Reconsideration of NS Station Amsterdam Zuid: Proposal for 'a mused´ Parnassusweg

Graduation studio New directions for the Public Interior (2013/2014) is concerned with NS Station Amsterdam Zuid as a major and infrastructural node. While the main entrance of the station is mainly focused on businesspeople and corporate Zuidas, the Parnassusweg entrance gives stage to the other users of Zuidas: to VU students, residents and...

Algae Architecture

With rising energy consumption in the world and the depletion of fossil fuels in the near future, we have to make sure that energy security is guaranteed when conventional energy sources are depleted (BP, 2012). Nowadays, the energy we use is from fossil fuel sources and the generation of energy releases the greenhouse gas CO2 and energy is...

Tussen de bedrijven door

connecting CBD Zuidas

Op Niveau Wonen en Werken in Werelderfgoed

In ‘Op Niveau Wonen en Werken in Werelderfgoed’ gaan we op zoek naar het duurzame geheim van het Amsterdamse grachtenpand. Het historisch, architectonisch literatuur- en bronnenonderzoek (waar deze scriptie het eindresultaat van is) omvat een drietal naastgelegen interieurs aan de Keizersgracht in Amsterdam met elementen uit zowel de 17e, 18e,...

Muiderpoort Station renewed

University Library

Post-Exodus or the involuntary prisoners of architecture

Post-Exodus or the involuntary prisoners of Architecture, is a project about corrupt well intended top-down pretentions. A project about when utopia becomes dystopia. About when the built environment becomes out of tune with experienced and desired reality. Accumulating to the point of large scale vacancy and crisis. The focus of the project...

Gate to North

My graduation project 'Gate to North' is a mixed-use (dwelling & workspaces) building with flexibility strongly integrated into the concept. The base is a highly flexible frame that can be filled in with any desired program. The next stage is to put in the floors and facade to create a Solid-type structure. The final stage is the definitive...