Access to the Music Building: Music Marvel - Public Building Graduation Studio

Waiting outside in a long line in front of a music building is not always pleasant. Sometimes concert visitors stand in line for hours and even in the rain. This waiting time and experience are related to the overall experience of the concert night. Therefore, the waiting time should be reduced and the waiting should become more pleasant. To...

From Form to Venue: Architectural form as an amplifier for music venues

As part of urban redevelopment and in order to densify and create a new city centre, the Binckhorst, an industrial area and business park in The Hague, The Netherlands, is the design location for a public building for a music venue. With this project, research was done on a fundamental aspect of architecture: form. Analyses of the design...

MUSIC MARVEL: The playground of unconsciousness

The final conception of my music marvel is to create a binary musical community center with auditorium and rooms for music therapy/school purposes but also creating a space for urban “flaneur” the wanderer of the city that can visit accidently and still have memorable experiences through seasonal exhibitions and pop up shows. The space will be...

The Urban Catharsis

Embodied cognition suggests that human beings are emotional machines whose experience of the world lies on the interaction between the body and the environment. This can be seen as the echoing of the twentieth century philosophers such as Bergson, Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze and Guattari that breaks from the disembodied concept of mind. The research...

Binckhorst Symphony

The relationship between architecture and music can be used as an extensive source of inspiration within design. While both disciplines deal with different media, both have the power to move people emotionally and to carry across different messages. In addition, similarities exist within the practices of musical composition and architecture.<br/...

Musical Binckcross

The thesis studio concerns music making as a public event and how one can engage architecture with performing arts as an important part of civic life and urban milieu. The brief is to design a music complex in Binckhorst, a former industrial site on the outskirts of Den Haag. <br/>Following the problematization of the architectural type and the...

Music Kathedraal: Adaptability and Resilience of Architecture for Music

Music Kathedraal is a new cultural hub in Binckhorst, The Hague. Current waste processing facility was repurposed into a music building with strong supporting public program. The variety of functions is expanding the scope of target users creating a complex, more attractive building. It contains two halls for music performance, a big hall –...

The Backbone: Indeterminate Framework

Architecture often manifests itself for a multitude of decades in the built environment, as something that is static. It is in itself an end-result, often designed as a seamless whole, specifically applicable within the design of music venues. These are often iconic objects within city fabrics, sometimes only accessible by one specific target...