Redefining Schooling: Co-crafting a Community Waterscape for the Bajau Laut

The Bajau Laut or Sama Dilaut people are an ethnic group of sea nomads who used to roam between the Filipino, Malaysian, and Indonesian maritime zones. The Bajau are known to be amazing freedivers, being able to dive in depths of up to 30 meters and having the ability to hold their breath for more than 5 minutes, making them a group of people...

The Paper School: Layer over Layer

Architecture is made for the user. It needs to fulfill their wishes.<br/>When a building is taken into use the architecture of the architect partly disappears. This is not because the architect did not do a good job. This is the cause of being use. The users will always change a space to their wishes. This can be small by hanging a painting or...

The Glass School

In the Netherlands the Craftsmanship of glass is disappearing and the school focuses on passing on the knowledge of the craftsmanship of glass. The techniques of working with the material like glass blowing and working with stained glass are the are at the foundations of this design.

‘A Relief to be relieved’ by relieved Community - A building learning center: Promoting hurricane-proof building knowledge among communities on Sint Maarten. A way to optimised and self-sufficient disaster relief on Sint Maarten (and beyond).

The primary objective of the project is to not only manifest the gigantic challenges of recovering after hurricane Irma which took place in 2017 but also to point out the socioeconomic disarray in the island before the hurricane itself. <br/>Irma clearly had a tremendous influence on numerous issues. However, the island had been struggling with...

In Search of Contrast: An Art School and Art Gallery in Antwerp

Zurenborg is a residential area in Antwerp. While it is an exclusive<br/>neighbourhood, it is for public leisure activities almost completely depended on the surrounding neighbourhood. Zurenborg is in need its own public interior, a place which offers space for Zurenborg’s families and supports the already existing community work.

Houses are more than containers for Humans: The design brief with and within a cohousing group

As part of my graduation within Architecture, Explore Lab, I want to develop a method to help future residents and other involved parties of a collaborative housing group, to compile a clear and plenary design brief in order to create a coherent architectural design. After developing and applying this method I will redesign a former school...

Het Ambachthuis: New Craft school on Eilandje in Antwerp

Intimate city investigates public interiors named as city rooms characterized by any scale and representation. My project conceives these rooms in my building as sequence and investigates theme of thresholds, and explores the intimacy on a border. All the rooms in the building build a sequence of interiors and exteriors, in which each space has...

Creating a Craft Culture: The Royal Academy of Fine Art's School of Textiles

Through the process of globalisation, politically and physically, we have found many cities promoting individualism through a neo-liberal modern architecture at the cost of a loss of a local identity. With its traditional heritage and rich material culture, Antwerp is taken as a testing ground for the inclusion of a contemporary structure which...

Converging Maârif: Educational focal point for Maârif

This project adds back quality to the living conditions of the most dense district of Casablanca. By providing the district Maârif with a common center, I consolidate the currently disconnected neighborhoods. The main program on this site is focused around education. Education here is being used as a social equalizer and to communize the...

Creativity Courtyards 2.0: Bringing the communal spirit to the surface

The project is about the transformation of the Klein Vaticaan ensemble in Zutphen. By using the historical value of the site and its communal identity as a basis, the aim was to reinterpret the urban fabric and integrate it in a sustainable solution that is going to connect with the city and bring the lost communal spirit to the surface. The...

Safe Haven: providing a high ground when water rises

The water tax in the Netherlands provides the funding for all the water management in the Dutch deltas. In the US there is no such tax, this means funding big civil projects may be problematic and not so easy. Therefore it is necessary to explore smaller scale solutions for the problem of sea level rise. <br/>In the San Francisco bay area, there...

The Learner's Institute: A new educational typology

The educational system is outdated. This project focusses on a new educational system based on creativity as described by several modern educationalists. The project deals with multiple heritage aspects and answers not only to the question of conserving heritage, but also to a wider social question.

The Educational Agora of Klein Vaticaan in Zutphen: A new era for a school complex

This Thesis architectural project aims in the extensive transformation and renovation of three historical school structures, located in the area of Zutphen, in order to adopt in the new 21st century reality.<br/>All the structures are extensively analyzed in terms of their value and embedded spatial potentiality, based on which the proposed...

A Global Approach to Vernacular Practices

As many other parts of the global south, the built environment of Kullu, an Himalayan valley of Himachal Pradesh (india), will be probably threaten by several types of natural hazards, mainly caused by climate change. <br/>This fact, together with the phenomenon of migration towards the main urban environments, determines a risky and urgent...

IJ plein grammar

a design for a grammar school in Amsterdam-noord