De Bogaard: Reimagined: Stimulating the attraction force of a 20th century Dutch shopping mall

By approaching the research from an user's perspective, De Bogaard in Rijswijk has been redesigned in order to attract pioneers that will aid in reigniting the attraction of the shopping mall. It has been partly refunctioned, in order to blow life into the area and stimulate the community. The new design focuses on the first phase of the...

The shopping mall as an urban catalyst: The case of Leyweg Winkelcentrum

The present graduation thesis “The shopping mall as an urban catalyst” explores the idea of an urban structure where working, crafting, living, meeting, and learning are entangled. The aim of this exploration mainly lies in the creation of a “skill city”, where groups that have not yet been fully integrated into the area under research can be...

Towards an evolution heritage design: The 20th century Dutch shopping mall skin redesign

This paper explores the balance between heritage values and new identities in the redesign of 20th-century Dutch shopping mall skins. The skin of a building plays a crucial role in its external identity and communicates its history, style, and cultural context. Shopping malls, in particular, require constant redesign to keep up with changing...

The Healthiest Mall In The Netherlands: Revitalising the Palace Promenade in Scheveningen

Atmospheres and materiality: redesign of the Leyweg shopping mall

The article discusses the challenges of revitalizing shopping malls as heritage sites in the 21st century, due to their vacancy and deterioration resulting from depersonalization. The proposed approach called "tabula scripta" embraces the existing layers and context, requiring a broadening and deepening of the profession of architecture to focus...

Rethinking the everydayness of Dutch 20th-Century malls

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New Human Nature: A Plea for the Coherency of the DiverCity

The project aims to answer the following research question: How can the Dutch 80’s neighbourhood be densified in terms of housing and nature while enhancing and preserving in- and extrinsic values (if present) by taking the neighbourhood Hoptille as case study? Hoptille (1980) is a neighbourhood in Amsterdam Zuid-Oost and was a reaction against...

In gelul kan je niet wonen: A case for affordability in 1980´s Dutch housing

This project explores a value based approach to dealing with supposed New Heritage. The value analysis serves a the basis for a redesign strategy in Heesterveld.

Heesterveld gone green

After doing a collective research in Heesterveld, positive and negative aspects were mentioned by the government, residents, makers and owners. The goal of this design is to embrace the valuable aspects of Heesterveld and improve the problems. The problems in the neighbourhood mainly arose on the social level, more specifically in the public...

Juxtaposition of notions: Adaptable housing through circular transformation

The city block of Bijlmerplein is a significant example of created identity through different notions. In the context 70s and 80s heritage, Bijlmerplein demonstrates ideological interplay between different ideas and ways of design of built environment in the one neighborhood. It was designed as a remediation and a response to failed modernist...