Gastronomic Architecture: Towards a diverse food space in Friedrichshain

My project starts from the city Berlin. After visiting the site in Friedrichshain, I found that people who lived there were not satisfied with the food-eating space nearby throughout my interviews. They said that even though there were some restaurants, the community was lack of diverse food space, and they were willing to go to the West Berlin...

Repurposing sublime religious heritage: preserving experiential value during transformation

During adaptive re-use of heritage obejcts, experiential value of characteristics is often overlooked. This project highlights the importance of the effect of architecture on the psyche and how integrating this into the value assessment, a more holistic heritage approach can be realised. Religious heritage often has the capacity to astonish,...

H-schools as the centre of the neighbourhood in the post-war Netherlands

Through both the lens of sustainability and current events, particularly the pandemic, there is an increasing awareness of the importance of adaptability and intensive use of buildings. In the Netherlands, one form of adaptability and intensive use emerged in the second half of the 20th century in school buildings. One of the main ideas is that...

A Bank of Opportunities: A sheltering Bank for people

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...

Participating in the community centre from beginning to end: Research on the influence of user participation in the design of community centres in Rotterdam, 1960-1990

This thesis researches the influence of user participation on design. It focusses specifically on user participation in the design of community centres in Rotterdam, 1960-1990. First, a literature investigation has been conducted to establish context and theory on user participation in architecture. Secondly, research on three study cases has...

The Neighbourhood Art Centre

For my graduation project I am designing the Neighbourhood Art Centre, which is about implementing a museum in its immediate environment and becoming part of the neighbourhood life by engaging the community to come and be an active role in the museum organization. This paper will be about how the museum of today can be designed to engage the...

IDencity: Adaptive Reuse of Car Park Hakfort

"NEW HERITAGE” The studio New Heritage focuses on the existing housing stock within Amsterdam Zuidoost: „Many neighbourhoods face social problems of liveability and demographic changes. Moreover, this housing, like all of our stock, should meet the future standards of energy performance, which leads to an urgent need for...

Towards Circular Neighbourhood: Addis Ababa Living Lab

A solution to the urgent need for new urban housing that could translate current social cultures to the physical environment is essential to avoid further ghettoisation and provide sufficient accessibility of amenities, infrastructure and employment. Seeking the balance between resiliency and efficiency at a low environmental cost requires...

Fifth generation on Plofbos: The unintentional beauty of dealing with explosives!

Hembrug was back in the days responsible for the production and storage of weapons and ammunition for the Dutch army. The location has been chosen very carefully by the Stelling of Amsterdam and nowadays it is located between the two big growing cities Amsterdam and Zaandam. Because of is secrecy and abandoned, Hembrug can been seen as a new...

Community Crafts Centre: An Institution for the Everyday

The project is a design for a community crafts centre in Antwerp. Researching the meaning of Institution in the Intimate City, the resulting project is one that conveys an atmosphere of intimacy through the notions of Geometry, Materiality and Identity, while being well insterted in the cultural, physical, historical, and temporal context and...

The modular post-earthquake shell: A multi-objective parametric structural design approach

In April 2018, a graduation project in the field of architecture was concluded. The project entailed the design of a temporary community centre in the earthquake-damaged historic town centre of L’Aquila, Italy. The underlying social concept was focused on participation of the local population in the construction of the community centre. The...

Opportunity in Chaos: Triggering revival of the damaged historic town centres of Italy

April, 2009. A medium-powered earthquake occurs in L’Aquila, Italy, causing disproportionally heavy damage: 308 people are killed, more than 1 500 people are injured and over 65 000 people are rendered homeless. The historic town centre of L’Aquila is among the most heavily affected areas. <br/>Nine years later, the once beautiful and lively...

Landmark of meeting

Pavilions for Okana: From landscape to roofscape

Pavilions for Okana is a Design-Build-Studio that combines a theoretical and a practical part. The design consists of pilot pavilions for multifunctional public use in the rural areas around Lake Victoria, whereby the first one will be build in Okana (West-Kenya) and act as community centre.

Community centre Afrikaanderwijk Rotterdam: Water storage as a social connection

A design for a community centre situated in the Afrikaanderwijk Rotterdam. The program will consist of a swimming pool, theatre, dancing studios, music studios, skate park and communal gardens.