Towards a Memorised Perspective: Monumentalising the Daily

The historical framework that is underlying the city of Valparaiso, Chile brought a certain type of city planning, one wherein the city operates in fragmentation. Not only in the way how the city operates and solves problems also in the way people deal with each other. Therefore the tackle of bigger problems is not there. In this created...

The Commons of Valparaíso: Constructing the Commons in the Latin American Metropolis

Positions in Practice : Constructing the Commons in the Latin American Metropolis, Graduation Studio (Msc 3 | Msc 4), Valparaíso, Chile, Fall 2017 - Spring 2018.<br/>The MSc3/MSc4 Graduation Studio “Positions in Practice” of the Department of Architecture TU Delft (fall, 2017) focused on the urban and architectural context of Valparaíso, as a...

Motivating elderly in elderly homes to change their activity behavior

This thesis describes the design process of a service, Pearls in North, for elderly who live in Humanitas. The goal of the project was to design a product or a service that makes elderly physically more active so they feel good, stay healthy and independent. When people become older they tend to become more passive. Especially when people move...

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...