Building Bonds, Building Safety: A Bamboo Pavilion Fostering Communities of Care

This project presents a response to the pressing issue of women's safety in public spaces, particularly in Latin American cities. Women worldwide are disproportionately affected by safety issues and fear in urban environments. I explore ways in which public spaces can enhance perceptions of safety and freedom instead. Based on extensive four...

Designing Deaf Schools

The deaf and hard-of-hearing live in world that, from an architectural standpoint, is designed for hearing people. Which causes a set of challenges for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.These problems have major effects at schools for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. These schools are mainly located in buildings that happened to be empty or that already...

Mental Wellbeing & Space: Spaces for Mental Health & Wellbeing after Dislocation

This research encompasses an exploration on spaces for mental health and wellbeing for newcomers in the Netherlands with a migration background caused by forced dislocation. This group of new Dutch citizens have a higher prevalence for mental disorders such as anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and related symptoms of a...

De Kabelstraat: Een katalysator voor de publieke ruimte aan de Schieoevers in Delft

Onderzoek: Dit project heeft als doel te onderzoeken hoe skateboarders de gebouwde omgeving ervaren en begrijpen en wat architecten of ontwerpers (van zulke plekken) kunnen leren van deze gebruikers. Skateboarders, voor wie autoriteit en conventie van weinig betekenis zijn, suggereren dat de gebouwde omgeving niet alleen een plek is om te wonen,...

The coastal environment as a laboratory: Architecture and embodied experiences

The long-stretched shadow of my body touches the footprints in the sand in front of me. It is a cold winter afternoon and the sun is already setting. I hear the rhythm of water pulling back and passing under another wave of water. The beach is full of people many of whom presumably visit this place for the same reason as I: “uitwaaien”. While...

A new social way of living in building design

Often, the current housing stock does not address problems of social isolation at this moment in time. For example, dwellings are designed as interior spaces and the route towards the home is often an unpleasant and boring one. It is important for architects and designers to have positive impulses and guidelines to address these problems. To...

Gardens of Dialectics: A story of decay and reconstruction

The graduation work aims to raise a discussion around the future of post-industrial urban centers and communities. A counter-project that, through a critique of conventional urban planning methods, wants to re-imagine the future of those small towns that are facing an economic and demographic crisis caused by the ending of industrial activities....

Activity and Social Integration: Bridging and Bonding Social Capital

Research about the ideal characters and role of activities in terms of social interaction and people gathering in a culture diverse neighborhood. How to create opportunities for residents to interact and find common activities to improve their relationship is the main intention.

Samen Leven: A research about elements in architecture which contributes to a healthier environment

This research and design is about "Het Gemeenschap Gezondheidshuis; Samen Leven". A research about the change of healthcare nowadays; where people want to stay at home longer and have care at home. But also where the needs of a patient are more central. The main question is: what elements of architecture contributes to a healthier environment,...

Places for Freedom: revalue of unfinished landscapes through architectural structures

The research and graduation project are about the revalue of unfinished, abandoned landscapes through architectural structures. Nowadays it is almost rare to find places and landscapes in cities that have no function, are left behind or not taken care of. Even in the city of Rotterdam, which is less dense than Amsterdam, every square meter is...

Architectural Branding, The improvement of Architectural Brand Communication

Shared spaces in a domestic environment

The fascinations about our changing (becoming more isolated) life style, the declining need for people to posses things and a few existing systems that show us that people seem to want to share (temporary) more possessions with each other are the guiding elements for this project. The research explores the possibilities within the domestic...

Enhancing the in-store experience for female customers of a lifestyle brand

Tommy Hilfiger is one of the world’s leading lifestyle brands. Its style is recognized as classic American cool with a preppy twist. It delivers premium styling, quality and value to its worldwide customers. The brand has a wide variety of collections as well as a range of products. One of those collections is women’s sportswear (WSW):...

The Body Shop: Developing a new brand identity

In 1976, when The Body Shop was founded, the brand was a pioneer in developing natural cosmetics with strong ethical values. The result of their actions was even a ban on cosmetic brands that were testing on animals in the 1990’s. These strong values and ethical movements were the key feature of the brand, making them stand out against the...

Architecture and Games: A redesign for the Den Haag Megastores

The redesign of shopping mall "De Megastores" in Den Haag based on game design elements and game design processes that resulted from research in the discipline of video games.

D.Scape: 'A design strategy and concept design of the first Dilmah brand and product experience environment'.

This executive summary gives a concise explanation of process and results that led to the design strategy and concept design for the first Dilmah brand and product experience environment, named D.Scape.

Urban learning Room START: Eindrapportage over een reflectie op de ontwikkeling van de spelsimulatie START

Met als bijlage: A0 poster + eindpresentatie. De complexiteit van binnenstedelijkeherstructureringsopgaven hebben me aangezet tot het ontwikkelen van een spelsimulatie met digitale tools. Deze spelsimulatie is een interactieve sessie waarin "rollen" verschillende doelstellingen hebben, maar waarin ze ook samen iets moeten bereiken. De...