Sparking Stories: Turning an abandoned coal mine into a culture mine to help a community find its future

An investigation into how our world is shaped by narratives and storytelling, the design results in the re-imagining of a mining community. Having no story for their future, the design is an exploration of potential and how the community can be nudged into creating the stories they need to think positively about the future.

Experiencing the Atmosphere: How to deal with the architectural elements when redesigning churches

Serving the New Housing Producers

A research on the role of the architect within projects developed through Collective Private Commission (Collectief Particulier Opdrachtgeverschap) in the Netherlands. Input from participants, which is obtained through a workshop and interviews, is used for the design of a dwelling block. This design then forms a hypothesis of what is possible...

A school for all

Insight Studio

This project is about finding the "ideal" studio conditions for design education. The research describes the basic needs for accommodating design education through studio spaces. The final design of the project is a new building for the faculty of Architecture. It can be seen as a late submission for the contest "building for Bouwkunde" which...

Building Traditions

Research on designing a building for the local community of Waai with traditional building materials