Urban dwelling as a support for the public domain - De stadswoning als ondersteuning van het publieke domein

This graduation project contains a masterplan for the urban plot Gershwin, Amsterdam Zuidas, in answer to the economic problems of today that cause a lot of wasteland. To give the area a boost, I introduce hybrid buildings that include urban dwellings. Within a block of 140m x 40m I designed 85 dwellings, commercial units, offices and a parking...

Transitions: At Home in the City

What is feeling at home in the city? how can architecture help intensify the relation between the dweller and his surrounding environment in such a way that the limits between inside and outside are blurred? the goal of this project was to understand through research what are the architectural elements that create the relation inside-outside,...

Dwelling a narrative experience: Embracing the diversity in the experience of dwelling

This is an infill/parasite housing project. The site is the corner in a typical urban block of the city of Berlin. The urban position of the project was based on the idea that "A city must be read as a carpet of fragments, as a continuum sequence of SPATIAL and PROGRAMMATIC PATTERNS." My design proposal is for a new fragment of the patchwork...