Sustainable densification in Utrecht: Testing the Open Space strategy in Rivierenwijk

In my graduation project I have researched the relation between built space and open space in the urban context. With the current densification challenge in Utrecht much more built volume is added to the city, increasing the pressure on open space. Open space is of great importance in securing urban liveability and has in particular many...

Sustainable Mobility in Post-Industrial Development: A research to sustainable mobility in post-industrial development applied to Merwe-Vierhavens, Rotterdam

The two urban challenges of the mobility shift and industrial redevelopment come together at the site of the Merwe-Vierhavens (M4H) in Rotterdam. The mobility shift consists of the transition from polluting vehicles towards sustainable alternatives, like electric vehicles, and the use of public transport and slow mobility. The industrial shift...

Levels of Publicness: The Mambo art museum and its city

In Bogotá, the capitol of Colombia, the museum of modern art Mambo needs an extension. This graduation project is a proposal for that extension, which has a focus on the relationship and interaction between the building and the public domain. The result is a building complex that has many different levels of publicness, an open building that is...

The city as a campus

From an analysis of the higher education system in Bogotà, it came out an isolation and social closing of university campuses in the city.<br/>It follows that high knowledge becomes elitist and inaccessible, and that the city and the university are losing their relation.<br/><br/>The design consists in opening a new democratic dialogue between...