Sleutelen aan de Bijlmer: Interpretaties

In het voorjaar van 1991 richtte de Stuurgroep Vernieuwing Bijlmermeer zich tot de vakgroep "Ontwerpen van Stedelijke Gebieden en Woningbouw" van de TU-Delft met het verzoek een integrale plananalyse van alle plannen uit de periode 1965-1991 te produceren. De Bijlmermeer: gedurende haar korte bestaan zonder twijfel het meest bestudeerde,...

Post-Exodus or the involuntary prisoners of architecture

Post-Exodus or the involuntary prisoners of Architecture, is a project about corrupt well intended top-down pretentions. A project about when utopia becomes dystopia. About when the built environment becomes out of tune with experienced and desired reality. Accumulating to the point of large scale vacancy and crisis. The focus of the project...

The Polysemous Mosque: Architecture Mediating the Multicultural City

The Polysemous mosque negotiates the dichotomy between the sacred realm and the secular multicultural city. The project positions itself in Amsterdam’s Bijlmer neighbourhood. Once a Modernist suburb, the Bijlmer has undergone generations of decay and more recently grand gentrification schemes. Acknowledging this, the project activates the...

Hybrid Hydro Habitat: A translation of energy and water measures into architectural and socio-economic value

The municipality of Amsterdam has come forth with a request for architecture students of the Technical University of Delft within the studio of Complex Projects to investigate the future challenges of Amsterdam through scenario-research and hence come up with proposed spatial and/or architectural configurations for the year 2050. This all with...

Многоэтажные дома шестидесятых в Голландии: успех и неудача

During the 1960s, radical ideas emerged in Dutch urban planning. For the first time, the two major cities in the Netherlands engaged in building high-rise residential districts. If we understand this period as an experiment, then the cities of Amsterdam and Rotterdam produced opposite but exciting results. The uncompromising Amsterdam...

Sixties High-rise in Holland: Success and failure

During the 1960s, radical ideas emerged in Dutch urban planning. For the first time, the two major cities in the Netherlands engaged in building high-rise residential districts. If we understand this period as an experiment, then the cities of Amsterdam and Rotterdam produced opposite but exciting results. The uncompromising Amsterdam...

Adaptille: How to transform a 1980's apartment building into an adaptable building

Many apartment buildings built in the 1980’s are now being considered for demolition, because their technical installations are outdated. However, such demolitions would result in the loss of values, such as social value as well as embodied energy. Transformation of the buildings will preserve the values, but in the future further renovations...

Hoptille - from Stigma to Charisma: Image enhancing transformation of post-modern architecture while retaining its identity

This graduation thesis was executed within the studio New Heritage in which the question was raised whether postmodern architecture can be valued as heritage. Multiple postmodern neighbourhoods suffer from a stigma. Outsiders have a negative image where insiders are much more positive about their neighbourhood. This master thesis focusses on the...

The Social Identity of a Three-Hundred-Meter Long Building: Interventions to the mid-rise building on the Hoptille street

This project explores a residential building from 1982 that can be found in Amsterdam. Using several interviews and research into the potential heritage values of the building a transformation is proposed.

Hoptille - Preserving and future proofing a community: Exploring possible transformations for the Low-rise at Hoptille

This project explores a social housing project from 1979 that is located in the Bijlmer area of Amsterdam and is based upon three main topics; Preservation, Community and Future Proof. <br/>By researching the potential heritage value of the building blocks, conducting specific literature research and by interviewing different stakeholders a...

A new living room for south-east

The easily accessible location, the comfort of various facilities, the architectural quality and the space for meeting, all this created a new typology that could not be thought out of everyday life anymore. The mall gave a glimpse of a modern future, where the mall functioned as merely a place to shop; it functioned as a center for cultural...