Assembling Thresholds: The Border between Port and City

For the location of my design I considered the old city wall/retaining wall of Genoa. This old defense/retaining wall is in itself a colossal architectural structure. It forms an enormous boundary as it was made to defend and close off the city. Now the city has outgrown its walls and does not need them for defence anymore. Devoid of its...

Redefined Public Floodplain

The design proposal is situated along the edge of the city of Strasbourg, the design deals with a existing flooding problem in the area that currently limits the development of the area. The building looks at providing a new scenic route that crosses through a multitude of different landscapes and elevations. The elevated walkway is meant to...

Hautepierre: Between ideal and reality

The banlieues seem condemned to be the scenery for the ‘France d’en bas’. A france that go to the fair, eats kebab every Wednesday, sleep in a hotel F1 next to the highway, marry in the ‘salle des fetes’, and spend their Monday choosing a new carpet at les 4 ‘murs’ or Tati. However, it seems that the city of strasbourg neglects this 'france d'en...

Framing Protest

The section of the street, being a constitutive unit of every city, as a design task requires constant reworking and adjustments according to changing socio-political conditions. The society of the 21st century looks different than it used to, the authorities changed along with social stratification models, technological solutions evolved and,...

Intensely Infrastructural: Shelter for Nomadic Subjects

'Intensely Infrastructural' seeks to question the self-reinforcing 'pan-humanist' logic behind a contemporary spatiotemporal condition I decide to name the Seamless Paradigm – an urban, capitalist economy founded on the ethos of smooth, transnational circulation of bodies, goods and ideals. Despite being a modus facilitated by and generative of...

Unlocking Residual Spaces and Creating In-between: Assembling the Niche

The project deals with a changing territorial environment on the Île aux Épis in Strasbourg, France, on which an urban (residential) masterplan has been drawn with a set of stipulations by the port authorities on the island. These stipulations introduce, among other things, a road that is to maintain the connectivity of the port to the highway...

Reorganising and altering the 'found'

The project aims to reorganise and alter the 'found' space a 'Place de l'Homme de Fer' in Strasbourg in order to express its inherent conditions. The 'found' tends to be disused, undefined, outside the system and situated as an in-between, therefore the space contains technical issues which prevent its integration. The project aims to resolve...

Surges of the 21st Century: Addressing flood risk, public- and ecological value through urban regeneration, to reduce socio-economic pressure and flood risk in coastal areas

In the last decennia, the world has seen a staggering increase in urbanization in coastal areas. Socio-economic pressure in coastal areas is increasing, while extreme weather events become more common. This thesis focuses on the development of coastal areas in order to combat the rising threats of flood risk and socio-economic pressure. Through...

The Valley: The Ground of Earthly Delights

My graduation project is located in the valley of Luxembourg City. During the designing of this project, Constant Nieuwenhuys’s New Babylon played a crucial role for its similarities with the valley in the city.<br/>Firstly, they both stretch all over the city, resulting in a sort of skeleton of the city for its holism. New Babylon is suspended...

Crossing Bridges: A new Infrastructure and social hub in Luxembourg City

Crossing Bridges is a design proposal located in Luxembourg city. The project deals deals with the city's specific urban territorial condition, as a clear physical and social issue. The distinctive topography of the city divides the city into plateaus and valleys with almost opposite identities. This dichotomy between the urban setting on the...

the space inbetween: project of an institution of protection in Luxembourg City

The project deals with the material culture of the financial sector of Luxembourg City with an alternative architectural formulation

The Fifth Plateau: Defining the threshold for a Third Industrial Revolution in Luxembourg Ville

Luxembourg can be read as a system of plateaus interconnected by large pieces of infrastructure that physically connect them. The edges of the plateaus fullflil a communicating function together with the urban ensembles that occupy the platform. The development of these separate islands has always gone hand in hand with a specific economic...

Underground landscape

This projects looks into underground space in Luxembourg city to explore the possiblility to solve problems on urban level when the city is read as landscape (but not necessary a park) because of the attention to ground and spatial sequence.