Social housing stock, homelessness and poverty

Social housing stock, homelessness and poverty is a comparative study, investigating the effects of the spatial distribution of these three subjects on one another and their relations for the two case study cities of Amsterdam and The Hague. <br/><br/>Several studies show that social housing has its implications on homelessness and poverty,...

The Hotel—Homeless Segment: The Neighborhood

The Neighborhood is a homeless hotel segment that invests in children’s better future. It is part of The Hotel, a collective project that studies the hotel, both as a building type and as a place of hospitality, through a collection of fourteen individual contributions inside one skyscraper. The project imagines hospitality as a realm of...

Design with (addiction) Care: The role of the urban, architectural and human perspective in designing addiction care in Liège

‘Design with (addiction) Care’ is a reflection on the role of an architect within the humanization of addiction care, primarily the design of the typology of a hostel. It is deeply rooted in the studio theme of the scarred city, where both the vulnerable scarred urban tissue as well as vulnerable people demand careful architectural reasoning....

Back Home: Architecture for Wellbeing

The project gave me the chance to start from a personal fascination regarding the role of architecture in favoring humans wellbeing. Since the group research, the interviews with homeless people till the imagination, materialization, and perception of spaces of the project the initial question remained always as the stable background of my...

Homeless in Midtown Manhattan: Lincoln Gardens

With Midtown's income gap increasing significantly, affordable housing has become more and more difficult to find, leaving many New Yorkers Homeless. This thesis sets out to understand how homelessness and the built environment interact with one another and to which extent the architectural profession can make a positive impact on homelessness...

To be or not to be - Housing for homeless terminal people: Addressing Dutch healthcare provision and homelessness by redefining shelter design

People share a deep-seated need for a 'sense of home'. It is an intangible, psychological and sociological need that is projected on, and connected to the Built Environment (Rennels &amp; Purnell, 2017; Dovey, 1985). Many people in western societies meet their 'sense of home' through traditional housing. Yet, there is a small marginalized group...