Same but different

Living in the Places of Memory

Transforming an informal Addis: Urban renewal through reinterpreting the urban informality

Re-defining the social identity

"Bridging", an urban strategy for city redevelopment

Retaining a life together: Collecting courtyards in Addis Ababa

The thesis aims to develop a collective knowledge base and investigates design methods and strategies to provide housing in the developing territory of Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia

From the ground up, reclaiming the Akaki river as a place of transition for the rural-urban migrant in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

The current housing programs are too expensive and fixed or rigid to answer the changing needs of the rural-urban migrants. The design answers these questions in a way that it can function as a pars-pro-toto. The design provides the rural-urban migrants in Addis Ababa a basis which facilitates adaptability, flexibility and income generation with...

Holarchy: Architecture as tool for urbanization

This project proposes to adress the infrastructure of mobility as generator and tool for urbanization in the context of Addis Abeba. However, many African cities are subject to a massive economical and demographical growth challenging the existing urban condition. The infrastructure of mobility is a key element in the modernization process and...

Towards a socially inclusive Addis Ababa: Articulating a new urban renewal strategy

The studio of Global Housing engages with pressing dwelling issues in developing territories dealing with the rapid growth in urbanized areas. For this subject the studio aims to investigate design methods and strategies to provide housing for the urban poor in the developing territory of Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. Within the research...

"Living and working in Addis Abada" - A proposal for an alternative pattern of inhabitation

Through the last two decades of rapid growth, Ethiopia’s housing shortage increased dramatically. First and foremost, nowadays Ethiopia faces an enormous challenge to deliver accommodation for the urban poor. In this context, my thesis aims to investigate a design strategies to provide affordable housing and the possibility to create new spaces...

Reinterpreting the Condominium

The goal of the project will is to design a new mass-producible type of condominium for Addis Ababa that could be considered as an improvement on the current condominium type. This means that the designed type must be able to deal with the complicated Addis Ababa environment and especially with the complicated needs and insecure position of low...

Less space, more place! Transforming public space in a peripheral condominium neighborhood of Addis Ababa

In the metropolitan region of Addis Ababa the population is expected to grow from four to ten million in the next decade. This growth of population means that a large number of houses has to be produced to keep up with the growth of the city and at the same time deal with the current housing shortage. Around ten years ago the Ethiopian...

Living in between

Making the Link: Public Space and Flexible dwelling on Ronettenterrein

The green power of the gardencity “The Functional Block” - Team research: "Gentripuncture"

The Kolenkit district performs many years in the wrong lists: it is the blackest district, poorest district, highest unemployment, lowest score on the quality of life and worst performing schools. The presence of non-western foreigners and the living-environment quality seems to have a highly negative relationship. This relationship is negative,...

Blocks Building Bridges: The ambiguous in-between space

Bridging The Divide: Accommodating City Life in the Zuidas

Architecture & Dwelling Graduation Studio Project. A Mixed Use Dwelling Project located in the Amsterdam Zuidas. The project addresses the issues related to the site in terms of its monotone business usage and the social and programmatic divide that exists in the surrounding area. The design integrates a number of Public, Private and Communal...

An Open Building Project as Urban Catalyst, Gershwin Cluster 1, Zuidas Amsterdam