Where systems meet: a transformation to cohousing in Hoptille, Amsterdam

Hoptille in the South-East of Amsterdam was created to foster a sense of human-scale architecture amongst the high-rise manifestation that was the Bijlmermeer project. Fourty years later this neighborhood still exists as a modest yet dense neighborhood flanked by an increasingly densifying Amsterdam. <br/>This neighborhood is one of the more...

Togetherness: Solo species sharing space in central Rotterdam

How can a community of multi-generational solo dwellers and non-human species coexist near Rotterdam station today? The project “Togetherness” offers loft homes for starters, cluster apartments for middle and senior citizens, maisonettes for solo parents and habitats for bats. Considering different sharing capacities for each target group leads...

Gemeente Molenort

Design of a cohousing project based on partially existing structure of a former 50ies shopping mall. The existing structure is evaluated and freely approached with the open mindset of the bricoleur. The bricoleur as defined by Claude Levi Strauss works with the existing and uses what is at hand. The result is the formation of a new urban...

The nurturing city

Increasing ground prices are displacing the middle class families from Amsterdam. The available housing is either too expensive or simply unfit for families. They are therefore forced by the circumstances to move to the suburbs, away from their job, family and friends in the city. In the process, the city loses valuable middle class workers and...

Cohousing for elderly: A study into the organization of cohousing for elderly

Due to an aging population and the consequently rise in publicly funded cost for long-term care a major change was made in the financing structure of the health care system in The Netherlands. Since this change in 2015 care providers have closed care homes. In Delft the main institutional care provider now has partly vacant real estate. This...

What's mine is ours: Empowering cohousing communities towards self-organization through sharing economy

Our housing market is challenged. Housing prices are rising, and the number of single-person households is increasing, which impacts the affordability of housing. Cohousing offers a possible solution to this problem. However, the level of empowerment of cohousing communities to self-organize is troubled by financial or legal barriers, among...

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...

Ensemble XS | Shared living and working

Mediterraan ouder worden: Groepswonen in een kas

In het vergrijzende Nederland hebben veel ouderen last van eenzaamheid. Ook blijkt uit onderzoek dat ouderen 95% van hun tijd binnenshuis doorbrengen terwijl de buitenlucht juist ontzettend goed is voor de gezondheid. Door actieve ouderen samen te brengen in een groepswoning wordt de drempel tot sociale interactie verlaagd. Daarbij wordt over...

The Contemporary Monastery

Application and adaptation of the monastic typology to contemporary collective housing.

Skip the Developer - Collective Private Commissioning as a model for the sustainable redevelopment of Canadian suburbs.