Music in Heritage - The Acoustic Agora

Research about acoustics in heritage. In many of the redeveloped buildings, the acoustic quality is very poor. The reverberant times are very high due to the little amount of absorbing surfaces and some frequencies gain a higher G-strength then other frequencies. This is for a part due to the dimensions of the spaces. For example; churches with...

Can you keep a secret?

"Can you keep a secret?" is about a urban design for redevelopment of the Heijplaat area, and about an architectural design to transforming the former submarine shed of the RDM into an educational center for sustainable science. The thesis is relevant to the assignment we now face: finding a way to deal with the giant built structures left to us...