Care and Nature: A Children’s Hospital in Berlin

This thesis is an exploration into architectural strategies that help build up the holistic care for children in paediatric facilities.

Klimaforum Berlin: Immersive Spaces in a Nutshell

Klimaforum is Berlins new interactive art, science and technology forum, located on a soon to be vacant heizkraftwerk site along the Spree river. <br/>Commissioned by The German Ministry of Culture &amp; Media, The City of Berlin and exploited by the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the TU Berlin, several NGOs &amp; private companies. <br/>The...

Creating Safe Space: Enhancing neighborhood safety in Hillesluis, Rotterdam South through spatial design

Several areas in the Netherlands are considered vulnerable. These areas have poor livability and safety. Creating safe space is about improving the perceived safety and livability in neighborhoods by designing spatial interventions. One of these vulnerable areas is Rotterdam South. In Rotterdam South, Hillesluis is perceived by the inhabitants...

The urban dormitory: Reducing the negative consequences of studentification in small-sized university cities

Globalized universities located in small cities are expanding at a rate beyond the spatial capacity of its host city. The resulting presence of student housing in these cities known as ‘studentification’, have cascading social, cultural, economic, and spatial impacts that lead to, in particular, a lack of co-existence and tolerance between the...

Life in the Shadow of the Atlantikwall: Designing a Reconciliation Landscape for the Places in Between in The Hague

Although not widely known, The Hague emerged as one of the most impaired cities in the Netherlands after World War II (Mellink, Saal &amp; Van Schuppen, 2017). Bombings on Statenkwartier and Bezuidenhout left part of the city in ashes (Van Der Boom, 1995; Verbaan, 2011), but also the construction of the Atlantikwall left its marks on the urban...

Giving civil participation a fair shot: The potential of co-creation and co-decision with citizens in urban development.

Citizen participation is frequently mentioned in debates about our urban environment but proves difficult to be meaningful in practice. Often, participation is characterised by intransparency, poor communication and distrust. It is a loss seen the potential positive effects of influential civil participation that could help us overcome problems...

The New Neighbors: Urban revitalization in the Rosmolenwijk

This thesis report, the new neighbors: urban revitalization in the Rosmolenwijk, presents the socio-spatial effects that urban revitalization plans combined with the housing crisis (and other trends and policies) have on working-class neighborhoods. The working-class neighborhoods are built-up with mostly social housing to provide home for the...

Loiter City: Spatial Strategies to redefine a woman’s place in a public realm

Gender is a highly context-specific social construct. It explores the social relationships between men and women, a relationship in which women have been systematically subordinated (Oakley 1972). The way gender relations are defined broadly influence the conceptualisation of space and place. In a patriarchy like India, where gender inequality...