Faking Diversity: Neo-traditionalist Housing in the Netherlands

The increase in neo-traditional style construction in the Dutch housing market has resulted in a preference for this style, with research showing a 15% price premium on average for this type of housing. However, this preference is not shared by most designers and critics, who see neo-traditionalism as a form of regression. Neo-traditional...

Mind the Gap: Improving social cohesion through Architecture

Social cohesion has been an essential part of the political agenda and policymakers for the past twenty years. Due to, among other things,<br/>modernisation, globalisation and individualisation of society, mutual ties are diminishing (Schiefer and van der Noll, 2016). This thesis aims to map the aspects that influence social cohesion and...

Expo Mondo: An exploration to an inclusive exposition of the world by designing a patio-pavilion that reveals world's unity in diversity through architecture

This research project was concerned with an interdisciplinary design-based research to an exposition of the world aimed to reveal an inclusive understanding of the world, by the means of architecture.<br/>The research objective found its origin in a critical analysis of the World Expo. It was identified that this phenomenon advertised a Western...