L‐shaped Connection for Glass Portal Frame: Structural analysis and its application

Water Valley: Border Water Research Center and Museum

The Water Institute

The design assignment is to design a water institute to use Amsterdam, an international port where talented scholars could gather, to deal with water related issues, especially ones happen in Ijsselmeer. The Water Institute is an educational facility which focus on the sustainable use and management of water resources to support health and...

Magnetic HUB: prototype to shorten the distance between Cd Juarez and El Paso

The aim of my project would be using the complex building as the activators for the cities to improve the urban decentralization around the border area.

An Intimate Neighborhood, Care living for Aged People

The purpose of the project is to understand how care is provided to aged people in today’s context, and discuss how care environment should be designed in order to fit in with today’s demands. The intention of design is to create an care living environment that offer several gradients of privacy so that it could suit the need of different aged...

Productive & Creative Dalang: towards a strategic framework to integrate urban migrants into industrial upgrading in the periphery of Shenzhen, China

Wooden shipbuilding school

The project is a traditional wooden shipbuilding school for about 200 students includes the craft students in Netherlands and the unemployed residents from the middle class families in the surrounding area of my site. The footprint of the building is about 4000m2, and the total area is 6700m2. It is located at Amsterdam Noord, the district...

Rehabilitation Through Education - a prison in the Garfield Park neighborhood

Reducing recidivism through education programs in the prison.

Aquaponics DIY in your backyard

This "designers' manual" is made during the TIDO-course AR0531 Innovation and Sustainability This manual is intended for students who want to create their own aquaponics system. The manual first explains the basics of aquaponics. Followed by a step-by-step construction guide on how to build one yourself.

Recycling Houston: Bringing synergy between improving water safety, reducing energy consumption and reinforcing living quality in suburban

The project discusses how the water system can be transformed with integrated (intensification) strategies, in order to improve the three challenges (flooding, urban sprawl and energy consumption) in Houston suburban.

Architecture Anatomy

Integrating land use conflicts - Resolving conservation and development conflicts through adaptive approach in Northeast Coast National Scenic Area

The research aims to redefine how adaptive planning approach can help traditional spatial planning system to deal with conservation and development land use conflicts through a set of adaptation plans. As most planning system in the world, spatial planning in Taiwan in concerned with both planning making and the control of development (Chen &...

The Upside-Down Publicness

"Eroding on the edges": Integration Stategy for Western Fringe of Xi'An City as a supportive urban tissue in Mega City Plan 2020+

The project focuses on how to combine the current corridor development and the cultural & historic assets by means of the public space network, in order to counteract the fragmentation at the local level and meanwhile benefit the local inhabitants of western fringe of Xi’an City, supplementing the governmental city model.

Sound understanding and urban topology: An alternative approach to sound perception in existent fabric