Ruin Prosthesis, using new crafts to rehabilitate the ruin of castle Schaesberg

This graduation project aims to integrate digital techniques within the practice ruin renovation. From studying ruin renovation projects and theory, this project argues that the use of digital capture and fabrication has the potential to be the tool to make that joint in a more specific, more customized and more elegant way than before. To...

Wood for all - the environmental and atmospheric value of all-wood architecture

In Kerkrade, one of the municipalities of Parkstad Limburg, the population shrinkage is particularly manifest. In an attempt to balance the housing market, HEEMwonen, a local social housing association demolishes a part of her building stock. Among other places, this has already happened in Heilust, a residential area in Kerkrade-West. The...

Refurbishing vacant offices with EWF into architectural attractive, low energy, comfortable and durable working environments

My graduation project was split up into a generic exploration which resulted in a research paper and a specific design in which I have tested the results of the generic part. I explored the potential of applying the Earth, Wind and Fire (EWF) concept on vacant office buildings in the Netherlands. In order to find a specific solution that I could...

EventHUB: A self-sustaining and relocatable pavilion for events

For the design of the EventHUB a research was done on the possibilities for renewable onsite power production for temporary outdoor events. The research concluded that flexible PV cells were an interesting possibility and were here for used as starting point for the architectural design. During the design process the integration of the PV cells...

CanoPV: How can a canopy system be used to create temporary public space which generates energy

E-Synergy, local collaboration in Agriport

Sustainable energy brings us not only advantages, but some problems as well. This research is an exploration to the problem on our energy infrastructure and comes with a proposal of solving this problem with architecture.

4FFland

This paper presents a research which seeks ways to transform the Brettenzone, an existing recreational area in Amsterdam, into an energyscape: a landscape which produces renewable energy. Renewable energy production will increasingly start to compete with other forms of land use such as recreation, nature and agriculture. Its careful integration...