The impact of the changing private and public situation at home by the use of video communication – and how this influences our values of home

It began with a shelter, the first 'building', a safe environment for a family named by us as a home. However, with the change of technology, lifestyle, work and social life throughout history, the values of a home environment changed. From a public space in society (archaic time) to a space for privacy (industrial time), where families live...

UNDOCUMENTED: From Liminal Politics to Intimate Spaces

The protagonist of this work is the rightless, displaced person - a population of individuals in transition, hidden like a shadow in the contemporary city. Departing from the active oppression of this considerable group from the fabric of the city and the ways in which architecture contributes to enclosing or dividing populations, this work...

Hobble: Stimulating physical play in children with cancer

The aim of this project was to stimulate young children with cancer to engage in physical play to decrease the stagnation of their physical development. Children from the age of 2 to 5 are in the middle of their physical growth and development. This is also the age group with the highest risk of being diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia...

'Living' for JOOLZ - Where the ride begins: An indoor mobile device for babies in the modern metropolis

This master thesis explores how to extend the product line of the Dutch stroller company JOOLZ with products that support parents in their homes. Traditionally JOOLZ designs , but want to explore possibilities beyond this market segment. The focus of the assignment is parent life in a large metropolis, such as Tokyo, New York and Amsterdam....

IAmMyHome; Designing homes with meanings: Construction of a design tool based on human values

Houses were among the first structures that were built, and remain the most common type of building today. The design of housing has been the subject of architecture, while from a psychological point of view the meaning of home has been a major subject of research. These two different viewpoints are combined in this research to provide a tool...

Urban dwelling as a support for the public domain - De stadswoning als ondersteuning van het publieke domein

This graduation project contains a masterplan for the urban plot Gershwin, Amsterdam Zuidas, in answer to the economic problems of today that cause a lot of wasteland. To give the area a boost, I introduce hybrid buildings that include urban dwellings. Within a block of 140m x 40m I designed 85 dwellings, commercial units, offices and a parking...

Transitions: At Home in the City

What is feeling at home in the city? how can architecture help intensify the relation between the dweller and his surrounding environment in such a way that the limits between inside and outside are blurred? the goal of this project was to understand through research what are the architectural elements that create the relation inside-outside,...

Dwelling a narrative experience: Embracing the diversity in the experience of dwelling

This is an infill/parasite housing project. The site is the corner in a typical urban block of the city of Berlin. The urban position of the project was based on the idea that "A city must be read as a carpet of fragments, as a continuum sequence of SPATIAL and PROGRAMMATIC PATTERNS." My design proposal is for a new fragment of the patchwork...

Design of a residential portable fire extinguisher with aerosol technology

The objective of this graduation project is to develop a feasible design proposal for a residential portable fire extinguisher which makes use of aerosol extinguishing technology. The methodology used in this product design project is the Basic Design Cycle (Roozenburg and Eekels, 1995). In the analysis phase the target group is defined (as...

Home Product-design for retirees within the context of “ambient experience”

The focus of this graduation assignment is on healthy elderly who have just retired from work and are willing to spend money on products that create comfort and ease in their homes. In the context of Health & Wellbeing, propositions should be focused on improving the quality of life of the target group, such as improving comfort due to age...

The freedom of light characteristics in atmosphere perception for the living room

With the introduction of LED lighting, nowadays designers and architects have more flexibility to evoke emotions and create certain atmospheres in a space by means of artificial lighting. The perceived atmosphere in a space is an experience of the surroundings in relation to ourselves; it is an affective evaluation of the environment (Scholten...