Albert Mark

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Family name Mark

First name Albertus
Address Esdoornlaan 16
3862 HJ NIJKERK
Telephone number +31(0)6 42 86 0557
E-mail address mail@albertmark.nl
 Sound bowl
Youth centre, zwolle

Project Sound Bowl, Youth recreation centre

Project Location Zwolle, The Netherlands
Team Tineke Borger, Erik Busger op Vollenbroek,
Maaike van Amersfoort, Jitske van den Bor
Year 2008, second year bachelor, HBO
Minor Architecture and building technology
Supervisor Jan Dick van Wijk; JD.van.Wijk@windesheim.nl
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After carefully researching the surrounding area and the target user group ‘youth from 12 to 20 years’ we came to the conclusion that the differences
were bigger than the similarities. The first concept rule was formed: Instead of trying to meet the surrounding neighbourhood we would create conflict
with these buildings.
After this finding we searched for a way the youth used to distinguish itself. We found that most subcultures are based on music genres. It could be said
that youth uses music to distinguish itself from almost anything. This music is what we translated to sound, the source of any music. Which in turn be-
came our concept: a sound diagram:

This diagram was turned into a de-

sign grid for the building. As far
as possible from the surrounding
houses we placed our source point or
‘sound emitter’ this would be used

as the party hall. Out of this sound

bowl lines where drawn. Those lines
all reflected of the side borders once,
like sound would bounce of a wall.
Secondary to this we arranged all the
rooms on ‘sound production levels’
this way we arranged the rooms in
the building grid. 3D construction view of the final design

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Front view Right view

Rear view Left view

A-A section cut B-B section cut C-C section cut

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Ground floor plan
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Glass facade Concrete bowl facade Stone bracket facade Detail sections
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 Reflection
Although it was my first real architecture and
design project, I believe the concept worked
out pretty well. We managed to find a link
in both the users and the surrounding neigh-
bourhood.
This was transformed in to a nice concept.
This is also where the cracks started to show,
although the analyses and the concept are
Interior materialisation alright, we did not know how to translate
the whole concept to good architecture. In
many cases we took a too direct way of trans-
forming concept (diagrams) into architectural
design.
Looking back on the final product I can see
that the interior could have been designed
better. Also the concept is mainly used in the
floor plan it is not adequately added through-
out the design. A more consistent design
would have been made if the concept was
used as a foundation for all levels of design
like sections, facade cuts, and detail sections
Exterior materialisation and not only for the floor plans.

Original authors:
Selections of pictures and sketches: Me (Al-
bert Mark)
3D construction: Erik Busger op Vollenbroek
Soundlogo: Internet picture
All CAD drawings: Me (Albert Mark)
Materialisation: selection of the pictures (Me),
Photoshop; Erik Busger op Vollenbroek

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Wezenlanden Jenga
Apartments, zwolle

Project Wezenlanden Jenga, Residential complex

Project Location Zwolle, The Netherlands
Team Bas Mulder, Chris Schilder, Dedan Buiten-
dijk, Evert Druiff
Year 2009, second year bachelor, HBO
Minor Architecture and Urbanism
Supervisor Marco Heijligers; jja.heijligers@windesheim.nl
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SWOT-Analyse The first face of the project begun
with analysing the site, and its
surroundings.
The location of the current hospi-
tal would soon be without func-
tion as the hospital plans to move
to a new (already being build)
location elsewhere.
The site is the main barrier be-
Link Ɵe the
of
ConnecƟ site
met de stadwith old city Link Ɵe metpark
with
ConnecƟ park Link Ɵe metwater
with
ConnecƟ het water tween an extended park and the
Ɵ Ɵ Ɵ old city which has the same moat
structure as it had in medival
times.
We decided that the project
should be about extending the
existing park to the city.
Buildings that had to be placed
would be specialisted to fit in this
green park land.
Ɵng ̘ The residential building would
Main roads
Infrastructuur Opportunity:
OntsluiƟ Meet the city Building typology
Woning typologie̘n
be the main focus of the coming
Ɵ ̘
period. These apartment buildings
where researched on the con-
nection between open, closed,
private, public, and a well made
connection between the park and
the buildings.
We used Jenga blocks as an
concept because a Jenga tower
slowly opens up during a game,
so by using Jenga as a concept
we found a way to create the link
Buildings and parking space Connect the site with the The site could be the link we needed between the park and
city beteween city and park the building.

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 Overview of the building

Using a game like Jenga gave us the ideal build-

ing blocks for creating the building. We used an
intensive series of composition research to find
the right composition for the building.
We choose to cut the blocks open and create
a wide view in the following way: each block
would be carved open on two sides, one long
and one short side. By placing the glass faced
somewhat back and by painting the side frames
white, a clear difference from the inside, and
the outside (carved open) was shown, as if a
tree was cut open. Materialisation, steel plating to mimic tree skin
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South and west facade
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Third floor plan
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 Reflection
The dynamics of the team was the greatest
advantage for this project.
The analysis showed an clear goal we wanted
to achieve. Also the Jenga concept was eas-
ily formed. Finding the right composition was
however harder. There was no real ‘why’ cre-
ated, so any composition could be as wrong
as it was good. No parameters where given or
created.
The process as a whole was fairly linear, as
such we did not allocate more time for broad-
er research in many subjects.
The level of detail in which the project was
drawn was however very high. Although
this project was the first to introduce me to
the link between urbanism, architecture and
building technology, the focus remained on
the building technology and the link between
building technology and architecture.

Original authors:
Sketches Page 8: Me (Albert Mark), and Chris
Schilder
Impressions: Me (Albert Mark), and Chris
Schilder
Facade drawing: Chris Schilder
Floor Plan: Me (Albert Mark)
Detail section: Me (Albert Mark
Presentation table + Maquette: Whole team

Detail section Presentation table

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Amsterdam Boogie Woogie
Library, Javaplein, Amsterdam

Project City Boogie Woogie, Library

Project Location Javaplein, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Team Solo project

Year 2010, Premaster track

Minor HBO Linksemester, Premaster while on HBO.
Supervisor Job Mouwen; j.mouwen@urbansymbiose.nl
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BROADWAY BOOGIE WOOGIE INDISCHE BUURT - ‘MONDRIAN ANALYSE’ KAVEL - DIAGONAAL
The premaster track gave us the fol- space. By linking color to activity I
lowing case; the Indische buurt in found a pattern which in fact remind-
Amsterdam. It was an old neighbour- ed me of Mondrian´s paintings.
hood with many physical and social In this fashion my concept ´Amster-
problems. dam Boogie Woogie´ The (inter)ac-
One of the many analyses I made tions of a neighborhood was born. By
was about the functions of the urban carefully analysing the given site I used
TOEGEVOEGDE DIAGONAAL TOEGEVOEGDE DIAGONAAL
the distortion in the street patron (di- was found.
agonal street) as a method to trans-
form the movement on the site, form
passing by to walking right across it
(in fact trough the library). By further
restoring the city grid around this lo-
cation the placement for the buildings

Although these analyses and trans-
formation did create a well-founded
city plan it left me in trouble for the
building. Since a building is a three di-
mensional object, Mondrian’s drawing
came one dimension short. I therefore
started an new series of analyses. This
analysis focused on the transformation
from two dimensional functions two
three dimensional spaces.
The lesson learned was that the pos-
sibilities were endless and without
parameters the research could last
forever. I therefore chose to use the
most basic city grid, a scare with 4 sit and relax or work. Inside the
enclosing cross roads as a starting spiral are also the floors of the
point. And developed the main or- building.
ganisation for the buidling this way.
By stretching this grid it turned out as
a spiral inside my building. A spiral
route which also contains space to

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 A

A
A

Exterior impressions

VANAF PLEIN

Facades

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 B
B

BEGANE GROND

First floor plan

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DOORSNEDEN

Section A-A Section B-B

Interior impression Construction scheme Self supporting facade

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Reflection
The pre-master track has been a solid test for
my skills. It took me long days to complete
the project but I’ve learned a lot.
In the first period of the project I have strug-
gled long to come up with the right concept
for my project. I was not familiar with the
research by design method used on the TU
therefore it took me a while to gain the right
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concept. After finally finding the right con-
DETAIL 1 1:10 cept I made a second mistake; moving on
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too fast. By trying to win back my lost time I
forgot to use the just formed concept as the
right layer to build my design on.
The second half of the semester however I
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more and more became aware of my own
building, design, architecture and most of all
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how to link the pervious gained (HBO-school)
building technology knowledge to architec-
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tural choices.
This semester has taught me great amounts
of knowledge and skill compared to other
4 projects. I’m glad I followed this track and
had the opportunity to learn what I did, but
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most of all that I did like architecture on a real
level as much as I always thought I would. By
continuing my study on the TU and abroad
5 on an exchange university I hope to gain a lot
more skill and knowledge on Architecture.

Original authors:
Personal project all materials are made by me
(Albert Mark).

Climate facade section Detail sections

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