The Gardens of Deviation: Intensified cores of affective relationships in Rotterdam

The mechanisms of satisfying desires have made modern urban complexes extremely fixed and programmed leaving no room for the ‘other’ to happen,the divergent from normative and expected behaviors to emerge. The green spaces, although a great chance to dilute this rigidness, follow the same expected patterns failing to satisfy the various emergent...

In the Gardens: A new elderly home in the Schilderswijk.

An oncological aftercare centre in the Plantage, Amsterdam

This project searches for an aftercare typology in an urban environment and finds it in the 'hofjes' typology which has been used for centuries. Also the architecture follows the ways of Evidence based design in order to use the architecture in the healing proces of the patient.

Archipelago Gardens