The Festival Machine

The Festival Machine is an experiment that tests the feasibility of the urbanization of the contemporary festival. The project provides a sustainable indoor festival experience that encourages the exploration of music, which is a hybrid between an outdoor music festival and indoor music venue. It covers a wide spectrum of music genres that...

Mangroves in motion: Investigating the impact of the Hai Phong Masterplan: A case study in the Do Son area

The Hai Phong region is undergoing transformative changes through a Masterplan aimed at enhancing financial stability and improving the quality of life for the local community. A significant component of this Masterplan involves the construction of two new port terminals close to the mangroves of Do Son, a small town southeast of Hai Phong....

Risk Analysis Van Sickle Island

Van Sickle Island, located in the Suisun Marsh in the San Francisco Bay Area, has experienced multiple levee breaches in the past. Due to the large social and economic implications of flooding, questions have arisen about whether the current management of the island is still feasible. This project, therefore, aimed to find the most financially...

Ancient Medicine & Hospital Architecture: The Greco-Roman influence on contemporary hospitals

It can be imagined that, due to fast technological innovation in the field of healthcare, current Western medicine distanced itself from ancient knowledge and practices. The aim of this thesis was therefore to find out to what extent it is possible to still recognize influences of classical medical texts and architecture in contemporary hospital...