Amsterdam City Hotel: Stenen Hoofd Wetland

Stenen Hoofd City Hotel together with a wetland create a new conditions on a previously not maintained pier in Amsterdam. Based on the Doughnut Economics and Hotel Typology research this intervention responds to the local ecological lens of the Amsterdam's Doughnut Model. Biodiversity of the site is enriched by the wetlands flora and fauna while...

Rethinking a Parking Garage: The City Hotel

The City Hotel is a building/landscape that is fruit of a re-adaptation of the Q-Park Bijenkorf in Amsterdam. It aims to be a place for Amsterdammers, small local businesses and tourists that acts as a community center for all. The building can be appropriated by its users and hosts many different functions under one roof. It does not only give,...

The 8th Mountain of Nijmegen

This is an architectural master thesis with the chair of Urban Architecture. The project analysis the city of Nijmegen with a special focus on its topography. In the design part, a new urban plan is suggested for the project location. One of the buildings was chosen and the newly introduced function is a Museum that offers spatially different...

The Importance of a Safe Construction in the Fight Against Terrorism: A historical analysis of buildings subjected to terrorist attacks and the changes in structural and safety design

Terrorism is something the United States of America has had to deal with since 1789. Near the end of the 20th century such attacks had become more frequent and devastating with the most casualties caused by a single individual with the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. This has led to a nationwide uncertainty if more buildings were at risk to be...

Fenix II: A cultural, artistic and culinary hotspot

The Fenix II building, located in the inner city port area of Rotterdam, has been an integral part of the city's history in both architectural and cultural terms. Serving as storage space after the 1920's for the emigrants of the country, and as industrial storage after the 1950's, it becomes today part of the modern redevelopments of the...

The future of countryside living: Integrating the transition towards nature inclusive agriculture with the development of new countryside homes

A decades long process of replacing biodiverse landscapes with agricultural monocultures has led to a significant drop in biodiversity in the Netherlands. The current agricultural landscape offers limited habitats for animals and insects and lacks resilience to cope with the effects of climate change. A strong departure from the current system...

Making a Living: Integrating informal income generation schemes into formal urban housing redevelopment as foundation for future economic growth and urban densification

Ethiopia is forecast to be the fastest growing economy in Sub-Saharan Africa. Partly due to this economic growth, the urban population is expected to increase significantly in the coming decades. In the group of urban migrants, more than half comes from rural areas, indicating a large sum of poorly educated, low skilled workers as major part of...

Interlaced. A 1970s mass social housing transformation interlaced with a new built social housing complex

The main subject of the studio is “Spolia”, that can be explained as: “the left-overs or <<spoils>> of a building, which find themselves back in a new structure”[1]. The use of spolia can be economically, ecologically or aesthetically motivated[2]. However, the remains of the previous buildings are not only actual, physical elements...

Configurational Morphology: A Vision of Adaptive Urban Form

Configurational Morphology is a research and design project exploring the potentials of configurational design as a systematic approach to generating site-specific urban form responsive to its environmental, social end economic context. By looking into both the theoretical potentials of configurational thinking as well as its practical...

Feed your city: local farming in Hembrug

The design project, that is part of the Heritage & Architecture graduation studio, is dealing with the transformation of the ensemble area ‘Plots in the wood’. This area lays in the centre of the former military complex of Hembrug in Zaandam. The design leads to transform this area to residential and commercial area, which is combined with...

Mental Health Centre Hembrug: Revitalizing Hemburg, to revitalize Society

This graduation project is focused on a transformation of industrial heritage in Campus North in Hembrug, a former closed-off military production terrain on a peninsula in Zaandam. For a long time the terrain was used by the Artellerie-Inrichtingen for the production and manufacturing of weapons and ammunition for the Dutch army. After the...

Investigating Public Space

The MIT Media Institute is located in Midtown, New York (NY). The main goal of the project is to create a vertical campus for MIT and combine multiple functions traditionally found on horizontal campus into a high rise tower. In doing so, it investigates the possibility of mixing this program with public functions that can be accessed by New...

A study into how the relationship between public and private spaces in the built environment influence the social and cultural aspects of the community

Architects have always found it important to understand the interaction between public and private spaces in the context of the built environment. This paper investigates the relationship between public and private spaces, and how it influences the social and cultural aspects of the built environment. Hence, we first explore what a public and...