A Spatial Dialogue in the emerging city of Addis Ababa: Bridging the Gaps between Informality and Formality

The Master's thesis "A Spatial Dialogue in the emerging city of Addis Ababa" explores the intricate dynamics between formal and informal housing in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Authored by a German-Ethiopian architectural designer, the thesis critically examines the oversimplified categorization of traditional "sefer" settlements and modern...

a home in the city: testing street dwelling as an alternative in Munich's housing crisis

Challenging a predominant focus in academia on studying societal and spatial challenges primarily in the Global South or non-Western environments, this project investigates the urban fabric and hidden socio-political mechanisms of precarity in the city of Munich, Germany. Houselessness appears as the manifestation of a global housing crisis and...

Who Owns the City?: A Response to Privatised Public Space

The following research discusses the changing nature of public space and how ownership has become an inevitable part of it. The aim of this research has been to discuss the complexity of the grey area between privately owned public space and public space, as well as the emerging issues related to POPS within the City of London. In which my...

Bricolage of Society: A new public ground for Nijmegen

The notion of bricolage has become an important point of view and enabling approach to the project in which the focus is placed on building a deep understanding and knowledge to develop greater sensitivity towards the existing – existing in terms of both the physical realm around us but also the people themselves that bring the animate into the...

Generous Space for Improvisation: A bricolage of everyday life, passage and urban residue

Wandering around the neighborhood and exploring the unstable interstitial space, the passages were deemed as the most vibrant stages for real life, the hidden gems behind the walls bounding the street. The passages connect the street to the consumption space behind the row of housing blocks, which is transformed from the old production...

Informal Network: A urban strategy for embracing difference and otherness in Bogota

Informal actors possess a practical knowledge of the city, a sort of ‘secret know-how’, of how to move and operate in an environment that is unwelcoming to them. How could this knowledge be used as a tool or input of urban design? By considering the knowledge and ways of operating of the informal actors in a city, the following research has...

Unfolding Quebradas: Informality as a Method

Personalized Architecture: The Inhabitant becomes the Architect

Architecture today occupies an interstitial field that is fundamentally unstable, contaminated, complex, fragmented and dispersed. Public Building studio seeks to study such ‘interstitial fields’ in order to speculate and configure architectural potentials latent in the public realms, spheres, territories and borders of Bucharest. The studio...

Freedom and Control in a Contested City

The graduation project addresses two parallel themes - the observation of everyday life in an unfamiliar context, and an investigation into the relationship between the architectural interior and the city. The design project uses observational drawings to reflect on this relationship, and modifies it using a system of simple, repeatable parts in...

Flexibility within the Perimeter block

Het ontwerp bestaat uit een bouwblok waarin twee thema's centraal staan. Het eerste thema is de verbinding van bewoners in een bouwblok met de aangrenzende buitenruimte. In het ontwerp zijn verschillende architectonische middelen ingezet om deze verbinding te versterken. Het tweede thema richt zich op flexibiliteit. Vanwege de grote...

Space of ambiguity: Toward the evanescence

When we walk on the streets in Istanbul, we are submerged by second use of space. The background offered by the city is an opportunity for interpretations. Facades are a layer of time, the streets a giant market, tracks in empty plots an inscription of flows... Spontaneity is overlapping with established rules. It is like the every built part of...

The street as a mirror of public conditions: A reuse of appropriated space in Tirana

Minimum / Maximum: A small scale dwelling environment within the large scale of Zuidas

This dwelling project aims to create an alternative to the large scale, tower+plinth typology which is common in Zuidas at the moment, instead aiming to design a smaller scale dwelling environment with directer contact between the dwellings and outside/public space and more individual expression for each dwelling.