The active museum of art: A new museum approach to increase neighbourhood asset through participation.

The active museum of art: During this Graduation project I search for a new way of positioning an art museum in the 21st century in Rotterdam south Tarwewijk. An Art Museum changes the local environment of its surrounding area. It can have a positive influence by developing neighbourhood assets but it also can lead to gentrification and...

Manhattan Forum: Architecture and Democracy in the Valley of Giants

As the city of New York densifies, the post-democratic state grows its roots deeper into the bedrock. 90% of buildings in Manhattan are built without public review, and outdated zoning laws no longer protect the city's public assets, alienating the public and further widening the gap between rich and poor. The Manhattan Forum is a public/private...

Gizmo: The Theatre of Automation in the post-labour society of Hammerfest

While technological development and the rising Second Machine Age are already firmly affecting the notion of labour and the consequent disposition of our cities and territories, the remote island of Hammerfest, in the Arctic regions of Finnmark, prefigures the conditions for a radical rebirth. The full extents of automation, resulting in a post...

The Naked Island: Unveiling the Dichotomy of Productive and Romantic Territories

Land and Sea are of a very different kind. One roots people to their contexts, tying them to its borders, properties and complex systems of relations; the other suggests the possibility for limit-less, unconditional wandering, an overwhelming experience of movement, in both space and time. This ancient tension between the anthropic process of...

Theater of Decay: Nature and Human Coexistence in the Toxic Landscapes in Rotterdam Port

We’re living in an era where spaces of logistics are further being detached from cities and urbanization to avoid choke points. But as these spaces migrate they leave traces of spaces permeating the city. What might be the impact of these logistical residual spaces whether large or very small on the expanding urban environment creating a clash,...

Recolonization of Offshore Platform

This project is based on 2 issues, the degradation of the ecosystem in North Sea and the decommission of offshore platforms.

The Zone of Disassembly: Unveiling the hidden flows of e-waste

Material possession has become our objective for existence. Capital surrounds and defines us. The high dynamics of global flows dominate the planetary web of connectivity. Consumption, production and assembly have become the holy trinity of the neo-liberal realm we live in. It is a manifestation of the global dynamics, neglecting distances,...

Rhizomatic Networks: Investigating the Infrastructure Space of Data

The North is a dense space of connectivity, where submarine cables span between the population centers and economic hubs of Europe. Within this web of relations, the Netherlands play an important role as the gateway to continental Europe on the one hand and the United States and United Kingdom on the other hand. At the same time, the stable...

Anchoring the Warmoezier: a life-cycle market in a port-city

The relationship between industry and market, in the Netherlands of the 17th century, was based on a sustainable model. It linked small scale producers with consumers through a system of canal boats, maritime technology and agricultural innovations.<br/>This marketproduction connection was carried out by farmers known as ‘warmoeziers’. In 21th...

A blue scape of reflection: Creating a place of revival, using the solitude created by the dike, and the dynamic rhythm of the sea.

Since the industrial revolution we have become estranged from the sea. We became opponents instead of working together, and put up high walls to protect ourselves form the vagaries of an unpredictable sea. Somewhere along our path of progress, we lost our human connection to the sea. Before the sea became something we secluded, it was known for...

inter naturas

Research in the field of climate change, requires the access to, and knowledge in data of the specific subject. The research we -as graduate students- started off with a general but deep understanding of the changing environment, borders, cultures and landscapes in and around the delta areas surrounding the North Sea. Building up our research...

Taking Back Control

This project traces the role the North Sea has played in the history of the United Kingdom, with a particular focus on territorial control. In a post-Brexit scenario where supply chains between the island and the continent are interrupted, the contiguous zone just twelve nautical miles from the coast of the UK provides an ideal economic grey...

Information/Experience center: Prelude to the landscape

Past to Present to Past: Settling in the Unsettle-able

Past to Present to Past is an architectural investigation responding to the growing need to address sea level rise in the built environment. The two sites of focus are Leysdown-on-Sea, UK and Red Sands Fort in the Thames Estuary.

R.E.C. Building: Institute for water research, education and creation

The building I designed for my graduation project focused on finding ways in which to break the rules governing functions of the historic building, as said by Paul Virilio, to “inhabit the inhabitual”, by reusing and giving new functions to buildings that have been abandoned. The building will host three main functions related to a water...

Hunters Point Crane: A floating space above the San Francisco Bay

During the studio Delta Interventions, I designed an intervention based on research within the San Francisco Bay Area. Basically, my intervention is about transforming historic real estate along the waterline and creating a new relation with the water. The intervention is mainly focusing on transforming a landmark in to a building that...