Plants as water purification, resource and spatial element for peri-urban kampungs in Bandung

My research is focused on the city of Bandung, Indonesia. Kampungs are the villages that make up a large part of the city. In the periphery kampungs are prone to many problems related to water, disappearing green due to rapid urbanization and dependency on the presence of textile industry. By means of three qualities of plants I conducted a...

Choice-Building: Incremental conversion as a means to combat office vacancy

Expandable dwellings in the kampungs of Indonesia

CanoPV: How can a canopy system be used to create temporary public space which generates energy

The Refugee City

In most emergency outbreaks a huge amount of people flee to refugee camps and are in need of protection, shelter, food and medics for an unknown amount of time. The duration of their stay depends on the pace of the war or natural disaster. The UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) has been utilising a variety of solutions to...

Kathedraal van Energie

Er is onderzoek gedaan en een ontwerp gemaakt voor een nieuw type gebouw. Dit gebouw kan elektriciteit opslaan om een dorp als Rutten volledig zelfstandig op windenergie te laten draaien.

Beyond urban farming

Profitable harvest area in a hybrid building

Bamboo, the building material of the future!:An experimental research on glueless lamination of bamboo

Increasing the use of bamboo will intensify local bamboo plantation and thereby the purification of the air and filtration of the soil. New ways of using bamboo in Indonesian kampungs will uplift the image of bamboo as a ‘poor mans building material’ towards a ‘sustainable self-building material’. Integrating the use of bamboo with the tendency...

C.H.E.A.P. - Cheap Homes Enabled by Automated Construction

Highway as New Urban Center: The future transport hub

This project is the final part of my master in architecture at the Technical University Delft. Unused building space close to highway locations, future mobility trends and the existing ‘A12 zone’ location were the key elements for me to start a design process in which I tried to use existing engineering solutions and existing and future mobility...

Geometric Wasteland

A design for a collection of towers, built out of reused and recycled bricks by robotic arms. The towers are the starting point for unorganized activities to take place in the Brettenzone in Amsterdam, it is part of a strategy that should make people discover this remarkable area.

Sustainable primary school: Intervention to enhance value for disappearing green in peri-urban Bandung

My research is focused on the city of Bandung, Indonesia. Kampungs are the villages that make up a large part of the city. In the periphery kampungs are prone to many problems related to water, disappearing green due to rapid urbanization and dependency on the presence of textile industry. By means of three qualities of plants I conducted a...

Reflow The Kampung

A Urban plan for new water and waste flows in the Kampungs of Bandung, Indonesia.

Tra-digital Hybrids: Using digital fabrication to create a hybrid design for developing countries

Can improved technology make a difference in under-served communities to improve the existing build environment in a cultural sustainable way and make possible endogenous solutions? The technical research paper highlights the technical research done to answer this particular question. The research, that focuses on technical solutions to serve...

Brug tower