Gaudium: 'De draad weer oppakken'

Gaudium is a textile production firm, situated in the industrial urban fabric of Winterswijk, using a building ensemble which is owned by the municipality. Since Gaudium’s foundation it worked together with Kvadrat, which holds today the top position in Europe’s textiles market. The long-standing partnership between the Danish company and...

Transformation Structuralism: 21st century university in a 70's structuralist building

The goal of the project is to find out to what extent it is possible to adapt the Faculty of Humanities in Leiden to meet the requirements of a 21st century university. The Faculty of Humanities is a university designed in the 70’s. Although it will remain the same institute, the program of the 21st century version consists of different types of...

Production Biospheres: A new production space in Hembrug

The project named production biospheres created a process design aimed on the adaptive reuse of the Plots In The Woods site on the Hembrug terrain near Zaandam. The landscape and urban design for the site is based on methods used by landscape architects and ecologists based on the three terms cultivate, stage and set up, not just creating. The...

Armed Forces Rehabilitation Center - A.R.C.: A 2nd phase care facility with a focus on mental and physical return to society after initial care has been recieved.

This project has been made as a graduation project for the Heritage and Architecture Graduation studio at the Delft University of Technology. The project is situated in the Hembrug Area. Hembrug is located near the Dutch cities of Amsterdam and Zaandam. The Hembrug site is a former military production site initially part of the Stelling van...

Urban Ecology Lab Hembrug: Re-designing an industrial heritage landscape

This graduation project and the main topic that will be addressed derives from the context of the Hembrug terrain, in which the studio ‘Revitalising Heritage’ is placed. The problem statement, based on the initial site analysis, illustrated that the green and historical character of the Hembrug terrain may disappear due to the new proposed...

Hembrug the community: A place for everyone

This design project is a heritage project combined with inclusive design. The buildings are preserved as much as possible but also listen to the requirements of the future functions. Inclusive design is applied by making the buildings easily accessible to everyone and to alse triggering other senses besides the eyes.

The Hembrug Culinary Arts School: Revitalizing Heritage

A small community where elderly and young professionals live, study and work together

Explore the Seclusion: The Head of the Cape

The history of Hembrug goes back to around 1900, when the manmade land got its military production function. For almost a century this area was used for the production of ammunition, weapons and explosives. However, after losing its original function, the area became vacant. The creative subculture, such as artists and squatters, came to this...

Katoenveem: a Living and Working Incubator

The Katoenveem is a former cotton warehouse situated in the Northern harbour area of Rotterdam. It was built in 1920, has been out of use as a cotton warehouse since 1964 and has been vacant since 2016. Over the past 100 years, the building has maintained a lot of its original character. This graduation project focusses on the question how the...

The Katoenveem: A tailor-made performing arts centre

My graduation research started with the analysis of both the tangible and intangible values of the existing structure throughout all the different scales, starting with the urban and ending with the building technology scale. My research focuses on the functionality and more specifically the "tailor made" aspect of the initial design of the...