A Community Art Centre for Nijmegen

The Molenpoort shopping mall represents both a problem and a solution. Its concept is outdated, and its shops are for the majority vacant. Though being centrally located within the city, next to a heritage site and at a pedestrian gateway to the town centre, it is underused and hidden, and even though its mass is vast, it serves one purpose only...

Modularity of Living Wall Systems

Living wall systems are not applied on a large scale, even though they offer multiple benefits to buildings. They are able to improve the air quality, the insulation values or social and psychological benefits. The aim of this Thesis is to increase the application of living wall systems by designing a living wall system with the principles of...

A Catalogue of Urban Strategies towards better air quality in cities

Working on the Urgency of air pollution in future cities, the thesis proposes a catalogue of architectural(and less architetural) solutions or strategies, providing a means to reduce air pollution to the guidelines as drafted by the World Health Organization. The thesis consists of: 1)An introduction on the urgency. 2)The catalogue. 3...