The paradigmatic shift in Dutch water management culture: the case study of Nijmegen in the Room for the River program

The Room for the River project stands as a stepping stone in water management strategies, distinguished by a paradigmatic shift in Dutch water culture towards decentralization of the decision-making process and spatial quality embedded in spatial planning projects. The research presents a comprehensive analysis of the program, focusing on the...

Honigpoort: a community space for and by improvisation | bricolage

The shopping mall the Molenpoort (Nijmegen) was constructed in 1972 and is creating this hyperreality; an indoor world without rain, wind or snow. The invention of Victor Gruen, a foreign typology from America occupies all the negative space within the building block. Victor Gruen’s idea for the mall was a building where the community would...

Stitching up the community: The co-housing project in the Molenpoort

The co-housing project designed with the reused structure of the Molenpoort commercial centre from the 1970's. The future of the mall is currently being a matter of discussion since the municipality is planning to demolish the whole complex and introduce a completely new urban plan and functions in the area. The design proposal follows the...

A Health and Wellness Centre for the city of Nijmegen: A place for escape in Nijmegen’s city centre

This thesis aims to develop a new urban and architectural condition for the site of the existing Molenpoort shopping centre, within Nijmegen’s city centre. The project aims to investigate how play can be considered as part of urban and architectural design in an attempt to make a healthier and more engaging city to live in.

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...

The Urban Game: Design of a Health Center in Nijmegen

The central point of the thesis is formulation and testing of a design method with a strong focus on the user activity and personal experience in the designed space. The design algorithm consists of a series of iterative steps based on architectural and sensorial sequences of activities.<br/>The experimental method was tested in the process of...

The spring: a place of fertile ground and growth

Transform is the keyword for the situation we are in. The climate is changing and we do to. Our needs change every day, and we like the change. We like the transformation, because that is life. We search for goals. Goals that help us to become something we always wanted to be. This year was all about learning and evolving and I enjoyed every...

The 8th Mountain of Nijmegen

This is an architectural master thesis with the chair of Urban Architecture. The project analysis the city of Nijmegen with a special focus on its topography. In the design part, a new urban plan is suggested for the project location. One of the buildings was chosen and the newly introduced function is a Museum that offers spatially different...

Gemeente Molenort

Design of a cohousing project based on partially existing structure of a former 50ies shopping mall. The existing structure is evaluated and freely approached with the open mindset of the bricoleur. The bricoleur as defined by Claude Levi Strauss works with the existing and uses what is at hand. The result is the formation of a new urban...

A Community Art Centre for Nijmegen

The Molenpoort shopping mall represents both a problem and a solution. Its concept is outdated, and its shops are for the majority vacant. Though being centrally located within the city, next to a heritage site and at a pedestrian gateway to the town centre, it is underused and hidden, and even though its mass is vast, it serves one purpose only...

green BLUE capital: Enhancing the quality of life by implementing climate adaptable solutions in the densely populated existing city of Nijmegen

This graduation project is called ''green BlUE capital: Enhancing the quality of life by implementing climate adaptable solutions in the densely populated existing city of Nijmegen.'' This project describes the transformation of existing cities such as Nijmegen in order to cope with the change in climate, with a main focus on stormwater...

Impact of recent changes in river management on maintenance dredging in the Waal river

Over the last centuries, Dutch rivers such as the Rhine have been heavily trained for the purpose of the safe discharge of water, sediment and ice, and navigability. After the notorious flood events of 1993 and 1995 along the Rhine, new large-scale river works were initiated, such as the Room for the River (RfR) programme, to increase flood...

Bochtverbetering rivier de Waal bij Nijmegen

Eén van de "bottle-necks" in de druk bevaren route is de serie bochten in de Waal bij Nijmegen, (zie bijlage 2). Hier blijkt de bevaarbare breedte niet te voldoen aan de gestelde eisen. Op sommige plaatsen is de bevaarbare breedte zelfs maar 60% van de vereiste breedte. Onder bevaarbare breedte wordt verstaan die breedte van de vaarweg die...