The Social Identity of a Three-Hundred-Meter Long Building: Interventions to the mid-rise building on the Hoptille street

This project explores a residential building from 1982 that can be found in Amsterdam. Using several interviews and research into the potential heritage values of the building a transformation is proposed.

Hoptille - from Stigma to Charisma: Image enhancing transformation of post-modern architecture while retaining its identity

This graduation thesis was executed within the studio New Heritage in which the question was raised whether postmodern architecture can be valued as heritage. Multiple postmodern neighbourhoods suffer from a stigma. Outsiders have a negative image where insiders are much more positive about their neighbourhood. This master thesis focusses on the...

Hybrid Hydro Habitat: A translation of energy and water measures into architectural and socio-economic value

The municipality of Amsterdam has come forth with a request for architecture students of the Technical University of Delft within the studio of Complex Projects to investigate the future challenges of Amsterdam through scenario-research and hence come up with proposed spatial and/or architectural configurations for the year 2050. This all with...