Atelier Femme: A womens club & shelter

Recent international events, such as the 2018 Women’s March and the MeToo movement, show an increasing awareness for gender biases present in society and governments. One of the consequences of a disempowered female position is the ‘feminization of poverty’, which is an phenomenon referring to the widening gap between women and men caught in a...

City Hall Brussels

The city of Brussels wishes to realise a new administrative building centrally located within the city’s pentagon. Brussels, being the capital city of both Belgium and the European Union, is considered a heterogeneous city, consisting of 183 nationalities. This heterogeneity becomes a defining characteristic of the metropolis, however a variety...

Museumclusters: The interaction between the museum-park and the public space in the city

You can find them in almost any major cultural city. Combinations of museum-clusters and public parks: museum-parks. What are the (urban) advantages of these cultural clusters in the middle of the city and what role does the museum-park play in the urban fabric? In this architectural study of museum-clusters, Sophie Kugel dissects four museum...

City Hall of Brussels: a community's gathering point

The project is about the design of the city hall of Brussels as a critique of the proposal of BruCity. One of the characteristics of Brussels is the heterogeneity at its urbann fabric and most of all its society. So, this project is aiming to investigate the design of the building that can work as a gathering point, strength the bonds between...

Decolonising the City: Public Space as Cultural Resistance in Santiago de Chile

Protest has become a ubiquitous part of urban life as a result of the conditions that command processes of urbanisation. This project concerns itself with the advocation for spatial agency in cities by understanding how public space can contribute a form of cultural resistance within turbulent political and social contexts. The thesis aims to be...

Celebration as Revolution: Transformation of Copenhagen's First Waterworks to Public Baths

The project "Celebration as Revolution - Transformation of Copenhagen's First Waterworks to Public Bath" investigates how the celebration of worker's movement in the 1970s has developed into Copenhagen's largest annual festival "Distortion". An industrial heritage site, the Waterworks plant, is proposed to be reappropriate for cultural and...