Bread and Wine: Celebrating multi-ethnicity through food

The purpose of my graduation project, “BREAD AND WINE. Celebrating multi-ethnicity through food” is to investigate the role the celebration of food in human culture and to analyse its potential contribution to fighting discrimination and creating a sense of belonging in diverse neighborhoods. The topic focuses on how the cultural and social...

The Time-Line: A multi-phase project in Friedrichshain, Berlin that responds to urban changes

In Friedrichshain, Berlin, modest architecture with minimal interventions is utilized as a thoughtful response to the complex social and economic issues, including gentrification, that characterize the constantly evolving environment. This architectural approach seeks to tackle these challenges by embracing a restrained and humble style, while...

The Flemish Museum of Contemporary Art: multiplicity of environments

The Flemish Museum of Contemporary Art is a proposition developed in response to the brief released by the board of MHKA in order to expand their institution’s scale and reach. <br/><br/>Located between the most historic part of the city and the newly developed New South it is in relation with both, just as it is in relation with the history of...

One face - the everchanging use: Analysis of King’s Cross area in London

London is a city with extremely rich history, where old and new are heavily intertwined. A prime example of this is the King’s Cross area, which has continued to be an integral area of the city for many Londoners. However, throughout centuries its meaning has changed. People have worked there, started journeys there, had their craziest Saturday...

ECO- LANDSCAPE: De Knip as a Biodiversity Instrument

The Second life studio focuses on the value of existing building stocks in our built environment. Five office buildings with low monumental value that lost their relevance in time are chosen as case studies, the primary interest of the studio is to explore possibilities of such building stock and to extend building life by external and internal...

Hertzberger Quartier (Residential  & Retail & Recreation): The future of Structuralism architecture

In this graduation project, the future of Structuralism Architecture, I studied an adaptive reuse of Centraal Beheer by Herman Hertzberger. The main ambition of architectural experimentations is to find an appropriate balance between the heritage values protections and the future transformation of this iconic building. The new additions and...

Heritage Reloaded: Exploring complex re-use processes of heritage buildings

Purpose: Complexity is seen as the main bottleneck to start re-use processes for vacant heritage buildings. Researchers ask for the development of conceptual frameworks to explore project complexity and for tools to manage these complex processes.<br/>Aim: This research focuses on collaborative complexity and aims firstly to provide an...

Post-industrial area in transition - renaissance of a derelict industrial area in Beijing

During the industrialization process early in 20th century in most of Chinese cities, heavy industries with contamination were initially located in city periphery when they were founded. But nowadays, these industrial areas gradually became part of urban area due to the rapid and large-scale urbanization and city expansion. Since late in the...