SoundSpaces: A Bridge for Cairo

Mapping spatio-acoustics in Cairo, Egypt; and the design of a bridge based on the findings of the research.

Odessa Youth Cultural Centre: The Rhizome as Model for Architecture

The project is an attempt to recognize, map and interpret complex self-organized spatial relations, on the example of the Seventh kilometer market in Odessa, Ukraine. These interpretations are then used as tools for architectural design of a complex public building, resembling the rhizomatic model, developed by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari,...

Rome Periphery

Research Booklet Studio Border Conditions

A walk through the bridge - Creating a private time in public space

The graduation project "A walk through the bridge" is located in Istanbul and focuses on the experience of the in-between space. The perception of the in-between of the public and the private, the inside and the outside of architectural spaces is a sensual interpretation, based on spatial transitions and movement. The activities of public life...

The Banality of Death: Interweaving territories of life and death at the outskirts of Mashhad

The Banality of Death addresses the way the city of Mashhad deals with death. It is an attempt to architecturally translate and expose the tensions that arise between traditional values and the modern transformation of the burial process by the design of three extended rest-stops along the Bagcheh Highway that act as mediators with the goal of...

Embracing the Communal: The Perseverence of the Dynamic

The world around us is developing constantly. In terms of architecture and urban development, China is unprecedented. In a way, the sheer speed and volume of construction is a phenomenon, becoming characteristic for Chinese developments. Like all matter, this in itself is neither necessarily positive of negative. However, such dialogue becomes...

Towards The Architecture of the Urban Constellation

The architecture of totality does not adequately represent the urban landscape, specifically, the urban landscape of Yerevan, Armenia. An architecture that is constituted by fragments to form a larger whole, through the analogy of the (urban) constellation), can provide an untraditional architectural language for an urban context.

Stitching a non-place: Towards a more integrated design of urban fragmentation in Hillegersberg Zuid

This report attempts to explore the causes of spatial incoherency in Hillegersberg Zuid. It does this through a retrospective historical analysis of the infrastructure, its symbolic projections and its use. Through the lens of socio-political motives of the past century the cities’ response to the current housing crisis is questioned in the area...