Designing a healthy home: Research for guidelines to improve the physical health and mental well-being in dwellings using the passive house concept as basis

This master thesis is about health in the build environment focused on the occupant’s health in their own home. Dou to the increasing research about physical health and mental well-being it is getting clearer what is needed to create a healthy home. However, our homes are not becoming healthier. This is mainly because people do not know or...

A-Common Houses: Adadptive Reuse Project on De Knip into Dwelling Complex, guided by newly added Material, Common Reeds

This project is an adaptive-reuse project on De Knip, the current tax administrative building in Sloterdijk, Amsrerdam into dwelling complex for starters. It is a house to rekindle our innate, physical sensitivity towards our environment, which has been slowly eroded in the mass standardisation in architecture. The interventions are added in...

Relating to Water: A habitat resilient for flood and drought, maintaining good water quality and using the opportunities water provides

PROJECT<br/><br/>There are flood and drought problems in the Garden Cities of Amsterdam, which will get worse if nothing changes. On top of that, there is a problem with the quality of the open water. Therefore, an approach is needed to cope with these water problems. Besides this, 8000 new dwellings may need to be realised in Amsterdam Nieuw...

Living in a world with(out) oil: Turning oil tanks into dwellings in a post oil world

We are getting close to the so called peak of oil and this will result in a shortage of oil and therefore oil products. We can assume that the oil industry will get in decline, therefore we should think about the heritage that the oil industry will leave behind. An iconic element of the petrol industry is the oil storage tank. We can knock these...

A study to characteristics in and around dwellings, that create the right conditions for people to adopt a sustainable lifestyle: learning from bottom-up, sustainable initiatives: Dutch tiny-houses and ecovillages

Homes for sustainable living<br/><br/>‘’The good intentions and creativity of citizens and their willingness to make a difference is one of the most underutilized resources we have today’’, says Global Ecovillage Network Europe (GEN). Bottom- up initiatives like ecovillages and the recently emerged Dutch ‘Tiny House Movement’ are sustainable...

A self-sufficient group of dune houses

De mogelijkheid om, met een sluitende businesscase, flexibiliteitsmaatregelen te implementeren in woningen

Een onderzoek naar de haalbaarheid van de implementatie van flexibele maatregelen op de woningmarkt waarbij de nadruk ligt op het creëren van een nieuwe businesscase tussen de projectontwikkelaar en de investeerder.

Reduce and Reuse

De hoofdvraag voor het afstudeerproject is hoe een bestaand kantoorgebouw getransformeerd kan worden naar woningen met klimaat adaptieve methoden? Om een antwoord op deze vraag te kunnen geven is het onderzoek gericht op klimaat adaptieve methoden welke toepasbaar zijn binnen de architectonische opgave binnen Nederland. Het onderzoeksdoel was om...

Bouwstenen Vogelbuurt: Bottom-up woningtransformatie door het stimuleren van particuliere woningverbetering.

In this graduation a strategy is developed for the Vogelbuurt area in Rotterdam-Zuid, with which the private owners in that neighbourhood can transform their dwellings, for example by merging their home with a neighbouring one.

Schoolvoorbeeld: Living together

This graduationproject is a transformation of the Burgemeester de Vlugtschool in Amsterdam Nieuw-West. This school was built according to the guidelines of the postwar ideas of Publieke Werken Amsterdam. It is a school with the plan in the form of a H, that's why it is called a H-School, with the principles of light, space and air. In my design...

The Permeable Block: Alternatives to the rigidity of the modern urban block

Mixed use building in Amsterdam West.

The generic support | Case 'De Hallen, Amsterdam'

Body language of home

Het huis als communicatiemiddel in de stedelijke plekken (urban rooms) van Varallo Sesia. || Dit afstudeerproject beslaat het ontwerp voor een ensemble aan de voet van de Sacro Monte in Varallo Sesia. In dit ensemble worden twee groepen samengebracht: de hardst groeiende groep inwoners, de ouderen, en de groep die een economische impuls kan...

HYBRID BUILDINGS: "De overkant", IJ-Harbour Amsterdam

A new urban plan for Amsterdam and Amsterdam North. A new marina that will work as a great catalyst for Amsterdam North. My own intervention is a hybrid building; hotel, dwelling, shopping, restaurant, cafe, offices.

Common ground

Laboratory Space: Filling Berlin with emptiness

Dwelling project on the Tacheles-site in Berlin-Mitte.

Als Moderne Nomade in Tacheles

P5 Presentation (and poster) about the design of the masterplan and dwellings in the centre of Berlin. A design that was made after doing research about Modern Nomads.

Fierljeppen over de Amsterdamsevaart: Living and working in urban wastelands

Met als bijlage: A0 poster. Een industriegebied, sterk gescheiden van woonwijken door de A200, aan de grens van een groot herstructureringsplan en afgescheiden van een recreatieplas door het drukke verkeer over de ceintuurbaan. Op de grens van wonen en werken, met ideale aanslutiging op de infrastructuur maar tegelijkertijd daardoor gehinderd...