Joyful rural life

Circular agriculture as a tool of rural revitalization in Qilian ,China:<br/>Design a cooperative farm with positive food and energy flows to enhance people to stay

Revitalising Parkstad: A linear park with a circular approach

‘Revitalising Parkstad’’ is an architectural strategy that demonstrates how Parkstad can make use of its environmental deficit of the past to shape its future. After closing the mines Parkstad is now suffering from shrinkage, unemployment and fragmentation. Besides that there is the problem of upcoming mine water that forms a problem regarding...

Cultured Meat Factory

Cultured Meat Factory is a project that dwells in the intersection between technology, nature and culture. With the overall goal to understand how technology can change society, I chose to speculate on the future of food production. Bioengineering has offered us tools to produce meat without the slaughtering of animals. It means not only...

The food production experience

Since the mining industry closed down in the 60’s, the Parkstad region is searching for a new sources of income and a corresponding identity. This project proposes a ‘’food experience’’ that includes participating in growing and processing while being in a natural environment. Before industrial food production became the standard, people had...

Reconstructing the commons: A regenerative form of tourism towards the ecosystem and its services

St. Maarten is one of the islands in the Caribbean, situated within the hurricane belt of the Atlantic Ocean. In september 2017, it was hit directly by a hurricane called Irma, causing widespread damage to the island. As many other Caribbean islands, St. Maarten is highly depending on tourism as an income, which with drawled in the aftermath of...

A Framework for Constellating Bandung

In the Shared Studio Lab, the focus lies on the translation of the design in the city of Bandung, Indonesia. The city of Bandung was once established by the Dutch as an important transport hub, governmental &amp; military base and travel destination for the Dutch colonial society. After Indonesia became officially independent in 1949, the city...

Rise of the Kampung: Two Worlds

Adaptive re-use of colonial heritage in Bandung, Indonesia.

The Harvested Home: A biobased building approach

The Harvested Home is a housing concept that completely eliminates non-renewable materials form its structure and envelope. It was developed specifically for the touristic island of Texel in Noord-Holland to be used in the re-development of one specific camping area near De Koog. More specifically, the site chosen is located within the Dunes of...

Gathering through water integration: Integrating water and its natural cycles in a hotel building design for 'Het Marineterrein' in Amsterdam

During the Paris climate conference in December 2015, 195 different countries recognized the dangers of climate change. One of the key points on which the participants of this conference agreed on was that cities should built resilience against the effects of climate change. The changing climate has amongst others major consequences for water...

FASHION FACTORY OF TOMORROW: creating a healthy and comfortable work environment for factory workers of the fashion industry

A design for a garment factory in Bandung (Indonesia). The focus is on the indoor environment: lighting, indoor air quality, thermal comfort and acoustics.

Pray for rain: reconnecting living with its ecology

‘Pray For Rain’ is a housing project that integrates economical, social and environmental aspects in a peri-urban area in West Java, called Cigondewah. This project is not only addressing the need of the dwelling in Cigondewah, but also the water issues in this region. The composition of the housing facilitates a water system, which creates a...

Open Up: Energy Neutral Renovation of Existing Building Block in Amsterdam

Adaptive Urban Housing: A floating, modular and self-sustaining neighbourhood

As a response to land scarcity, climate change, the decreasing stock of fossil fuels and the pressure on the drinking water system, this proposal proposes to extend cities onto the water within a floating, modular and self-sustaining neighbourhood. This proposal includes research into floating mechanisms, modular systems, and various systems to...

Modular Multi-Floor Residential Units Applying Passive Climate Strategies in Kampung Cigondewah, Bandung

Urban Kampung (means Village in Indonesian) is a kind of informal settlement in Indonesian Cities. It is charactered by the high density of population and built environment, the uncontrolled development, and the poor living condition caused by the density and the tropical climate.To offer a better living condition for the residents, the design...

Bambootopia--Multi-purpose bamboo process and utilization center

Cigondewah, as a growing industrial area in Bandung, is facing with serious ecological and societal dilemma because of rapid growth of violating textile industry. Polluted water and soil makes traditional food crop farming difficult to maintain, while industry land is biting up farmland, the last precious green space left in this area. To solve...

Crafting the disused: Local waste material transformation potential and integrated waste management on a decentralised scale

Waste pollution is becoming an ever increased challenge and this is even more so the case in Indonesia. Landfills are notoriously overfilled which, together with little spatial opportunity for appropriate waste storage and separation on a local scale, as well as a lack of knowledge leads to a majority of waste being disposed of on road sides,...