Connecting through Rituals: How architecture can support social rituals - with a special focus on schools and exemplified by the proposal to revitalize the Molenpoort Passage in Nijmegen

Under the overarching theme of Bricolage, the studio’s task has been to rethink the given situation and to develop a proposal for the revitalization of the Molenpoort site in the south of the city of Nijmegen – both on urban and on spatial scale. There, the shopping mall of the Molenpoort Passage has implanted itself in the middle of the old...

Nijmegen: Heterotopia: the re-use of alterity and authenticity in Molenpoort

The design and research developed in a Lexicon of bricolage definitions of Nijmegen, becoming a new way of recomposing an understandable language as a research product that could be shared but also interpreted by everyone. The research highlights the value of the context, related to typologies, fragments using beguinages as a guiding reference...

Bricolage in city renovation: Student apartment design in Nijmegen

Bricolage is a interesting word.It was used with reference to some extraneous movement and means an unexpected result，It was later derived as a <br/>means of solving problems only using the tools at hand. And this essay is a journey to compare bricolage in daily life and bricolage in architecture field to discover what bricolage means in city...

Pieced together: Residential care centre in Anderlecht

An urban architecture aims to redefine an environment through cross-scale design in which the public, collective and private realms are (re)shaped. It critically assesses and responds to urban sites by enhancing its qualities and addressing its shortcomings. New buildings should therefore aim to establish themselves as articulators of a broader...