Open Building and User Agency: Early and Contemporary Experiments in the Netherlands

This chapter discusses the notion of ‘Open Building’ through its conceptualisations and implementations in the Netherlands since the 1960s until today. It focuses on the place of dwellers’ agency in the development of residential open buildings to investigate the potential of users’ empowerment. <br/><br/>The ‘Open Building’ approach synthesises...

RE:prediction

This project is about adapting existing office buildings into building-plots for dwellings. All plots can accommodate an independent house, in order to allow for infinite changes. Meaning that they could be demolished without affecting other houses. This project is a revival of ‘Supports’, a concept introduced by John Habraken in 1961. Steward...