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Third Golden Age

The city of Amsterdam is facing a housing shortage and according to the future population prognosis, the problem is going to become more severe due to growing immigration numbers. Following Brexit, Amsterdam, along with other European cities are competing to attract the biggest share of potentially relocated businesses and organisations from...

Infill city: An urban renewal strategy for housing in Addis Ketema

Addis Ababa is undergoing rapid and radical changes due to population growth and urbanisation. This forces the government to respond to the cities needs, for now mainly on infrastructure and housing. Also Addis Ketema, an inner city neighbourhood known for its commerce and market, is under pressure of development. These changes have proven to be...

The permeable residential block

The graduation project is to design Dutch Housing in the City of Amsterdam. The project site, the Groenmarkt contains a dynamic history and complex environment which I have to consider to design dwellings to enhance quality of private and collective life. Besides, many contemporary urban dwellings show low sense of belonging between dwellers....

Personality and Anonymity: Dwelling in public-dominated city environment

The subject of the project ("Personality and Anonymity: Dwelling in Public dominated City Environment") is a subset of Studio's theme ("At Home in the City"). The project denotes the primary trait of home as its personality (understood as dwelling's susceptibility to semiotic changes imposed by its user). Consequently, one of project's main...

Chain Housing_Living in Transition

Hybrid Housing for 21th Century

The Head of Java-island as new metropolitan peninsula - Het Hoofd van Java-eiland als nieuwe metropolitane peninsula

The head of Java-island (’Java Head’) is still an undeveloped piece of the center of Amsterdam due to the economic crisis. In the meantime this site has evolved in one of the city’s best event-sites. The future function for this site was supposed to be a residential area but with the discovery of the possibility of an event-site on this location...

Blocks Building Bridges: The ambiguous in-between space

Minimum / Maximum: A small scale dwelling environment within the large scale of Zuidas

This dwelling project aims to create an alternative to the large scale, tower+plinth typology which is common in Zuidas at the moment, instead aiming to design a smaller scale dwelling environment with directer contact between the dwellings and outside/public space and more individual expression for each dwelling.

Dwelling a narrative experience: Embracing the diversity in the experience of dwelling

This is an infill/parasite housing project. The site is the corner in a typical urban block of the city of Berlin. The urban position of the project was based on the idea that "A city must be read as a carpet of fragments, as a continuum sequence of SPATIAL and PROGRAMMATIC PATTERNS." My design proposal is for a new fragment of the patchwork...

The experience of home: Stages of perception in contemporary housing

The main goal of the design is to find a way to enhance the quality of the experience of the city through the design of living spaces. These are themselves developed according to how the space is perceived and experienced, and not with a mere functional approach.