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Ken De Cooman Portfolio january 2011

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Ken

De Cooman

PERSONAL DATA

Born in Dendermonde, Belgium at 27 december 1983 (Belgian)

Domicily adress: Doornweg 53 9260 Wichelen

Living adress: Rue Houzeau de Lehaie 121080 Brussel

e-mail: [email protected]

gsm: +32 (0)498 635085

By coming in here, you agree to a certain behav-ior, What behavior? Room behavior. The point of rooms is that theyre inside. No one should go into a room un-less he understandsthis. People behave one way in rooms, another way in streets, parks and air-ports. To enter a room is to agree to a certain kind of behavior. It follows that this would be the kind of behavior that takes place in rooms. This is the stan-dard, as opposed to park-ing lots and beaches. It is the point of rooms. No one should enter a room not knowing the point. There is an unwritten agreement

between the person who enters a room and the person whose room had been entered, as opposed to open-air theaters, out-door pools. The purpose of a room derives from the special nature of a room. A room is inside. This is what people in rooms have to agree on, as differenti-ated from lawns, mead-ows, fields, orchards.

- Don Delillo, White Noise

PERSONAL DATA

Born in Dendermonde, Belgium at 27 december 1983 (Belgian)

Domicily adress: Doornweg 53 9260 Wichelen

Living adress: Rue Houzeau de Lehaie 121080 Brussel

e-mail: [email protected]

gsm: +32 (0)498 635085

EDUCATION

2010Architectural Workshop (20 ECTS credits) EarthworksUniversity of Linz, Austria

2005- 2010 Master ArchitectureSint-lucas Brussel

2001-2005: master Philosophy

2003-2004: Bachelor Psychology 2001-2003: 1e Kan Law Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

1995-1996 : Latin

1996-1999 : Greek-Latin-Mathematics

1999-2001 : Greek-Mathematics (8 hour)Sint-Jozefscollege Aalst

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2006-2010 MOTEK, as art director and musician

RAIMUND HOGHE CIE, as performer

MERLIN SPIE CIE, as co-director and performer

2010 SIGMUND, as communication strategist

CNOCSPOT, as freelance architect

2009 BOB361, as architect

CNOCSPOT, as freelance architect

INTRASTRUCTURES DESIGN STUDIO, as architect

SKILLS

Professional skills in:Adobe Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop, Indesign, Illustra-tor, Final Cut Studio, Artlantis, Sketchup, Autocad, Office, OpenOffice, Wordpress, and all vj programs.

Very good skills in: Adobe Flash, Maya, Rhinoceros, Vectorworks.

Basic to good skills of CSS, Ac-tionscript 3, Html, Vray, 3Dmax, EPB, Passive House Calculation

Mac and Windows.

LANGUAGES

Dutch: NativeEnglish: ExcellentFrench: Very GoodPortuguese: Reading and hear-ing only, notion of speakingSpanish: Reading and hearing only, notion of speakingGerman: Reading and hearing only, notion of speaking

General InformationCVKen De Cooman

SELECTION OF PROJECTS

2004 Publication of Per Flux. Two philosophical essays in Dehaes, J., DeMartelaere, P., Van Riel, G, De Dijn, E. (eds), Per Flux, Antwerpen: universitas, 2004.

2005Playing in music band Motek: as a drummer. Motek is signed by EMI Belgium, has toured Europe, Brazil, China. www.motek.be

Raimund Hoghe, Young People Old Voices: as dancer-performer on stage in the dance piece Young People, Old Voices by Raimund Hoghe. Played in Centre Pompidou Paris, Maison de la danse Lyon, Lissabon, Kaaitheater Brussels, Impulstanz Vienna, ... 2006 17 Mai: Installation Mixed Media in Het Depot at Leuven for a audiovisual festival POPVIS: Visualisation of music.

July: with artist Hilke Muyldermans and director Joop Pareyn to Egypt for a project concerning Western and non-

Western architecture, and the implementation of western art in other cultures. Exhibition in Brussels in 2006.

July-August: Audiovisual installation Silencing Space in De Garage, Museum for contemporary Architecture, Mechelen

October: Performance Do you us too? in all the Art Centres of Belgium:Beursschouwburg Brussel (Opening Night), Vooruit Gent (Filmfestival), Buda Kortrijk (Budafest), Monty Antwerpen (Hit the Stage).Release first CD Motek.

2007: mai: audiovisual installation together with Berlin Architect Miriam Rohde (Robberecht en Daem bvba) in Stuk Leuven.

co-director Le silence des danses, a performance with artist Merlin Spie. Kaaitheater Brussels, Theater Vrijthof Maastricht

2008live visuals for Amon Tobin, John Hopkins, Rustie,...

Videoclip Tryer for Motek, screened on national and international television.

Installation Longing Circuits in Zendai MoMA, Shanghai.

2009Performer in the dance piece Forces by Ugo Dehaes, Vooruit Gent, Stuk Leuven, ...

Design and construction of WESC pop-up store in Knokke.

Conception of Case Study n1: Congo, Katanga, exhibited in Z33, Belgium, De Stroom, Netherlands, and Bits n Pieces NY, USA.

co-director Le silence des danses a performance with internationally acclaimed Merlin Spie. Kaaitheater Brussels, Theater Vrijthof Maastricht

2010Design of Cnocspot Store for International Photo Festival Knokke.

Design and organisation of the BeCeen exhibition (deMarkten

Brussels) and the BeCeen website. BeCeen is an Open Source Design Platform.Design and construction of monument in Gmunden, Austria with 10 other architects within the Earthworks workshop

Release of Moteks third CD Dragons, with publications in De Morgen, De Standaard, Focus Knack, Le Vif,... airtime on national radios and distribution in Belgium and Netherlands.

2010-2011(Ongoing) Design of modular public space dance cube for dancer Ine Claes.

(Ongoing) Building Case Studies, building a school + boarding for 350 deaf children in Muyinga Burundi.

Selected ProjectsCVKen De Cooman

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Longing Circuits

Installation

Located in a museum, a public space, an abandoned building or any architectural

environment, Longing circuits creates vibrating LED-grid

space, based on surrounding sounds.

Longing circuits is situated in the tradition of John Cage. It

represents John Cages most famous sentence: The world

is all sound, the world is always sound in a graphical and

architectural way. By isolating

environmental sounds and transforming them to an

ever changing 3D-space, the psychological immediateness

of spatial awareness links with the same immediateness of

amplified sounds.

A space is created thats constantly thrilling and exciting, sometimes quiet, sometimes loud, sometimes darkened, sometimes lit, but always reminiscent of a world where in the end there is really no difference between sound and light, between waves and materials, between music and architecture.

EXHIBITED in various set-ups in2006, De Garage, Mechelen Ruimte voor actuele Kunst,2006, Depot Leuven,2006, STUK Leuven,2008, Zendai MoMA, Shanghai.

Some set-ups in cooperation with Miriam Rohde (DE).

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Informal economy

design The informal second hand car economy is the biggest challenge of Chaussee de

Mons, and Cureghem in general. At level -1, space for informal economy is created, without legal regulations, but

architecturally regulated by mixing functions. Social control

by means of the curious eye watching from ground level to

level -1 makes the informal economy less secret, less obscure, without trying to

solve/force the informality into legality, and thereby giving

place to an economy that is used in Africa, parts of Middle-

East and Latin-America.

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Student work

ArchitecturePortfolioKen De Cooman Student work


Dance Archi-

tectureFrom a dance improvisation, to

a new building for Dance school P.A.R.T.S, Brussels.

A research was undertaken, trying to digitalize dance

movement with 3 cams for X, Y, and Z axes. A context was chosen, at Brussels South, to design the dance school according to digital dance

information.

Team: Ken De Cooman, Laura Muyldermans


line scape

Entry for Safe Trestles Competition, Architecture for

Humanity.

Trestles nature area, California, is crossed by paths

of which people think its the shortest route. Our design

gives them the shortest path, being a straight line. A massive

part contains viewpoints, and is connected to the beach by a

lightweight, wooden bridge with a conscious structural concept,

minimalizing footprint on valuable nature wetlands.

Team: Ken De Cooman, Wesley Degreef

Competition

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surfers want the shortest distance to the sea visitors want to wander aroundvisitors get a line of high views = > preservation of wetlands

visitors get viewpoints from the side of the cli, and from the bridge restrooms and info at public space massive part and bridge : connecting 2 extremes

The Line Minimal ecological footprint Inspiration: Pier, Trestle, Yokohama








GhentCampus

Entry for Zuidtuin Dominikanenklooster

competition, by Sint-Lucas Ghent.

Entry was chosen for second round. In the second round Jan

De Vylder arch. won.

Consisting of 2 typologies: a polyvalent space with modular light volumes coming from the

roof, and pavilions to be built in a workshop with students, thereby not only designing a building, but also designing

educational processes. Lastly, providing playful and

challenging green recreation area, mapping and preserving

all big trees.

Team: Ken De Cooman, Wesley Degreef


DAKBALKEN

GROENDAK

LICHTBAKKEN

VAKWERKSTRUCTUUR

BUITENAFWERKING

DAKRAMEN

HOUTEN BINNENARWERK-ING (AKOESTISCH )

RAMMED EARTH


School-scape

Design for a primary school in Duffel, Belgium. Circulation is done in an axe that also holds programmatic functions, and

that divides the playground according to school structure. Classes are in a different axe. The two axes interweave and

connect to each other.

The design is thought of as a landscape, providing rooftop

access for students.

Team: Ken De Cooman, Hanne Daelemans

Student Work

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CS1: Katanga,

CongoResearch on how to implement

Open Source thinking to humanitarian architecture, started within the frame of

OpenStructures.net (OS).

The OS project is an art/research project, initiated by designer Thomas Lomme,

which investigates how to bring the concept of open source from software to hardware, from virtual worlds to real-

world designs. Online services and products like Wikipedia, Firefox and Linux already use the Open

Source methodology. Individuals contribute to an ever changing project by sharing knowledge, ideas and designs and finally

contributing to the realization of the common goods. By

doing so, a community emerges spontaneously around the

project in which the user is no longer a passive consumer but

rather an active and creative participant.

I worked with OS project to apply the concept of Open

Source to humanitarian architecture. The result was

Case Study n1: a modular, new construction knot that could

hold all kinds of (recycled) material, an infrastructural

vision focused on re-use and cyclical thinking, a design for

communial interaction and initiative.

Team: Ken De Cooman, Laurens Bekemans, Nicolas

Coeckelberghs, Thomas Lomme

Exhibited and workshops in:Z33, Hasselt, BE,

Stroom Den Haag, NL,Bits n Pieces, New York, US

Published in Metropolis design magazine,

New York, US.

Research

all design a small part of a common system

for all

OPEN SOFTWARE (eg. Wikipedia)Network model

horizontal - bottom up

CLOSED HARDWARE(eg. LEGO)

Hierarchical modelvertical - top down

one designsa complete system

for all

all design a small part of a common system for all

(like a collaborative LEGO to which everybody can contribute their own blocks)

OPEN HARDWARE = OpenStructures

Network modelhorizontal - bottom up

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CS2: Muyinga, Burundi

Case Study n1: Katanga, Congo, delivered a conceptual

starting point, and some preliminary designs.

Case Study n2: Muyinga, Burundi analyses the strengths and weaknesses of Case Study

n1 (SWOT-analysis), gets relevant people to shed their

light on the Case Studies, and tries to show evolving logic in

an extensive timeline based on the systems of Institute without

Boundaries. Case Study n2 also goes further along the

path, in a first try to concretize

an atelier as the first node of building with a community.

The construction knot from CS1, was further elaborated with engineer-architect Michael

Lefeber.

Case Study n2: Muyinga, Burundi was undertaken

as graduate work in Sint-Lucas Architecture Brussels University, and was received

well, being asked to lecture and workshop about it in Sint-Lucas

University and VUB university Brussels.

Team: Ken De Cooman, Michael Lefeber


Open Architecture Case study n2:Burundi Project:Process and prospects

Project in general

- Why are we using drinking water to carry out low-grade functions

within the home?- How will we provide universal acces to water

- Can we adhere a true value to water?

- what kind of water system is there?

- how much rain falls during the moeson season?

- what is the gound-water level?- How can we make groundwater potable?

- Public use - Private use: where is the line?

- Should we distinct white/grey/black water

- storage of rainwater! - access to water in a gathering place - water as part of the infrastructure - Public - semi-Public - Private access - Collect - Distribute

- Will we locally generate rather than refrigirate?

- Can production be on a local scale globally?

- Can food become healthcare?

- Can we synchronize supply and demand?

- Will urban farming become the new norm?

- What do they harvest? What do they eat?

- How, where, when, what do they cook?- How, where and with who do they eat?

- How, when, what, where do they sell products?

- What does the act of eating mean to them?

- integration of private, semi-public, public farming

- Creating a local economy based on local production and consumption

- central point for food distribution linked to a healthcare centre

- Can we make waste sexy?

- Can we give waste a place? Waste equal energy?

- Will we be able to stop creating waste, and stop wasting what we

have created?

- Can we replenish rather than deplete?

- How can we connect to our waste?

- Which kind of waste is mainly present?

- What do they do now with their waste?

- Which kind of waste is useful?

- Should we treat organic waste and chemical waste dierently?

- Collecting / Recycling - use waste as construction material? roofs? walls? ? tools? reassembling? fertilizer?

- use of recycled materials, if not recyclable, biodegradable

- Re-Use and Re-Convert objects and materials in Ateliers Open Structures

- storage of waste: Bio-gas

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- Is the lifespan of our homes linear or cyclical?

- Can we construct to deconstruct to reconstruct?

- Which construction materials are favorable for this climate?

- Can we attach, stack and connect instead of sprawl?

- Which local green construction materials are available?

- Can we simplify to the level of LEGO?

- Where is the line between architect and inhabitant

continiously a work in progress- A kind of Plugin-City?- Creating construction system that can

be easily changed, re-arranged, deconstructed and re-builded in the same or dierent way.

- Materials need to come from the envi -ronment of the project area. (materials will be cheaper and more sunstainble)

- A construction that can adapt itself to the existing traditions, culture,....a construction that leaves space for the own identity

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- Should our homes be lightly sealed or open to the elements?

- How does air move in our homes?

- Can we condition air for health and not only for comfort?

- Should we be allowed to pollute what others consume?

- How can we balance between passive and active air handling?

- How is humidity handled?

- How do buildings materials eect our air quality?

- What kind of materials are they using?

- Are they spending mos time inside or outside of the house. - What kind of climate is there?

- Solar chimney, natural ventilation system high covered public and semi-public

spaces

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Cold

- How will our homes power itselfs?

- What are sunstainable options for powering our homes?

- Can we learn to genarate energy with our neighbours?

- Can we mimic natures means of harvesting energy?

- Can we create a grid that switches demand to suply?

- Can we make our energy consumption transparent?

- Which quantity of energy is necessary?

- Energy from sun-panels - Energy from windmills - Energy from waste (Biogas)- Energy from solar chimney

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- what kind of communication is accesible there?

- How do people communicate in Katanga?

- How can we improve a lifetime with technology without taking

our life to learn them?

- How can we use technological automation to make better inter

active environments.

- Can we create an interactive environment that can help us en

hance our experience of our city, town or home?

- Will we want a physical home that can adapt as easily as the

virtual world?

- housing that changes with the seasons,expandable/scalable...

- Tecnology as social gathering point (e.g. internet-bar, windmills as monuments,...)?

- Can technology become polyvalent (e.g. solar panels as shading, windmills as lunapark attraction, waterpump as kids playground,...

- Can the house be read as a calender

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- Will people increasingly seek sustainable alternatives and vi -

able modes of transportation?

-space?

- Can the climate of our home be mobile?

- What kind of transportaion system does Katanga have?

- How nomadic are the people there?

- On which basis do they choose a place for a home?

- How mobile are they and do they need to be?

- How does a typical day in Katanga looks like.

- mobile houses - mobile infrastructure - mobile constructions

- Can we develop small enterprises?

- Can we create our own markets?

- How do we sustain diverse rural to urban economies??

- What is the average wealth of Katanga?

- Are there a lot of local economies?

- economy based on open-structures - Creating a local economy based on lo -cal production and consumption?

OR OS

- How does the social system work in Katanga?

- How does a family look like (members,..) and what are their

functions within the family?

- Social interractions:

How? where does it take place?male-female relation?

where do they gather?

- Where and how will we create our social networks?

- Should our homes be inward-looking (to a courtyard) or outward-

looking (to the neighborhood?

- Can local communities reshape global communities?

- How will my home adapt to changes in my social unit?

- Building up a small community around open structures that can serve as example for the rest of Katanga and expand in form.

- housing that interacts with the public space, centered around a semi-public space creating an inner private space.

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OS

OS

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- Can we popularize intimate homes instead of monster homes?

- Can a house make space outside itself?

surroundings?

spaces?

- Are the spaces in our homes multifunctional or specialized?- What is the traditional housing system in Congo?

region?-are there any social rules that have to be respected?

- Masterplan that acentuets the individual within a community.

-working with a high mixture of private, public and semi-public spaces which interact with eachother.

-housing with a high amount of open spaces (private, public, semi-public) and relations to the exterior.

- colorful environment betters the atmosphere.

- How do they live, what do they like,...?

- Can there be a global identity?

- Can we create a new identity? and for whom?

- How is identity expressed in our homes (materials, form, location,

integration)?

- What do we express through our homes (the community, myself,

my relation with my surroundings)?

- Does home express a single comunity

- dierentiation by colors, materials,... - Create a new identity but leave space

ELEMENTAL)

- Open spaces (e.g. balconies) and decoration is the place where identity shows itself the most.

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Open StructuresThe framework is the basic component of the further development of the com-munity. Using this framework people can easily create platforms, spaces,... using the earlier explained construction node, or other techniques suitable and com-patible to the grid and framework. This freedom creates a patchwork of architec-ture within a homogeneous structure.

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Water CycleWater is one of the most important cycles. Within our construction we try to develop a closed system where water is collected (the screens of the roof and the waterpipes in the columns), stored (in pet-bottles or reservoirs) and distributed. It can serve as a trading element in the creation of a local economy.

WATERSYSTEM v1

dung zone

sludge zone

fluid zone

biogas

1 kg of droppings aperson a day

means 300 l of usable biogas for generator

equals electricity for letting 150 light bulbsof 100W burnfor 10h

means half a ton for 50 peoplein 20 days

Waste CycleAs waste can be re-used to create gas and elecricty. It can become a precious and unlimited resource, transforming our waste into a useful survival tool.

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Exhibition spaceZ33 is een initiatief van de provincie Limburg.

OpenStructures

26.09 - 13.12.09

ThomasLomme

expo

Centrum voor actuele kunst

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een nieuwemaatstaf voor

duurzaam democratisch

design

di - za: 11u - 18uzo: 14u - 17u

gratis toegang

Gedeputeerde van cultuur, Gil -bert Van Baelen, Thomas Lom -me en Z33 nodigen u graag uit op de vernissage van het project OpenStructures op vrijdag 25 september 2009 om 19u30 in Z33.

OpenStructures onderzoekt de mogelijkheden van een open ontwerpsysteem. Het vertrekt vanuit een gemeenschappelijk meetkundig raster dat door iede-reen opgevraagd en toegepast kan worden. De ontwerpen die binnen het systeem gerealiseerd worden, gaande van simpele huishoudapparaten tot volledige woningen, worden hierdoor ui-terst flexibel en divers maar blij- ven onderling compatibel. Zo ontstaat een vorm van collectieve Meccano, waarbij objecten dyna -mische puzzels worden die zich makkelijk laten aanpassen aan de noden en behoeften van het mo -ment. Een nieuwe maatstaf voor duurzaam democratisch design.

www.openstructures.net

OpenStructures loopt samen met Toegepast 14 tot 13 decem -ber 2009.

Tijdens de openingsavond van OpenStructures kunt u ook de tentoonstelling Werk Nu bezoe-ken (laatste weekend).

Line up VJ: Trash my T.V., Ra julez, Shasing dragon tails, Blue -cas & McBricollage DJ: Playset, Mc Dusaar, Joelle, Oubys, ReftsidelighT, Egon Fisk, Mickey house

Laurens Bekemans, Biogas-E vzw, Nicolas Coeckelberghs, Kar Yan Cheung, Brussels Co -operation, Michou Nanon de Bruijn, Alistaire Dewit, Lise For, Christiane Hoegner, Bob Jacobs, Fabio Lorefice, Lucas Maassen, Jeroen Maes, Samy -rah Moumouh, Karl Philips, Thermopol nv, Unfold, Jo Van Bostraeten

Exhibition in Z33, Hasselt, Belgium of OpenStructures.

Scale Model of the Imagined Masterplan on scale 1:100

Scale Model of the knot v.1, scale 1:1

Exhibition of OpenStructures at Bits n Pieces, Material Connexion, New York, US.

Luigi Ferrara is the Director of the School of Design at George Brown College and the Institute without Boundaries. Luigi lectures on topics as diverse as design and sustainability, design management, urban planning, information technology, digital media, telecommunications and the network society.

His lecture at the Open Architecture Workshop was about the role of the designer in a contemporary society, after (or during) the Informational Revolution of internet. Nowa-days The designer becomes more and more challenged by clients who become literate in the same subjects as the designer. The role of the designer is thus to cooperate with the client, and the community, instead of making patented designs for industry.He also explained the working method at Institute without Boundaries, approaching a design in a holistic way, and as a design process over time. The dualism between global concepts and local interests are overcome in the holistic approach.

Thomas Jomini is an archi-tect working in Suisse. He has

developed theoretical water systems as a pioneer. The project is called ReHouse and ReBath, wherein Jomini rethinks the house and the bath

according to water cycles and water-use and

re-use, trying to make water sexy

Vincent van der Meulen is an architect in the

Netherlands, who recently started Open Source House Project, wanting to

create an Open Source House, and its

network. In his lecture, he explained the what and how of OS House.They

did a contest on an Open Source House, which was to built in

Ghana in the summer of 2010. In the jury was amongst

others Cameron Sinclair of architecture for humanity.

Round Table: Thomas Lomme: Theres this humanitairian aid organisation where you give money and you follow a piechart, and when a piechart

is full, the project gets done. Its all micro-nancing, with projects around 300 dollars and such. Its a nice example of how Open Source can lead to economically interesting principles.

Ken De Cooman: To me this is a problem with open source, its like the reinventing of the wheel, the capitalist wheel, while open source as a concept has a (fake?) rebellious character. Its the story of nding investors, and the ones

who are the best in selling their piechart as the most ecient and most rewarding, will get the most funding. So instead to know the right people, you have to know the right blogs, and your project is analogue to the brand you want to get known in the

public.

Thomas Lomme: Yes, but theres also an economic value in the concept of Open Source: it makes people more informed, and the companies are forced to be more transparant. Companies cant aord anymore to say this and than do that. It has changed, due to all the information and all the open

source available.And theres also the notion of trust: before people didnt want to give a design out in the open, because they were afraid of big companies stealing the idea. But

now, it becomes a kind of value: if a company would steal an idea, noone would want to buy it, because the individual designer wasnt mentioned or licensed prop-erly. Maybe the need for copyright wont be there anymore, because theres this morale present.

Luigi Ferrara. Open Source is a way of sharing thats already a part of mass production, so it seems that Open Source is not something new, rather its embedded in a historical logic.

Open Source its just taking it one step further than mass industrial

production. Open Source is also mass producing the instructions on how to produce something. I think this is where the challenge is at now for a

designer. To design instructions. To design not only products for industry, but also to design business models. For example, I work for Magna, a supply chain for car parts. There are more then 1700 car parts in the supply chain, so to coordi-nate this, is to give instructions. Its like a closed open source: within a company. All the huge companies right now are supply chain companies, like Wal-mart, Ikea and so on. So what I have been discussing with Thomas, is the use of Open Closed Sources. I wouldnt be surprised if we would see more and more of this level of openness.

The most important aim of the develop-ment of the constructional system was to design a connection which could be applicated in dierent ways:a multi-functional connection that allows the use of dierent materials and forms. The design of the connection can be compared to a sandwich. 2 steel plates (each 1cm thick and designed according to the openstructures grid) work as ends of the node, in between are wooden connectors (each 4cm thick) placed according to the material and form of the used column, beam or diagonal. The whole is attached with bolts and screws. A maximum of 8 dierent columns can be arranged around the node to improve the strength of the construction.In this way, a recyclage meccanoo can be achieved: low-tech, demountable, exible.

The framework structure is arranged according the openstructures grid of 5,12 m on 5,12m (which is the dimension that admits the placement of components inbetween the framework). The columns, placed on the cross-sections of the grid, support the roof which functions as water recuperation platform. The structure is kept so easy to construct that it allows a fast construction and deconstruction.Thus structure becomes infrastructure.

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V1

Workshop with VUB architecture university, 4D reasearch group, with Prof. Hendrik Hendrickx, Prof. Caroline Henrotay, Michael Lefeber, Britt Christiaens,

Investigating the use of Rammed Earth technique for public buildings and housing,maybe contact Anna Heringer, Martin Rauch

3D knot elaboration and adap-tation, w/ Michael Lefeber of VUB

Investigating possibilities Western industrial waste as water collecting roof in developing countries, using study of ROTOR

Conception of Low-Tech, exible foundations

Ville Spatiale, Yona Friedman

Congo Project Model

Exhibition of OpenStructures in Museum Stroom Den Haag, Netherlands, with Yona Friedman and Navid Nuur.

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SWOT ANALYSIS

From this SWOT document (which means Strength, Weakness, Opportu-nities, Threat) became clear that:

The Knot Design v. 1 was limited in its exibility, and maybe not structur-ally able to bear loads.

The water system has a lot of oppor-tunities and strengths, but needs to be worked out, and contextualized.

There too little known about social, cultural aspects.

The economical side of the story needs to be elaborated. How to create incentives for local popula-tion?

Waste habits need to be studied.

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more than 350pers/km2250-300 pers/km2Rural Burundi < 125 pers/km2

In rural Burundi, people dont live in communities They live shattered in the mountains and moun-tain planes, they dont share costs of sewage system, water irrigation, and so on.

An atelier can be the rst tool in local centralization, bringing people together to what matters to them the most: water

Of course on itself not sucint, the atelier is built bottom-up, with locals, providing them knowhow to expand according to their needs.

Local injections of ateliers and workshops can provide Rainwater Harvesting and Biogas Installations, provid-ing Energy and Water in a bottom-up and low-tech way.

long wet season long dry season wet season dry season

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3 mm/m2

----------> RWH surface is 32 m2, in April => RWH : 160 . 32 = 5120 l . Atelier can take 120 . 19 = 2280 l. For an average of 20l a day (UN). 1 month can provide water for 4 persons for 2 months, shortening the dry period.

10 cm gravel layer

10 cm charcoal layer

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Meeting with Father Abt of Abbey of Zevenkerken, for nancing the Project

High-Tech Low-Tech

The windbelt is an Aeroelastic utter,inspired by the Tacoma Narrows Bridge failure and invented by Shawn Frayne that saw the need for small-scale wind power to juice LED lamps and radios in the homes of the poor

Windcell: Windcell is a WindbeltTM energy generator that uses a 1 meter membrane to generate a rated energy output of about 375 Wh per month.

Windcell Panel: The Windcell Panel, like the solar panel, achieves larger scale simply by combining Windcells into a single panel. A one square meter Windcell Panel has 20 Windcells, a rating of 7.5 kWh per month, and a manu-facturing cost of US$100.

In a conventional wind generator, gears help transfer the motion of the spinning blades to a turbine where an electric current is induced. The Windbelt is simpler and more ecient in light breezesa magnet mounted on a vibrating membrane simply oscillates between wire coils.

"Kerosene is smoky and it's a re hazard," says Peter Haas, founder of the Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group, which helps people in developing countries to get environmentally sound access to clean water, sanitation and energy. "If Shawn's innovation breaks, locals can x it. If a solar panel breaks, the family is out a panel."

AIR ENERGY

Interview with Joseph Nigeze. Joseph is a native Burundian studying in Antwerp, Belgium. In this interview we talked about, the water system, and the unavailibility of PET-bottles, and also the conception of an atelier and how to organise this.

Interview with Carine Blyse. Carine is a

native Burundian living in Hasselt, Belgium. In this interview we talked about, the

water system, the ways to have water storage in Burundi, and the social status of having water.

Interview with Koenraad Denayer and his wife. Koenraad Denayer is Red Cross

conict manager for Burundi and Ruanda, his wife is a livelihood urban planner. Out of this conversation, thoughts about Masterplan v2 have formed, as well as project management issues in Burundi. Also transport issues were talked about, and a lot of contacts were passed on for future of the project. With his wfe, who has a lot of experience in urban planning in emergency architecture situations/

SintLucas Jury

Following the principle of the communicating vessels,Water is stored in reused PET-bottles. According to the sameprinciple, water can be taken from this bottle storage through a tap. Also, water can be taken by replacing a full PET-bottle by an empty one.

A : Air tube B : Water tube C : End tube communicating between D and E D : Rainwater standpipe E : ventilation standpipe

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STEP 1: The rst basic construction

creates a meeting/market place and collects rainwater. Attached to this construc-

tion are a small Atelier and biogas system. The Atelier is the local recycling and construction place. It educates people in the OS-principles and creates the new materials / nodes /structures used in the further development of the community.

STEP 2: With the collected rainwater

a small public farming initiative can be started next to the roofstructures and

water- reservoirs. This farm can be used to start the local production/ economy of food and be soled at the adjacent marketplace.

STEP 3: If inhabitants enjoy the

possitive impulses of the OS-system,If an Education/Research-hub can be built

with elements of the Atelier. This hub would function as a school for the children and as admin-istrative centre for further organization of the com-munity and its economy. New biogas- and water-reservoirs can be placed in function to the needs.

STEP 4: To further improve commu-

nity- life, a multi-purpose space and dispensary are built. The new structures

increase the quantity of the collected water. The education-hub can be expanded if needed.

STEP 5: Housing will be builded in

the structures together with some commercial activity. The shops would be

mobile so that they could function in the whole area and could easily adapt to the precise goal of the shopkeeper (e.g.phone booth,..). The houses can be built as wished and can be fully made and installed by the Atelier.

STEP 6: The principles of open- Architecture

are now fully appropriated and incite an organic growth of patchworks.

MASTERPLAN

v1

Workshop Open Architecture9 december 2009

Maarten Gielen of Rotor lectured about re-use, recycling, downcycling, and especially

re-use in Rotors work. He also explained their study on the dierent cycles and possible future cycles in Belgian Building Waste

Management, compared to US Waste Management practices. He also shared his thoughts on the OpenStructures project, which he didnt nd

realistic. He had two points of critique. A rst one was that the creations based on the OpenStructures grid are never ergonomic.

They cannot serve their function, so what is the point of making them?A second critique was that architecture now already is Open Source, there are many shared grids to work upon, as the metric system, the US system, and so on. And the beams and columns are there to be re-used as you wish. So why the need for an existence of

the OpenStructures system? Is this system not superuous?

Lecture and Workshop at Design Academy Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Bamboo spacer design for diagonal bamboos.

Foundations are exible, movable, demountable, by using tires lled with concrete. One can roll them afterwards. Between the tires is a foundation of rumble stones lled with mortar.

Its the concrete tires who bear the structural load, as points. The line foundation is only made to avoid water erosion during Burundis rain seasons.

The oor is made of rammed earth, free from any water by the line foundation.

This results in a clean and even surface to work on. plateau with surface of woven batten The layer of poles

has diering spacings. The woven battens provide rigid-ity and distribute the load evenly to beams underneath.

Vuistregel kolommen TUDelft. Water: alles => 1800 kgDakstructuur: ongeveer 200kgNeem 2000 kg verdelen over 4 vlakken: 500kg per vlak. Verdelen over 4 palen => buitenpalen moeten 125 kg dragen. = 1250NKniklengte kolom = 1,2mStel kolom sectie = 8x8cmmet gezaagd hout=b*h=F/5dan b = F/5/h = 1250/5/8 = 30. Maar kolommen staan 25 uit elkaar. Heft dit elkaar op?

Wooden Beams of section 8x4cm, layed on a distance of 40 cm from eachother. Supported by main beams of 16x4cm section. Dimensioned according to the st rules: l/15 or 20= 220/15 or 20 = 15 or 11 cm.

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RAINWATER CATCHMENT. Rainwater collection tanks are utilized when groundwater is not available or is in short supply. Rain gutters are installed on the roofs of houses, schools or other large buildings and direct the ow of rainfall through a series of pipes into a holding tank.

A HAND-DUG WELL. Hand-dug wells are possible in areas with a high water table. The opening takes 1-3 months to dig, and the entire community usually participates. Because of the free labor force within the villages, hand-dug wells are the most cost-eective and are implemented whenever possible.

A DRILLED WELL. A well is drilled when the water table is not reachable by hand-digging. It typically takes 3-4 days to drill a well, and a professional team of well drillers is deployed. Because of the depth of drilled wells, they typically yield more potable water then hand-dug wells, but are also more expensive.

SPRING PROTECTION. Spring protections are systems that safely store and pipe clean water to communities. Natural springs are created when freshwater breaks the earths surface. To capture freshwater, boxes are placed over the source of the spring to protect water from contamination.

BIOSAND FILTER. Dirty water is poured through an opening at the top of the lter. A biological layer of microorganisms eat contaminates in the water, and its then ltered through a layer of sand to remove impurities. Finally, its dispensed into a clean bucket, providing safe drinking water for a family.

POND SAND FILTER. Water is ltered through .selcitrap dna sirbed gnivomer ,dnas fo srebmahc elpitlum

Afterwards, water is boiled or treated to make it safe to drink. Pond sand lters are good water solutions in areas where theres high rainfall.

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No open rain harvesting: Malaria larfs hazard and evaporation of water

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3-Dimensional possibilitiesIn comparison to Knot Design v1.0, this knot has more possi-bilities to attach structures in 3 dimensions.

Improved Bamboo connectionThis Bamboo connection has no more bolt holes but is jammed in a wooden receptor.

DF --------> IDFDemountable and exible re-use architecture can becomeindustrial, demountable and exible, following the deve-lopment of the community.

ScalableThe iron connections are scalable to for example Interior architectural dimensions

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No workshops, but demonstration cases with some locals with communial author-ity: Testcase of which 50% of the testcase project in their traditional way of doing, 50 % of the testcase project done together in the new way ----> they will adapt what-ever works best. Trigger and social eects will import new way into community.

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OpenStructures meets economy:Local Economy > OS trading > Assembling in atelier

PROSPECTION in Muyinga Burundi,decembre 2010, January and february 2011

Lonce Bekemans, professor currently holding Jean Monnet Chair Globalisation, Intercultural Dialogue and Inclusiveness in Europe at the University of Padua (It), gave his comments about Case Study n1: Congo and the Open Architecture project. He believes it could contribute to promote local democracy and partici-pation and consequently increasing the empowerment of persons in a

given community, given the bottom-up approach.But he alsothinks that the basic prerequisite for a successful

application of OA to development projects depends very much on the political support received at dierent levels.Thus, keeping thinking big, but starting small! This would imply eld research in order to contextu-alise the project and link it to specic local community needs.

Ir. Archi- tect, doctorandus of the

VUB with a Phd on modular tents for refugees that can de-

velop into full-edged houses.

MASTERPLAN v2.0

Burundian women have to walk 10 - 15 km as average to get clean water.

If you compare this to belgium, putting a 20km circle around every province capital, one can imagine better the impact of this fact.

NATIONAL DECENTRALIZATION/LOCAL CENTRALIZATION: The implementation of more water sources is a must.

Nuclear Power PlantClassic Power Plant, gasturbine, diesel plant Water savings PowerHydraulic Power

Distribution point380 KV- connection220 KV- connection110 KV- connection70 KV- connection

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Powernet of Belgium, not even showing all lines.Powernet of Burundi as of 1995, showing everything

LOCALISM: For mid-long-term solutions local ecological power is a must.

Transport of the box starts in Antwerp, going in a container. From there it goes to Mombasa Port (Northern Corridor), or Dar Es Salaam Port (Southern Corridor).Four people will go with plane to Bujumbura. Northern Corridor is considered safest, with a straight railline from Mombasa to Kampala in 7 days, and paved roads from Kampala to Muyinga.

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TRANSPORTROUTE

Conver-sation with Karolien Couscheir. In this

conversation, the possibilities of the design knot were discussed, especially in the eld of the PhD of Karolien, namely the IDF way of building.

BrusselsCooperation.be

In the summer of 2009, Brussels Cooperation members Laurens Bekemans, Nicolas Coeckelberghs and Ken De Cooman met with Thomas Lomme on a cosy barbeque in Brussels. The talks were all about changing times, coopera-tion, architecture/design and personal stu.

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- Is the lifespan of our homes linear or cyclical?

- Can we construct to deconstruct to reconstruct?

- Which construction materials are favorable for this climate?

- Can we attach, stack and connect instead of sprawl?

- Which local green construction materials are available?

- Can we simplify to the level of LEGO?

- Where is the line between architect and inhabitant

continiously a work in progress- A kind of Plugin-City?- Creating construction system that can

be easily changed, re-arranged, deconstructed and re-builded in the same or dierent way.

- Materials need to come from the envi -ronment of the project area. (materials will be cheaper and more sunstainble)

- A construction that can adapt itself to the existing traditions, culture,....a construction that leaves space for the own identity

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- Should our homes be lightly sealed or open to the elements?

- How does air move in our homes?

- Can we condition air for health and not only for comfort?

- Should we be allowed to pollute what others consume?

- How can we balance between passive and active air handling?

- How is humidity handled?

- How do buildings materials eect our air quality?

- What kind of materials are they using?

- Are they spending mos time inside or outside of the house. - What kind of climate is there?

- Solar chimney, natural ventilation system high covered public and semi-public

spaces

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Cold

- How will our homes power itselfs?

- What are sunstainable options for powering our homes?

- Can we learn to genarate energy with our neighbours?

- Can we mimic natures means of harvesting energy?

- Can we create a grid that switches demand to suply?

- Can we make our energy consumption transparent?

- Which quantity of energy is necessary?

- Energy from sun-panels - Energy from windmills - Energy from waste (Biogas)- Energy from solar chimney

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- what kind of communication is accesible there?

- How do people communicate in Katanga?

- How can we improve a lifetime with technology without taking

our life to learn them?

- How can we use technological automation to make better inter

active environments.

- Can we create an interactive environment that can help us en

hance our experience of our city, town or home?

- Will we want a physical home that can adapt as easily as the

virtual world?

- housing that changes with the seasons,expandable/scalable...

- Tecnology as social gathering point (e.g. internet-bar, windmills as monuments,...)?

- Can technology become polyvalent (e.g. solar panels as shading, windmills as lunapark attraction, waterpump as kids playground,...

- Can the house be read as a calender

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able modes of transportation?

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- Can the climate of our home be mobile?

- What kind of transportaion system does Katanga have?

- How nomadic are the people there?

- On which basis do they choose a place for a home?

- How mobile are they and do they need to be?

- How does a typical day in Katanga looks like.

- mobile houses - mobile infrastructure - mobile constructions

- Can we develop small enterprises?

- Can we create our own markets?

- How do we sustain diverse rural to urban economies??

- What is the average wealth of Katanga?

- Are there a lot of local economies?

- economy based on open-structures - Creating a local economy based on lo -cal production and consumption?

OR OS

- How does the social system work in Katanga?

- How does a family look like (members,..) and what are their

functions within the family?

- Social interractions:

How? where does it take place?male-female relation?

where do they gather?

- Where and how will we create our social networks?

- Should our homes be inward-looking (to a courtyard) or outward-

looking (to the neighborhood?

- Can local communities reshape global communities?

- How will my home adapt to changes in my social unit?

- Building up a small community around open structures that can serve as example for the rest of Katanga and expand in form.

- housing that interacts with the public space, centered around a semi-public space creating an inner private space.

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- Can we popularize intimate homes instead of monster homes?

- Can a house make space outside itself?

surroundings?

spaces?

- Are the spaces in our homes multifunctional or specialized?- What is the traditional housing system in Congo?

region?-are there any social rules that have to be respected?

- Masterplan that acentuets the individual within a community.

-working with a high mixture of private, public and semi-public spaces which interact with eachother.

-housing with a high amount of open spaces (private, public, semi-public) and relations to the exterior.

- colorful environment betters the atmosphere.

- How do they live, what do they like,...?

- Can there be a global identity?

- Can we create a new identity? and for whom?

- How is identity expressed in our homes (materials, form, location,

integration)?

- What do we express through our homes (the community, myself,

my relation with my surroundings)?

- Does home express a single comunity

- dierentiation by colors, materials,... - Create a new identity but leave space

ELEMENTAL)

- Open spaces (e.g. balconies) and decoration is the place where identity shows itself the most.

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Open StructuresThe framework is the basic component of the further development of the com-munity. Using this framework people can easily create platforms, spaces,... using the earlier explained construction node, or other techniques suitable and com-patible to the grid and framework. This freedom creates a patchwork of architec-ture within a homogeneous structure.

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Water CycleWater is one of the most important cycles. Within our construction we try to develop a closed system where water is collected (the screens of the roof and the waterpipes in the columns), stored (in pet-bottles or reservoirs) and distributed. It can serve as a trading element in the creation of a local economy.

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means 300 l of usable biogas for generator

equals electricity for letting 150 light bulbsof 100W burnfor 10h

means half a ton for 50 peoplein 20 days

Waste CycleAs waste can be re-used to create gas and elecricty. It can become a precious and unlimited resource, transforming our waste into a useful survival tool.

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Exhibition spaceZ33 is een initiatief van de provincie Limburg.

OpenStructures

26.09 - 13.12.09

ThomasLomme

expo

Centrum voor actuele kunst

en vormgeving

een nieuwemaatstaf voor

duurzaam democratisch

design

di - za: 11u - 18uzo: 14u - 17u

gratis toegang

Gedeputeerde van cultuur, Gil -bert Van Baelen, Thomas Lom -me en Z33 nodigen u graag uit op de vernissage van het project OpenStructures op vrijdag 25 september 2009 om 19u30 in Z33.

OpenStructures onderzoekt de mogelijkheden van een open ontwerpsysteem. Het vertrekt vanuit een gemeenschappelijk meetkundig raster dat door iede-reen opgevraagd en toegepast kan worden. De ontwerpen die binnen het systeem gerealiseerd worden, gaande van simpele huishoudapparaten tot volledige woningen, worden hierdoor ui-terst flexibel en divers maar blij- ven onderling compatibel. Zo ontstaat een vorm van collectieve Meccano, waarbij objecten dyna -mische puzzels worden die zich makkelijk laten aanpassen aan de noden en behoeften van het mo -ment. Een nieuwe maatstaf voor duurzaam democratisch design.

www.openstructures.net

OpenStructures loopt samen met Toegepast 14 tot 13 decem -ber 2009.

Tijdens de openingsavond van OpenStructures kunt u ook de tentoonstelling Werk Nu bezoe-ken (laatste weekend).

Line up VJ: Trash my T.V., Ra julez, Shasing dragon tails, Blue -cas & McBricollage DJ: Playset, Mc Dusaar, Joelle, Oubys, ReftsidelighT, Egon Fisk, Mickey house

Laurens Bekemans, Biogas-E vzw, Nicolas Coeckelberghs, Kar Yan Cheung, Brussels Co -operation, Michou Nanon de Bruijn, Alistaire Dewit, Lise For, Christiane Hoegner, Bob Jacobs, Fabio Lorefice, Lucas Maassen, Jeroen Maes, Samy -rah Moumouh, Karl Philips, Thermopol nv, Unfold, Jo Van Bostraeten

Exhibition in Z33, Hasselt, Belgium of OpenStructures.

Scale Model of the Imagined Masterplan on scale 1:100

Scale Model of the knot v.1, scale 1:1

Exhibition of OpenStructures at Bits n Pieces, Material Connexion, New York, US.

Luigi Ferrara is the Director of the School of Design at George Brown College and the Institute without Boundaries. Luigi lectures on topics as diverse as design and sustainability, design management, urban planning, information technology, digital media, telecommunications and the network society.

His lecture at the Open Architecture Workshop was about the role of the designer in a contemporary society, after (or during) the Informational Revolution of internet. Nowa-days The designer becomes more and more challenged by clients who become literate in the same subjects as the designer. The role of the designer is thus to cooperate with the client, and the community, instead of making patented designs for industry.He also explained the working method at Institute without Boundaries, approaching a design in a holistic way, and as a design process over time. The dualism between global concepts and local interests are overcome in the holistic approach.

Thomas Jomini is an archi-tect working in Suisse. He has

developed theoretical water systems as a pioneer. The project is called ReHouse and ReBath, wherein Jomini rethinks the house and the bath

according to water cycles and water-use and

re-use, trying to make water sexy

Vincent van der Meulen is an architect in the

Netherlands, who recently started Open Source House Project, wanting to

create an Open Source House, and its

network. In his lecture, he explained the what and how of OS House.They

did a contest on an Open Source House, which was to built in

Ghana in the summer of 2010. In the jury was amongst

others Cameron Sinclair of architecture for humanity.

Round Table: Thomas Lomme: Theres this humanitairian aid organisation where you give money and you follow a piechart, and when a piechart

is full, the project gets done. Its all micro-nancing, with projects around 300 dollars and such. Its a nice example of how Open Source can lead to economically interesting principles.

Ken De Cooman: To me this is a problem with open source, its like the reinventing of the wheel, the capitalist wheel, while open source as a concept has a (fake?) rebellious character. Its the story of nding investors, and the ones

who are the best in selling their piechart as the most ecient and most rewarding, will get the most funding. So instead to know the right people, you have to know the right blogs, and your project is analogue to the brand you want to get known in the

public.

Thomas Lomme: Yes, but theres also an economic value in the concept of Open Source: it makes people more informed, and the companies are forced to be more transparant. Companies cant aord anymore to say this and than do that. It has changed, due to all the information and all the open

source available.And theres also the notion of trust: before people didnt want to give a design out in the open, because they were afraid of big companies stealing the idea. But

now, it becomes a kind of value: if a company would steal an idea, noone would want to buy it, because the individual designer wasnt mentioned or licensed prop-erly. Maybe the need for copyright wont be there anymore, because theres this morale present.

Luigi Ferrara. Open Source is a way of sharing thats already a part of mass production, so it seems that Open Source is not something new, rather its embedded in a historical logic.

Open Source its just taking it one step further than mass industrial

production. Open Source is also mass producing the instructions on how to produce something. I think this is where the challenge is at now for a

designer. To design instructions. To design not only products for industry, but also to design business models. For example, I work for Magna, a supply chain for car parts. There are more then 1700 car parts in the supply chain, so to coordi-nate this, is to give instructions. Its like a closed open source: within a company. All the huge companies right now are supply chain companies, like Wal-mart, Ikea and so on. So what I have been discussing with Thomas, is the use of Open Closed Sources. I wouldnt be surprised if we would see more and more of this level of openness.

The most important aim of the develop-ment of the constructional system was to design a connection which could be applicated in dierent ways:a multi-functional connection that allows the use of dierent materials and forms. The design of the connection can be compared to a sandwich. 2 steel plates (each 1cm thick and designed according to the openstructures grid) work as ends of the node, in between are wooden connectors (each 4cm thick) placed according to the material and form of the used column, beam or diagonal. The whole is attached with bolts and screws. A maximum of 8 dierent columns can be arranged around the node to improve the strength of the construction.In this way, a recyclage meccanoo can be achieved: low-tech, demountable, exible.

The framework structure is arranged according the openstructures grid of 5,12 m on 5,12m (which is the dimension that admits the placement of components inbetween the framework). The columns, placed on the cross-sections of the grid, support the roof which functions as water recuperation platform. The structure is kept so easy to construct that it allows a fast construction and deconstruction.Thus structure becomes infrastructure.

KNOT

DESIGN

V1

Workshop with VUB architecture university, 4D reasearch group, with Prof. Hendrik Hendrickx, Prof. Caroline Henrotay, Michael Lefeber, Britt Christiaens,

Investigating the use of Rammed Earth technique for public buildings and housing,maybe contact Anna Heringer, Martin Rauch

3D knot elaboration and adap-tation, w/ Michael Lefeber of VUB

Investigating possibilities Western industrial waste as water collecting roof in developing countries, using study of ROTOR

Conception of Low-Tech, exible foundations

Ville Spatiale, Yona Friedman

Congo Project Model

Exhibition of OpenStructures in Museum Stroom Den Haag, Netherlands, with Yona Friedman and Navid Nuur.

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SWOT ANALYSIS

From this SWOT document (which means Strength, Weakness, Opportu-nities, Threat) became clear that:

The Knot Design v. 1 was limited in its exibility, and maybe not structur-ally able to bear loads.

The water system has a lot of oppor-tunities and strengths, but needs to be worked out, and contextualized.

There too little known about social, cultural aspects.

The economical side of the story needs to be elaborated. How to create incentives for local popula-tion?

Waste habits need to be studied.

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more than 350pers/km2250-300 pers/km2Rural Burundi < 125 pers/km2

In rural Burundi, people dont live in communities They live shattered in the mountains and moun-tain planes, they dont share costs of sewage system, water irrigation, and so on.

An atelier can be the rst tool in local centralization, bringing people together to what matters to them the most: water

Of course on itself not sucint, the atelier is built bottom-up, with locals, providing them knowhow to expand according to their needs.

Local injections of ateliers and workshops can provide Rainwater Harvesting and Biogas Installations, provid-ing Energy and Water in a bottom-up and low-tech way.

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3 mm/m2

----------> RWH surface is 32 m2, in April => RWH : 160 . 32 = 5120 l . Atelier can take 120 . 19 = 2280 l. For an average of 20l a day (UN). 1 month can provide water for 4 persons for 2 months, shortening the dry period.

10 cm gravel layer

10 cm charcoal layer

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25 cm gravel layer

First Flush

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WATERSYSTEMv2.0

Meeting with Father Abt of Abbey of Zevenkerken, for nancing the Project

High-Tech Low-Tech

The windbelt is an Aeroelastic utter,inspired by the Tacoma Narrows Bridge failure and invented by Shawn Frayne that saw the need for small-scale wind power to juice LED lamps and radios in the homes of the poor

Windcell: Windcell is a WindbeltTM energy generator that uses a 1 meter membrane to generate a rated energy output of about 375 Wh per month.

Windcell Panel: The Windcell Panel, like the solar panel, achieves larger scale simply by combining Windcells into a single panel. A one square meter Windcell Panel has 20 Windcells, a rating of 7.5 kWh per month, and a manu-facturing cost of US$100.

In a conventional wind generator, gears help transfer the motion of the spinning blades to a turbine where an electric current is induced. The Windbelt is simpler and more ecient in light breezesa magnet mounted on a vibrating membrane simply oscillates between wire coils.

"Kerosene is smoky and it's a re hazard," says Peter Haas, founder of the Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group, which helps people in developing countries to get environmentally sound access to clean water, sanitation and energy. "If Shawn's innovation breaks, locals can x it. If a solar panel breaks, the family is out a panel."

AIR ENERGY

Interview with Joseph Nigeze. Joseph is a native Burundian studying in Antwerp, Belgium. In this interview we talked about, the water system, and the unavailibility of PET-bottles, and also the conception of an atelier and how to organise this.

Interview with Carine Blyse. Carine is a

native Burundian living in Hasselt, Belgium. In this interview we talked about, the

water system, the ways to have water storage in Burundi, and the social status of having water.

Interview with Koenraad Denayer and his wife. Koenraad Denayer is Red Cross

conict manager for Burundi and Ruanda, his wife is a livelihood urban planner. Out of this conversation, thoughts about Masterplan v2 have formed, as well as project management issues in Burundi. Also transport issues were talked about, and a lot of contacts were passed on for future of the project. With his wfe, who has a lot of experience in urban planning in emergency architecture situations/

SintLucas Jury

Following the principle of the communicating vessels,Water is stored in reused PET-bottles. According to the sameprinciple, water can be taken from this bottle storage through a tap. Also, water can be taken by replacing a full PET-bottle by an empty one.

A : Air tube B : Water tube C : End tube communicating between D and E D : Rainwater standpipe E : ventilation standpipe

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STEP 1: The rst basic construction

creates a meeting/market place and collects rainwater. Attached to this construc-

tion are a small Atelier and biogas system. The Atelier is the local recycling and construction place. It educates people in the OS-principles and creates the new materials / nodes /structures used in the further development of the community.

STEP 2: With the collected rainwater

a small public farming initiative can be started next to the roofstructures and

water- reservoirs. This farm can be used to start the local production/ economy of food and be soled at the adjacent marketplace.

STEP 3: If inhabitants enjoy the

possitive impulses of the OS-system,If an Education/Research-hub can be built

with elements of the Atelier. This hub would function as a school for the children and as admin-istrative centre for further organization of the com-munity and its economy. New biogas- and water-reservoirs can be placed in function to the needs.

STEP 4: To further improve commu-

nity- life, a multi-purpose space and dispensary are built. The new structures

increase the quantity of the collected water. The education-hub can be expanded if needed.

STEP 5: Housing will be builded in

the structures together with some commercial activity. The shops would be

mobile so that they could function in the whole area and could easily adapt to the precise goal of the shopkeeper (e.g.phone booth,..). The houses can be built as wished and can be fully made and installed by the Atelier.

STEP 6: The principles of open- Architecture

are now fully appropriated and incite an organic growth of patchworks.

MASTERPLAN

v1

Workshop Open Architecture9 december 2009

Maarten Gielen of Rotor lectured about re-use, recycling, downcycling, and especially

re-use in Rotors work. He also explained their study on the dierent cycles and possible future cycles in Belgian Building Waste

Management, compared to US Waste Management practices. He also shared his thoughts on the OpenStructures project, which he didnt nd

realistic. He had two points of critique. A rst one was that the creations based on the OpenStructures grid are never ergonomic.

They cannot serve their function, so what is the point of making them?A second critique was that architecture now already is Open Source, there are many shared grids to work upon, as the metric system, the US system, and so on. And the beams and columns are there to be re-used as you wish. So why the need for an existence of

the OpenStructures system? Is this system not superuous?

Lecture and Workshop at Design Academy Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Bamboo spacer design for diagonal bamboos.

Foundations are exible, movable, demountable, by using tires lled with concrete. One can roll them afterwards. Between the tires is a foundation of rumble stones lled with mortar.

Its the concrete tires who bear the structural load, as points. The line foundation is only made to avoid water erosion during Burundis rain seasons.

The oor is made of rammed earth, free from any water by the line foundation.

This results in a clean and even surface to work on. plateau with surface of woven batten The layer of poles

has diering spacings. The woven battens provide rigid-ity and distribute the load evenly to beams underneath.

Vuistregel kolommen TUDelft. Water: alles => 1800 kgDakstructuur: ongeveer 200kgNeem 2000 kg verdelen over 4 vlakken: 500kg per vlak. Verdelen over 4 palen => buitenpalen moeten 125 kg dragen. = 1250NKniklengte kolom = 1,2mStel kolom sectie = 8x8cmmet gezaagd hout=b*h=F/5dan b = F/5/h = 1250/5/8 = 30. Maar kolommen staan 25 uit elkaar. Heft dit elkaar op?

Wooden Beams of section 8x4cm, layed on a distance of 40 cm from eachother. Supported by main beams of 16x4cm section. Dimensioned according to the st rules: l/15 or 20= 220/15 or 20 = 15 or 11 cm.

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RAINWATER CATCHMENT. Rainwater collection tanks are utilized when groundwater is not available or is in short supply. Rain gutters are installed on the roofs of houses, schools or other large buildings and direct the ow of rainfall through a series of pipes into a holding tank.

A HAND-DUG WELL. Hand-dug wells are possible in areas with a high water table. The opening takes 1-3 months to dig, and the entire community usually participates. Because of the free labor force within the villages, hand-dug wells are the most cost-eective and are implemented whenever possible.

A DRILLED WELL. A well is drilled when the water table is not reachable by hand-digging. It typically takes 3-4 days to drill a well, and a professional team of well drillers is deployed. Because of the depth of drilled wells, they typically yield more potable water then hand-dug wells, but are also more expensive.

SPRING PROTECTION. Spring protections are systems that safely store and pipe clean water to communities. Natural springs are created when freshwater breaks the earths surface. To capture freshwater, boxes are placed over the source of the spring to protect water from contamination.

BIOSAND FILTER. Dirty water is poured through an opening at the top of the lter. A biological layer of microorganisms eat contaminates in the water, and its then ltered through a layer of sand to remove impurities. Finally, its dispensed into a clean bucket, providing safe drinking water for a family.

POND SAND FILTER. Water is ltered through .selcitrap dna sirbed gnivomer ,dnas fo srebmahc elpitlum

Afterwards, water is boiled or treated to make it safe to drink. Pond sand lters are good water solutions in areas where theres high rainfall.

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No PET bottles available

No open rain harvesting: Malaria larfs hazard and evaporation of water

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3-Dimensional possibilitiesIn comparison to Knot Design v1.0, this knot has more possi-bilities to attach structures in 3 dimensions.

Improved Bamboo connectionThis Bamboo connection has no more bolt holes but is jammed in a wooden receptor.

DF --------> IDFDemountable and exible re-use architecture can becomeindustrial, demountable and exible, following the deve-lopment of the community.

ScalableThe iron connections are scalable to for example Interior architectural dimensions

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No workshops, but demonstration cases with some locals with communial author-ity: Testcase of which 50% of the testcase project in their traditional way of doing, 50 % of the testcase project done together in the new way ----> they will adapt what-ever works best. Trigger and social eects will import new way into community.

FLEXIBLE

KNOT

OpenStructures meets economy:Local Economy > OS trading > Assembling in atelier

PROSPECTION in Muyinga Burundi,decembre 2010, January and february 2011

Lonce Bekemans, professor currently holding Jean Monnet Chair Globalisation, Intercultural Dialogue and Inclusiveness in Europe at the University of Padua (It), gave his comments about Case Study n1: Congo and the Open Architecture project. He believes it could contribute to promote local democracy and partici-pation and consequently increasing the empowerment of persons in a

given community, given the bottom-up approach.But he alsothinks that the basic prerequisite for a successful

application of OA to development projects depends very much on the political support received at dierent levels.Thus, keeping thinking big, but starting small! This would imply eld research in order to contextu-alise the project and link it to specic local community needs.

Ir. Archi- tect, doctorandus of the

VUB with a Phd on modular tents for refugees that can de-

velop into full-edged houses.

MASTERPLAN v2.0

Burundian women have to walk 10 - 15 km as average to get clean water.

If you compare this to belgium, putting a 20km circle around every province capital, one can imagine better the impact of this fact.

NATIONAL DECENTRALIZATION/LOCAL CENTRALIZATION: The implementation of more water sources is a must.

Nuclear Power PlantClassic Power Plant, gasturbine, diesel plant Water savings PowerHydraulic Power

Distribution point380 KV- connection220 KV- connection110 KV- connection70 KV- connection

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Powernet of Belgium, not even showing all lines.Powernet of Burundi as of 1995, showing everything

LOCALISM: For mid-long-term solutions local ecological power is a must.

Transport of the box starts in Antwerp, going in a container. From there it goes to Mombasa Port (Northern Corridor), or Dar Es Salaam Port (Southern Corridor).Four people will go with plane to Bujumbura. Northern Corridor is considered safest, with a straight railline from Mombasa to Kampala in 7 days, and paved roads from Kampala to Muyinga.

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TRANSPORTROUTE

Conver-sation with Karolien Couscheir. In this

conversation, the possibilities of the design knot were discussed, especially in the eld of the PhD of Karolien, namely the IDF way of building.

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In the summer of 2009, Brussels Cooperation members Laurens Bekemans, Nicolas Coeckelberghs and Ken De Cooman met with Thomas Lomme on a cosy barbeque in Brussels. The talks were all about changing times, coopera-tion, architecture/design and personal stu.

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