The Good Banality and The Pleasure of Boredom

We have changed the way to house our productive activities – actions that have to do with work, goods production, running the machineries of living, so called ‘services’. <br/>We haven’t changed the way to house our non-productive activities, because instead, we have learnt not to be non-productive.<br/>Currently, the domestic space holds users,...

Inside the Ring, In the Ring or Outside the ring?: Redefining identity of the Ringroad A10 in Amsterdam

The aim of this project is to bring the forgotten land of the RingA10 back to the city, by transforming the one purpose space into a multifunctional place of its own identity. The project Kunstwerk Ring A10 aims to connect the highway, the city and the human creating the layer of “In the ring” between “the inside” and “the outside” <br/>on the...

Experiencing the Atmosphere: How to deal with the architectural elements when redesigning churches

De Vormentaal: van Symbiose naar Sereniteit

Resign for a refugee school - Colourful: Herontwerp voor een nieuwkomersschool - Kleurrijk

Educational homes for vulnerable children in Colombia

The notion of citizenship has been a subject for many socialists such as T. H. Marshall as it is a broad notion and enhances many aspects. Some connections have be found and discussed in the Post- Modernism period, between the values defended by citizenship and educational architecture. Although this relation has been explained generally but has...

Speculative loopholing: opening limitations in Ijburg block 44a's architectural power processes

The problem adressed in this text is the fixation of capacities to interact by laws, which limits the realization of valuable transformative potential in the built environment. The purpose of this text is twofold: First to uncover the processes behind such fixation-through-laws for the built environment and; Second, to propose a different ...

Mafundi Expo: Presenting an Alternative Housing Typology to the Informal Craftsmen of Dar es Salaam

Housing supply in Sub-Saharan Africa is dominated by self-help housing in informal settlements as a consequence of rapid urban population growth in the absence of sufficient formal housing supply, bringing forth sub-standard housing conditions. Government housing strategies have not been able to halt the informal production of housing, as...

De tijdelijke architect: Een onderzoek naar de inzetbare middelen en de rol van de architect in tijdelijke projecten in leegstaande kantoorgebouwen

De Illusie van Inclusie: Wonen en leven in de wijk voor mensen met een psychiatrische aandoening

Vulnerable people with a psychiatric disorder are no longer staying in institutions outside of society, from now on the will live in the neighbourhood, in the so called ‘inclusive society’. In reality, some challenges need to be overcome such as loneliness and social isolation while living independent, negative stereotyping and stigmatization of...

Shared Living - and the desired level of privacy

More and more people are moving to cities. The general idea is that there is always something to do and there is always someone to meet with in those cities. The truth is different. A lot of those city dwellers are feeling lonely from time to time. They experience a lack of social contacts and relationships. The increase in loneliness is mainly...

Geintegreerd offshore aquacultuur windmolenpark ontwerp: Multi-aquacultuur in een offshore windmolenpark Samen met onderzoekslaboratorium en museum

Abstract – The presented study focusses on the current situation of the European flat oyster (i.e., Ostrea edulis) within an ecosystem, its development and decline during past centuries and the habitat conditions nescacary to survive. Among these conditions substrate quality proofed to be an important factor for the colonization of oyster larvae...

De generatie van integratie: De rol van architectuur in het integratieproces

Hoewel met de piek in asielaanvragen in Nederland sinds 2015 is gebleken dat vroege integratie veel voordelen heeft, is de architectuur van Nederlandse asielzoekerscentra daar nog niet op aangepast. In de sociologie zijn veel onderzoeken gedaan naar voorwaarden voor de facilitatie van integratie, maar deze zijn nog nooit toepasbaar gemaakt voor...

Architecture and Abolition of War

The concept of war abolition introduced by Krzysztof Wodiczko has attracted the attention of different scholars, and generated various reactions. Despite the affirmation of anthropologists, such as Margaret Mead and Douglas P. Fry, the project has not met with widespread acclaim from other areas, and not for lack of discussion. There are many...

Contested heritage, memory and metamorphoses: Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana

The Italian fashion brand Fendi moved their headquarters to the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana in the end of 2015. This iconic building, also known as the square Colosseum, is not only famous for its frequent appearance in movies, but also as one of the most important examples of architecture during the Italian fascist regime. The building was...

METRO POLIS

METRO POLIS refers to the reciprocal relation between the urban environment and the metro system in Tokyo, Japan. In November 2016, its largest fish market was planned to relocate, leaving behind a vast territory in one of the central wards. As a strategy to connect this post-industrial territory to the everyday of the Tokyoites, a metro station...

Architect-developer: house on a house

Architecture and real estate are one thing, both dealing with built environment. One is embedded in the other, yet not always present. Many complaints from architecture professionals can be heard about the power and negative impact of real estate on architecture and cities, but only few actually become involved in this issue. The building...

The ‘common locus’ within the architectural design process

This paper reports on the exploration of the architectural design process involving both the expression of the intuitive and tacit as well as the rational and explicit. The purpose is finding out the role and influence of design approaches and design methods within the design process regarding these opposites by reflecting on my own process in...