Green is the New Black: In search of an alternative vision for eco-city development in China

The world’s population is set to reach 9.7 billion by 2050 – up from 7.2 billion in 2012 (UN News Center). That global population will be a vastly urban one. The increasing demand for supplying the future urban dwellers and the threatening climate change have posed the question about our current urban development model. Our urbanization has...

Better-half of Bangalore: Gender perspective in spatial planning

This graduation stems from my personal interest in gender studies and its deep-rooted connection to the construction of space. Born in a country, where gender inequality is evident in all walks of life, the interest gradually transformed to an urge to study the possible ways this burning issue could be tackled. The intention of the project is to...

Experience Amsterdam: A positive coexistence between the quality of life and the quality of tourism

This thesis proposes an alternative way of urban transformation in Buiksloterham, Amsterdam. The city has gotten very popular in the last decades and attracts many new residents and tourists. It has created an imbalance between the two groups and it set the city for a task. In order to deal with the crowdedness the municipality tries to spread...

The Public Parliament - a spatial manifesto for a Binnenhof Redesign

Designers have the ability to organise and shape spaces, to create the decor of life. Besides the contribution to society by giving form to public buildings and spaces, designers also have the responsibility to design for users they don’t directly know. When the design relates to the government, the guarantee of democratic values are at stake....

Utopia of Normality: Tackling housing emergency through urban regeneration: The case of Porta di Roma

Implementation of new social housing policy in the city of Rome.

Academic infiltration in the Lloyds of London

The City of London is a enclosed capital/bastion on finance. The unethical behavior of the banks is one of the causes for the crisis. Economy students call that not only the financial world is in crisis, the education of economics aswell, they claim that the real world needs to be brought back to the class room. The program I developped is an...

Coopolis Heksenberg

The construction of a scenario for the emergence of cooperative that is concerned with the redevelopment of a quartz-sand quarry in the Parkstad Limburg region.

(Re)claimed Land, Scenario of democratic landscape in contaminated territories

In the city of Taranto located in south Italy, industrial foul-up is one of the biggest contributors of the high percentage of cancer death. The case of Ilva factory in Taranto is an example of how a wrong interaction among stakeholders became the cause for ecological and social problem. The factory is an integral cycle steel plant, where all...