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Aragno, Aris (author)This research attempts to develop a space in the city that, outside of the dynamics of consumption, but not denying the dialogue with the city, seeks to intertwine with its overlaps, by defining the public space of dialogue and representation. On the morbidity of performance and expectation, we might say that the contemporary Utopian intent,...master thesis 2024
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Wu, Xinyue (author)In case you feel confused, this is an architecture project based on research which in total took one year. The process was never linear, but the narrative has to be. <br/><br/>For the first six months I studied the essential values of collective housing in post war period, how they prompted to solve housing crisis and how they embraced the...master thesis 2024
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Michl, Maximilian (author)Based in Vienna, Austria, the project deals with the possibilities a new type of public interior has for a gradually flattened historic city centre, concentrating on the role of derelict spaces such as abandoned shop spaces, aggressively demolished building plots or undervalued topographies in this instance an underground car parking have once...master thesis 2024
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Yu, Yiyin (author)The key idea of the project is to take an art museum as an installation that provides a series of stages that allow art to happen. The design of the museum is to some extent the curation of these stages.master thesis 2023
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Damstra, René (author)In summary, the design proposal is a new building for the contemporary art museum the M HKA (Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerpen), which in the future will be the Flemish oriented contemporary art museum VMHK (Flemish Museum of Contemporary Art). The project location is the existing court of appeal on the Zuiderdokken in Antwerp. The existing...master thesis 2023
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Korpacka, Julia (author)This project stems from an interest in institutions and the materialisation of politics within them, implicit and explicit. Art and architecture both have the capacity to be a scaffolding upon which protest and proposition of alternative relations can be built and communicated. While museum and art has always been implicated in commercial and...master thesis 2023
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Furlong, Craig (author)As the institution of art has developed, systematic biases have survived because they are embedded into institutional practices. The art world remains discriminatory and the art commodified, not able to provide its full public value. While contemporary artists have tried to remove themselves and their work from the gallery, they remain...master thesis 2023
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Tan, Matthew (author)M HKA museum of co-existence. This graduation project rethinks the open museum through co-existing. A public institution in today’s day and age should not only be used by regular museum visitors. According to me the institution also serves a role in the city and neighbourhood it sits in. Especially in Antwerp, a multicultural city with people...master thesis 2023
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Vieira Dellosso, Giulia (author)With the pressing issues that arise from a society driven and measured by flow of capital and wealth, the future of the National Bank of Belgium and its role to society is questioned as most of its functions are becoming digital or being relocated. A monumental building, representing an institution in an extremely relevant capital, presents...master thesis 2022
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Oest Arrecubieta, Alejandro (author)The graduation thesis deals with the architectural redevelopment of the National Bank of Belgium. It examines how this refurbishment can benefit the bank, the city of Brussels, and its inhabitants. <br/><br/>Built to its limits, the introverted character of the complex reflects the historical need to secure Belgium's financial reserves within...master thesis 2022
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- Li, Jieqi (author) master thesis 2022
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Escamilla Sanchez, Pablo (author)A palatial building rests by Rue de Bois Sauvage of Brussels, an intimate street located at the exact point where the lower historic city ends and upper bureaucratic city starts. The Palace remains like a parasite of a larger introverted structure that fortifies an entire urban block to hide the offices of the National Bank of Belgium. The...master thesis 2022
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de Munck, Laurens (author)Future Bank, the graduation studio of Interiors Buildings Cities 2021/2022 revolves around the transformation of the National Bank of Belgium, a 90.000 m2 triangular building block. The design proposal for this transformation is based around the adaptive re-use of the vast, complex, existing building that the National Bank of Belgium currently...master thesis 2022
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Vos, Bart (author)This graduation project is focusing on and looking for the function and role of the future national bank, as an outcome of its current physical and social situation. The site of the project is the National Bank of Belgium, located in Brussels.<br/>For its program, the bank has a public function and a reception hall, but mainly consist of office...master thesis 2022
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Soenen, Sophie (author)The ambition of the National Bank of Belgium's project was to make a National institution accessible to the public. By opening the bank, both ideologically and physically, the dynamic of the bank is radically modified. The confrontation between the Bank and the public provides opportunities to gather, learn and improve. The change is subtle from...master thesis 2022
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Todorova, Izabel (author)The Future Bank is a reconstruction project, designed for the existing building of the National Bank of Belgium. However, it is also an act of exploration into the potential of built capital, regardless “good” or “bad”, to be transformed to communicate contemporary ideas and to represent different values than the ones which were at play at the...master thesis 2022
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Linde, Julia (author)This year, the Interiors Buildings Cities graduation studio<br/>has revolved around the topic of the Future Bank. The project addresses the transformation of the National Bank of Belgium set in Brussels, consisting of a vast triangular urban block of 90.000 m2. The bank, designed by Van Goethem just after the Second World War, is an imposing...master thesis 2022
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Woźniak, K. (author)COVID-19 revealed enormous shortcomings in the healthcare system. Its current state, in a great deal brought about by the neoliberal views of the XX and XXI centuries, poses a challenge to care provision. Research explores the limitations of Evidence-Based Design (EBD) and emphasizes the need for a more holistic approach to creating care...master thesis 2022
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Heuvelman, Stefan (author)The Urban Forest Hotel Amsterdam is a hotel where guests, Amsterdammers and other visitors will find a small but profoundly natural forest of native trees within the city. It is a space where human and non-human animals can come and live together. Located besides the Artis zoo, it is a place that questions the future of the zoo and our...master thesis 2022