Dutch Housing Commons: Non-speculative housing within and against the housing market

The Netherlands is facing a housing shortage and adequate housing provision is lacking. Citizens are eager to act on their own through bottom-up initiatives. However, bottom-up initiatives (such as cooperative housing) do not thrive within the current housing market and therefore significant development of cooperative housing in the Netherlands...

The Hospital of Thinkable Boundaries: Methods for Noetic Design

The Hospital of Thinkable Boundaries: Methods for Noetic Design; addresses how the modern city and knowledge-context deals with mental illness and healing. Rather than studying medical spaces this research stems from personal evidence of embetterment through the noetic experience, where productive and vital experience is materialized by the...

DEMO DOMAIN; for of and by the local people of Europe: Revitalising European Democracies by the re-introduction of Public Sphere in local society.

The binding factor of the European Union's diverse nations is their practice of democracy. However, recently the EU has been dealing with the rising power of populism, increasing polarization and strong bubble forming; all leading to a weakening practice of local, national and union scale democracies. An important factor in this is the lacking...

Fringe Fictions: The Case of La Linea Verde: The Kitchen, the Table, the Soil and the Market

The elevator diagram: A food hub for Luxembourg city

The elevator diagram is a proposal concerned with the question of how to intervene in the contemporary city, with Luxembourg as an example. The proposal takes as a ground point the geography of the city, analyzing the dichotomy of the valley and the plateau as a particular characteristic, and intends to create an architectural interface capable...

Public Building The Hague

Architecture of Contradiction: Intervention in the illegal marketplace

Living in Anthropocene, Thorough, Fragmented, Theatrical Transformation of the Haagse Beek

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...