Exploring minimalism

This research concerns the analysis of ‘minimalism’ in art and architecture in order to determine my position towards ‘minimalism’. Some choices are based on personal preference to find my style within minimalism, which makes this research very much based on intuition. The main question is: What are the characteristics and boundaries of...

Narratives of Baghdad: An ethnographic study through five public spaces in Baghdad, Iraq

aghdad, once the cultural and social centre of the Arab world, has become a theatre of violence and devastation. Simultaneously, altering people lives, social interaction, urban fabric and Iraqi’s identity. This paper examines this situation by sharing five narratives of five places in Baghdad. Those places are public spaces, each different in...

Living in a world with(out) oil: Turning oil tanks into dwellings in a post oil world

We are getting close to the so called peak of oil and this will result in a shortage of oil and therefore oil products. We can assume that the oil industry will get in decline, therefore we should think about the heritage that the oil industry will leave behind. An iconic element of the petrol industry is the oil storage tank. We can knock these...

Safe Haven: providing a high ground when water rises

The water tax in the Netherlands provides the funding for all the water management in the Dutch deltas. In the US there is no such tax, this means funding big civil projects may be problematic and not so easy. Therefore it is necessary to explore smaller scale solutions for the problem of sea level rise. <br/>In the San Francisco bay area, there...

How do fashion designers design?: A research on the design process in fashion, reflected on architecture

Architectural theory has illuminated the inherently connected relationship between fashion and architecture. Both disciplines shelter the body, react to spatial volume, rely on a process, and take a work of creativity from its two-dimensional concept into a three-dimensional reality. But the end result does not come out of the blue. It is the...

A study to characteristics in and around dwellings, that create the right conditions for people to adopt a sustainable lifestyle: learning from bottom-up, sustainable initiatives: Dutch tiny-houses and ecovillages

Homes for sustainable living<br/><br/>‘’The good intentions and creativity of citizens and their willingness to make a difference is one of the most underutilized resources we have today’’, says Global Ecovillage Network Europe (GEN). Bottom- up initiatives like ecovillages and the recently emerged Dutch ‘Tiny House Movement’ are sustainable...

De hedendaagse traditionele boerderij: Het vinden van architectonische middelen voor het ontwerp van een hedendaagse traditionele boerderij

Demystifying Abstraction in the Context of Architectural Education: The New National Library for Sofia

Abstraction plays a central role, as both a language and an essential tool for design. However, because it can be vague, confusing, and even paradoxical at times the process of abstraction is rarely explicitly investigated in architectural education. As a result, inexperienced architects often do not have a clear idea of what abstraction is, or...

Rethink Cần Thơ

Global climate change is an inescapable discussion today. Our history shows us the constant need to move along with this changing stream of life, as more and more extreme climate-related events happen every day. I witnessed the sad consequences of flooding problems due the Tsunami in Sendai, during my exchange period in Japan in 2012. Facing the...