Living with the Lesser Black-backed Gull in the Dutch Delta

In advanced capitalist societies, nature has become more dependent on human influence. But some species are living in closer proximity than others. Including the Lesser Black-backed Gull. Throughout the 20th century, human activities have led to changes in the environment of this “synanthropic” species, a species living in close proximity to...

Territory and Trans-gression: failure and alternative models of resilience in post-exploitation zones

The research and design project tries to understand how, from the failure of modern narratives in spatial production, an alternative methodology for architecture can arise. In the post-soviet context, practices of improvisation that adopt methods based on the acceptance of structural indeterminacy try to meet an architectural project concerned...

The Apiarium garden: How to live with nature

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...

Future Relics: About Doel's de-polderisation and eventual destruction in the Post-Anthropocene era

Within the main geographical contexts of the North Sea and the Scheldt estuary, the Doelpolder area stands out for the conflictual relationships between human settlements, environmental crisis, and man-made infrastructures, which are all paradigms of the so-called Anthropocene era. The site comprises the village of Doel, the natural reserve of...

City Hall Brussels

The city of Brussels wishes to realise a new administrative building centrally located within the city’s pentagon. Brussels, being the capital city of both Belgium and the European Union, is considered a heterogeneous city, consisting of 183 nationalities. This heterogeneity becomes a defining characteristic of the metropolis, however a variety...

Flotta: A Bruck-Mining Saga

Globalisation and global urbanisation are reshaping our world. Life in Central Places is expanding; life in remote territories is vanishing. For centuries, subsistence agriculture sustained rural communities the world over; that raison d’être has now largely vanished. Cities mine the territory for fuel, material resources, food and even...

Garden in the Machine

This project incorporates a wide range of cultural and historical references, using the archive footage of the construction of the Flevopolder, the Venetian polder landscape, Robert Smithson’s work on territories and mines and Roman mythology to construct a narrative about new towns, and new beginnings. Situated on the threshold between the...

Things Fall Apart; The Center Cannot Hold

“It was generally believed that losing one’s life to a hurricane is… something that happens in far-away places,” the Indian writer Amitav Ghosh wrote in his 2017 book ‘The Great Derangement’ (p. 26). The current climate and environmental crises are in the very first place crises of culture, crises of imagination. [...] An idea in close...

Jacquerie Mimesis: The transformation of life during the Anthropocene concerning the build environment

This thesis is made during my graduation project within the studio Explore Lab at the Technical University of Delft on the Faculty of Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences. Since the writing of my first master thesis, the fascination for the topic arose. At the Architectural Theory department under guidance of Andrej Radman I wrote; ...

In The Garden of Anthropos: The City as a Place for Production

The project acts as a way to bring production back to the city as a part of everyday life in the year 2050, in a time when industry has become individualised as a result of the fourth industrial revolution. At the same time, additive manufacturing (3D-printing) makes it possible to produce just about anything; from shoes and textiles to...

Supernature in the Age of The Anthropocene: The Wasserkrater as entry for an intimate relation to nature

In a globalised world under pressure of climate change, nature remains at the centre of societal concerns and the appreciation of nature by urban communities presents a critical challenge for the landscape architecture agenda. But nature is a dynamic concept, transforming in accordance with societal changes. We now live in what can be called the...

Wormhole University; Geo-pedagogy, Architecture and Practice

This project is a proposal for a school of architecture that tries to question how we should practice and educate in the current epoch of the Anthropocene. This geological time-frame enforces a change in our horizon that reveals the increasing contingency and complexity of our condition, creating a new urgency in the relationship between...