Bridging Heterotopia: How can a structure be designed in order to promote social integration through empathetic experience in Rotterdam?

This speculative project named “Bridging Heterotopia” is named as such because it draws from the guiding principle that is juxtaposition in real space, of many spaces together that would normally be incompatible. This principle materializes through a bridge which will be a facilitator for different cultures in Rotterdam to find a common space....

Mediating Between Cultures: Architectural attitudes towards a globalizing world

The general aim of this essay is to better understand the effects of globalization on architecture as well as its inherent possibilities. This research has specifically been oriented on architectural attitudes towards these processes. In order to gain an understanding of globalization processes their socio-economic consequences are first...

Knowledge Model for Cultural Analogy in Design and Design Education