VMHK: a Common Ground for Art: a New Flemish Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp

MHKA (Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp), is a museum established in the 1970's. Given spatial and characteristic requirements, it is seeking for an expansion and reestablishment in the wide art scene in Antwerp. The MHKA has deep roots in the city itself, including public inclusivity and how people have been experiencing art in various ways...

An Architecture for Art: The new M HKA

Antwerp has a very important port history and the existing lock underneath the new location for the M HKA is a reminder of that. In my design for the new M HKA, the underground lock will be transformed into exhibition and forum spaces, while a new building will be built above ground. <br/>Public stairs are positioned in the centre of the...

Publicness in the contemporary museum: Project fot the new MHKA

The focal point of this graduation project revolves around the design and implementation of a new structure for the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerp (MHKA) in the Flemish region of Belgium. Founded in 1985, this public institution is set for relocation to the site of the forthcoming demolition of the Court of Appeal in the Zuid district of...

EcoCharge: Towards the resilience Design Framework for Freshwater Managed Recharge in the Pearl River Delta

The Pearl River Delta region, where the author of this project grew up, has been a source of inspiration due to the devastating impacts of natural disasters such as flooding, hurricanes, and storms on the limited freshwater resources in the area. Water is a crucial necessity for the inhabitants of the PRD, but the complexity of the water system,...

New M HKA museum_construction of a Flemish Museum of Contemporary Art

This year's theme of the studio is based on ‘An Architecture For Art’. From churches and palaces, through the development of the Palace of Culture in the 19th century: public museums and galleries, to modern studios and galleries, art centres and the White Cube of the second half of the last century, and the gradual similarity between commercial...

VMHK | A Warehouse for Art: A new building for the Flemish Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp

The scope of this graduation project is to design a new building for Antwerp’s Museum of contemporary art (M HKA). A building that can accommodate the museum’s ambitions following the transition from the M HKA to the Flemish Museum of contemporary art (VMHK). The museum has been appointed a location in Antwerp South for its new building and has...

Post-museum: the story about multiple attitudes: The museum of contemporary art in the city of Antwerp

M HKA institution has its roots in the avant-garde, bottom-up initiatives of artists who were escaping the rigidness of institutions and sought for alternative spaces to practice art. There is a fundamental contradiction between what M HKA’s history is and what future it wants. Therefore, I decided to take over the building that exists on the...

Land and Farmers Equilibrium: Restoring the balance between land and humans in Northern Friesland

The agricultural landscape in the Netherlands has changed drastically over the course of the last 70 years. After World War II, it was governmental policy that pushed the transition to intensive farming by giving out subsidies. These developments have also had an impact on the province of Friesland, where agriculture has a long history and is...

The Future Bank: Designing the intermediary space

The Future Bank, the design project for the graduation studio of Interiors Buildings Cities, questions the current role of the National Bank of Belgium withing the city of Brussels, as the institution has distanced itself from the city by the digitalization and outsourcing of former location-bound banking activities. This graduation project, ...

THE FUTURE BANK: a new public figure

This graduation project is focusing on and looking for the function and role of the future national bank, as an outcome of its current physical and social situation. The site of the project is the National Bank of Belgium, located in Brussels.<br/>For its program, the bank has a public function and a reception hall, but mainly consist of office...

A Bank of Opportunities: A sheltering Bank for people

The ambition of the National Bank of Belgium's project was to make a National institution accessible to the public. By opening the bank, both ideologically and physically, the dynamic of the bank is radically modified. The confrontation between the Bank and the public provides opportunities to gather, learn and improve. The change is subtle from...

2100: FUN UNIVERSE: Vertical Entertaining Complex

In the coming 80 years, the rise of productivity will result in two main directions: first, decentralization of work and production; second, economy turns its focus to emotion and wellness. So we claim that “Pleasure and Leisure are becoming the next leading economy.” We envision Amstel to be a (P)Leisure City. Within this context, the Fun...

Hybrid prefabricated system for fabric formwork for concrete shells: The renovation of the Hennebique silos building

The projects aims at implementing the use of fabric formwork as an alternative method to renovate existing buildings. As a case study the technique proposed in the research was applied to the new design for the Hennebique silos building in Genoa (Italy).