DataFlex: Educational game about data centers for children

Women are largely underrepresented in IT, girls’ interest in STEM and IT fields tends to drop throughout secondary education. Educational games are a great tool to change the perception of certain topics, as well as changing the behavior of the players. Thus, this report describes the development of a game to make the field of IT more appealing...

Tiengemeten, A Showcase of 3 Design Approaches to Nature Development

Back to Nature

Back to Nature focuses on finding ways to integrate nature with architecture in order to harness the positive effects of nature on the human psyche. As such psychological theories on restorative environments, neurological theories on the stress response and architectural theories concerning the sensory systems are combined to create a...

Regreeneration

An approach to anticipate on new built regeneration projects in order to improve deprived deprived neighbourhoods.

Building with nature: Balancing the urban growth of Kochi’s coastal wetlands with their ecological structures

The project takes its roots in the annual floods that Kochi, a coastal city in South India, is faced with. Along with these floods, the city faces rampant destruction of mangroves and an urban development that follows no particular structure. Being a highly fragile economic and political setup, it is safe to say that urban development takes...

Fragmented Peripheries

Through the Public Building/Border Conditions research location of Madrid, the controversial area of the Cañada Real was investigated on the outskirts of the city for its spatial phenomena unique to its situation. Initially used as a farmer’s cattle trail, over the past 40 years it has become an illegal settlement containing distinct areas. Due...

"Ban Move": Introducing a healthy lifestyle in Curacao: Providing incentives for a healthier lifestyle by means of urban planning and architecture.

The existing situation on the Curacao of the urban development is a pattern determined by the excessive use of cars as a means for transportation. This reflects poorly on the communities, because of the fragmented and homogenous urban design. The pattern of land usage led to disconnected communities and a dispersion of programs. Herein lays the...

Return to the coast! Creating vital and attractive seaside towns

The metropolitan Landscape: How to structure the metrepolitan developments in the haarlemmermeer with a park system.

How to structure the metropolitan developments of the randstad in the haarlemmermeer by using a park system.

Van verloren ruimte naar gevonden plek!!: Een ontwerpinstrument voor openbare ruimte

Het onderzoek is gestart om grip te krijgen op openbare ruimtes die niet goed functioneren. Het zijn ruimtes die gezien kunnen worden als zwarte gaten in en om de stad, waar bijna geen mensen gebruik van maken, maar wat soms wel waardevolle plekken kunnen zijn. Deze laag van informele ruimtes maken geen overtuigend deel uit van de formele...

Montjuïc, her-bergt de stad

Graduation project on rethinking the position of the mountain Montjuïc in Barcelona. Project rethinks what the mountain means to Barcelona as a citypark and how to reemphasize this. And develops a plan for reconnecting the entrance to the Montjuïc from the city centre and harbour front. With the development of a hotel, the Parador + as a meeting...