Transitional territories: Architecture of (post)-extraction in the Ağaçlı coal fields, Istanbul

'Transitional territories: architecture of (post)-extraction in the Ağaçlı coal fields, Istanbul' revolves around the interaction between soil, extraction and architecture. The project addresses the ephemerality of extractive landscapes, imagining new ways of relating to the earth. Seeing soil not as a static being, but as a dynamic vehicle of...

In Completed: on - going open-ended designed places in Den Helder

The urban spaces that arise as a result of urban shrinkage and decay are loosely defined (Franck & Stevens, 2007). The ambiguity of these spaces provides a potential outlet for accidental or spontaneous encounters, informal activities and alternatives to our increasingly commodified, controlled and privatised 'open' urban spaces. Many...

Cultural Reform: Rethinking Cultural Manifestation in the Urban Environment

Across a period of multiple crises and a structurally instable government, amongst other things, there has been a strong national decline in cultural activity, production, and presence in the city of Beirut. With this, national identity is faltering, and citizens begin to give up on their home nation. Who can is emigrating, and the rest lay...

Beirut's Living Room

Beirut's Living Room:<br/><br/>Characterized by cultural diversity, Beirut has a multi-religious society, with unfortunately a rampant space shrinkage issue. With in particular the Public domain. Evidenced by limited infrastructure and virtually no affordable housing, the cityscape is strongly demarcated by historic and religiously motivated...

Revitalizing the peri-urban in Trieste, Italy

Exploration on the peri-urban transition zone between Trieste and its hinterland Karst through housing, recreation and transportation infrastructure. The design proposal consists of system of small interventions that take into account the land management problems of the peri-urban hills.

London Derelicts: Hybrid Encounters in the Interstitial Spaces Through Exploration of Urban Contemporary Leisure

This graduation research studies the potentials of London derelicts and the interstitial spaces as the new driver of urban transformation. The study aims to reconnect the lost socio-spatial relationship of those spaces to the surrounding context. Here, leisure is utilized as the diagnostic tool to understand the overlooked spatial quality of...

Rethinking Urban Domestic Gardens: Aligning Urban Domestic Gardens to concrete urban demands

Aligning the urban environment to concrete urban processes, increasing the liveability, is one of the major challenges urban planners are facing. Adapting the built-environment to cope with soil sealing, climate change, the densification of cities with the ‘compact city’ concept and other urban demands, constantly pressure the quality of urban...

Infrastructure, perimeters, rooms: a sport hall in Anderlecht

The project developed as a continuous effort to define the idea of spolia. A term that surpasses the re-appropriation of material becoming an active approach to architecture becoming an attitude towards the city and the landscape in the consciousness that a deep relation is established between the forms and the culture that generate these forms....

The line between existing and new: The adoption of material reuse as a design strategy for the transormation of a rear side of the urban block to a new pedestrian front

The main research in question regards what is Bricolage in architecture. This topic is strikingly valuable to contemporary demand, given the fact that there is a considerable amount of buildings and building elements that do not carry a value that is strong enough to be considered historical or cultural. In fact, often the meaning of Bricolage...

A Productive Complex

The productive complex is located in Anderlecht, Brussels, a city characterized by mix of living and working space ever since industrial revolution. On the one hand, the proposal will reshape the fragmentary site block in order to reinstate a well-organized and functional intermediate urban element. On the other hand, on the context of...

Kampung Kali: Improving informal settlement living condition along Semarang River by regenerating ecosystem services in urban landscape

Like many other coastal cities, Semarang is facing many interconnected water-related issues that are exacerbated by climate change and rapid urbanization. Riverside kampungs, as the product of unregulated urbanization, are usually blamed for the water pollution and are regarded as the social outcast and burden to the society. Removing the...

Redevelopment of Industrial Heritage: Transformation of the Landbouwbelang Building in Maastricht

The Landbouwbelang Building in Maastricht is located on the western banks of the river Maas. As an important part of the cultural heritage of Maastricht, this building shows the historical relation between the city and the river it is named after. The old warehouse has large industrial cranes dominating the riverfront. Graffiti covers the...

Foodbanism: Strategy of healthy green future for Rotterdam Zuid

The project seeks a strategic planning of integrating urban agriculture into part of the green infrastructure for Rotterdam Zuid, which hopes to open up the possibilities of urban agriculture to inspire people like planners, decision makers and residents. The proposal based on the collaborative communication combining the supportive policy,...