Research: Urban Emptiness - parallel case Rotterdam-Detroit; Design: Rotterdam - Re-Financing Hofplein

This design gives a possible answer to the current problem of vacancy in the city of Rotterdam, which is mostly manifested in office buildings. Since Rotterdam has a lot of office space in its city center, one can literally observe this vacancy. This has a huge impact on the urban life. In the research done prior to the design I have compared...

The profitable influence of lease incentives for new office developments: A research on the phenomenon of office real estate developments (out)competing existing assets on effective rent levels without loss of quality

Dutch developers are thought to have been able to outcompete the owners of existing office space on rental pricing (the phenomenon). For tenants it was more inexpensive to move to newly proposed (not yet existent) office space than to remain where they are, or move to other existing office space. Three theoretical reasons were identified for the...

Hotels for vacant offices

The current building stock for offices is very large, and is too large for the demand out of the market. Currently there is a total vacancy of 14.1% in the Netherlands, which is equal to 6.795.000 m2 of office space. In Amsterdam there is a total of 700.000 m2 which is structurally vacant and is considered hopeless in terms of fulfilling its...