Towards an Architecture Activist Practice: A Position of Design in the Climate Catastrophe

Scientists observe changes in the registers of our earth, rising Co² levels, changes in methane concentration, acidification of the oceans, and the degradation of soil. These changes in the registers of our earth proliferate environmental catastrophes that destabilize intricate webs of life. The human in the Anthropocene, and with it its...

Immanent Through Architecture: How may the embodiment of immanence be approached through the stimulation of architecture?

This essay endeavors to unveil how the mechanisms function that are responsible for the fundamental awareness of one’s physical presence in the world. The capacity of architecture to contribute towards towards such a state of being, is a major theme. The essay does this in three consecutive parts. In the first part, the subject’s bodily...

Reading the Nieuwe Binnenweg: A section of a city, a street and its social territory

This project tries to, inspired by the heavily quantified and confined ways of assessing "liveability" in policy documents, come up with a different way of reading the city. In this project, I aimed to explore this reading within the unit of the street, to see how focusing on a single street, a section of the city, could result in valuable broad...

Transtopia: TRANS INCLUSIVE DESIGN

The project aims to research how Trans people are impacted by architectural space and to transform to buildings into Trans residencies in Nairobi and Den Haag

B(l)ooming Tourism: Evoking New Meaningful Connections in the Touristic City of Amsterdam

In recent years, overtourism has become a big problem for many European cities. In Amsterdam, tourism is changing the experience of place of its city centre, which negatively affects resident’s quality of life by causing feelings of alienation. As a result, more and more residents seem to retreat or move away from Amsterdam’s city centre,...

Fourth to Sixth Nature: Feralising the Post-Industrial Landscape

This thesis explores the possibilities for semi-spontaeneous forest succession as the solution for creating a healthy living environment in the formerly industrial area of Schieoevers, Delft. The thesis describes what measurements are needed in order to make the uncertainties of feralisation acceptable for the larger public, as well as the...

How to Rural: A Scenario-Based Investigation of the Countryside’s Role in a Post-Industrial Future

Land prices and rents are constantly increasing in core cities around the globe. They are becoming an object of speculation and investment. Current progressions suggest a development in the outskirts through a process of post-urbanisation. While the suburbs and adjoining villages in the satellite sprawl experienced popularity among young...

UNDOCUMENTED: From Liminal Politics to Intimate Spaces

The protagonist of this work is the rightless, displaced person - a population of individuals in transition, hidden like a shadow in the contemporary city. Departing from the active oppression of this considerable group from the fabric of the city and the ways in which architecture contributes to enclosing or dividing populations, this work...

Temporal Empathy: A case study in the old coal storage

Buildings, spaces, objects - architectural things, everything is of a temporal nature, but this can be hard to grasp. However, we are capable of understanding time as a part of architecture. Not just as a concept, but as something that manifests itself as intrinsic characteristics in the architecture we create and experience.<br/><br/>Temporal...

A Gentle Neighbourhood: For more equal and enabling ways of living

A graduation based on evidence based long-term design principles, translated into contemporary context and beyond. The design principles are used to create a neighbourhood in a gentle way: letting people participate in the design and development proces, keep housing (forever) affordable, to think beyond short-term effect by creating social impact.

Impact First Development: an explorative study into (urban) development with the specific intention to create positive social impact

The world is experiencing climate change. Environmental problems are substantial and it's known that economic growth contributes to them. In addition, social inequality in society has grown. As a response, the concept of sustainable development has come up, but to date businesses find this hard to implement in their ways of working. As societal...

Someone // Somewhere: the European Union, a Home for so many differences

As of the 31st of January 2020, the United Kingdom separated from the European Union. This event caused an uproar in the preceding years throughout the Union, forcing everyone to consider what the benefits are (or not) of taking part in the European project. For us the benefits are clear. We can easily cross borders to experience and learn from...

Someone//Somewhere: the European Union, a Home for so Many Differences

As of the 31st of January 2020, the United Kingdom separated from the European Union. This event caused an uproar in the preceding years throughout the Union, forcing everyone to consider what the benefits are (or not) of taking part in the European project. For us the benefits are clear. We can easily cross borders to experience and learn from...

The Living Incubator: a place for exchange

The abuse of architectonics by decorating in an era after deconstructivism: Deconstruction of the tectonic structure as a way of decoration

With criteria based on Derrida's principles for deconstruction early and recent projects of deconstructists as Eisenman, Libeskind and Hadid are compared. The conclusions imply how much in those projects tectonic elements are used to create a style reminiscent to the original objectives of deconstruction and by doing so have become a decoration.