Continuous Exploration

The goal of the design studio is to formulate a design proposal for a 7000 m2 pavilion for the World Expo in 2025 in Rotterdam. The theme of the world expo is: where ambition turns environmental challenges into economic opportunities. The building industry is a large polluter, since manufacturing processes cause a lot of waste and has a high...

Smart | Start

Hyperbody graduation project. Bottom-up, generative design of a start-up campus with an additional focus on a climatic value (power-to-gas process).

M4H: A computational aproach for the transformation of the Merwe-Vierhavens

The aim of this architectural assignment is to design a building that reconnects – both on a physical as well as on a social level – the port of Merwe-Vierhavens and the project location to its direct surrounding and to the city of Rotterdam. The goal is not only to inject a variety of program and functions – those of which are lacking – into...

Transit Hub Provençals: An exploration of new urban networks and advanced infrastructure

Provençals Transit hub is situated in Barcelona’s 22@ district, one of the last parts of the Cerda grid within the city center, being transformed to a more contemporary urban tissue. The project primarily deals with the new mobility model. Advanced infrastructure networks and nodes within this system will be the base and footprint for the design...

New North Xiaguan: City Communication Center Design

The theme of Hyperbody this year is focused on Climatic Ecology. Based on this theme, I chose one site in Beijing, China to do my experiment. The site is surrounded by various land uses of neighborhoods and different kinds of users. Meanwhile, because of the existing traffic situation, the neighborhoods are separated from each other. These...

CityPortUnit Innovation through localisation: Reading, negotiating and altering existing conditions

CityPortUnit is an investigation into why and how architectural programs are created. Can our cities be seen as entities in synchrony, as nodes of decentralised networks and if so, how does this impact their response to changes in neighbouring or distant nodes? The project and research try to answer these question by proposing a link to...

Agriflux-Mikkeli

The main research question posed the problem of embodiment and development of a self-sufficient eco-structure using performance driven computation techniques taking instances from environmental aspects like solar radiation and wind pressures. It is done in three interlinked stages – first being the urban and infrastructure level, second being...

Urban Greenhouses, Paris

The project would serve as a model in (architectural) academic circles as one that combines in-deterministic parameters such as culture, political and social; and deterministic parameters that affect spatial organization, such as the local environment, climate and built context. As an architectural/social experiment, it would serve as a model...

Almere Pampus Transferium

Reflection on open-ended and metastable architecture. Metastability is a term which describes the extended duration of certain equilibria acquired by a complex system when leaving its most stable state after an external action. The parameters of such "excited" system may eventually reach and hold stationary values (a metastable state) but then,...

Train Station in Almere Pampus

The project deals with the creation of a new train station in Almere Pampus, which is now an empty undeveloped area, included in the Almere 2030 Vision. The first stage included analyses and criticism on the existing proposed context. The city of Almere is a relatively young city and up to today it serves as a “sleeping-city” for Amsterdam,...

Pheromone networks - a computational approach to improve the social dynamics of the Almere central train station and it's urban network.

The amount of travelers from and to the Dutch city Almere will grow from 40.000 back in 2009 to 100.00 in 2030. This requires intensive infrastructural improvements to the current situation of Almere. One of the main improvements of the network will be the redesign of the central station of the city. The current station is situated around a...

Almere Pampus Transferium

Part 1: Group work: Due to the uncertainty of how the Pampus area will actually be developed, during the research and analysis stage only solid facts were taken into account, such as the site in its current condition, the path of the train tracks, the connectivity and relation to neighbouring urban areas and the basic principles that the...

Transferium For Almere Pampus 2030

In this design process, parametric modeling, scripting are utilized for simulation and optimization purposes. Also, computer-aided manufacturing techniques are used for developing physical prototypes from a component scale to a scaled building model at different design stages. More specific, the simulation of agents based on science phenomena,...

Kiel Germania Werft Bridging: A Hyperbody Graduation Project

This project, which has been supervised by Dr. Henriette Bier, Dr. Nimish Biloria and Dipl. Ing. Martin Sabota, ahndels with the design of a museum and aims to union two segregated parts of the city Kiel (Germany) by means of a multifunctional Bridgebuilding. The Analysis and Design makes use of different Kinds of Swarming Behaiviour and...

Suburban 2.0: Differentiated houses for the masses

Population growth and immigration increase the demand for mass housing developments all over the world. These developments are widely criticized for being mono-functional, mono-typological, and mono-cultural. This project is a design method for a new kind of mass housing. All design rules are reformulated as algorithms, that interact with each...

hyway

Using paramatric design and swarm based form finding principles to create a building inbetween the highway junction Kleinpolderplein. The building incorporates all the emergency services of the rotterdam rijnmond area.

ARCHTCTR 2.0: Phyrtual Space: A personal fluid architectural interface between the virtual and the physical

Everything is getting more and more connected nowadays. Information in all kinds of different media are being digitized and made available increasingly global and widespread by the development of computers and the internet in the last three decades. This enabled the explosive growth of a hyperlinked network of information. By the increasing...