Archipelago Gardens

The bold line: Defining urban void by building a condition

Graduation project the bold line is a proposal to the situation of transforming abandoned urban voids by implementing a unique specific condition, the Supersized Inhabitable Urban Pergola, which combines nature, landscape, architecture and infrastructure in a most provocative hybrid way.

Public Building / Public Realm, composition & tectonics - Project title: The vitality of networks

These documents contain the work of Peter van Gelder and his collaborators.

Urban culture centre COGO Rotterdam

Urban culture centre COGO Rotterdam is located in the urban block of the monumental ABN-Amro bank building surrounded by Coolsingel and Lijnbaan streets. The building contains three functions: design workshop, educational hub and gastronomy art centre. The main concept of the project derives from the criticism of Rotterdam architectonic forms...

Art & Technology Center

Along the Ring's Conditions: Intervening on the Infrastructural Edge of Charleroi

The thesis has been developed within and upon the context of the ‘Dorsal Wallonne’, which is an urbanized spine located in the southern side of Belgium. This spine spans from Mons to Liege and it can be described as a territorial artifact of great diversity, where urbanization has followed the vicissitudes of the machine-age. The region not only...

Urban centre

Poppodium Delftsestraat Rotterdam: displayed enclaves in the discontinuous public domain of Rotterdam

In a newly arisen ambivalent district in the centre of Rotterdam the Music Centre has to engage a symbiosis with the contrasting layers in the urban site that surround it. The creative and inspiring setting is present all around it but has taken on different forms; a representative business-like form facing the Schiekade and Weena and a more...

In search for balance in contrasts: graduation project for a designcentre in Rotterdam

There is no Rotterdam identity. Rotterdam has characterizations that everybody can sense namely the big contrasts in Rotterdam. Contrasts originated from top-down-planning of urban renewal projects due to the bombardment in WOI. In my opinion people need these contrasts, to adapt themselves to the changes that are occurring at the moment, to...

City flavours: A contemporary forum for food and culture

Relaxation Centre: A place to retreat in the centre of Rotterdam