Brown Line Park: Regenerating abandoned industrial transportation infrastructures in the Ruhr area

The theme of the studio is “Flowscape”. The studio explores infrastructure as a type of landscape and landscape as type of infrastructure. In my study, I choose one particular kind of infrastructures, abandoned industrial transportation infrastructures (abandoned canal and train tracks) ---- “the brown lines”, to study how to use landscape...

Curonian Spit - a place to live!

Curonian Spit is a peninsula on the seaside which is shared together with Lithuania and Russia (Kaliningrad). Since it is only accessible by water transport on Lithuanian side, it becomes hardly reachable island for Lithuanians. Due to its unique cultural landscape place also has UNESCO status under criteria V. After independence major...

Terrils Steenbergen Halden: Verwaarloosd erfgoed wordt voortrekker in Energiewende

Het project maakt gebruikt van de op handen zijnde Energiewende, om verwaarloosde mijnheuvels wakker te kussen en daarmee als voorbeeld dienen voor toekomstige ontwikkelingen in de omliggende regio. Deze fremdkörper stijgen boven het landschap uit en zijn vanuit de gehele regio en zelf daarbuiten de meest in het oog springende herinnering aan...

The Palace and the Big Box: An urban intervention for the fringe belt of The Hague

Trial back to the landscape: Reactivating the city of Heerlen with a landscape approach

Green metropolis is a pioneering European project for extensive tri-national collaboration between the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Its starting point is to develop a sustainable future for the post-industry area. As one of the major tasks in the project, to explore possibilities for new energy has been taken into consideration, which makes...

Trial back to the landscape: Reactivating the city of Heerlen with a landscape approach

Green metropolis is a pioneering European project for extensive tri-national collaboration between the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Its starting point is to develop a sustainable future for the post-industry area. As one of the major tasks in the project, to explore possibilities for new energy has been taken into consideration, which makes...

Urban life. Integrating city and nature in the south of the Rotterdam metropolitan area by urban design.

This urban design graduation project is about integration of city and nature. In contemporary metropolitan areas nature and city form an interactive network. In this context the urban design discipline, which is traditionally focused on urbanization and sociology-economical issues, should also incorporate the natural system. The outcome of the...

Landscape Perception: A spatial design strategy for Dongeradeel, Friesland

Delfzijl 2030: WADerPROOF

Delfzijl 2030 WADerPROOF; A graduation thesis separated in two parts: [1] WADerPROOF; a spatial plan to combine the problematic of social decline and flood management in a spatial concept for the town of Delfzijl. [2] Zoet, Zout & Siel; a urban plan with the intention to use the identity of Delfzijl -the sea dike- for the urban regeneration of...

The land-in-between

The land-in-between. A spatial investigation on the future transformation of the rural-urban fringe, (using the case of) the A4/Vlietzone, The Hague.

Dealing with leisure

A quest for tools to revise the Dutch in between landscape based on its recreational potential. This thesis proposes a strategy for the revision of the Dutch green buffer zones on the basis of its recreational potential for the urban context. A strategy for the 'Rijk van Dommel en Aa' in the Brainport region (Eindhoven) is used as a case study...

Metropolitan Landscape Park of Athens: Re-costructing the Landscape at Hellenikon in the Athenian Metropolis

This diploma thesis focuses on offering a design solution that provides new vision and form at the large urban void of the Former Civil Airport of Hellenikon.

Inverted Urbanism

Reclaiming the industrial landscape through sustainable transformation

The title of the graduation project is Reclaiming the industrial landscape through sustainable transformation. The generalized crisis of several industrial sectors contributed to the appearance of derelict industrial areas. The establishment of new and more severe environmental legislation associated with an increasing public pressure related...

New life for the Old Line: Design research to the integration of Stedenbaan / Transit-Oriented Development in local urban regeneration areas. Case: Oude Lijn Leiden region

Because of its polycentric organization the system of the urban network of Randstad Holland is very much dependant on the connecting infrastructure lines between the sub agglomerations and urban centres. The use and efficiency of the infrastructure network has been the subject for debate for the last years, resulting in programs that consider...