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Blok, Milou (author)
The outcome of constantly striving for economic growth and making a profit has led to a city in which every building is seen as a product. Power, ownership, and mass tourism are taking over the city, exacerbating the housing shortage and making the housing prices rise to an unprecedented height. As a result, inhabitants are being pushed out of...
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Tan, Boyang (author)
Based on the Doughnut Economics, the thesis aims to reconsider city hotel itself as a part of the world and make its contribution to the well-being to the city of Amsterdam. The research-based design project starts from the research about Doughnut economics, Phalanstere and European market house, the objective is to design a city hotel located...
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Zhang, Haobo (author)
Amsterdam's overdependence on tourism resulted in its homogeneous and fragile economy, which was impacted severely by the pandemic in 2020. Therefore, the municipality of Amsterdam implemented the donut economy, which was proposed by Kate Raworth, to make the urban development sustainable. Through the research of Doughnut Economics Action Lab,...
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Elverding, Owen (author)
The project sets out to investigate what the architectural model could be like that offers shelter to parentless refugee children that now live in camps throughout Europe. To offer the children the prospect of a brighter future, the building sets out to create a safe and protective environment, one that allows them to withdraw and cope with...
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Liu, Siteng (author)
The topic of the studio, “city hotel”, concerns sustainability and hospitality at the same time, aiming to provide a temporary living space within the doughnut model. Since the location of the project is the historical center of Amsterdam which has been largely affected by tourism and become less livable in recent years, the project aims to...
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Świda, Sara (author)
The project seeks to stabilise and reverse the degradation of the pier’s walls so it remains available to its users. The structure acts as a stabilizer for this piece of land, so as not to let it disappear.<br/>The light structure takes inspiration from a bird perched on a branch, a metaphor for young Amsterdammer’s searching for their place in...
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Zani, Jacopo (author)
The graduation work aims to raise a discussion around the future of post-industrial urban centers and communities. A counter-project that, through a critique of conventional urban planning methods, wants to re-imagine the future of those small towns that are facing an economic and demographic crisis caused by the ending of industrial activities....
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Ho, Wai Sum Michelle (author)
Since the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997, the opportunities for political conversation are diminishing, censorship has been gradually imposed on different means of mass media. In the face of the gradual loss of freedoms, the people of Hong Kong have demonstrated an atmosphere of solidarity through social movements and physical...
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Pattison, William (author)
The North East of England has historically prided itself on a strong sense of self, with an identity rooted in a unique culture and a proud industrial past. In 2020, the UK left the EU and a transition period began in which the terms of its future will be set, and with an increasingly independent Scotland to the north, it faces further...
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Gunnarsdóttir, Sunnefa (author)
The growing interest in rammed earth construction globally has yet to reach the Icelandic building industry which lags behind in sustainable construction methods. Despite the rich history of earth construction with local turf, standardized practices and imported materials dominate the building practice today. Earth is a readily available...
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Treffers, Nils (author)
Traffic square and station Marconiplein, the project site, has become a cacophony of highly controlled and isolated traffic domains which one wants to passage and exit as quickly as possible. Like many other metrostation in Rotterdam the passage of time dominates the passage of place and the notion of the station as real-estate prevails over it...
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Yang, Lin (author)
Brussels has a complex political background and social texture. The existing administrative centre does not meet the demands of 1700 employees anymore. The city centre is going to build a new city hall-the Brucity, and move 1700 staffs from the old administrate centre- Muntcentrum. While the Brucity is an enormous volume breaking the urban...
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Huang, Luna (author)
Brussels will build a new administrative building in the city centre, which will provide new residences for approximately 1,700 government employees. With the expansion of Brussels' urbanization, the decrease in air quality has gradually attracted people's attention. The project hopes to form an ecological corridor by planting oak trees in some...
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Stańczak, Magdalena (author)
According to the World Migration Report 2015, published by the International Organisation for Migration, 62% of the people of Brussels are foreign-born or of foreign descent. That makes Brussels the second most diverse city in the world. The heterogeneity of the city of Brussels can be witnessed on the different levels such as class, culture,...
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Bolsius, Hugo (author)
Currently, a new administrative centre for the municipality of Brussels, Brucity, is under construction. A building that represents itself as a developers block and lacks any description of truly defined public space which allows the public to engage with its governance and its politicians. As a critique, a new city hall has been designed....
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Ruigrok, L.J.M. (author)
The graduation project Modern Agora is about the design for a new city administration in Brussels. The design is critiquing and responding to the already in construction BruCity project, which centralizes all the 10 departments with 1700 city employees. Brussels is the capital of Belgium and at the same time that of the European Union, which...
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van Roessel, Roos (author)
A new administrative building is planned for the city of Brussels, one of 19 municipalities that together form the Brussel Hoofdstedelijk Gewest. The administrative centre will provide city offices for 1600 employees and a public space for the receipt and processing of applications from citizens. The winning competition project, known as Brucity...
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Brockhoff, Nicky (author)
For my graduation project, I aimed to explore the way in which the new economy of reusing existing building materials or complete structures can be used in a large building project such as the new town hall in Brussels and how it can serve as an exemplar to its surroundings. The project entails the appropriation of an existing corporate office...
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Zhang, Shaoqi (author)
The project is a rethinking of the political building. It presents itself as an public infrastructure open to the city and citizens, in terms of its form, facade and relationship to the surroundings. Collective public life and democracy of the space are more addressed in the project.
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Shi, Y. (author)
The Chair of Interiors Buildings Cities located this year’s graduation project in the capital city of Belgium and the European Union, Brussels. Under the theme of ‘Palace’, the project is a City Hall on the previous site of the Les Halles Centrales in the 1870s, and is also known as the site for the earlier demolished Parking 58. The site will...
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