Connecting São Paulo: Experimenting participation in urban development

The motivation for this thesis emerged from my growing questions on the architecture practice. My interest for the collectives and its respective dissemination in the past years were the starting point for this study. Through a long and tortuous way, the research has grown into a complex project. The project touches upon topics of social...

Integrated Integrative Infrastructure: The local dimension of metropolitan mobility systems in São Paulo: An exploration of the planning and design of sustainable nodes of mobility and their impact on local spatial qualities

Research: (1) Exploring the role of infrastructure in transforming the metropolitan region of São Paulo into a sustainable metropolitan environment by utilizing the existing infrastructure as a backbone for future economic, environmental and social development. (2) Exploring the opportunity of infrastructure as a key strategy for the inclusion...

The Public Carpet - renewal of post conflict transitioning districts: an inclusive urban design approach to public life

Unregulated development is one of the core problems in post conflict areas. Current rebuilding and city planning face tremendous challenges regulating rapid development of the urban environment and reserving and preserving space for the public domain. The latter one has been often disregarded its importance. It has been found that public space...

Building the future in a town of the past: A plan and strategy for the spatial integration of the university campus in Delft

The objective of this project to supply the city of Delft, more specifically its urban planning department, with a clear vision on how they could integrate the university campus more properly into the urban fabric. By doing this, it could greatly enhance the local prosperity and strengthen its position and identity as a stronghold of innovative...

Design methods for a water-sensitive city: Brasília as a case study

Noord's Participatiesamenleving: Towards a spatial response to government participation

The introduction of the participatiesamenleving policy direction to the Netherlands has triggered local government to shift its focus towards large projects in their district. Citizens are left to themselves, and take over former governmental responsibilities. This thesis calls for a transition in the policies surrounding citizen initiatives for...

Brown Line Park: Regenerating abandoned industrial transportation infrastructures in the Ruhr area

The theme of the studio is “Flowscape”. The studio explores infrastructure as a type of landscape and landscape as type of infrastructure. In my study, I choose one particular kind of infrastructures, abandoned industrial transportation infrastructures (abandoned canal and train tracks) ---- “the brown lines”, to study how to use landscape...

(Re)Levant: Former railway networks in the Levant as a backbone for regional cooperation and social inclusion

Spatial Water Management in Paraisópolis

The problems in Paraisópolis are numerous, but these are the main problems concerning water and waste. São Paulo has a climate with a wet and a dry season. During the wet season, floods occur throughout the city, including Paraisópolis. But in the dry season, the entire city suffers from drought. This drought has intensified over the last years,...

Bridging Nicosia: Finding common ground for building peace in the contested city

Cyprus is an island where two opposite civilizations with great history meet, but unfortunately do not interact. Greek- and Turkish-Cypriots used to coexist in peace on the island, despite their differences. However, their strong ethnic identities and foreign influences developed feelings of mistrust and fear between them. Therefore, this...

Growing carbon-scapes in growing AMA: From emissions to circularity

In 2016, 54.5% of the world population was living in urban areas, whereas cities occupied only 2% of the total land. (United Nations: Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 2015). Climate change, inequality, peace and security issues are just some of the factors affecting urban areas and at the same time posing new challenges for urban...