A generative spatial adaptation model for constrained-based housing transformations

This research develops a spatial transformation model to work as a tool to address all possible layouts that can be expected when a building is changed. This tool provides tangible answers to the different spatial configuration possibilities of an apartment that can exist within one building design. It combines existing knowledge about the...

Extend the tune: Designing a durable music venue

The municipality of The Hague is currently redeveloping Binckhorst from industrial area to a high-rise mixed function area. The drastic redevelopment of this area is causing the loss of numerous reuseable materials and buildings. This is worrisome, given the need to improve the sustainability of the building sector. To prevent the destruction in...

Towards a resilient hospital design: Emerging design considerations for future healthcare facilities after the pandemic COVID-19

COVID-19 has highlighted the importance of the healthcare systems in society. The pandemic overwhelmed hospitals and forced rapid and radical changes in healthcare organizations' working practices and management structures (MASS Design Group, 2020; Ramboll, 2021; Capolongo et al., 2020). The virus led to unfamiliar environments, new spatial...

Production Biospheres: A new production space in Hembrug

The project named production biospheres created a process design aimed on the adaptive reuse of the Plots In The Woods site on the Hembrug terrain near Zaandam. The landscape and urban design for the site is based on methods used by landscape architects and ecologists based on the three terms cultivate, stage and set up, not just creating. The...

Liberating Access: Architecture as an open framework

The present MSc thesis is an architectural proposal for the redesign of building accessibility, aimed at creating adaptable architecture over time. Adaptability is understood as the measurable quality of a base building to accommodate a range of variations within the constraints of a proposed base structure. An extensive research comprising of...

Towards Hyper-Openness -Transforming Vacant Office Building By Applying Hyper-Open Building System

Conventional buildings, due to their inflexibility and permanence, can hardly stay in a high quality and being adaptive to changing demand during their life span. Historically, some architectural innovations such as Open Building System practiced the notion of building flexibility. However, the customizing freedom of Open Building System is only...

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)...

The generic support | Case 'De Hallen, Amsterdam'

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...