The Line of Dissent: An architectural-political vision for an open European Union

At the EU Parliament in Brussels, deliberation and decision-making processes are stuck in an ever-turning hamster wheel designed to reach unanimous compromises. The architecture of the so-called Consensusland provides spatial settings exclusively designed for the purpose of reaching compromises and not offering room where discussions and...

Regenerating Moerwijk: Constructing a framework for regeneration to improve community life and the public realm in Moerwijk

This graduation project searches for a framework for regeneration that integrates several core themes to bring about more social interaction in a post-war neighborhood like Moerwijk while at the same time densifying it. The result of the research is a constructed pattern language. The pattern language forms the basis of the framework for...

The Curtains: On the Private-Public Street Boundary

Probing into the parameters of a ‘wall’, this project seeks to empower the boundary wall in reactivating street life along the private-public street boundary, where front-yards were originally planned but now missing. In Teusaquillo of Bogota, people have regretfully took ‘walls’ as mere devices to define territories. Yet, there are latent...

The Mediator

The Mediator is an intervention in the urban fabric of Rotterdam. Influenced by a historic analysis of the influence of infrastructure on the transformation of the city, it forms a new link between a structuralist 'village' and the modern public space of Rotterdam.

Transportation and Leisure Hub: Re-configuring the fragmented urban fabrics in Ankara

The thesis project is about intervening nodes along the border of the state farm in the capital city of Ankara, which a transit and service hub would be as an example of the node along it, in order to response to the issue of fragmented and unstructured urban fabric development of the city, which leads to social segregation and community...

Vitality of networks, Fashion museum

p5 presentation work, production rapport and a reflection rapport. studio Rotterdam, Architecture & Public Realm, public buildings.

Stacking Diversities Rotterdam

We hold the statement that Rotterdam is lacking of it's own identity as it has to many fragments of different identities. We considered this as a opportunity that we could create a new Identity of Rotterdam by stacking different urban experience together---Stacking Diversity.

Stacking Diversities in Rotterdam

This is my graduation design for the Public Realm studio Rotterdam. Rotterdam city centre lacks a clear identity of its own, compared to other dutch cities. To give Rotterdam a strong identity, and connect the existing fragmented identities, this design is proposed. On this location in the city centre the diversities of Rotterdam, and their...

Public Realm Studio Ankara: Inner City Loop-Student Center

Public realm studio Ankara?Inner City Loop- Student Center P5 final presentation.

The Cultural experience of Rotterdam: BOX-in-BOX

The public realm graduation studio Rotterdam.

The Shed | Embedment embracing the streetscape

This plan is designed in order to embed the Lijnbaan area by adding local and regional/local functions, including sports, wellness and a sports park. This design is developed through a bottom-up strategy, by making decisions through the eyes of the man on the street. The urban hierarchy and human scale of the plan are dominant for the...

Debate Forum: A House for Social Issues for Brussels, the Capital City (Urban Intervention and Architectural Design Proposal)

The urban foodcycle

graduation project (Architecture: Public Realm Graduation Studio) for a public building on urban farming for the city center of Rotterdam. The building works as a social connector and re-connects the city user to the origin of food.

HUSH: A relieve area in the city centre of Rotterdam

graduation poster

In search for balance in contrasts: graduation project for a designcentre in Rotterdam

There is no Rotterdam identity. Rotterdam has characterizations that everybody can sense namely the big contrasts in Rotterdam. Contrasts originated from top-down-planning of urban renewal projects due to the bombardment in WOI. In my opinion people need these contrasts, to adapt themselves to the changes that are occurring at the moment, to...