pantheon//miniversion of the quarterly publication of d.b.s.g. stylos / issue mini 1 / volume 21

in DevelopmentDon’t miss our next full issue of Pantheon// ‘‘In Development’’, with amongst others articles about the slummification in Latin America, a new form of support from the TU Delft for student-projects in developing countries, an interview with Architecture in Development and four case studies in unexpected places. If you’re a Stylos member, check your mailbox in May.//

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Initiated by explore-lab student Davoud Sultani and introduced by Dick van Gameren, “slow” architect Anne Feenstra gave an inspiring lecture last week in lecture room B at the Faculty of Architecture. “Salam aleikum, namasté, welcome”. In barely 50 minutes Feenstra took us to various places in Afghanistan and India. Next to his process of designing, cooperating and educating, he explained how he works in different cultures and the importance of locality. Feenstra’s main message: take your time... Take a little time to listen, to design, to figure out solutions. Take your time to research and to establish a good collaboration. Take your time to search for the right materials and to work together with a local carpenter, to explain to people what you are trying to do and to get to know each other. Feenstra started his lecture with a project in North East Afhanistan, ‘Dancing Windows’; a small community centre for the second national park in Afghanistan. Instead of explaining the architectural qualities of the building, he first explains the climate of the remote region with its extreme temperatures and the hierarchy and structures of the local community. He shows the

yaks and the natural context and in what type of houses the families live. From here we can start to search for solutions: for example the thickness of the walls, the use of the local clay for adobe bricks or the placement of large and small windows for passive heating. Locality is an important part of Feenstra’s work. For the maternity homes in Afghanistan, commissioned by UNICEF and the Min. of Public

Health, his proposition was to develop a new typology based on the country’s (cultural) needs. Besides sustainable technical design solutions like the use of passive heating and the use of

local materials, the cultural aspect of these wards are of essential importance. Feenstra explains how in a large part of the world, men are for example allowed to watch the baby being born. In Afghanistan this is absolutely not the case. The privacy for the women is very important. While showing design solutions for windows that still allow for privacy, or recommendations as he likes to call them, “solutions is maybe a bit pretentious”, he explains the subtle ‘buffer space’ that separates the men from women and the thoughtful private courtyard, which the women wished for. One thing is designing, but if you really want to get it built it is very

TAKE YOUR TIMELECTURE BY ANNE FEENSTRA

‘‘Many architects talk about ‘their’ buildings. I don’t have buildings. A minor detail in speech, but maybe an important one.’’

important to spend time with the contractor. “UNICEF called me and said that we had a big problem.” The bidding prices of builders were too low. They had never seen this before. This is because Feenstra spent time on the local markets together with the local contractor to find the right materials. Instead of four maternity homes, they were able to build five on the same budget.

“Quantity is not the problem, in India the entire Dutch road system is built every year, but how can we put, with all this pressure, a little bit of time on quality?”

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Architect Anne Feenstra has been educated in Delft. Before leaving for Afghanistan, Feenstra worked as an architect at the office of among others Will Alsop. In 2003 he established his studio, AFIR Architects, with offices in Kabul and Khulm in the north. He taught architecture at the University of Kabul pro bono and the School of Planning and Architecture in New Delhi. In the Indian capital he established Arch-I, a platform for architecture and urban planning. He has also been lecturing in Nepal, UK, Afghanistan, Germany, Incia, Brazil, Kenya, France, Rwanda and the Netherlands. Feenstra became dean of the Faculty of Architecture of the CEPT University in Ahmedabad, India this year, to which Van Gameren ‘coincidentally’ paid a visit earlier this year.//

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D o k a R o o m Te c h n i q u e s L e v e l 1 o r 2Seven weeks, one lesson of 150 minutes a week. Level: beginners and advanced photography is going old school: lomography is in again and analogue photo-graphy is enjoying renewed popularity. The moment you slide a sheet of exposed paper into the chemicals and watch an image appear is indescribable! During the course you will learn to develop your own fi lms, make contact prints and print your photos.

P h o t o g r a p h y D i g i t a l L e v e l 1 o r 2Seven weeks, one lesson of 150 minutes a week. Level: beginners or intermediate. Bring your own digital refl ex camera photographs are all around us - in glossy magazines, advertising campaigns, exhibitions, on Facebook and on your telephone. We are all budding photographers, but taking a great photograph is still more complicated than you might think! At the end of the course you will have a much better technical understanding and your photos will say so much more.

‘ S t u d e n t L i f e ’Within the courses photography Digital Level 1 and 2 there will be room for the project ‘Student Life’. All course members will photograph aspects of student life and the best pictures will be exhibited during a photo exhibition in the Mekelpark and on the Museumnacht 2015.

In case you don’t win you can subscribe for courses at: http://www.sc.tudelft.nl/cultuur/.

Make sure the pictures you send in are 300dpi and at least 3508 x 4962 pixels. When sending in a picture the participant of the photography competition allows pantheon// to use the picture for printing and promotional uses.D

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Theme: Transformation

Form follows feeling. You've probably heard the ironic reference to Louis Sullivans functionalists saying before. But what defi nes "the feeling of architecture"? Jeanne Dekkers Architectuur and Sense & Care Architectuur will be hosting several discussion cafés this year. people from diff erent work fi elds and studies come together and discuss the infl uence of our senses on the experience of architecture. With an informal vibe and jazzy background music, you'll fi nd yourself looking at architecture and the job of an architect in an entirely diff erent way. The next discussion, about Design & Sensory disabilities, will take place on the 3rd of June. Entrance is free and everybody is welcome. The discussion is in Dutch.//

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De Laurenskerk, the only monument from the Middleages in Rotterdam, may come as a surprise between all the modern architecture, but this church of high stature is defi nitely worth a visit you can easily combine with the new Martkhal and the Cube houses.//

L a u r e n s k e r k , R o t t e r d a mJust on the far edge of the city centre of Delft, this new café is hidden behind The prinsenhof. The interior is minimalistic and the atmosphere lively. The menu is simple, but the food is good. The ideal place to meet your friends over a cup of coff ee in the morning or a glass of wine in the afternoon. Admire the custome made lamps hanging from the ceiling and when you leave, don’t forget to take a look arount the art supermarket HYpO Kunstsuper next door. //

21 maart t/m 21 juni 2015 Because of the 60st birthday of the Dutch photographer Anton Corbijn there will be two exhibitions in two locations in The Hague. The Gemeentemuseum and the Fotomuseum will show the most complete overview on his work so far as a tribute to one of world’s most famous portraitphotographers.//

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For more information, visit the www.jeannedek-kers.nl or its Facebook page.

http://www.laurenskerkrotterdam.nl/

http://www.gemeentemuseum.nl/tentoonstellin-gen/anton-corbijn

The winning photograph will be featured in pantheon// and will be presented as a gift to the new dean! The winner will receive free entry to one of the courses listed below.

Send in your best photograph linked to the theme and win!

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In phenomenology, the environment is concretely defi ned as "the place", and the things which occur there "take place". The place is not so simple as the locality, but consists of concrete things which have material substance, shape, texture, and color, and together coalesce to form the environment's character, or atmosphere. It is this atmosphere which allows certain spaces, with similar or even identical functions, to embody very diff erent properties, in accord with the unique cultural and environmental conditions of the place which they exist. phenomenology is conceived as a "return to things", maneuvering away from the abstractions of science and its neutral objectivity.//

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This light version of the pantheon// is made to give you a preview of the theme of coming issue:

in Development Pantheon// ‘‘In Development’’,

with amongst others articles about the slummification in Latin America, a new form of support from the TU Delft for student-projects in developing countries, an interview with Architecture in Development and four case studies in unexpected places. If you’re a Stylos member, check your mailbox in May. If not, you can subscribe at the Stylos office for membership.//