INTERPRETING - ENHANCING - TRANSFORMING: A phenomenological study of innovative strategies for building upgrade and their architectural use to achieve a new intensified atmosphere in the existing urban heritage

The design focuses on establishing a connection between the technical aspects characterizing innovative strategies for building upgrade with an approach based on phenomenology. This methodology is characterized by the more intangible goal to create a new "intensified atmosphere", a new feeling in the existing context derived by a transformation...

Interventions for the Sustainable Development of Architectural Heritage - The Example of the Soda Fabriek in Schiedam, NL

Existing historic buildings, remnants of a past long gone are often still highly operational in our time, most likely at the expense of the environment. Without interventions, their energy performance is outdated – provided they are used in a contemporary way - and they contribute to the over-consumption of energy and the increase of greenhouse...

Can you keep a secret?

"Can you keep a secret?" is about a urban design for redevelopment of the Heijplaat area, and about an architectural design to transforming the former submarine shed of the RDM into an educational center for sustainable science. The thesis is relevant to the assignment we now face: finding a way to deal with the giant built structures left to us...