Identity by local productivity

Architecture plays an important role in defining the identity of a certain place. It tells about the people's activity, history, politics, finances, culture, industry, ideas and dreams. Amsterdam West nowadays is experienced by most people as a lifeless, anonymous and unsafe area. A reason for this can be found in the big scale repetitive...

Post-Exodus or the involuntary prisoners of architecture

Post-Exodus or the involuntary prisoners of Architecture, is a project about corrupt well intended top-down pretentions. A project about when utopia becomes dystopia. About when the built environment becomes out of tune with experienced and desired reality. Accumulating to the point of large scale vacancy and crisis. The focus of the project...

Automatic identification of water courses from AHN3 in flat and engineered landscapes

The Netherlands is characterised by mostly low lying, flat, and engineered agricultural lands, which are sensitive to flooding. To protect against floods, a correct network characterisation is of the utmost importance. A Dutch water resources management company, the HDSR, wishes to have a highly automated method to characterise the water course...