Farming Condenser: Enhancing community living for people who are socially isolated through mix-used housing project

The recent housing market and social trends have changed the houses from large family homes to small single-dweller apartments. Although living alone does not necessarily mean that solo-dwellers are lonely, they are more at risk of social isolation which can result into loneliness. This resulted into the need for more community living. The...

Working Together: An investigation of synchronic typologies, inclusive urbanism and collaborative living

Unpacking concepts of collaborative living and mixed-use typologies, this project investigates how dwelling types can respond to modern household constellations and how the productive and reproductive realms can co-exist both at the urban level and the scale of the dwelling. Research findings are synthesised into an architectural proposal...

Making Space for Light Industry: An Examination of Light Industry Integration through Mixed-use in Amsterdam's Transformation Areas

The presence of industry within the urban environment is gaining significant traction in a number of cities around the world. It’s growth and importance is fuelled by technology advancements that support both traditional local industry and advanced manufacturing. However, there is a lack of a vision and clear approach regarding industry in...

Homeless in Midtown Manhattan: Lincoln Gardens

With Midtown's income gap increasing significantly, affordable housing has become more and more difficult to find, leaving many New Yorkers Homeless. This thesis sets out to understand how homelessness and the built environment interact with one another and to which extent the architectural profession can make a positive impact on homelessness...

100-Step-City

Based on the new lifestyle, the homebodies, with the related topic such as homebody economy, homebody design, homebody fashion, the project mainly focus on how to provide a multifunction and inter-disciplinary scenario for this group of people. It also investigates the identity of a residential construction shifting from a pure private property...

Industry or Housing: Clash or Match?: A qualitative study into residents' experience of living close to industry and how this affects their perception of nuisance and satisfaction.

Due to both geographical and functional separation of port and city, urban planning of port cities has become a rather slow, costly and sometimes conflictual process. To work towards a more collaborative way of planning and to enhance the competitive edge of port cities, mixed-use developments that include both city -and industrial orientated...

Maassilo as a transshipment society: establishing historical consistency

Today, the re-introduction of industrial heritage into the contemporary city, requires a parallel design process that equally involves thorough value assessments and addressing current social necessities. Looking at historic ports, the way this approach can consciously establish a long term impact for the city has been tested in cases such as...

Mixed-use Urbanity: a densification approach for the built environment

Bridging gaps: Redevelopment of the socialist mass-housing quarter in Vilnius

Many urban spaces during the course of time have lost their intended semantics, identities and representations, and might therefore be defined as post-spaces of various kinds, for example post-industrial, post-Soviet, post-Modernist, etc. In many cases these post-spaces require restructuring not only of their meaning and identity, but also of...

Woon Werk straat

Een verhoogd woon- en werkgebied opgedeeld door collectieve straten.

Gate to North

My graduation project 'Gate to North' is a mixed-use (dwelling & workspaces) building with flexibility strongly integrated into the concept. The base is a highly flexible frame that can be filled in with any desired program. The next stage is to put in the floors and facade to create a Solid-type structure. The final stage is the definitive...

Cubelet City - a city within a city

A mixed-use building, in the dense borough of Westminster, London. How to deal with the dense circumstances and high quality demands and still make a interesting, efficient and responsive building? The transition from outside to interior is centralized, a public corridor connects the building to the user and makes it freely accessible. It...

Redefining the Hong Kong Typology

Hong Kong for me is a fascinating city; it embodies many contradictory conditions while at the same time acts as a palimpsest -- a readable, but layered, whole. The city exists as a lamination of eastern and western forces that can be seen in both the social and built environment of the city. As the city has grown and become wealthier, these...

The Wall: Preparing for China's urban billion

In an age of ever increasing urbanization with massive migrations from the countryside to the city, Asia is at a cross roads. 'The Wall' is a masterplan for the city Chengdu in the West of China. It is based on public transport. It is an urban strategy which densifies the existing city edge, thereby re-establishing the contrast between city and...