House of creatives: A creative condenser in Berlin

This thesis project investigates the potential of the 'creative condenser' within the context of Berlin as an approach to the ‘public condenser’, a term introduced by the board of the Public Building graduation studio within the MSc Architecture track at Delft University of Technology.

Urban Oasis: A Communal Hub & Sanctuary for Socio-cultural Integration and Interaction in Friedrichshain Berlin.

Problem statement <br/>Friendrichshain consists of variety of contrast, diversity, and multiplicity regarding architecture, functions, gentrification, atmospheres, users, and cultures. This multiplicity gives a unique quality to the area. Berlin has a history of migration and has been experiencing a high refugee inflow in recent years. After...

Potluck Creative Center

The importance of this project is to make a creative center in Berlin, Germany that supports all forms of creative expression. A Potluck Creative Center will add space for creative ambitions and give communal enjoyment (value), to the neighborhood. A condenser for all informal creative forms, where persons who practice different forms can teach,...

MediaHeim Berlin: Mediatheque & Community Library

All places change over time; however, the extent and availability of alternatives are essential. Friedrichshain is an example of a neighbourhood where the transition to a high-income society can have significant consequences for low-income and elderly, who have fewer choices and fewer opportunities to travel for recreation and socialising. <br/>...

(Re)Mind the Wall: Designing a circular Creative Commune for the people of Berlin

(Re)Mind the Wall is an architectural critique on the current function/position of the East-side Gallery in Berlin, Germany. What once paid tribute to the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 has now eroded itself into a manicured and appropriated tourist hotspot in the city. While the colourful murals from international artists remain intact, their...

Monumental Follies

This design is a graduation project of the public buildings studio called "Music Marvel". It deals with designing a public space within an area, Binckhorst, that is switching from an industrial to a residential district. The increase in density has consequences on the existing buildings resulting in demolition and thus a loss of identity....

Rave Spaces: Designing for interpretation

Following the ideologies of club cultural communities, which finds abandoned space throughout the city and gives it new meaning by transforming it into spaces which hosts different activities for creative communities, this projects attempts to design a building with no meaning in the first place which in turn allows for multiple interpretations...

DO PLAY

This is a ‘music marvel’ graduation project within the Public Building studio. Experimenting with the typology of an open-air amplified music venue, positioned at the core of a grand gentrification project in the Hague, it is driven by critical questions. The proposal is probing into developing applicable tactics for harvesting intergenerational...

Bincks' Music Factory: A music incubator for subcultures

The project ‘Bincks’ Music Factory’ is part of the graduation studio Public Building, a studio in which Multiplicity is researched as a characteristic of a Music Marvel.<br/><br/>The ‘new’ Music Marvel as I designed it has the Binckhorst location in The Hague as its given parameter. This former industrial area has been absorbed by the city in...

Music district

When I first visited the site of the project, the Binckhorst in The Hague, I noticed the scatteredness of the place. Everything is disconnected and hard to be reached by foot or bicycle. In fact, most functions are oriented to cars, trucks, and industrial machines. What is particularly interesting, however, is that there are a number of hidden...

MODUS Museum: The New Museum of Tarwewijk

The research is about the new museum in Tarwewijk, Rotterdam South which aims to re-wire the city + art. The research is conducted through fieldwork observations and analytical research done in the Tarwewijk district. The MODUS Museum aims to adopt the industrial characteristics and forms of the ports of Rotterdam while integrating public life...

Environmental Activism in the Museum: Art and architecture displaying change

Environmental activism requires effective communication to a wide audience in order to highlight ongoing issues around the world. Art and environmental art in particular, can be a powerful tool to showcase this type of complex issues and can be used to raise awareness of the seriousness of the problem at hand. Museums, as trusted institutions,...

Urban Interface: a museum of new media art for social stimulation and interaction

The term interface is commonly known as a device or program enabling man to use machine, and mainly associated with relationship between users and computer. Generally it means a point where two systems, subjects, organization, etc. meet and interact. A good interface would effectively raise efficiency and improve experience of the users. In...

Straatkunst: Institutionalizing Street Art

In the South of Rotterdam there is a disconnection between the artworld and the way of life in the neighbourhood. The design of a new museum will try to attempt to reduce the gap between different segments of society in the area. Therefor a museum for Street art will be introduced. Focussing on re-wiring the museum to the neighbourhood and make...

Entangled: The Synsesthetic Art Museum

Exhibitions and collections of art museums mostly consists of visual art. When we talk about “contemporary art” museums, people immediately think about paintings, photographs and sculptures: visual arts. Monet’s, Van Gogh’s and Picasso’s paintings, photographs of William Klein, sculptures by Richard Serra or Woody Allen’s movie. All these...

Cuts as Pieces of Architecture: Training School for Parkour

Neglected and abandoned places in the contemporary city are typically understood as negative, problematic issues followed by a tendency of straight-forward architectural solutions. Considering such places as a result of accumulating city processes and conceptualizing them as ”cuts’’ in the urban and architectural tissue opens up an unforeseen...