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...

Public Matter

Public Matter aims for the unification of built form and public use. Within the context of London, extensive research has been conducted to understand a city’s ability and shortcomings in accommodating the public. This project speaks of a reciprocal relation between research and design, and form and use. Ultimately, a series of acts is proposed...

Choreographing the |Un|expected

A proposal to set up material conditions that make it possible for dwellers in Teusaquillo, Bogotá to collectively experience the public realms anew through the movement of their bodies during the festive and attentive dance of the carnival taking place along Parkway. Here, one can choose to fully engage with life beyond the self or to withdraw...

Architectural translation of Public Sphere: The Stimulation of Meaningful Encounters between Strangers

Socio-philosophers and architects hold very different views on the definition of the public realm/sphere, resulting in the neglecting of the critique of the first group on the latter. In this paper architectural solutions are discussed on this topic, looking first at what architectural elements stimulate the gathering in public places, secondly...

The Upside-Down Publicness

The urban sculpture - defining a building sculpture as reaction to urban fragments

Graduation project the urban sculpture is a proposal to densify the urban emptiness within the Sint-Jacobsplaats while dealing with the fragmented patch work of buildings and integrating a hybrid flexible program within a unifying building skin.

Refreshing the Urban Block

Public Building / Public Realm, composition & tectonics - Project title: The vitality of networks

These documents contain the work of Peter van Gelder and his collaborators.

The Public Fibre: The entering of 'Culturalfication' inside the public realm

The public realm of the city of Rotterdam is diverse. The use of this public space is influenced by many cultures making use of it according to their own habbits and functions. The Design focuses on the use of this public space as a cultural display. The street inside the building is public and functions as a cultural generator running trough...

Experiencing Scheveningen, a public building

a design for a public building that focusses on the arrival of beach tourists in Scheveningen

Coolsingel Rotterdam

Research Booklet MSC3 Studio Public Realm Rotterdam 2011-2012.

Public Realm: Rotterdam Lijnbaan : Research Booklet MSC3 Studio Public Realm 2011

Entre les Mondes

Urban "Home" for the Great Urban “Outcast”: Developing "Normalized Urban Residential System" in Second-tier City Changsha for the Low-income Migrant Workers

The "migrant worker" (MW) is a new social group and the irreplaceable force in economic development in contemporary Chinese cities. But they are “fake-urbanized”. Their urban residential problems directly reflected the situation: On the one hand, they are not acknowledged in urban population’s (UP) urban residential system; On the other hand,...

De Gecultiveerde Stad / The Cultivated City

Ontwerp voor een publiek gebouw in de binnenstad van Rotterdam geïntegreerd met het monumentale Stadstimmerhuis. Creatieve industrie is vaak drijvende kracht achter levendige gebiedsontwikkeling. Voor de herinrichting van het kavel achter het Stradstimmerhuis is het dan ook van belang dat deze groep aangetrokken wordt en in het publiek domein...