SoundSpaces: A Bridge for Cairo

Mapping spatio-acoustics in Cairo, Egypt; and the design of a bridge based on the findings of the research.

Spatial transformation // from public to collective space //

Graduation Project at studio Border Conditions. A research on the human perception towards the awareness to its surrounding. In direct combination with the informal (post-Soviet) commercial developments and Western influences of commerce. This results to a complex shopping center in Odessa, Ukraine. Creating unique spaces for informal,...

Oswiecim - Visible city: Hidden history

The city of Oswiecim is essentially known for its history, but next to this there is also the present city, what is remarkably seems just like any other small city in Poland. At first it seems that there is a strict border between the present and the past, but remarkably is that these two meet each other in the uncultivated or unknown history of...

Urban waste processing plant Cairo

Visiting places one has never seen before, which in my case Cairo at that time, renders the experience of it into a limited number of isolated moments that are pushed into a sequence of narration. A city experience is reduced to a number of words, images or stills that together create a mental context that collapses reality into a collage of...

Layered Library in Cairo

Based on the mapping of spaces in Islamic Cairo where inhabitants continue to build within the rubble of destroyed buildings, the Layered Library proposes a spatial type based on gaps, glimpses, and wandering.

Commuter Retreat: A refuge in the middle of rush-hour

The 'Commuter Retreat' project was developed in the context of the Border Conditions graduation studio. This studio emphasizes on an experimental approach to architecture, based on the development of specific techniques of representation to describe specific urban and architectural phenomena. The first part of the studio focuses on the urban...

Militarization of New York City / US Terror Tribune

A spatial research focussiing on the militarization of urban space in NYC and architectural design of an US Terror Tribune located in Manhattan, NYC. A new approach to architectural design based on an opposition to the dominance of orthogonal and vertical forms. Blurring the borders between divine curiosity and divine terror.

Layers + folds

Study and design based on New York subway

Border conditions, folded skins, public parasites and the description of spatial voids: An architectural project based on experimental abstraction and traces of randomly encountered public acts in New York City

The City of New York is a stage that invites everyday people to become active, to play in it or to misbehave. The streets and its public transportation network are the stage, artificial light, special sound qualities in certain spaces and the presence of a potential audience the specific qualities of these urban stages among others. The audience...

Sound Museum Kaliningrad

As attachment: A0 poster. My research deals with translations of sounds into notations which are then used to design spatial experiences. During the spring of 2006 I recorded sounds with a digital photo camera (CANON Powershot A85) in the old city centre of Kaliningrad, a former Prussian city in a Russian exclave. The research location is based...