The Balance Between Cultural Historical Values and Sustainable Adaptations in Monumental Canal Houses in Amsterdam

The slogan of the Groene Grachten (2018) for the flagship project at Oudezijds Voorburgwal 136 is ‘If it can happen here, it can happen anywhere!’ The renovation of the building in 2021 serves as a model for other canal houses to demonstrate that even these monumental buildings can be made sustainable. The aim of this paper is to investigate in...

The Authenticity of the Post-war Modern Mall: Preserving the heritage of Functionalist Malls

The goal of this project was to preserve the heritage aspect of Post-war reconstruction era Malls, which frequently face vacancy and demolition. The concept of Authenticity in heritage was an important factor to consider while transforming the design subject. The final design took into account the authenticity of materials, cultural authenticity...

Reconstruction of the Notre Dame de Paris: as a moment for reinterpretation

Architectural graduation project containing a research and design for the Notre Dame of Paris. The research focusses on reinterpreting the Notre Dame of Paris based on seven interviews. The interviews are bundled in a set of narrative drawings that approach the building and its environment as intangible domain containing rather the social...

Activating the “glass box“: The post-war International style office building’s contribution to the future densification challenges of the city centre of Rotterdam

The project “Activating the glass box” aims to find out how the existing built heritage can be not an obstacle, but the key to the comprehensive dense city of the near future. It showcases the contextual design approach and opportunities for the unlisted 50’s-60’s international style office buildings - “glass boxes”- whose potential is not yet...

OPEN HOUSE: Arts Centre and New Public Realm along the River Maas

The project Open House, ‘gleans’ a derelict and underutilised part of the riverfront in Maastricht and gives it over to the everyday people of the city in the form of a public building - an Arts Centre for Maastricht. The ambition for the project is to create an architecture that will mesh seamlessly with the public realm, breaking down the...

(Re-)Framing Authenticity: Industrial Heritage Reuse Strategies in Review

The present essay examines the influence of authenticity’s notion on <br/>Industrial Heritage Reuse practices in Europe from the 1970’s onwards. This <br/>consideration formed the motive of the carried-out analysis. Initially, <br/>authenticity’s theoretical framework is being interpreted through its latent <br/>relation to intangible heritage....

Authentic reconstruction of the Notre Dame de Paris?

This paper reviews the decision to rebuild the Notre Dame de Paris to its last known visual state by, firstly, gaining knowledge in the general definition and the importance of heritage and secondly, obtaining insides in the notion and complexities of authenticity. In addition this paper reviews the reconstruction process of the Frauenkirche in...

Authenticity and meaningful futures for museums: the role of 3D printing

This article uses the COVID –19 crisis to re –evaluate the importance of reproductions – 3D prints – for art’s authenticity, and their significance in keeping art museums meaningful in a rapidly changing world. The fixation on ‘auratic experiences’, inherent to artworks’ materiality is integral to contemporary art theory and museum practice,...

Culture, Corona, Crisis: Best Practices and the Future of Dutch Museums

The consequences of the coronavirus and the physical limitations it imposes on museums and their visitors force museums to rethink cultural identity and to approach the exhibition of material artworks differently. Only a limited number of people are allowed to visit the museum at one time, booking time slots is mandatory, making it difficult to...

Hip and authentic. Defining neo-retro style in package design

Styles in design have a strong evocative power for consumers and are commonly used by brands to communicate specific associations of ideas. This article describes the style elements and the associations related to a contemporary style in graphic design: the neo-retro style. We argue that this style is linked to the hipster subculture but used...

Digital Nomad Hub Amsterdam: Where global travel meets the local level

As a result of the vigorous and complex forces of globalization, which continue to increase the connectedness of our global village, tourism and the search for authentic experiences rise. While being aware of the paradoxes that come with authenticity, this co-living building at the Weteringcircuit in Amsterdam provides digital nomads with basic...

Image Revealed, Extracted, Mounted, Expressed: Design for a collapsed building in the city of 's-Hertogenbosch

Image Revealed, Extracted, Mounted, Expressed (2019) forms the culmination of an inquiry into the ways in which artistic methods of working can be used in the process of architectonic design. This project derives from a search for authentically representing the past in the architectonic object. Specifically, this project explores ways of...

Using liminal exhibition spaces to create a subliminal festival experience at the MOJO Exhibition

In 2019, Museum Prinsenhof Delft will be showcasing an exhibition about MOJO Concerts. Since MOJO is a Dutch music event organiser, the assignment for this graduation project was to design an experience to evoke an on-site festival experience. A comprehensive design is made for the liminal exhibition space (the spaces in between exhibition rooms...

Home(L)essentials: The Thin Line between Local and Global Identities

An investigation into modern Nomadic ways of life. A search that taks place on boundaries; 'Place the feeling Space', 'Virtual the Realty of cyberspace' and 'Time the Duration of Space'. It is a celebration of 'local authenticity' and 'global efficiency'. Eventually it gives directions in solving the questions of how to solve the homeless nature...