Talent Hub Den Haag Zuid West

The neighborhood of Morgenstond is accounted as one of the 50 problem neighborhoods in the Netherlands. The social development is similar to many post-war urban plannings outside of city centers. After the moving out of the first very homogenic young family population in the course of a suburbanization trend in the late 60s’ and 70s’, the...

Place of Unpretentiousness: Non-commercial architecture

The public condenser tends to stress the importance of non-commercial architecture within the context of Copenhagen as an opposition to the concept of consumerism. According to Leslie Sklair (2010): “Consumerism - or more accurately, the culture-ideology of consumerism - refers to a set of beliefs and values, integral but not exclusive to the...

A new landscape of exchange

The field of architecture is extensively faced with densification and gentrification. In pre-war neighbourhoods there is a dilemma between adding housing stock and simultaneously improving the existing stock in terms of sustainability. In the contemporary society these neighbourhoods are distinguished as troubled areas with unilateral...

“Amerika Natie” Logistics study center complex

This report recorded the process of the research and design. From the site response to program choice, and some critical proplems during the design process. A great number of diagrams introduce the logic of design, and some drawings and renders express the quality of spatial and material design.

Het Ambachthuis: New Craft school on Eilandje in Antwerp

Intimate city investigates public interiors named as city rooms characterized by any scale and representation. My project conceives these rooms in my building as sequence and investigates theme of thresholds, and explores the intimacy on a border. All the rooms in the building build a sequence of interiors and exteriors, in which each space has...

Creating a Craft Culture: The Royal Academy of Fine Art's School of Textiles

Through the process of globalisation, politically and physically, we have found many cities promoting individualism through a neo-liberal modern architecture at the cost of a loss of a local identity. With its traditional heritage and rich material culture, Antwerp is taken as a testing ground for the inclusion of a contemporary structure which...

Interiors, Buildings, Cities: The intimate city: Antwerp Intergenerational center

Palazzo Rubens: The Intimate City

The project Palazzo Rubens is concerned with the transformation of the iconic Rubenshuis in Antwerp, whilst also working within the year theme for the chair if Interiors, Buildings, Cities; that of "The Intimate City".

Interiors, Buildings, Cities : After the Party: The Maastricht Distillery and Nightclub

MSc 4 : Interiors, Buildings, Cities : After the Party - The Maastricht Distillery and Nightclub

A Fashion Palace for Maastricht: Search for a new type of Representative Factory for Sustainable Fashion Production

For my graduation project I was aspired to devise a Public Interior that has a role and responsibility within the city and has a larger beyond its site impact and implication.<br/><br/>My effort was focused in the field of fashion due programmatic relevancy to Maastricht and due to my own very personal motivation of finding ways to challenge...

The Lost Bathhouse of Maastricht

Imagining the ruins of a Roman bathhouse on a forgotten river site in Maastricht, the project reflects on the idea of authenticity and manipulation of history in architecture. The building is imagined as a ruin and reflects on the role of ruins in architecture and how the roman ritual of bathing can be interpreted in contemporary times. The new...

The Foyer of the City: The Roles of the Riverfront as a Festive Terrain

By using a water-oriented scenography of Maastricht as an asset, the intention of the project is to stress and celebrate the festive sense of the city through the interventions along the riverfront area. The definition which best describes the festive nature of this project is ‘A pleasure of Entering’. <br/><br/>From the foyer which performs as...

Re_Claiming Rome, Papal Arsenal: Tiberinus Brewery

This project seeks to reclame the Tiber for the City of Rome and in doing so will create a physical interface which blurs the boundaries between the river and land. The water of the river and a piece of the City's industrial heritage will be re_appropriated within this project for the creation of; a brewery, a performance venue, a social hub and...

Re_Claiming Rome: Mira Lanza: Framing the experience

In this project the theme of the studio "Reclaiming Rome" was interpreted with different research and design methods, which resulted in an elaborate design of not only architecture but the environment. One of the leitmotifs of the project was taking inspiration from historical evidence of Rome, implementing the arches of ancient Roman viaducts...

Ritual landscapes in Singapore

This thesis looks at establishing a ritual landscape in Singapore to address the nation's tabula rasa condition.