Building Bonds, Building Safety: A Bamboo Pavilion Fostering Communities of Care

This project presents a response to the pressing issue of women's safety in public spaces, particularly in Latin American cities. Women worldwide are disproportionately affected by safety issues and fear in urban environments. I explore ways in which public spaces can enhance perceptions of safety and freedom instead. Based on extensive four...

Moving Atmospheres: placing the sensing body at the centre of spatial design (research)

Moving Atmospheres explores the intricate relationship between spatial design and human experience, advocating for an embodied approach to architectural practice. Through a phenomenological lens and experimental approach using personal experiences, the study investigates the nexus of emotion, movement, and spatial perception. Utilizing intuitive...

Re[Mod]: reuse plastic & robotic modification

It is known that the global impact of solid waste is becoming more worrying day by day; however, the application of reused materials in the built environment is not yet fully embraced. In particular, plastic composites are now fundamental for the global world economy but the organization of their end life needs to be improved. <br/>Therefore,...

Assembling Thresholds: The Border between Port and City

For the location of my design I considered the old city wall/retaining wall of Genoa. This old defense/retaining wall is in itself a colossal architectural structure. It forms an enormous boundary as it was made to defend and close off the city. Now the city has outgrown its walls and does not need them for defence anymore. Devoid of its...

Beyond digital content: A pavilion to house digital art

Digitization, the word itself sounds almost vulgar in this day and age. It is impossible to imagine our daily life without the digital tools we use. We work in the cloud, communicate on-line, stream our media and even find our life partner on an app. <br/><br/>Contemporary artists were among the first to embrace digital innovation as a tool to...

Levels of Publicness: The Mambo art museum and its city

In Bogotá, the capitol of Colombia, the museum of modern art Mambo needs an extension. This graduation project is a proposal for that extension, which has a focus on the relationship and interaction between the building and the public domain. The result is a building complex that has many different levels of publicness, an open building that is...

Spaces of Collection: A Pavilion as an Archive

The institution in this case is the Delft University of Technology, which will make its appearance through a building to be situated in Delft’s historical center, suggesting the university’s physical return to the city after a hiatus of some eighty years. The agent of this return will be a complex of 'spaces of collection' for the accommodation...

Bamboo Pavilion: Construction and Lighting

This thesis describes the research done on the construction of a bamboo pavilion. The design made by SHAU, is based on a hyperbolic paraboloid or Hypar. The goal of the research was to develop a construction based on bamboo, traditional craftsmanship and a lattice structure with tensional elements providing strength and shade. This means that...

Deltascape Pavilions: Creating a series of pavilions along a recreational route through the Dutch Delta

Research Questions - How to design a recreational route through the Dutch Delta that generates awareness of the characteristics of the different deltascapes? - How to design a series of pavilions along a recreational route that generates awareness of the relation to water in the deltascapes? - How to design a pavilion that reflects the...