Almere Pampus Transferium

Reflection on open-ended and metastable architecture. Metastability is a term which describes the extended duration of certain equilibria acquired by a complex system when leaving its most stable state after an external action. The parameters of such "excited" system may eventually reach and hold stationary values (a metastable state) but then,...

Digital Design & Digital Fabrication for ultimate challenges

Pheromone networks - a computational approach to improve the social dynamics of the Almere central train station and it's urban network.

The amount of travelers from and to the Dutch city Almere will grow from 40.000 back in 2009 to 100.00 in 2030. This requires intensive infrastructural improvements to the current situation of Almere. One of the main improvements of the network will be the redesign of the central station of the city. The current station is situated around a...

Self-supporting sandwich element for freeform building envelopes

Design for a custom CNC wire-cut sandwich element from EPS and fibre glass reinforced epoxy. Algoritmic model for generation of custom elements.

Peeping in New York City

'Peeping in New York City' started as an urban research conducted across the five boroughs of New York City in November 2007 as part of the graduation studio ‘Border Conditions’ at the University of Technololy Delft. The mapping concerned more than 80 spaces revealed by peeping through small holes and openings. The concept is to reveal the...

Commuter Retreat: A refuge in the middle of rush-hour

The 'Commuter Retreat' project was developed in the context of the Border Conditions graduation studio. This studio emphasizes on an experimental approach to architecture, based on the development of specific techniques of representation to describe specific urban and architectural phenomena. The first part of the studio focuses on the urban...

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