Reinterpreting the Elephant: Reclaiming Craft in the City

Reinterpreting the Elephant is about the reinterpretation of abandoned industrial buildings in the city of Liège. Through proposing a craft school in Bressoux, a neighbourhood of Liège, the project tries to reclaim craft in the city and give the city a new chance. By reusing an existing abandoned industrial building and reinterpreting the...

Once upon a time in Bressoux

Bouwerij Breda: Craft in the city

An Architectural project about a wood craftschool in the city centre of Breda.

The school for gold- and silver smithing: The craftschool in Delfshaven

An architectural design for a silver- and goldsmithing craft school in Rotterdam Delfshaven. The design will consist of different scales, from the large stone architectural design to exact details. Building technology will be involved in the design.

Ikebana Gallery School: The new craft school

The Ikebana gallery school positions itself in a dense urban context with a secure connection to its didactic elements and the reappreciation of the chosen craft. It is a multi-faced project which sheds light on education, residents and parties to re-direct the urban context. My interventions for the Gasthuisplaats allow me the opportunity to...

The Wood Knowledge Centre: A knowledge centre for education and practice in wood and woodworking craft.

The Netherlands is building to little in wood and relies way too much on high-emission materials, such as concrete. The building culture is changing, but way to gradual. In response to the scarcity of resources, nitrogen crisis, climate change and the housing crisis, the Netherlands has to turn more to biobased materials, foremost wood, as a...

Schiemond School of Woodworking: Craft in the city

Collective memory in Architecture: Craft School in Anderlecht, Brussels

The studio theme is spolia/bricolage, which means re-using old materials or ideas (spolia) and working spontaneously with what is found at hand (bricolage). The research leading to the collective memory and its architectural application was about Alvaro Siza’s way of working with context, local community and ‘as-found’ elements on the site. The...