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Between Public and Private: A study into the potential of public space and public buildings to act as natural extensions of private living environments within inner city block structures.

Norén, Jakob (author)

The project takes its basis in a concern for the future liveability of European cities in regard to public space, public buildings, and public life, looking specifically at the capital city of Budapest in Hungary. Studying internal migration patterns within Hungary, it is clear that while the Budapest conglomerate region have grown in population...

master thesis 2023

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The River Keeps The Score: Religiously Relinking to Budapest’s Danube River

Meng, Olivia (author)

For millennia, humans have lived, constructed, and cultivated along the banks of rivers. Rivers are the genius loci of these riverside cities, embodying the spirit of the place and its people. Rivers have been the source of life upon which civilization was built: providing water, power, and transport, but are also spiritually deeply meaningful...

master thesis 2023

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Budapestian Courtyard Revival

Lintowska, Jagoda (author)

The project takes as a starting point the architectural exploration and revival of the typology of a courtyard block – a type that has a long history in the city of Budapest and yet, is getting abandoned and rejected in the in the last decades – a predicament that surprises as the type has been realised successfully for centuries and even...

master thesis 2023

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Re-envisioning New Belgrade’s Superblock Neighbourhoods

van der Straaten, Sem (author)

This architectural design project rethinks the socialist superblocks of New Belgrade. The project location is block 26, the last unbuild block of the nine central blocks of Belgrade. The project poses an alternative neighbourhood design on the microdistrict concept while embedding it in the surroundings with a focus on bringing people together...

master thesis 2023

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A building: As continuation of the Belgrade Waterfront Project

van de Water, Bram (author)

How to propose an alternative to the controversial development of the Belgrade Waterfront Project?<br/><br/>Rather than saying the current development of the Belgrade Waterfront Project is either good or bad, this project tries to deal with the infill of a large open plot within the Belgrade Waterfront Project and offers an alternative on how to...

master thesis 2023

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Memorial library: The layering of historical architectures in a memorial library in Belgrade

Klein Gunnewiek, Kato (author)

In the middle of the picturesque quarter of Kosančićev Venac in Belgrade, a small empty crater is to be found. Once, the National Library of Belgrade stood here, but it got bombed during the second world war. Now it seems there is nothing more but some ruins of the original building. In multiple cases in Belgrade, the questions of how to deal...

master thesis 2022

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Heritage as part of the Palimpsest: Rethinking heritage at risk In London through an approach that is driven by the context

Koopman, Sophie (author)

This research aims to develop en apply a new approach towards dealing with heritage in the built environment. By taking the Royal London Hospital area and the Former Outpatient Department within this domain as a case study, tools to connect to specific layers of the context that were found in the research are implied. This is in contrast to the...

master thesis 2022

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Re-integrating the city: A scheme for the densification of an under-used urban site in Belgrade

Castillo-Ros, Lucie (author)

How can we tackle the renovation of small abandoned sites within the central fabric of our cities in order to provide affordable housing ownership opportunities? <br/>In a world where densification usually results in demolitions and gentrification and is only possible through masterplan efforts, this project proposes an alternative approach: one...

master thesis 2022

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Arising From the Ruin: Turning an abandoned industrial mega-structure into a village in Belgrade, Serbia.

Granger-van den Brand, Sara (author)

How to deal with the abundance of abandoned mega-structures in a city and where do these structures fit in modern society? <br/><br/>Rather than repelling or demolishing, this project deals with the structure of the abandoned factory of Belgrade by redefining its relationship to the human scale. The use of the age-old approach of roman and...

master thesis 2022

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To Revive & To Remember: Re-imagine the use of Bezistan Passage, Belgrade, Serbia

Lai, Kelly (author)

The location of my graduation project takes place within the complex neighborhoods of downtown Belgrade, the capital city of Serbia. It sits at the beginning of Trg Nikole Pasica street, and lies at the intersection of two monumental squares (Nikola Pasic Square and Terazije Square and Terrace). It is an urban passage called the Bezistan (means...

master thesis 2021

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The Apiarium garden: How to live with nature

Kronmüller, Linda (author)

Belgrade is a city in the Balkan peninsula and has hosted different Empires through the centuries which formed a vivid cultural heritage. When thinking about a possible future identity, the city must cope with its complex history, present memories alive in the city and a range of different narratives that interweave with selfsame. Looking for a...

master thesis 2021

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Rediscovering public space in the inner ring of Skopje

Chen, SZU-JU (author)

The interventions topic first came to mind when I discovered there was a dark alley within one of the neoclassical façades along Macedonia street leading to a courtyard behind. It turned out that there were many courtyards like this dispersed throughout the city, providing potential for public space alternatives for the city of Skopje. The...

master thesis 2020

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The Intimate City: Skopje

Dale, Holly (author)

A city is not a single entity. It is a vast collection of intimate narratives, crisscrossing and connecting in an ever-changing tapestry of movement and activity. Supporting this colourful and complex ecosystem in the most effective way is an ongoing challenge for governments, planners and architects.<br/><br/>An approach which can be seen in...

master thesis 2020

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Creative in the city: Creating a mulit interpretative pedestrian landscape in Skopje city.

Hermens, Diederik (author)

The project intervenes in the city of Skopje to promote creativity in the city. At the moment Skopje’s public space mainly consists of formal squares and parks which do not respond to or encourage appropriation and creativity within the city. The project will intervene in the in-between spaces on an urban scale, responding to the surrounding...

master thesis 2020

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Skopje's retreat: The space for inhabitants to abstract from the conventions of the city

Vlasblom, Nina (author)

Skopje is city of architecture with a strong emphasis on their exterior. Looking at the image of the city, the variety of architecture present can seem a bit overwhelming; each type of architecture seems to claim that they are thé image of Skopje. Since Skopje is filled with these different types of 'loud speaking architecture', the image of the...

master thesis 2020

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Urban Amplifiers

Petrounine, Alexander (author)

This graduation project explores the act of listening to “noise”, to develop a new critical attitude to understanding sounds of the contemporary city. The essential aim is to create ears which separate, abstract and re-organize the myriad of sounds of the environment, which often ends up in a cacophony. The sounds of the surroundings are...

master thesis 2019

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Punctuation in Teusaquillo: Chair of Methods and Analysis Studio Positions in Practice

Borczyńska, Ksymena (author), Çakir, Ege (author), Gołębiewska, Emilia (author), van der Heide, Iris (author), Huang, Danlei (author), Kao, Hsuanya (author), Lam, Hiu Ching Debby (author), Leone, Silvia (author), Leung, Cherk Ga (author), Logotheti, Ilianna (author), Lopes Cardozo, Rebecca (author), Panasiuk, Agnieszka (author), Peluffo Navarro, Miguel (author), Petrounine, Alexander (author), Rossoni, Elena (author), Słopnicka, Julia (author), Stubbs, Robby (author), Ulbrich, Isabel (author)

student report 2019

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Unfolding Quebradas: Informality as a Method

Söylev, Yagiz (author)

master thesis 2018

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A Sonic: Designing with sound acts

de Beer, Michael (author)

To listen and to make a noise, as sonic acts, formed the premise of the project. Continuing a lineage of inquiry of human conduct that is underpinned by the notion that humans engage in purposeful behaviour; the sonic act in the field of architecture questions how people behave sonically in their environments. The importance of this spatial...

master thesis 2018

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The Spectacular City: Inhabiting the Boundary Zone of Valparaiso's City Centre

Meredith, Bronya (author)

master thesis 2018