Beyond the Cloud

The (mis)mannered manor

A Flat Tale

At the height of its production, Dutch architecture has come to the point where the main criteria for a project’s success is its compelling concept, which in turn manifests itself through the architectural story. The project questions the capacity of architectural storytelling, which is exactly the topic that should be discussed in this story...

Millennial City

From the Medieval Walled City model to the contemporary Grid City model, the anthropocene CITY has evolved as a new species to a stage that surpasses humanity. Its main goal is efficiency and prosperity of the city itself instead of individual human aspirations. At this moment the city has repressed individual by collective goals, it is no...

Architecture Redux

In a predetermined system of work, architects are obliged to comply with the developer’s ‘maximum-profit’ way of working. This project proves that the whole process can be subverted by implementing small changes in standardized components. Be it a window, a ceiling, or the position of a unit in the building, it guarantees a better performance of...

Rethinking Ritual In The Malay House

Ritual as prescribed by tradition has long been instrumental in defining the essence of ethnicity. It is governed by accepted rules, values and behavioral norms embedded in daily routine through repetition. Contemporary Malays have inherited rituals, dating since the 7th century, known as ‘adat’. The advent of Malacca Sultanate in the 15th...

Types and Stereotypes

Polykatoikia is a Greek version of the typical, modern, generic, multi-storey apartment building. The project, a 1:20 dollhouse, is an inhabited architectural section. Each room is a scene about a polykatoikia, its occupants, and their—stereotypical—reality. Unlike a plan, a section reveals the complexity of aggregated living. Unlike abstract...

A Clinical Corpus: The Most Immaculate of Intentions

As a revision on the notions of the body and the aesthetic associations manifested in the clinic, this project takes the form of 4 projective sections. The presented scenes are layered compositions permanently exposed as historical fragments that come together as an essay on clinical aesthetics. The project seeks to undermine the once...

Stationshus: A Scandinavian influenced approach and design for a strategic multi-modal intervention in Rotterdam South

Rotterdam South the largest problematic neighbourhood in the Netherlands and deals with large social and spatial problems. With the development of a Stationshus a large intervention is made, that connects the area to the national Intercity railway network and that at the same time forms a new centre for Rotterdam South, that connects the...

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,...

Going High Speed: Urban railway development by the advent of a new high speed rail

Abstract – ‘As one station planner stated, the list of cities that are relevant in Europe nowadays equals the list of cities included in the HST network; this may not be entirely true in fact, but it is increasingly the way things are perceived, which makes it a reality in effect.’ (Trip, 2007). The high speed train links main city centers from...

Charlois United - Een voorbeeld van stedelijke herontwikkeling door middel van cultuur en sport

Dit afstudeerproject heeft zich gericht op de stedelijke herontwikkeling van Rotterdam Zuid. In het onderzoek is gekeken naar de betekenis van de Oldegaarde en het Zuiderpark in de stad en op lokaal niveau. De nadruk lag hierbij op ruimtelijke interventies in het publieke domein. Het project omvat een masterplan voor de ontwikkeling van de...

Architectural Production in State Offices: An Inquiry into the Professionalization of Architecture in Early Republican Turkey

The study inquires into the modes of operation, relations of production and forms of institutionalization in the architectural scene of the first half of the 20th century in Turkey, the period that witnessed the professionalization of the discipline in the country in the modern sense of the word. The focus of research is the architectural...

For Kota and Kampong: The Emergence of Town Planning as a Discipline

This chapter, an abridged version of Van Roosmalen's dissertation, describes the development and professionalization of Dutch Indian (Indische) town planning between 1905 and 1950, the simultaneous modernisation of the Dutch East Indies and the emergence of modern day Indonesia. A Dutch version of the chapter was published in 2004 ('Voor kota en...

Blaricum sous les tropiques: Les principes de l’urbanisme moderne néerlandais en Indonésie

This chapter describes the development and professionalization of Dutch Indian (Indische) town planning between 1905 and 1951. Other chapters in the book describe architectural and urban developments in other European colonies.

Voor kota en kampong: Het ontstaan van een stedenbouwkundige discipline

Dit hoofdstuk, een korte versie van Van Roosmalens dissertation, schetst de ontwikkeling en professionalisering van stedenbouw in Nederlands-Indië en Indonesië tussen 1905 en 1950, de modernisering van de kolonie en het ontstaan van Indonesië. Een Engelse versie van het hoofdstuk verscheen in 2008 (‘For Kota and Kampong. The Emergence of Town...

Awal penataan ruang di Indonesia

This chapter describes the development and professionalization of Dutch Indian (Indische) town planning between 1905 and 1950. The chapter is included in a publication edited by N. Jenny M.T. Hardjatno and Febi Harta entitled 'Sejarah Penataan Ruang Indonesia 1948-2000. Beberapa Ungkapan'. The publication is a collaborative effort of the...