Cradle to Church - A Sustainable Response on Religious Heritage: Revitalizing the Jacobuskerk

Cradle to Church is a project that explores the possibilities of circular heritage as a way of approaching the topic of sustainability for the future of heritage. Focusing on the revitalizing of the Jacobuskerk in Winterswijk, the project forms of a sustainable response on the increasing vacancy rates of Catholic churches through integrating the...

Timber Town: An inclusive mixed-use area in Winterswijk, built for and out of wood

Timber Town is one half of the industrial area in Winterswijk, which was built in the 20th century to support the village’s textile industry. Currently this part of the area is not used to its full potential. The other half of the area still contains a functioning textile factory: Gaudium. Here the profession and skills of working with textiles...

Reuversweerd: an equine breeding farm

My proposal for Reuversweerd is a function it originally used to have in the early 20th century; a horse breeding farm. After the attacks of WWII and the vacancy of the buildings since several years, the entire estate has been in decay. My proposal aims to give back a functional reuse to the buildings and the plot in order to ensure a...

Grow. Feed. Educate: Sustainable farming growing naturally over time

Following the model of collective farming of the Soviet Union, Romania’s agricultural sector was transformed during communism in Agricultural Cooperatives for Production. In the period 1949 – 1962, the country’s agricultural land was collectivized in such state-owned cooperations. The project ended up failing and leaving the country’s sector of...