Following the live BLAST Architecture Prize TV show broadcasted by BredaNu the evening is now available to be viewed online. On the BLAST website the jury report can be read. Image of the nominees and winner architect Rienks of the SHV Brinker! student home complex by Ton Gjeltema.
Commissioned by the Trade Department of the Austrian Embassy in The Hague Mathias will conduct research into the potential for wood in the construction sector in 2021-2022. This bio-based building material can used in highly digitized prefabrication, serves as a natural isolation material, stores Co2 and is predestined for architectural designs based upon the circular economy – to name just some of the advantages.
In November 2021 Mathias gave a lecture on nature-inclusive design in the Palais d’Hollande on Istiklal street in Istanbul upon invitation of the the Dutch Consulate Istanbul. The audience of his talk was a delegation of the Municipality including the Mayor and various experts on spatial planning and engineering and preceeded the presentation of a climate action based design by LEGU for a public space in Beyoglu Municipality.
Addressing “Urban Nature becoming a stakeholder – the new paradigm of Urban Planning and design” Mathias will speak at the Quo Vadis conference in Berlin in February 2022. The event organized by Heuer Dialog is the 32nd edition of this annual conference for deciders within the domain of real estate. More information and signing up online.
With a decrease of 20% since 2020 (BNR) and a shortcoming of 26.000 student homes this year expected to increase towards a lack of 50.000 units within the next years the annual BLAST Breda Architecture Prize addresses a highly urgent topic in the Netherlands.
For the BLAST Prize five recent projects have been nominated: Study Studio Park, T63, SHV Brinker! , Camelot Campus 076 Breda and Ensemble van Legeringshotels. In collaboration with local television station BredNU the Prize Ceremony will be set at Breda University of Applied Sciences, 2 Monseigneur Hopmansstraat. As modertor of this event Mathias will go into discussion with the architects, the jury, the elderman and the audience.
Are you curious who will win the Prize, and here how student housing contributes to Quality of Life in the City? Join this live event on October 27, 2021 from 19:30-21:30 hrs. Please sign up via Eventbrite.
In fall 2021 Mathias is teaching Master students again at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam as part of the Urbanism department led by MLA+ director Markus Appenzeller, next to accompanying students for their final project.
This autumn’s design class is themed ‘altruism’ and addresses the urban, landscape and architectural design of a new district on a transformation location on the waterfront of the IJ river in Amsterdam. Central questions are what this new district can contribute to ‘the other’: this ‘other’ is chosen by the students, and can be the city, the region, designated groups in society or other species in the urban ecosystem. Final presentation will be 12th of October 2021.
Beginning of October 2021 the final edit of the peer-reviewed article on Nature Based Solutions (NBS) for Social Housing in the Netherlands was submitted for publication. The text co-authored with Dr. Robbert Snep and Judith Kloosterman PhD of Wageningen University addresses the benefits of ecosystem services for inhabitants and housing corporations baed upon a collaborative study on three Living Lab locations in the Netherlands. Main take-aways are:
• Which Nature Based Solutions best match social housing practice
• Living labs show Solutions contribute to all aspects of environmental justice
• Procedural and recognitional justice is crucial for residents’ support for Solutions
• Recommendations given to enhance Solutions knowledge in social housing
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On the 28th of September the Integral Knowledge Programme Space was launched in the Bullekerk, Zaandam, with more than 50 colleagues of Zaanstad Municipality attending. The program is set up by MAAK.meester Frits Palmboom, the urbanists Marc den Hertog and Rocco Reukema, Bregt Balk and Mathias (who also coordinates the individual elements, such as Master Classes, excursions and Supervision Sessions. The program aims to improve quality and collaboration facing the challenges the region due to the huge growth and climate action required.
Climate resilient, green and nature inclusive city Symposium
Date: 24th September 2021
Time: 9:00 – 13:00 hrs, Zoom
Program and info here.
Please register with an email to contact@biotope-city.net.
Access with ID 91435310298,code 918728.
On September 24, 2021 Biotope City Foundation Amsterdam/Vienna and the Viennese BOKU University for Natural Resources and Life Sciences organize an online symposium on the nature inclusive future of our cities.
The topics addressed will include the freshly realized Biotope City in Vienna, the Floating University Berlin and 10 sessions on top climate resilient strategies (such as sponge cities, participation, green cover effects, climate trees and urban farming), concluded by lessons learned for the future.
Speakers include Helga Fassbinder, Jeanne Astrup-Chauvaux next to Bernhard Scharf (Green4cities), Angelique Bellemakers (INBO architects) Marlies Zuidam (FAAM architects), Maria Auböck (Atelier Auböck+Karasz), Brenda Swinkels, van den Berg Nurseries, Tim Elfring (Phood Kitchen), Emiel Swinnen (Delva Landscape Architecture Urbanism), Pia Minixhofer & Sebastian Hafner (BOKU), Florian Kraus (Greenpass) and Florian Reinwald, (Institute of Landscape Planning ILAP).
Mathias will moderate the symposium and go into discussion with speakers and audience. More than 200 participants have signed up.
On the 26th of August 2021 Mathias gave a lecture on the benefits of nature-inclusive and climate-adaptive design for public space. In his role as a Strategic Advisor Urban Development Mathias discussed how this integral, spatial approach contributes to all Six Strategic Tasks that Zaanstad Municipality had set out for the future: Urbanisation, Sustainabilty, (Circular) Economy, Health, Safety and Equity.