PRO

Project

Assignment: Design a cemetery with the measurements of 15 x 17m for the village of Boskoop. 

Product: A cemetery in which the experience of the longness of the site is important. Because of the limited space, the environment should be felt already when entering the parking lot. Ancient japanese and italian graves have been the inspiration for some of the forms. There are family graves, ponds with urns and individual graves.

Reflection: To be sure not to focus too much on one aspect or detail of the design and keeping an eye on the whole picture was very difficult. Even the slightest changes have an effect on the rest of the site. The context (the environment) is also playing a role in the design process. In this case the village has a lot of orchards.

Entrance with family graves

Second halve of the cemetery

The far end with urns and individual graves

Map of the cemetery

Blok 3, year 2 (Feb - Mar 2013)

TKO

Technische ontwikkeling: Kennis en Ontwerp - Technical development: Knowledge and Design

Assignment: create a 3D object with double curved surfaces out of sheet material using 3D software.

Product: round sitting element made out of polypropylene (PP).

Reflection: a form that is too complicated can not be made 

Model printed on paper

Paper model

Simplified product in PP

AKO

Artistieke ontwikkeling: Kennis en Ontwerp - Artistic development: Knowledge and Design

Assignment: create layers with information about the school building. 

Product: An open box with layers consisting of different types of materials. 

Reflection: information can be divided in two types: hard (something visible, measurable) and soft (to sense it, a mood or a feeling). 

Poster presentation

ATV

Artistieke ontwikkeling: Techniek en Vaardigheid - Artistic development: Technics and Skills

Assignment: create a scale model of one of your existing projects with a maximum of two types of materials. 

Product: the Transformatorhuis from Blok 1 has been made out of plexiglass. The walls are completely translucent and the furniture (three blocks) is matte. 

Reflection: this type of material seems to be quite hard and cold. Depending on the purpose of the model, adding colour or another type of material could soften the mood.

Model of plexiglass

PRO

Project

Assignment: create a working space for your idol. You must make a route which takes the user from the entrance to the working area. The size of the available space is 7x11x7m.

Product: The japanese animator and film director Hayao Miyazaki is my idol. His love for nature and sarcastic view on the humans and their industry/technology are the base of my concept: the nature is freeing itself from the humans' grasp. 

Reflection: getting carried away with the steel plates and lighting, I forgot to pay attention to the route and the interior. Next time I should make the sketching models bigger to have a better look at the space.

Miyazaki Atelier

Steel plates control the incoming light

The tree frees itself

Schouw 3, Blok 1 + 2, 2012

At the end of December was my second Schouw at the Spatial Design department.

A few reflections and advises I got from my teachers to break my head on.

AKO: when making compositions try to use more different types of materials. It will deepen your knowledge of expression, colour and space.

TKO: even if the assignment is a technical one, do not forget that there is always a conceptual part as well.

PRO: When designing something, do not focus too much on the details, but try to look at the whole picture. Even when the concept and form studies seem fine, try to experiment more with them, just to make sure why this is the best solution for your idea. 

My work seems to be played a little too safe. By searching and experimenting with abstract pictures and objects, the concept gets a very good base to start from. The form follows naturally from a good substantiated base. It has to start a discussion. 

The Schouw presentations are held in classrooms. Usually there are two students per classroom. Because of the limited space, it is quite difficult to arrange your work properly and often we help each other make the preparations. During our first year we had to show literally everything we made, but from the second year we had to make a selection by ourselves. 

Presentation, PRO blok 2 in the front 

PRO blok 1

Technical and artistic excercises

Blok 2, year 2 (Nov - Dec 2012)

TKO

Technische ontwikkeling: Kennis en Ontwerp - Technical development: Knowledge and Design

Assignment: make a chair according to technical drawings of someone else. 

Product: an uncomfortable chair that would fall over if you don't divide your body weight properly over the seating area. 

Reflection: Reading drawings and understanding the idea of someone else is very important. Your own drawings should be as clear as possible as well if somebody else is making your product.

Uncomfortable Chair

ABO

Algemene Beeldende Ontwikkeling - General Expressive Development

Assignment: make a Portable Home.

Product: A foldable frame of a house consisting of bamboo and 

Reflection: A home is a place of your own. In this case, the boundaries created by the frame are enough to keep strangers out of your territory.

Portable House

Folded state of the Portable House

ATV

Artistieke ontwikkeling: Techniek en Vaardigheid - Artistic development: Technics and Skills

Assignment: create an A1 sized poster presentation of one your projects. 

Product: a poster of the Transformatorhuis from Blok 1, with different types of pictures (hand drawn, technical, photographs).

Reflection: the cohesion between photographs, drawings and text should provide all the necessary information. The layout must draw attention and express the concept of the idea. 

Poster Transformatorhuis

PRO

Project

Assignment: design a watchtower for the Java Eiland in Amsterdam.

Product: A waving object that expresses the strong wind and water present at the Java Eiland. 

Reflection: Research about abstract pictures and three dimensional compositions are important for developing the concept before I start with form studies.

Watchtower

Scenery from Watchtower

Form study 

Panoramic view with multiple Watchtowers

Blok 1 (2nd school year)

I survived the re-exam and continued to the second year of Spatial Design. Already Blok 1 has ended. 

AKO
Artistieke ontwikkeling: Kennis en Ontwerp - Artistic development: Knowledge and Design

Assignment: create a box with an object inside it. By making a lot of models out of abstract forms, you will experiment with composition. 

TKO
Technische ontwikkeling: Kennis en Ontwerp - Technical development: Knowledge and Design
Assignment: create a tower out of beams for placing billboards. Take in account the vector active structures. 

ABO

Algemene Beeldende Ontwikkeling - General Expressive Development

Assignment: create a fence. 

PRO

Project

Assignment: rebuild a dutch "transformatorhuis" (size: 3x5x4m) into a house for a single person. The theme of this project is functionality. A "transformatorhuis" is a small (power) house where electricity current is ended. 

Re-exam

At the end of the last blok, the teachers told me that my work is still too flat. I was lacking three dimensionality and they gave me an extra assignment in which I had to prove that I can work more in space instead of surfaces.

Assignment: create 10 models or sculptures on account of a news item.

Initially I wanted to make models in relation with the newly built EYE Film Museum in Amsterdam because of its intriguing architecture.

EYE Film Museum, Amsterdam

But I could not easily find an article, so I did my assignment about the exposition that was held at the EYE at that time. The work and life of director Stanley Kubrick were displayed at the exposition. By watching his movies and reading books about the productions I got inspired to create the following models/sculptures.

Sculpture 1 "Anxious", inspired by "Lolita"

Sculpture 2 "Spacious", inspired by "2001: Space Odyssey"

Sculpture 3 "Uneven Triangles", inspired by "2001: Space Odyssey"

Sculpture 4 "Thick Walls", inspired by "The Shining"

Sculpture 5 "Transparancy"

Sculpture 6 "Transparant Uneven Triangles"

Sculpture 7 "Irregular Shapes"

Sculpture 8 "Floating Roof"

Sculpture 9 "Linear and urved Shapes"

Blok 4 (second & last blok of Spatial Design)

AKO

Artistieke ontwikkeling: Kennis en Ontwerp - Artistic development: Knowledge and Design

Assignment: Create a ceramic sitting element with a maximum weight of 25kg by using a molding technique.

in mould poured concrete

Sitting element

TKO

Technische ontwikkeling: Kennis en Ontwerp - Technical development: Knowledge and Design

Assignment: design a double curved roofing that covers a surface of 1m x 1m.

Double curved roofing

ATV

Artistieke ontwikkeling: Techniek en Vaardigheid - Artistic development: Technic and Skill

Assignment: make your own portfolio by using the Adobe software InDesign.

This subject was meant to learn how to work with InDesign.

TTV

Technische ontwikkeling: Techniek en Vaardigheid - Technical development: Technic and Skill

Assignment: make 3 detailed drawings of a project using the technical drawing software AutoCad.

This subject was meant to learn how to work with AutoCad.

AutoCad drawings in cooperation with two classmates

PJO

Project oefening - Project exercise

Assignment: choose an archtype and interview 20 persons. Visualise the results of the interviews in accordance with the archtype. Categorise the 20 people in 3-4-groups and find them a suitable location. Transform the archtype for these persons and for that location.

Archtypes

PRO

Project

Assignment: rearrange the passage between the Van Gogh Museum and the Stedelijkmuseum in Amsterdam. 

Take in account the functions of the two musea in the future and the rest of the Museum square. The passage needs to be a clear entrance and the identity and stayingquality must become better. 

To escape the crowd and enjoy the spatiousness of the passage, I came up with the idea of a bridge that brings you to a higher level and lets you feel the rest and quietness of the trees.

Bridge ending at Museumplein 1

Bridge beginning

Bridge ending at Museumplein 2