Reading of an urbanised Landscape: The Unesco Silent Stewardship

<b>A self-organised community within the polish countryside - </b><br/><br/>Alongside the fast development of cities, digitalisation, threats of an unstable political situation and a wish for a simpler life, more and more citizens are migrating towards rural areas. The absence of agriculture is not a problem for them - the countryside is not a...

Speaking architecture: a semiotic study toward understanding visual communication in architecture

Architecture communicates. Through its appearance it can communicate a function, time or place, or some kind of ideal. However, architecture does not communicate with words like humans do: instead, it communicates through a four- dimensional, non-verbal language consisting of forms, spatial organisation and materialisation. The problem is,...

Local identity: Materials

Beauty in Dereliction: Designing with ruins and decay

Temporal Transgressions

History and memory have always and will always be important concepts in understanding the world that surrounds us. And yet, the city as a historical arrangement of different fragments, often left as disassociated mementos of their own time, is constantly being challenged by the pragmatic visions of its future. Within the simultaneous process of...

The Treasury of the faculty of Architecture: Research and design in the field of composition

Classicism of Mies

This thesis is about how Mies van der Rohe, translated classicism into his era and architecture.

A care centre for adolescent cancer patients

This research is based on the perception that traditional care models are not adequately meeting the needs of adolescent cancer patients of age 18-30. In our health system young people don’t exist. The young patients frequently fall into a“no man’s land”between pediatric and adult oncology, without having a specific facility offering them the...

The poetics of Sacred Places: A place beyond belief

The becoming of sacred places can be studied from the pragmatic, politic and poetic point of view. In this project, the third is done, stating that the power and qualities of an architect lie here, more than in the pragmatic and/or politic. Sacred places are therefore approached as places that go beyond themselves as objects. Sacred places have...

The Wharf Bath

A High-Rise agricultural research facility in South Chicago

The creed of Faculty of Architecture in TU Delft is “Design by Research.” The graduation studio of Complex Project is really embodiment of this creed. In Msc 3, we put emphasizes on the research of Chicago City, which our graduation projects located in. We found many interesting facts about this city, which leads to the final master plan of...

Representing Global Boundary Conditions: United Nations Environmental Council |UNEC|, New York

‘Pull a spring, let it go, and it will snap back into shape. Pull it further and yet further and it will go on springing back until, quite suddenly, it won’t. What was once a spring has become a useless piece of curly wire…’. (economist, 2012) The quote above represents what may happen to the Earth if its systems are overstretched. ‘… like those...

The United Nations Headquarters of Sustainability in New York City

Sustainable developments and measurements are taken all over the world the last years, in all sorts and kinds. The awareness and care for our environment is in a good shape today. This promising and challenging development would work more efficiently if it was coordinated worldwide. In this studio we designed a new UN headquarters of...

Restaurant in de Rotterdamse haven

Mijn afstudeerproject, een ontwerp voor een restaurant in de Rotterdamse haven, is een bewuste verkenning geweest van de kleine schaal, zowel in architectuur als daarbuiten. Het is een eerste zoektocht naar een meer interdisciplinaire werkwijze. In mijn ontwerp vormen zowel het programma als de locatie de ideale achtergrond om deze...

Design for a United Nations Environmental Council in Manhattan with a complementary study to the sustainable benefits of living facades (plants on a building facade)

A proposal for an UN environmental council was made for the architecture master. This building is meant to facilitate collecting, producing, propagating and exchanging the knowledge on environment related topics. In this way, worldwide policy could be made to lead a sustainable evolution for mankind. The building consists of a public dome and an...

"Bk-City"----design faculty of architecture

The whole project is shifting in different scale of design process. Start with a simple concept" space inside space inside space”, Aim to find out the possibility to apply this purely architectural concept into huge scale buildings. Also in materialization aspect, trying to explode and play with bearing and unhearing façade system. To realize...