The River Keeps The Score: Religiously Relinking to Budapest’s Danube River

For millennia, humans have lived, constructed, and cultivated along the banks of rivers. Rivers are the genius loci of these riverside cities, embodying the spirit of the place and its people. Rivers have been the source of life upon which civilization was built: providing water, power, and transport, but are also spiritually deeply meaningful...

The Journey of Your Life

The ideal wedding is a social construct that has changed through history according to the needs of society. By changing the wedding from a product to a process, this contribution aims to transform the whole wedding experience into a more efficient, technological, and sustainable event. The project is located at the spectacular Calanques National...

The Relationship between Christo’s Artworks

The dissertation The Relationship between Christo’s Artworks investigates and discusses the couple Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s artistic work, who created large-scale projects that use their existing surroundings — architectural or natural. The thesis begins by examining the historical context, which briefly explains the project’s essential...

Beauty of artificial boundary - Carpark Plus Project based in Bucharest

Return to Eden: The School for Contentment

Technology will not be enough to make our lifestyles sustainable, we have to change our lifestyle and learn to become content and not always strive for more comfort and technological progress. The school for contentment shows the beauty of sober architecture in the picturesque Dutch landscape.

From Infrastructure to Flowscape: The Houtribdijk as an operative landscape structure

The theme of the landscape architecture graduation lab is “Flowscape”. It states the landscape infrastructure is not only a technical structure but also a carrier of natural and urban processes. It is proposed to solve the environmental problems and adapt to the surroundings as well as providing the appropriate environmental conditions for the...

Design Methods for Young Sustainable Architecture Practice

This paper introduces landscape aesthetics as an innovative design method for sustainable architecture. It is based on the framework of a recent paper where the young and unfamous authors criticized three of the most prominent? architects today in regard to sustainable architecture and its aesthetics. Leading architects expressed their...

Cadavre Exquis: Dutch Architecture with Landscape Methods Vol. 3. (pre-release 0.02)

Contemporary architecture is increasingly influenced by the concept of landscape, and this is particularly the case in the Netherlands. Like at many other places, a new mindset is emerging, transforming the core values of the disciplines of architecture and urbanism with the notion of the organization of architectural space as a landscape....

Let it rain

As a result of the climate change, showers of rain become more and more extreme. This results in water problems in dense build areas where large amounts of rain water are immediately discharged into the sewer system. Rotterdam is one of these dense cities that struggles with this problem. The water system of Rotterdam can’t handle the amount of...

Architecture with landscape methods: Doctoral thesis proposal and SANAA Rolex Learning Center Lausanne Sample Field Trip

Contemporary architecture has been strongly influenced by the concept of landscape in recent times. A new mindset evolves that changes the core of the architectural discipline: the organization and composition of architectural space as a landscape. The scope of this thesis is to investigate and understand architecture that has been designed like...

Propositions for a study of Architecture with Landscape Methods: Could innovative design methods lead to Sustainable Spatial Development?

Contemporary architecture has been strongly influenced by the concept of landscape in recent times. The landscape analogy that accompanied architecture for a long time in tectonics or ornament is now transforming the concepts of form and space. The landscape analogy has moved from marginal subjects to the core of the discipline. We are looking...

Amalgam Park: The coalescence of recreation and water treatment: Public bath house with swimming pool complex, water purification facility and marsh park in Havana.

Problem statement: Historically, water had been extracted from some of Cuba’s major aquifers at a higher rate than they were recharged, but in recent years the pace of water extraction appears to have intensified. Surface waters diverted into man-made reservoirs can interfere with the natural recharge of aquifers. High evaporation rates from...

Montjuïc, her-bergt de stad

Graduation project on rethinking the position of the mountain Montjuïc in Barcelona. Project rethinks what the mountain means to Barcelona as a citypark and how to reemphasize this. And develops a plan for reconnecting the entrance to the Montjuïc from the city centre and harbour front. With the development of a hotel, the Parador + as a meeting...