3D Plant Structure Generation: Working towards an autonomous greenhouse

As the global population continues to increase, so does its dependance on food, which has led to the development of more efficient food production methods. Greenhouse horticulture and genetically modified seeds have increased crop yield and decreased water and energy consumption. However, delicate greenhouse-grown vegetables continue to...

The Oblique and the Appropriation: Architecture as catalyst for urban activities

For this research, the focus has been on exploring the relationship between street culture, public space and public architecture, with the aim of challenging negative perceptions towards this culture and fostering the integration of diverse communities within urban environments. The project begins by defining public space as accessible areas for...

Architecture of the skeleton: Converting the Hague’s former police station into a public mixed-use development

The graduation project proposes the transformation of the police headquarters in the Hague, into a mixed-use development, including an IT university, co-working spaces, apartments, along with a public library and other facilities that encourage the interaction between the building users and locals, forming innovative knowledge clusters across...

Topology optimization for ship structures with manufacturing constraints

Currently, most ships are designed on the basis of rules and reference ships for which often only the critical structural parts are calculated and designed in detail. This process can result in an over-dimensioned ship with the standard structural outcome of longitudinal stiffeners, transverse stiffeners, and bulkheads with a fixed distance due...

c[l]amping: City Hotel in Amsterdam

The project seeks to stabilise and reverse the degradation of the pier’s walls so it remains available to its users. The structure acts as a stabilizer for this piece of land, so as not to let it disappear.<br/>The light structure takes inspiration from a bird perched on a branch, a metaphor for young Amsterdammer’s searching for their place in...

ARCHI-NATURE: Renovate in-between space to convert AMC into a natural healing community

In order to meet the needs for future hospital, the AMC requires a better healing environment with nature elements. In addition, the AMC building will transform from closed medical machine to a public welcome community. My project is to renovate the in-between space of AMC by ‘Archi-Nature’, and convert it into a natural healing community. Archi...

Hautepierre: Between ideal and reality

The banlieues seem condemned to be the scenery for the ‘France d’en bas’. A france that go to the fair, eats kebab every Wednesday, sleep in a hotel F1 next to the highway, marry in the ‘salle des fetes’, and spend their Monday choosing a new carpet at les 4 ‘murs’ or Tati. However, it seems that the city of strasbourg neglects this 'france d'en...

Exploiting active-bending for double curved structures: Research in self-supporting double-curved structures composed of elastically deformed planar elements

This thesis aims to exploit active bending as an approach to create complex curved geometries, which are structurally self-supporting systems. The simplicity of creating complex curved geometries from initially planar elements is the leading motivator for this research. The central research question is: ‘How can double curvature be exploited in...

The Educational Agora of Klein Vaticaan in Zutphen: A new era for a school complex

This Thesis architectural project aims in the extensive transformation and renovation of three historical school structures, located in the area of Zutphen, in order to adopt in the new 21st century reality.<br/>All the structures are extensively analyzed in terms of their value and embedded spatial potentiality, based on which the proposed...