Synergising Architecture: Integrating Food System Processes with Urban Functions Towards Liveable and Sustainable Agri-Food Business Parks in Westland

Food has played an important role in shaping our metropolitan regions, such as Westland in South Holland, The Netherlands. The industrialisation and globalisation of agriculture in Westland has prioritised economy and efficiency, creating issues of liveability and sustainability. The market-driven expansion of the agri-food industry has...

Hybrid Frame: An urban program generator for a shrinking city

The design project based in Genova develops the possibility of reconnecting an urban void to the existing urban fabric, through the implementation of an architectural and infrastructural frame which is saturated with program, so that the new connection proposed becomes also a destination for the city.

The collective network - connecting through shared space

This graduation project focusses on an isolated former industrial area in Pantin, a suburb just outside of Paris. The urban goal is to connect the isolated and neglected site to the city of Pantin. On the site a former warehouse for the checking of goods by the Parisian customs is situated. This building needs to be transformed for a new use....