Emission free maintenance dredging in a harbour environment

On request of Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. a comprehensive research was performed regarding emission free maintenance dredging in a harbour environment. The project site is the Maasmond at the port of Rotterdam. It covers an area of almost 10 km2 and, on average, a monthly volume of 400.000 cubic meters of sediment needs to be dredged. The...

Fenix II: A cultural, artistic and culinary hotspot

The Fenix II building, located in the inner city port area of Rotterdam, has been an integral part of the city's history in both architectural and cultural terms. Serving as storage space after the 1920's for the emigrants of the country, and as industrial storage after the 1950's, it becomes today part of the modern redevelopments of the...

Katoenveem: An architectural strategy for the re-use of the Katoenveem

The graduation studio ‘Harbour Heritage 2020-2021’ offered by the section of Heritage & Architecture, takes place in the city of Rotterdam. Rotterdam is a port city with a vivid history, it has many stories to tell, however, those stories are not always visible in the physical form. Cultural harbour heritage, like the old cotton warehouse...

The Fenix II, From an emigration pioneer to an integration icon

The Fenix II (former San Francisco) warehouse was built in 1922 and commissioned by the ‘Holland America Lijn’. It functioned as a warehouse for household effects for emigrants to the US. This project explores the architectural possibilities for redeveloping the Fenix II building into a public building relating to integration and education.

Advanced modelling of wave penetration in ports

A main challenge port engineers had to tackle in recent years is wave penetration inside a harbour, as it determines vessels’ safe sailing and mooring, possibly causes unwanted vessel movements, and unequivocally regulates the execution of port operations. A physical scale model can describe wave penetration in a complete way. However, the...

Exploring Bluefields: Designing the Banter See as an operative landscape structure

During my study of landscape architecture, I am always looking for opportunities how landscape infrastructure as the strongest approach to RE-activate the potential of derelict areas. Fascinated by existing precedent projects which are using a landscape approach to transform derelict areas into operative landscapes such as High Line Park,...

Innoveem: Continuing Katoenveem - moving towards making innovation

The monument ‘Katoenveem’ used to be part of the industrial harbour of Rotterdam as warehouse. It was specifically constructed for the operational purpose of loading and storing goods: bales of cotton. Strategically situated along the water, it translated itself to an early 20th century functional architecture with advanced mechanics. The cotton...

Harbour in Transition: A landscape design for a harbour beyond oil

Thesis in which a spatial strategy is proposed to structure the transition of the harbour of Rotterdam as an oil harbour to a harbour beyond oil.

Sedimentation Hazar Port

Hazar Port is located in Turkmenistan on Cheleken Peninsula, which is situated on the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea. Dragon Oil, an international oil and gas exploration company, is engaged in exploration and exploitation of oil and gas in the Caspian Sea. Dragon Oil would like to use the harbour of Hazar as supply base for the expanding of...

The Lobby of the Metropole

The lobby of the Metropole, a habitable bridge in Rotterdam In our mobilized epoch considered as the network era, hubs are crucial devices for the orchestration of our cities. Road and building mediate in the quality of our cityscapes like the Randstad in which we live as continuous commuters. The habitable bridge is used as the ultimate...

Mooring facility Cruiseport The Hague

There is a growing cruise market. To accommodate the growth of cruise shipping in North-West Europe, the developers Consortium ‘Cruiseport The Hague’ wants to construct an outer harbour at Scheveningen; to this day, the harbour of Scheveningen is not able to receive today’s large cruise ships. Obviously, a cruise mooring facility has to be...

New Amsterdam Craft School

Een gebouw ontworpen voor de nieuwe generatie ambachtsschool in Amsterdam Noord op de NDSM werf A building designed for the new generation craftsschool in Amsterdam North on the NDSM wharf