How can Participatory Design Serve as a Vector for the Sustainable Transformation of de Hoeksteen?

This paper examines the valuation and perception of de Hoeksteen, a heritage building in the Netherlands. Expert stakeholders, such as the municipality and architecture historian Joop van Stigt, value the building for its aesthetic qualities and historical significance. In contrast, users of the building, particularly the community organization...

Redesigning communities: Realising cohousing through circular transformation

The past generation has built more than all previous generations combined. The houses got bigger, families got smaller and our lifestyle more consuming. Times however have changed so that nowadays we are faced with multiple social problems – such as aging and loneliness – and environmental problems. Living more social and reducing consumption is...

The Future of Structuralism: Hidden Beauty

How does a brick arch become part of a structuralist building? In this project I unravel the material layers of Van Stigt's Leiden Faculty and add a new architectural language that reappreciates the craftmanship behind brickwork.

Reunite faculty and city

Restoring the relation between the Faculty of Humanities by architect Joop van Stigt and the city of Leiden.

LEIDEN HUMANITIES Campus & Boutique Residences: 72 | 50 Beyond the Boundaries

This graduation report is a summary of the architectural analysis, design interpretation and reflections of the Dutch Structuralism Movement. By using Leiden Humanity Faculty designed by Joop van Stigt (1976) as a case study, the researches were conducted through various perspectives which range from architectural/urban design strategies,...

Relink: Leiden University: Rising above the existent

The Project is located in Leiden University’s Humanities Campus (Leiden, Netherlands). Specifically, this project is about intervening on two Structuralist buildings, PN van Eyckhof and Matthias de Vrieshof designed by Joop van Stigt in 1982; the brief calls for their regeneration and adaptation in today’s society, while focusing on one of the...