Commute with life

In El Paso-Ciudad Juarez, one of the largest twin cities on U.S.-MEX. border, I found that there are over about 10 thousands students and workers cross the border for school and work every day, which occupied a large percentage of 43 of the daily commuters on border. By this way, they obtain more job opportunities and better education resources....

Westfort Park: a strategy for a community upgrade

The former leprosarium Westfort in South Africa is a very valuable place, but under pressure because of the poor squatters using the institution grounds as living place and the urban sprawl of Pretoria, reaching the borders of the site. A plan for the current community and the heritage structures is needed to secure its future. My plan is based...

Student Center Vocational College Nogales

Design of a masterplan for a vocational college campus in Nogales (twin-city on the US-MEX border) with the architectural design of the student center which contains a library, meeting space and workshop.

The Knowledge Exchange and Innovation Centre

The Amsterdam Zuidas area is dominated by office buildings, which has a negative effect on the local atmosphere. Besides, the current station is not sufficient to process the increasing amount of passengers in the future. To mix functions and extend the station the integration of an innovation centre within the station will be realized. The...

Memory and Reminiscence: Traces in Fener/ An Archive of Eviction

The project, Memory and Reminiscence: Traces in Fener / An Archive of Eviction, is situated in Istanbul and adresses the eviction of Greeks from Istanbul, taking four empy lots and a crossroad and forming a hub, an archive, a vessel of experiences that absorbs and collects the memories of the neighbourhood , towards the regeneration and...

Obama Presidential Library and Archive

The studio Complex Projects dealt with the city of Chicago in US. The studio took a collective critical look of contemporary masterplanning in shrinking metropolitan cities in US and searched for new means do develop a vast blighted area in South-Chicago neighbourhood. In contradiction to a run-down brief site, the individual proposal is the...

Topography 2.0

Biomimicry and the Public Library

Biomimetic research to be elaborated in the design for a public library for the harbour of Scheveningen

ROTTERDAM ZUIDPLEIN REVISED: REANIMATION OF A CITY CENTRE

The main goal of this design exercise is to recreate the ‘heart’ of Rotterdam South, by providing the conditions for a vibrant, public city life. This heart will – in contrast to the shopping mall – be formed by outdoor spaces, like streets and squares, and be welcome to pedestrians and cyclists. The centre of Rotterdam South will be marked...

The College as an enduring academic environment

Design of university library for the city of Amsterdam.

The Arcade Library and the Stately Tower

Studyscape: Library of UvA

Graduation project of the academic library of UvA in Interiors, cities and buildings.

University Library

Library Street - A Public Interior

A new academic library and study center at the Sarphatistraat, for the University of Amsterdam.

Open Barrier

Space, in a way, is a limitless formation. The specification of a space is derived with the user’s interaction density. In order to clarify the interaction, it is possible to mention it as: Mutual activities of the users in the environment Individual reaction of the user to the environment Barrier is an obstacle that prevents a person to see,...

Library 3.0 - The sun: Creator of delight

De bibliotheek van morgen waarin de gebruiker centraal staat en niet de content. De bibliotheek is gelegen op de RDM Campus te Rotterdam.