Open and Closed: A public space in Rotterdam at the border condition

In the coming 20 years, the city centre of Rotterdam will face a new wave of constructions, with the goal of densify the area with new 50.000 dwellings before the 2040, converting the city centre towards a more residential and international character. This up-coming densification of Rotterdam, led by the high-rise strategy developed by the...

Territories of Here and There: infra|supra Structures of multitemporal transmigratory practices on the Hispaniola border

At the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, weekly bi-national markets exemplify (within a tense social context) the economic relevance of the goods and people metabolism along with emerging bi-national social relations. For this border territory, a temporal perspective is productive to develop a comprehensive grasp of the area; the...

Fab-lab Sloterdijk: Customized architecture through digital making

The concept of Fab-lab Sloterdijk is based on increasing the porosity of the border condition of the highway A10, which aims at vitalizing the Ringzone for future economic development of Amsterdam, and empowering the people with tools to make their life. To stitch the disconnection between Amsterdam’s go-to and no-go areas, the design envisions...

Borderscape: Increasing the level of permeability in between land and sea (in Northern Netherlands)

The sea dike is a spatial interim in the dialogue between human at land and natural forces at the Wadden sea. Standing on the dike gives me a feeling of conquest but also of separation. It stands out as a green wall between two worlds and stretches in the wide, open landscape as far as my eyes can see. This narrow edge has once been marshlands,...

Reconstruct the in-between space in Bucharest

Space of Seam: Straddling architecture: The Architecture of Suspension

Seam like spaces is expanding extensively and overlapping with other entities repetitiously.<br/><br/>The seam is a spatial concept that it does exist; however it never reveals its physical properties: rather the seam straddles complexities, and involves itself in other objects converging and diverging. It tells us about an ambiguity of spatial...

Crossing borders: Vertical Cities Asia

The graduation studio VCA: Korea 2012 is based on ‘The Vertical Cities Asia International Design Competition’. The theme of this years competition is Aging and is located in Yongsan, Korea.