Beyond the invisible wall: The effort of mediation

This graduation project is the result of the ambition of generating a public intervention in an extremely complex and challenging environment, translating in a space of mediation between different - social and morphological - realities, able to embrace urban fact in all its facets and contradictions.

2.5D Playgrounds for Bogota: Stimulate Playful Actions in Public Spaces by Redesigning Ground Surfaces into 2.5D Architectural Compositions

How to construct the commons with the power of play? How to reactivate leftover public spaces in central Bogota by architectural interventions that stimulate playful actions? <br/><br/>I shift my focus from buildings to the ground surfaces, and redesign them into a constellation of “2.5D architectural composition”. “2.5D” refers to an abstract...

Mid-City Central: A new perspective on airport centered communities in the 21st century.

An exploration into the suburbian wastelands of Chicago and how these can be given a new boost by increasing connectivity.

Station Zuidas Amsterdam

Design of infrastructural node ZuidasDok in Amsterdam's Zuidas, which organizes the different flows of traffic, while offering freedoms for the pedestrian. The historical Zuidelijke Wandelweg that got demolished when the ground got prepared to construct Zuidas and Buitenveldert, is transformed and rebuilt and is now part of the public domain of...

Gated Anonymity vs Ungated Community

Gated Anonymity vs Ungated Community Overcoming social, functional and physical borders through strategic spatial planning in Baishizhou, China.

Cauliflower Revisited: The regeneration of cauliflower neighbourhoods using an environment -behaviour approach

This graduation research uses an environment-behaviour approach to regenerate cauliflower neighbourhoods (bloemkoolwijken). This was applied to Kesteren (part of compostie cauliflower neighbourhood the Haagse Beemden, Breda). The theoretical framework focusses on aspect such as: liveability, public space, environment-behaviour, spatial cognition...

Public space in private perspective: Een verkenning van de randvoorwaarden en mogelijkheden bij privatisering van de openbare ruimte

Privatization of public space has some immediate commercial purposes. Buying the right on return on the way the urban space is maintained and managed can be profitable to private parties when an area accommodates many (permanent) commercial and/or residential users in combination with little public space. When there is little profit, private...