Healing by transforming: Creating the empowered healing environment

According to the Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM), there will be more focus on tackling the unhealthy effects of urbanization in the near future. This together with the presence of a large stock of vacant buildings and other developments within these urban areas and the challenges which are formed by the developments in...

Expeditie Rotterdam: of de ontdekkingstocht naar de verborgen Wederopbouwstad

The aim of this exploration is to reinterpretate and revitalise underused areas in the modernist urban fabric of Rotterdam. Since Rotterdam was bombed during the Second World War, a whole new modernist city could arise. The Reconstruction plan can still be seen as a manifesto of modern architecture and urbanism. Main focal points were the...

The Counter Fortress, Reflection of a 70's philosophy

The project concerns the densification of a intensely transformed St. Jacobsplaats, located at the the tail-end of the Binnenrotte in Rotterdam. The project embraces infrastructural scars and turns them into qualities. Bringin back symbioses on the site. Through creating a public mediator. The project reflects on its structuralistic context by...