The Edge as an Extended Field: Composing a new Faculty of Architecture

A complex extension of the topography - A new building for Architecture - An experiment to design the affect and not the affection of the architect.

This work started from the conditions. Defined through Abilities, the Spaces got specific in conditions. Everything in this project, the process and the product, is about to Be and to Move simultaniously. To Be forms the condition and creates a possibility to Move and have Experiences that allow and invite you to UnLearn. At the location all...

Bouwkunde reloaded - A new eco system

Reinterpreting the brief of the 2008 competition "Building for Bouwkunde" through the lens of Ecologic thinking, a new faculty of Architecture for the University of Technology in Delft is designed as an Eco-system: an open "field of intensities" in which the users can define their own spaces and the fullest range of activities can take place.

Horizontal Verticality

A goal (from a manifold) of my graduation project is to fluidify the traditionally rigid boundary between process and product. This implies to leave the hierarchical mode of concept driven essentialist architecture. Instead, I want to make a shift towards the non-hierachical ecological(ontologically flat) field of potential(context), from where...

Corredor de Agua Urbano

Graduation thesis investigating the interrelation between water infrastructure, landscape and public space in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The project was developed as part of the DSD Urban Asymmetries Ciudad Juarez Studio.

Architecture as Pedagogy: An Architectural project towards Social,Economical and environmental improvements of the Riberas Del Bravo District in the border city of Cuidad Juarez

This project is based on the research of the Studio which looked at the phenomenon of abandoned housing in Mexico, focusing on the Border City of Juarez where there is the highest percentage of vacated, foreclosed, abandoned and vandalized (social) housing. The main problems was identified as the flawed process of housing production and...

Down to Earth

The first half-year we were working in a collective (9 persons) and doing a thorough research and analysis. We took the Riberas del Bravo settlement in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez as a case study. This city has numerous problems, of which the emerging phenomenon of abandoned and deserted housing in Mexico is among its most...

Urban Asymmetries Ciudad Juarez, Mexico: Designing A Transferium ...... A point of Exchange

The MSc. graduation project dealt with understanding the implications of Neo liberal policies on the city of Juarez which lies on the US - Mexico border. In 2009 Ciudad Juarez was rated as “the most violent zone in the world outside of declared war zones” due to high crime rates, femisides, homicides, corruption, drug trafficking and multiple...

A business incubation centre as a tool for social betterment: The case of Will Crooks estate, borough of Tower Hamlets, East End London

Blurring Boundaries: Towards a Sustainable Economic Future

This project (as the name suggests) deals with two critical issues , namely – creating a sustainable economic future for a socially and economically marginalized sector in London and the second one is to blur the boundaries between the two economically disparate regions, so as to establish a viable economic partnership between them. This thesis...

Poplar Money Line

The project deals with an economical and social betterment of a deprived area in East London's area of Tower Hamlets. It is done by providing access to financial services, which a great deal of the population of the area still can not access. With a critique on the existing banking system the project offers a new model - Community Banking...

Re-claiming Amsterdam

An Alternative Mode of Development: Affordable Housings with Living and Social Quality

Project description: Living conditions and qualities have become some of the most important and long-standing social and economic issues in cities since the Industrial Revolution. More and more people have been going to cities to look for jobs, capital and different ways of life. Amsterdam is one of these destinations. Housings in the...

Green stitching of urban fragments: Re-intensification an re-qualification of the Villa Sur Park in Santiago de Chile

The Urban Asymmetries studio is an intensive, theoretically and empirically driven research and design studio that aims at the understanding of Neo-Liberal processes and conditions that produce uneven developements in contemporary urban environments. This urban-architectural landscape project is situated in the notorious (barrio) neighbourhood...

Architecture of Process: Towards a Theory of Interrelated Processes in Architecture and Music

How could we grasp the complexity of interrelated processes in space and time in order to intervene in it? How to distinguish elements without losing their relation to others and the whole? These questions reach far beyond the field of architecture and music, however, the isomorphism between music and architecture could reveal some of this...

Urban Asymmetries: ECATEPEC. Proposing alternative urbanities

Ecatepec, Mexico City presents the challenge of uniform, low-density peri-urban sprawl in the form of privately developed gated communities for the lower income groups. The main objective of this project is to propose alternatives to low-income housing, amplifying local skills and cultural consciousness, facilitating autonomy through local...