Karree: Public condenser for social inclusivity in Friedrichshain, Berlin

Gentrification is a controversial process where lower-income neighborhoods are transformed into affluent areas through the arrival of higher-income residents and development efforts. Friedrichshain in Berlin serves as a prominent example of this phenomenon. Since the 1990s, the neighborhood has attracted artists and young professionals, causing...

Co-dwell the multicultural community cohabitation: Co-living and Co-working as means for cohabitation between newcomers and Dutch starters

<br/>Co-Dwell is a project that emphasizes the co-living and co-working model as means for social cohabitation between Dutch starters and newcomers in Rotterdam as a multicultural city. It concentrates on smoothening the integration process of newcomers through involvement with the local community. The intention is to create an environment where...

The Old Harbour: The Next Step in the Housing Career of Modern Elderly

The number of elderly citizens in the Netherlands is growing, but there is a lack of suitable housing for this population group. Because of this, they occupy larger homes that are more suitable for families with children. Since the average age of no longer having children at home is 55 years in the Netherlands, that is the starting age for this...

Collective Rooms

After 2000 there has been a great globalization and enormous development in Istanbul. Which has ensured a strong economic growth, but had some negative social influences. With “Kentsel donusum” (urban transformation) projects, deprived neighborhood have been transformed. The inhabitants of these neighborhoods were forced to move somewhere...

From Grey to Green: case studies into the use of collective green spaces in Amsterdam built late 19th/early 20th century

Green spaces are of great relevance today as climate change and the current pandemic highlight the need for more nature in the urban realm. The environmental, psychological and economical benefits of green space in rapid urban densification is clearly evident and increasingly, green is (re)introduced in cities. Private, public or collective...

Recomposing the city fragments of Addis Ababa: Physical re-weaving of Addis from a social perspective

Ethiopia is the second most populous country in Africa but only 20% of its population lives in urban areas. The relevance of this fact entails that traditions, economic activities and their social structure are still highly attached to the rural, which is reflected in the ‘’ruralization’’ of the urban areas, that have retarded the progress of...

Co-care Oasis: Mutual Benefit of Intergenerational Engagement

The Hell’s Kitchen area should keep its residential character and provide more public function so as to be a stable and active community connecting the waterfront and Midtown CBD in the next decades. However, dull street interface, uneven distribution of vitality, expensive living burden, isolation at home intensified the contradiction between...

Sociale Duurzaamheid in de stad: Verbondenheid en thuiskomen

Dit afstudeeronderzoek gaat over de implementatie van sociale duurzaamheid in de huidige woonomgeving. Het toont een integrale toolbox als designstrategie met basis beginselen voor architecten. Hoe een aantal dringende zaken als individualisering, de toename van het aantal huishoudens, de bestaande woonconditie in voormalige arbeiderswijken, en...

BSB VALPO (Bodega Simón Bolívar): Social, spatial, sonic interminglings

BSB Valpo is a project for the revitalization of Valparaíso’s coastline. It is a new hub for listening, dialogue, and recreation showcasing the work of local communities, artists, craftsmen and performers within a haptic landscape open to public exploration.<br/><br/>The scheme was developed through looking at the site from several aspects,...

Gelukszoekers Welkom: Door omdenken draagvlak creeëren voor het huisvesten van statushouders

De vluchtelingencrisis zorgt voor een grotere druk op de sociale huurwoning markt, mede hierdoor heerst er een negatief sentiment tegen het opnemen van vluchtelingen. Door de behoeften op verschillende schalen te inventariseren en te handelen in gemeenschappelijke belang kan er gezorgd worden voor het omvormen van deze negatieve sentiment naar...

TU Delft Archive Design

City is an archive. World is an archive. The project is a hybird result of Delft city context, TU Delft collections and precedent buildings. The new TU Delft archive relates itself to the references from different place and time in its plan, space organization, construction and material.

TU Delft Archive: Spaces of Collection, Urban Institution

The graduation studio ‘Spaces of Collection’ seeks to explore the relationship an institution has with the host city. The central question in research during the process is how to make the university’s physical return by a building with ‘spaces of collection’ for the accommodation and display of artifacts in various university collections. The...

The New Urban Community

The project “the new urban community” is located at the Groenmarkt kade, situated along the Amsterdam Canal District. Although its prominent location (adjacent to the waterfront within the city center of Amsterdam), the site presents itself as being disconnected/detached, due to its enclosure by the monumental Marnix blocks and the waterfront....

Energy-Greenbelt: Transformation of empty office buildings to housing with the use of greenhouses in the air-field

This report studies about the transformation of empty office area to housing area by integrating greenhouse into the air field of the dwelling. There are some cases integrating greenhouse into the house due to the contribution of energy saving aspect. Making low-energy consumption area is indispensable consideration in the project. One plot in...

Redeeming the Public

Minimum / Maximum: A small scale dwelling environment within the large scale of Zuidas

This dwelling project aims to create an alternative to the large scale, tower+plinth typology which is common in Zuidas at the moment, instead aiming to design a smaller scale dwelling environment with directer contact between the dwellings and outside/public space and more individual expression for each dwelling.

Collectiviteit in transitie

Onderzoek naar de vraag 'Welke ruimtelijke condities genereren collectiviteit op de route tussen de woning en de straat'. Aan de hand van 12 casestudies worden vergelijkingen gemaakt op basis van voor de onderzoeksvraag relevante statements gemaakt door architecten uit heden en verleden. Deze quotes zijn in een matrix uitgezet tegen de...

Social and material appropriation of neighborhood space: Collective space and resistance in a Dutch urban community

Workshop 3. Session 3.1: Privacy and public life