Recreating Molenpoort: A Case For Recreation Rather Than Demolition

In my opinion, the primary goal of a piece of architecture should always be to connect to the people of a certain place, by tapping into the history and specificities of that place. This necessity is put into words and understood tacitly because of the existence of the opposite. In this project is strived to find a method how to work towards...

The Interactional High Street: How can the architectural composition of the High Street be repositioned to increase its performance being a resilient and social public space?

London is the product of hundreds of big and smaller cities and villages that collided, merged and blended during the course of time. Each of these places used to have its own Highstreet, the commercial and social heart of the settlement. Contemporary London now has 600 former High streets; scattered all over London’s perimeters. These...

The post war neighborhood: a green and active city

The Lobby of the Metropole

The lobby of the Metropole, a habitable bridge in Rotterdam In our mobilized epoch considered as the network era, hubs are crucial devices for the orchestration of our cities. Road and building mediate in the quality of our cityscapes like the Randstad in which we live as continuous commuters. The habitable bridge is used as the ultimate...