Let's build a landfill!: How can we turn non-hazardous soil excavations into buildings?

The currently mostly inefficient resource management neglects valuable existing stocks, and grey<br/>energy and emissions contribute to a building sector misaligned with climate goals. Amid these<br/>challenges, rammed earth, an ancient material, is experiencing a sustainable construction resurgence by transforming under-utilized non-hazardous...

VMHK: a Common Ground for Art: a New Flemish Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp

MHKA (Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp), is a museum established in the 1970's. Given spatial and characteristic requirements, it is seeking for an expansion and reestablishment in the wide art scene in Antwerp. The MHKA has deep roots in the city itself, including public inclusivity and how people have been experiencing art in various ways...

New Building for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp (M HKA)

The Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA), is in search of a new building. Influenced by the anti-museum philosophy of the ICC, M HKA aspires to integrate itself into a network of regional museums while concurrently positioning itself within a broader global context. The institution has identified a promising site within a suburban...

New Building for Flemish Museum of Contemporary Art (VMHK) in Antwerp

MHKA, Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp seek to change its current building and re-establish itself on the wide arena of cultural institutions in Antwerp. Museum has a complex history, from its roots in the anti-museum of the ICC, via the “kunsthalle with a collection” up to today’s aspirations to be a part of a network of regional museums...

An Architecture for Art: Flemish Museum of Contemporary Art

In summary, the design proposal is a new building for the contemporary art museum the M HKA (Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerpen), which in the future will be the Flemish oriented contemporary art museum VMHK (Flemish Museum of Contemporary Art). The project location is the existing court of appeal on the Zuiderdokken in Antwerp. The existing...

M HKA museum of co-existence

M HKA museum of co-existence. This graduation project rethinks the open museum through co-existing. A public institution in today’s day and age should not only be used by regular museum visitors. According to me the institution also serves a role in the city and neighbourhood it sits in. Especially in Antwerp, a multicultural city with people...

Future Bank: Transformation of the National Bank of Belgium

The graduation studio of Interiors Buildings Cities 2021/2022 revolves around the transformation of the National Bank of Belgium, a 90.000 m2 triangular building block which contains the offices of a public institution that controls and regulates a capitalist economy, independent from the government, between the lower and higher part of the...

Future Bank: Revitalisation of the urban block

The graduation thesis deals with the architectural redevelopment of the National Bank of Belgium. It examines how this refurbishment can benefit the bank, the city of Brussels, and its inhabitants. <br/><br/>Built to its limits, the introverted character of the complex reflects the historical need to secure Belgium's financial reserves within...

New National Bank of Belgium

Future Bank, the graduation studio of Interiors Buildings Cities 2021/2022 revolves around the transformation of the National Bank of Belgium, a 90.000 m2 triangular building block. The design proposal for this transformation is based around the adaptive re-use of the vast, complex, existing building that the National Bank of Belgium currently...

The Future Bank: transformation of the National Bank of Brussels

The Future Bank involves the transformation and adaptive reuse of the National Bank of Belgium in Brussels. A vast closed off urban block, designed to safeguard the states treasures hasn’t moved with the ever changing ambiguous role of the bank. The project introduces a new public plinth for the city of Brussels to appropriate together with a...

Transformation of the National Bank of Belgium

The National Bank of Belgium stands as a fortified conglomerate of historic patchwork structures, within central Brussels. With its inherent role having shifted from that of a safekeeper of physical goods towards a mere office, the building can be made publicly accessible, taking on an active role in the city. <br/>By understanding the existing...

Improving the Acoustic Absorption of Vertical Greening Systems

Noise pollution is a growing health concern in cities, especially in busy streets with parallel reflective facades, known as urban street canyons. Here, high flows of vehicular traffic generate a broadband noise, with high noise levels in the low-frequency (LF) spectrum. In the canyons, noise decays slowly due to multiple reflections. To counter...

An Academic Library in Maastricht: Festivity of Transformative architecture

Festive moments and the built environment have, throughout history, had great influence on each other. Festive architecture has always been concerned with building narratives. It has the ability to communicate political, emotional, social or cultural messages and even change peoples perceptions. In the contemporary built environment of our...

The Urban Factory

The Urban Factory considers three main themes and tools of ‘time’, ‘threshold’ and ‘material culture’ as means to go beyond the regular way of dealing with large existing introverted buildings in the heart of city centers. It is a sustainable method and social alternative to demolition, a way of connecting the building back to the city center,...

Maastricht Fashion Quarter: Weaving fashion industry into the city of Maastricht through studios and exhibition spaces, where fashion and its production are brought closer to everyday life

The Maastricht Fashion Quarter weaves the fashion industry into the city of Maastricht through studios and exhibition spaces, where fashion and its production are brought closer to everyday life. The project is set within the ambition of the municipality to transform Maastricht into a ‘Fashion City’. Despite this ambition and the presence of...

Rethinking Waste: Urban integration of waste collection and treatment systems based on circular concepts; Recommendations for Amsterdam

The worldwide trends of depleting natural resources and increasing generation of waste create challenges concerning the development and growth of our cities. Urban growth is enforcing these trends, resulting in growing problems and reaching limitations to the growth of our economies. In this thesis, these worldwide trends will be challenged in...

The TU Delft Knowledge Center: A platform for sharing knowledge and interdisciplinary collaboration

As the technical university of Delft moved out if the city centre, the city and the university got disconnected physically and socially. This institution, a knowledge center for sustainable development, will be the physical return of the TU Delft University in the city centre of Delft. Being a place to show the TU Delft to the public and a place...