Location & approach

By car

The campus of the Technical University of Dortmund is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerland line A45 crosses the Ruhr expressway B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By bus and train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 15 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr Transport Association, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network map.

The H-Train

The H-train is one of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, the AirportExpress takes a good 20 minutes to Dortmund Central Station and from there the S-Bahn (suburban train) takes you to the university. A wider range of international flight connections is offered by Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university station.

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Location & approach

By car

The campus of the Technical University of Dortmund is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerland line A45 crosses the Ruhr expressway B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By bus and train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 15 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr Transport Association, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network map.

The H-Train

The H-train is one of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, the AirportExpress takes a good 20 minutes to Dortmund Central Station and from there the S-Bahn (suburban train) takes you to the university. A wider range of international flight connections is offered by Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university station.

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Job Floris

short CV

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Job Floris is architect and co-founder of Monadnock. He obtained his master’s degree in architecture from the Rotterdam Academy for Architecture and Urbanism in 2004, following on from his study of architectural design at the Academy for Visual Arts and Design Sint Joost in Breda. Currently, the practice of Monadnock has a substantial amount of housing projects in The Netherlands and Germany. Containing a wide variety of scales and of types of inhabitants. He has held various visiting lectureships in the Netherlands and abroad since 2006. From 2010 till 2018 Job was appointed as head of the Master’s degree course Architecture at the Rotterdam Academy for Architecture and Urbanism. Subsequently he was invited as guest professor in various universities throughout Europe, such as TU Karlsruhe KIT, KU Leuven/Ghent, TU Graz and TU Dresden. From 2018 till 2020 Floris was invited professor at the EPFL-ENAC in the chair of Housing. In 2020 he was teaching a fall studio at Harvard GSD.

Abstract

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Unfinished Sympathy. In a world developing more and more towards transparency, quantification and photorealism, the act of being suggestive and incomplete becomes rather a challenge. Yet architecture, among other disciplines related to the arts, requires a suggestive narrative in order to survive.

Particles. The Landmark offers a public, scenic view. The architecture addresses the civic in several ways. By the usage of a vocabulary which is partially recognizable, using a classical toolbox. By applying a material which is contextual. Along the river Meuse, a building culture based on backed clay is very common. For us, combining these points by the usage of a technique of assemblage, it simultaneously aimed for being nonconventional and of the now.

Lines. For the southern entrance of the old city Grave, we were commissioned to design a new gate building. On a triangular plot, visible from all sides, close to the old fortification walls. This building marks the entrance of the historic city, and therefore wants to relate to the existing historic buildings. Which might best define the building as an oxymoron, as it has to unify two demands in one: blending in as well as standing out.

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