Researching the urban as a metabolism to find a bottom-up strategy for the regeneration of Overvecht

This paper examines a new approach to regenerate the neighbourhood Overvecht in Utrecht by tackling some of its problems using a bottom-up strategy. The neighbourhood is approached as a metabolism using a Material Flow Analysis (MFA) and an Urban Political Ecology (UPE) approach. The UPE unveils relational problems while the MFA gives more...

'Het Asielhofje': a new typology for housing & integrating asylum seekers and statusholders

Refugees that arrive in The Netherlands to seek asylum enter a system that often takes a long time and does not adequately prepare them for life in The Netherlands. The spaces are not built for long term habitation and moving about is commonplace, meaning that no network can be established. Therefore, this graduation project researches and...

Event & Environment: Research of the effect of an event on its environment and vice versa, with a design for a youth-centre in Kassel in relation to the documenta

This research investigates events as an elementary tool to change the physicality of the environment, the perception of the environment and the behaviour of users within an environment. The main research question being, How can an event influence architecture? To find out what an event is, the literature study will focus on the writing of...

The Self-Organization of Stuff

The common description of the configuration of stuff in a room, one of order (tidy) and chaos (messy), fails to explain the phenomenon that artifacts create structures around people and activities in a space, with both functional and cognitive properties. This form of organization, that is recognizable on various scale levels, emerges...

The Mixing City: A Tool for the Intense City

Imagening a non-stop mixing living environment of co-housing and public program.

Cars in Technopolis: Future cars and building integrated

Assuming that cars in the near future will be fully electrical and capable of driving autonomously with or without any human on board. This resulted in two main topics in the research, architectural changes and ability to add to sustainability of buildings with these future cars. The conclusion was basically that we can reduce uses space of a...

ReFAB: Urban Mining MakerSpace in Marineterrein Amsterdam

Objective of the project is the design of a generic, local-based manufacturing facility, ReFab, which is constructed from salvaged materials and operates through collective effort and interactive cultivation in the employment of refuse as raw material input in advanced production processes. These disposed elements can, if elaborated in proper...

A Global Approach to Vernacular Practices

As many other parts of the global south, the built environment of Kullu, an Himalayan valley of Himachal Pradesh (india), will be probably threaten by several types of natural hazards, mainly caused by climate change. <br/>This fact, together with the phenomenon of migration towards the main urban environments, determines a risky and urgent...

Experiencing music through architecture

The increase in number of festivals in The Netherlands and the importance of live performances for musicians leads to the question of designing new performance places for festivals. Today, most tents do not provide sufficient acoustic qualities for the performance of music and do not add to the experience of the visitor. This leads to the main...

De tijdelijke architect: Een onderzoek naar de inzetbare middelen en de rol van de architect in tijdelijke projecten in leegstaande kantoorgebouwen

Badhuis Marineterrein: Re-imagining the bathhouse & combined energy production as contributing to valuable urban social space

Seismic-Retrofit - An open air museum park integrated with brick buildings and new seismic retrofit system: A more architectural solution to reinforce earthquake damaged masonry buildings and improve the existing architecture quality by using light-weight complementary constructions

The project is the transforming earthquake damaged buildings into new public complexity, integrate separate buildings together, provide more public space, improves existing architecture quality and structural performance through extra construction system. Through the design and research, a more architectural solution to retrofit seismic damage...

Analytical Threshold. Integrating Energy Modelling in the early stages of the Design Process: From a Perspective of Architects

The Living Lab

Informal Kabul’s girls school and community center

Practising critical architecture

I see architecture not as a property of an object, but as a practise. For this project I have looked critically at the origins of an architect's instruments, methods and notions, and hypothesized how changing these could make them more equipped to deal with my personal understandings of contemporary conditions. Main topics include: Bottom-up,...

Providing a home for the Roma's

My design task was the improvement of a Roma settlement in a post industrial city of Hungary, Ózd. After the change of regime the factory, being the main work source, had closed and since then the population has been decreasing. On the other hand this year the government set up a plan to invest in the city through renovating a significant part...