Blooming Pavilion: Temporary Pavilion Design for Marineterrein

The Marineterrien, the innovation hub of Amsterdam, is about to show what is like in the future time. And in this future-visioned site there should be a manifestation which drinks up the nutritiousness of the dream and idea and represent it profoundly to the world. <br/><br/>In that sense, a pavilion of reflection is introduced into the site...

Gathering through water integration: Integrating water and its natural cycles in a hotel building design for 'Het Marineterrein' in Amsterdam

During the Paris climate conference in December 2015, 195 different countries recognized the dangers of climate change. One of the key points on which the participants of this conference agreed on was that cities should built resilience against the effects of climate change. The changing climate has amongst others major consequences for water...

An Adaptive Vision: Adaptive redesign of "Dok 25" Marineterrein

‘Marineterrein’ is located on Kattenburg in Amsterdam. The Navy settle at Kattenburg for a long time until they came to the conclusion to relocate to the north of the Netherlands, and will leave at the end of 2018. The redesign of the Marineterrein is in hands of ‘Rijksvastgoedbedrijf’ and the municipality of Amsterdam. Therefore many companies...

Playing with light: The relationship between daylight and sports hall designs in the Netherlands

Nowadays it is more desirable for daylight to be the prevalent form of lighting in most types of buildings. However, there has been concern about introducing daylight to sports halls since the design of traditional sports halls has tended to exclude natural light. If one looks at the vast majority of sports halls in the Netherlands where...

ReFAB: Urban Mining MakerSpace in Marineterrein Amsterdam

Objective of the project is the design of a generic, local-based manufacturing facility, ReFab, which is constructed from salvaged materials and operates through collective effort and interactive cultivation in the employment of refuse as raw material input in advanced production processes. These disposed elements can, if elaborated in proper...

Timber Top-Up: Sustainable densification and office transformation in the Amsterdam Navy Area

How to top-up and transform vacant office space for dwellings in Amsterdam using timber construction? Several methods of light timber construction are researched and applied into a design to top-up an existing office building at the Marineterrein, Amsterdam.

Community of Innovation: Marineterrein 2.0

This project is an attempt to transform a former military base Marineterrein, located in the center of Amsterdam into a Community of Innovation. Based on the research Home in digital age. Apartments for young innovators.<br/>The focus lies on transforming two existing buildings of technical education facility for soldiers into a working and...

Badhuis Marineterrein: Re-imagining the bathhouse & combined energy production as contributing to valuable urban social space

Luchtspiegelingen van Lichte Zeden - Mirages of Easy Virtue: Prostitutie, architectuur en utopia in het licht van de literatuur

Onderzoek en ontwerp naar de mogelijkheden van een utopisch prostitutiecomplex op het marineterrein in Amsterdam op basis van verwijzingen uit de literatuur van de 18e, 19e en 20e eeuw.