Makers Museum: the contemporary continuation of Katoenveem

Katoenveem is a warehouse which was built specifically for the storage and transshipment of cotton bales. From 1919 to 1964 Katoenveem was used for the storage and transshipment of cotton. Thereby it was related to the water and its surrounding area. Over time the building lost its original function and its connection to the surrounding area. In...

The reintroduction of katoenveem complex as an open infrastructure for contemporary culture

In 1920 the architect J. J. Kanters designed the warehouse ‘the Katoenveem’. The building is situated in the Merwe-Vierhavens of the port delta of Rotterdam. It was constructed as a part of the infrastructure that relied on the import and export of Cotton. The position of the Katoenveem in this transit system divines the character of the...

Cultivating Heritage: Recuperating Dutch Colonial Architecture’s Relation to Local Community’s Practices through Heritage and Socio-Cultural Approaches in Kota Lama Semarang

“Cultivating Heritage” proposes to bridge the long-standing distance between colonial architecture that represents history of discrimination and the local community that suffers from poverty and manifold environmental issues. This project is a part of Shared Heritage Lab studio that focuses on Semarang historical area, Indonesia, the former city...

Westfort bron van kansen

Landmark of meeting

Wesfort School of Hospitality

The research explains the situation of the bad living conditions to which city planners, politicians and tycoons reacted. Both the healing environment (Wesfort) and the healthy environment (Company Towns and Garden Cities) have in common that the intention is to enhance the quality of life in order to increase productivity and community feeling....

A Seed for the Future

Wesfort village: Creating an African Community in a heritage environment

When Sietze Wopkes Wierda designed the Wesfort Leprosy Asylum he was building on his own and the collective Dutch building experience regarding Closed institutions. The influence of the Reformed Church Mental hospitals of the Christian Organization for the Care of Nervous and Mental Patients and their system of building village like closed...

Westfort Park: a strategy for a community upgrade

The former leprosarium Westfort in South Africa is a very valuable place, but under pressure because of the poor squatters using the institution grounds as living place and the urban sprawl of Pretoria, reaching the borders of the site. A plan for the current community and the heritage structures is needed to secure its future. My plan is based...

The energized monument

The goal of this graduation project is transforming monuments from +/- 1900 with a non-housing function to monuments with collective, near zero-energy housing. In this design the elements collective housing, near zero-energy and monument are combined at the Binnengasthuis area in Amsterdam. The project focuses on solutions in historic inner city...

Restoring the Binnengasthuis area: Giving back its qualities by reshaping the urban morphology

Restoring the Binnengasthuis area.

Building characteristics influencing transformation possibilities

This master thesis examines the influence of the existing building on a transformation design. Why does a certain transformation work well with the one building but is useless in the other? Is this perhaps the influence of some of the characteristics of the existing building? Gaining insight in this process can also help with the early...

Plug & Play, Off the shelf living comfort. Housing heritage, Carnisse, Eilandenbuurt

Research project on amateur private adaptations to portiek dwellings in de Eilandenbuurt in Rotterdam. Followed by a disgn for ready made plugin extension's which boost the technical performance of the dwelling and therefore the living comfort. The extensions rely on an flexible construction principle which is easily applicable to other types of...