Nijmegen: Heterotopia: the re-use of alterity and authenticity in Molenpoort

The design and research developed in a Lexicon of bricolage definitions of Nijmegen, becoming a new way of recomposing an understandable language as a research product that could be shared but also interpreted by everyone. The research highlights the value of the context, related to typologies, fragments using beguinages as a guiding reference...

The death and life of Chinatowns: Towards an integrated and authentic transformation of ‘Chinatown’ in Amsterdam

The advent of steamship in the 19th century is accompanying with the Chinese immigration. Chinese seamen gathered around the dockland at a certain scale and formed Chinese quarters. Therefore, Chinatowns appeared in many harbour cities in European countries. With the urban development and migrant shifts within the recent one hundred years,...

Efteling: Innovative, while authentic and customer centric

There is a shift to the experience economy. Customers are increasingly craving unique experiences and authentic brands; brands that are real, sincere. Additionally, technological developments are booming and can help enhance these customer experience. Efteling employees have lots of ideas to innovate technically. This master thesis explores how...

Mending Varna: Authentic Landscape as a Fountainhead and Essential Element of Urban Continuity and Identity

Thesis project is developed within the framework of the Flowscapes studio. It follows the strategy of a research by design. It explores solutions to the problems of urban fragmentation, lack of coherence and identity of urban environment from the perspective of landscape architecture. Authentic landscape is chosen as a hypothetical initial...

Pursuing Authentic City: Create new self-sustaining system of authentic city in Guangzhou historic city centre, China

Gateway to Tallinn. An architectural representation of genius loci

Architecture for the re-socialization of forensic psychiatric care: Building for the insane criminal

Architecture for forensic psychiatric care is about the fitted architecture for a specific target group which is in need of security AND a treatment environment. The research, partly literature, partly design, is focused on finding the best environment for these patients. The contracts between being locked down and feeling at home plays a...

Premium Packaging: Developing a tool to support the creation of premium branding and packaging design at Cartils

Introduction An often-recurring subject in branding assignments in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) packaging industry is ‘what is “premium.”’ Marketing and Brand Managers of FMCG brands brief packaging designers (such as Cartils, see paragraph 1.2) that their new packaging must have a premium character. Although one might have an idea of...