The Learner's Institute: A new educational typology

The educational system is outdated. This project focusses on a new educational system based on creativity as described by several modern educationalists. The project deals with multiple heritage aspects and answers not only to the question of conserving heritage, but also to a wider social question.

Rethinking Baudartius College: Education for the future generation

Redeveloping Baudartius College, a high school designed by Jan Rotshuizen in the '50 in the city Zutphen (the Netherlands).

revitalising the warehouse santos

Revitalising the warehouse Santos in Rotterdam with a new function. Adding a mixed use of a public grand café and creative offices gives the building a new purpose.

The Maassilo: A Concrete Excavation

Everybody knows concrete.... the building material that ones meant the future. Imagine it’s most extreme forms. I’m thinking of Sovjet concrete sculptures! Brutalist Architecture! And then think about what it would take to break parts of these adement concrete structures down. That is what this project is all about. <br/>Welcome to ‘A Concrete...

Connecting the Maassilo

Design for adaptive reuse of the Maassilo in Rotterdam within the graduation studio of Heritage and Architecture. This design focusses on creating physical and social connections with an integrated sustainable design.

Music & Cultural center Katoenveem: The redevelopment of the former cotton warehouse Katoenveem into a cultural center

You can work with your building’s surroundings, characteristics and features by repressing them, hiding from them, celebrating them, juxtaposing them, making fun of them, uplifting them, supporting them, replacing them, improving them, or even changing them. But to make a decision you have to look beyond your building’s subjective beauty or...

Transformation of the introvert Maassilo into an Museum

Transformation of an introvert warehouse to a cultural center

The architecture of Addition: Old meets New

Adaptation of State listed monuments: The added value of the architect in the process

The topic of the research is the added value of the architect in adaptation-projects of State listed monuments. An adaptation-project is a construction project in which the function of the building changes. The research focussed on State listed monuments. These buildings are of national importance and therefore law protects them. This results in...

Fabric transformation for the public space in friction

The new study environment for UvA students at the Binnengasthuisterrein Amsterdam

Independent Living for Elderly with a need for Care in a Protected Environment

Research and Design Project: Independent Living for Elderly with a need for Care in a Protected Environment within the Binnengasthuis area in downtown Amsterdam.

Study House 14: Reclaiming a former hospital courtyard building

The thesis, as part of the studio of Heritage & Architecture, consists of a research and a design. The research constitutes a comparison of a theoretic typological analysis to a past-present site analysis. Based on the found design principles, an existing monument on the Binnengasthuis area in Amsterdam has been transformed into a library and...