Redesigning communities: Realising cohousing through circular transformation

The past generation has built more than all previous generations combined. The houses got bigger, families got smaller and our lifestyle more consuming. Times however have changed so that nowadays we are faced with multiple social problems – such as aging and loneliness – and environmental problems. Living more social and reducing consumption is...

Fever in Rotterdam: Timmerhuis

As we have seen so far, the phenomenon of extrastatecraft[2] has been reconfiguring the “urban software” in the national scale of the Netherlands, affecting simultaneously multiple municipal cores with geopolitically background of high importance. In that sense, Rotterdam’s Timmerhuis is subjected to the described reformations that have been...

Mechanical Hive | Artist Community

When dealing with a project related to the RMIT studio, one knows from the very beginning that the main concern will be the reintegration of a building and/or site on different levels: built (usually urban fabric) economic, social, etc. However, what is more challenging is to see whether you can take a step further from reintegration and see...