New Building for Flemish Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp

This year's Interiors Buildings Cities graduation studio focused on reimagining the contemporary art museum typology through the lens of M HKA in Antwerp. The process of designing a new museum building, guided by principles of anti-monumentality and a dedication to public engagement, led to a site-specific intervention revolving around the...

A Way of Seeing: The M HKA as a public archive of contemporary art

This project stems from an interest in institutions and the materialisation of politics within them, implicit and explicit. Art and architecture both have the capacity to be a scaffolding upon which protest and proposition of alternative relations can be built and communicated. While museum and art has always been implicated in commercial and...

Neualtland: A layered local Jewish narrative

Based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, the project deals with the unearthing of spatial and cultural layers of the historic city centre, focusing on the modern urban fabric which was built on the relics of the Judengasse, the centuries-old Jewish ghetto. <br/><br/>The project’s mission involves the reinterpretation of ordinary, seemingly...

A walled garden in Brussels: Ambiguity as the foundation for coexistence in the European quarter in Brussels

"Brussels was never destroyed by the wars, but rather by its own people" these words of Victor Bourgouis show the destructive vision of social and cultural spaces in Brussels. The city's vision of urban development is based on top-down politics, fed by the desire to be modern. This affection leads to the non-identification and displacement of...

Future Bank: Connecting The City: Reinventing the bank in a radical way

The Graduation Studio of Interiors Buildings Cities (2021-2022) examines the possible future of the National Bank of Belgium, located in the city of Brussels. The Bank as a collective system has recently come under scrutiny because of the ongoing climate change and the switch from physical to digital payments. <br/>The municipality of Brussels...

A Bank of Opportunities: A sheltering Bank for people

The ambition of the National Bank of Belgium's project was to make a National institution accessible to the public. By opening the bank, both ideologically and physically, the dynamic of the bank is radically modified. The confrontation between the Bank and the public provides opportunities to gather, learn and improve. The change is subtle from...

Future National Bank of Belgium: Inclusive Bank

The brief of this year’s studio addresses the National Bank of Belgium located on the border of upper and lower parts of Brussels. The current fortress like megastructure that the bank occupies is imposing power and solidity, but is closing itself completely from the public. With the traditional role of the bank such as printing and storage of...

Hotel de Victor (de Groenmarkt)

The design tries to reconnect a forgotten part of the city through the design of city block with a focus on public space within the block itself. Simple and clear elements help the visitor to identify these public spaces. By offering both clearly defined and ambiguous spaces there is room for interpretation and freedom of use. Tourists and...

City Hotel Amsterdam, The Host: Creating communities on different scales

The outcome of constantly striving for economic growth and making a profit has led to a city in which every building is seen as a product. Power, ownership, and mass tourism are taking over the city, exacerbating the housing shortage and making the housing prices rise to an unprecedented height. As a result, inhabitants are being pushed out of...

The Craft Huis: Architecture of Hospitality

The Craft Huis reimagined what a hotel is in the Doughnut Economy of Amsterdam. As The European tourist capital, Amsterdam has been afflicted by social segregation and ecological damage, particularly the historic centre. The future hotel of Amsterdam, The Craft Huis, is designed as the place where tourists can learn from and live with local...

Katoen Natie Foundation: Textile Museum and Labs

on the threshold of the space

Universiteit Antwerpen Sporthal

Under the year theme of intimate city. The project is a sports hall located in Antwerp with informal space under the formal frame.

De Wever - A Textile Community Lab: Material research and textile production laboratory with integrated residence

The Productive City in Antwerp, a material research and textile production with integrated residence: The notion of working and living in the same place has been a particular aspect of every city in the past. With industrialization, especially production and crafts have been driven out of the inner city. With the emergence of the idea of the ...

Het Ambachthuis: New Craft school on Eilandje in Antwerp

Intimate city investigates public interiors named as city rooms characterized by any scale and representation. My project conceives these rooms in my building as sequence and investigates theme of thresholds, and explores the intimacy on a border. All the rooms in the building build a sequence of interiors and exteriors, in which each space has...

Palazzo Rubens: The Intimate City

The project Palazzo Rubens is concerned with the transformation of the iconic Rubenshuis in Antwerp, whilst also working within the year theme for the chair if Interiors, Buildings, Cities; that of "The Intimate City".

Het Pompstation: in search for new communal ground along the interparishal road