Bringing back movement in Skydebanehaven: Designing a public condenser in the district Vesterbro in Copenhagen

Designing a public condenser in the district of Vesterbro in Copenhagen. As the theme of the project 'movement' increases the group of various people of different ages and cultures. Bringing back sport facilities and greenery improves both healthy living and reducing gentrification.

Community Crafts Centre: An Institution for the Everyday

The project is a design for a community crafts centre in Antwerp. Researching the meaning of Institution in the Intimate City, the resulting project is one that conveys an atmosphere of intimacy through the notions of Geometry, Materiality and Identity, while being well insterted in the cultural, physical, historical, and temporal context and...

An Academic Library in Maastricht: Festivity of Transformative architecture

Festive moments and the built environment have, throughout history, had great influence on each other. Festive architecture has always been concerned with building narratives. It has the ability to communicate political, emotional, social or cultural messages and even change peoples perceptions. In the contemporary built environment of our...

The Urban Factory

The Urban Factory considers three main themes and tools of ‘time’, ‘threshold’ and ‘material culture’ as means to go beyond the regular way of dealing with large existing introverted buildings in the heart of city centers. It is a sustainable method and social alternative to demolition, a way of connecting the building back to the city center,...

Maastricht Fashion Quarter: Weaving fashion industry into the city of Maastricht through studios and exhibition spaces, where fashion and its production are brought closer to everyday life

The Maastricht Fashion Quarter weaves the fashion industry into the city of Maastricht through studios and exhibition spaces, where fashion and its production are brought closer to everyday life. The project is set within the ambition of the municipality to transform Maastricht into a ‘Fashion City’. Despite this ambition and the presence of...

Stadtbauhutte

The city is permanently in transition. The material objects that compose the city are continuously subject to adjustments, improvements or replacements. A bridge is being restored, a window frame is being replaced and an office is transformed in apartments. The process of transformation has been part of the city ever since its origin and will...

Rethinking Roosenberg

Make Your Own Neighbourhood: A Communal DIY Marketplace for the Zomerhofkwartier in Rotterdam

The project initially started out to be engaged with the sociocultural phenomenon around amateur production and its physical manifestation of the DIY store as an integral of everyday life in today's society. In order to gradually develop an architectural brief for the eventual design, a number of case studies has been examined in various forms:...