Between Public and Private: A study into the potential of public space and public buildings to act as natural extensions of private living environments within inner city block structures.

The project takes its basis in a concern for the future liveability of European cities in regard to public space, public buildings, and public life, looking specifically at the capital city of Budapest in Hungary. Studying internal migration patterns within Hungary, it is clear that while the Budapest conglomerate region have grown in population...

The River Keeps The Score: Religiously Relinking to Budapest’s Danube River

For millennia, humans have lived, constructed, and cultivated along the banks of rivers. Rivers are the genius loci of these riverside cities, embodying the spirit of the place and its people. Rivers have been the source of life upon which civilization was built: providing water, power, and transport, but are also spiritually deeply meaningful...

Budapestian Courtyard Revival

The project takes as a starting point the architectural exploration and revival of the typology of a courtyard block – a type that has a long history in the city of Budapest and yet, is getting abandoned and rejected in the in the last decades – a predicament that surprises as the type has been realised successfully for centuries and even...

Memorial library: The layering of historical architectures in a memorial library in Belgrade

In the middle of the picturesque quarter of Kosančićev Venac in Belgrade, a small empty crater is to be found. Once, the National Library of Belgrade stood here, but it got bombed during the second world war. Now it seems there is nothing more but some ruins of the original building. In multiple cases in Belgrade, the questions of how to deal...

Immanent Through Architecture: How may the embodiment of immanence be approached through the stimulation of architecture?

This essay endeavors to unveil how the mechanisms function that are responsible for the fundamental awareness of one’s physical presence in the world. The capacity of architecture to contribute towards towards such a state of being, is a major theme. The essay does this in three consecutive parts. In the first part, the subject’s bodily...

Ecology of Living Together: Equilibrium between humans & species in the built environment

In the Advanced Housing Design Studio we explored how housing design can successfully address the challenge of reducing the ecological footprint of its residents and assure social inclusion. In this studio an emphasis was put on the housing concept of collective living. A cooperative housing concept that offers the opportunity to create a living...

The coastal environment as a laboratory: Architecture and embodied experiences

The long-stretched shadow of my body touches the footprints in the sand in front of me. It is a cold winter afternoon and the sun is already setting. I hear the rhythm of water pulling back and passing under another wave of water. The beach is full of people many of whom presumably visit this place for the same reason as I: “uitwaaien”. While...

Rediscovering public space in the inner ring of Skopje

The interventions topic first came to mind when I discovered there was a dark alley within one of the neoclassical façades along Macedonia street leading to a courtyard behind. It turned out that there were many courtyards like this dispersed throughout the city, providing potential for public space alternatives for the city of Skopje. The...

Foyer - mediation of particles in Skopje

Skopje – became city of solidarity after 6.1 momentum magnitude earthquake in 1963. Unprecedented situation allowed for tabula rasa of planning a future city to emerge. Metabolist masterplan for city central area proposed by Japanese team leaded by Kenzo Tange, allowed for a brutalist architecture to present itself as part of new city....

Creative in the city: Creating a mulit interpretative pedestrian landscape in Skopje city.

The project intervenes in the city of Skopje to promote creativity in the city. At the moment Skopje’s public space mainly consists of formal squares and parks which do not respond to or encourage appropriation and creativity within the city. The project will intervene in the in-between spaces on an urban scale, responding to the surrounding...

A New Perspective of Vardar River: Redevelopment of Public Space along the Vardar River, Skopje

With the implementation of Skopje 2014, the cityscape has undergone tremendous changes with new facades and constructions, resulting in the dominance of political messages in people's daily life. Alongside these imposing alterations, the public space of Vardar River is greatly neglected, displaying a contrasting condition from the vibrant upper...

Staging the Abandoned: Open-air Theater Revitalization of Kale Fortress, Skopje

The project site situates at Kale Fortress, a historic archaeological site at the highest point overlooking the city of Skopje. Despite its rich cultural value and prestige location, the site has been abandoned for years since the inter-ethnic conflict between the Macedonians and Albanians in 2011 over the construction on a church-shaped museum....

Urban Amplifiers

This graduation project explores the act of listening to “noise”, to develop a new critical attitude to understanding sounds of the contemporary city. The essential aim is to create ears which separate, abstract and re-organize the myriad of sounds of the environment, which often ends up in a cacophony. The sounds of the surroundings are...

Zero Energy Building Refurbishment & Energy Neutral Urban Clusters in Haarlem

In recent years the world is becoming more aware on the burden of the fossil fuels on the planets ecosystem as well as climate. One of the major reasons is, due to greenhouse gasses in which most of them are caused by carbon release by consumption of fossil fuels. The building sector in almost every country is a major contributor to the...