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Unfamiliar Territory

The project deals with ways in which understandings of landscape reading, specificity, landscape intervention and landscape experience become reconfigured once looking at landscape as a complex and metastable system and at a landscape intervention not as a complete or final thing but as a constant action. It could be seen as an attempt at...

Beauty is Truth: A project about bridging life and death

For me it is important that people are able to relate differently to death as the ultimate truth, as the ultimate given. I would like to support those in search for creating understanding for one’s own situation, understanding the landscape of death and understanding how to relate to it in one’s own way. Inviting those people to face their...

Counteracting Socio-spatial Segregation through Architectural Verwandlung

One of the places where the phenomenon of socio-spatial segregation is most evident and tangible is the city of São Paulo in Brazil, which is also known as “the city of walls.” I developed an architectural concept based on philosopher Elias Canetti’s concept of Verwandlung that relates the social and mental levels of segregation with the spatial...

Eventbased Interventions for the Long Term Improvement: Designing the transformation of the Blokhuispoort catalysed by LWD 2018

The blokhuispoort, a former prison set just inside the old city centre of Leeuwarden, is in urgent need of a significant change. The position of Capital of Culture (ECOC) that Leeuwarden will fulfil in 2018, brings opportunities to regenerate the blokhuispoort and the direct surroundings. Hitherto, studies exist about the intangible impact of...

Resilient DenCity: Jersey City waterfront towards a human Public Realm

The hereby thesis has been developed within the Graduation Studio “Explore Lab”. Explore Lab is a Graduation Laboratory of the Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft. In this Lab I had the opportunity to follow my fascination on public spaces by doing research and producing a graduation projet out of it. The theme of the project involved the careful...

Bridging gaps: Redevelopment of socialist mass-housing quarter in Vilnius

Strategy for transformation of an urban block as well as modernization of social housing.

An exploration in Visual Semiotics and Phenomenology, to propose India's Entry for the Venice Biennale

The thesis aims to address the Emotional and Cultural void in architecture today. A dialogue between Deleuze’s thoughts on the logic of sensation (as equivalent to Emotion) in art, and thoughts on the interpretation of the nine primary sensations or the Navrasa in the Natyashastra, form its philosophical basis. Deleuze was a famous 20th century...

Permanent Temporality

Office vacancy is a growing problem in the Netherlands. In the first half of 2012, office vacancy continued to grow to 7,62 million square meters, 15,4% of the total office stock. Demographic trends (decrease of the workforce), changing ways of working (telecommuting), decreasing immigration and technological innovations (continued automation)...

Updating Shanghai: Life from the ground up

The design is a housing project in Shanghai. It seeks to breathe new life into the old alleyway neighbourhoods of the city, particularly the now vanishing shikumen houses. By designing a bold reinvention of the typical high-rise apartment block, Jade Well Apartments recreates the rich diversity of the alleyway street life andshould act as a...

Design Your Pride

Reviving the Cultural Identity of Kea

This is a project for the small greek island of Kea. In order to help its economical development in sustainable way, a culture & trading center is offered to the island where locals can sell traditional products and promote their culture.

Architecture for the re-socialization of forensic psychiatric care: Building for the insane criminal

Architecture for forensic psychiatric care is about the fitted architecture for a specific target group which is in need of security AND a treatment environment. The research, partly literature, partly design, is focused on finding the best environment for these patients. The contracts between being locked down and feeling at home plays a...

Architectuur van het productielandschap: Afvalwaterzuivering - landbouw - brouwerij

Na de inpoldering van het Haarlemmermeer halverwege de 19e eeuw was de polder een groot productielandschap. Hier is weinig van overgebleven. Een groot deel van de polder is volgebouwd en het landbouwgebied dat er nog is staat onder druk, niet op de laatste plaats vanwege het zilte water dat omhoog komt en problematisch is voor de landbouw. Met...

Docklands yards

Docklands Yards is a proposal for a building complex that combines dwelling and working to form a vital sustainable environment. Two main courtyards represent the most prominent features. Their setup is based on the ancient Roman 'domus' type. The first courtyard - 'atrium' - is open to public and surrounded by shops. The second courtyard - ...