The Maassilo towards a machine for exchange of culture: Working as a link between users, local and international culture

Between 1850 and 1900, the city of Rotterdam transformed into an international harbour city. In the twentieth century, the harbour rapidly grew larger to being the largest harbour in the world for over forty years. The first part of the Maassilo was built in the beginning of the twentieth century. As the harbour grew larger, the Maassilo...

Cultivating Heritage: Recuperating Dutch Colonial Architecture’s Relation to Local Community’s Practices through Heritage and Socio-Cultural Approaches in Kota Lama Semarang

“Cultivating Heritage” proposes to bridge the long-standing distance between colonial architecture that represents history of discrimination and the local community that suffers from poverty and manifold environmental issues. This project is a part of Shared Heritage Lab studio that focuses on Semarang historical area, Indonesia, the former city...

Enriching The "Village"

Everywhere in our country there are buildings and neighborhoods that keep history up to date and touch people. They tell stories about where we come from, who we are and how we develop. In the face of major changes in our living environment, heritage offers recognition and gives us something to hold onto, and identity. In addition, monuments and...

Hembrug, a culinary centre

The former military production terrain Hembrug situated in Zaandam is in decline since its closure in 2003. The terrain with over more than 100 buildings, of which 50 monuments, is in need of a new function. The assignment of the graduation project is to focus on a part of the terrain and to revitalise it with a new function. With the increasing...

A new purpose for Hembrug: Exposing Campus South

This graduation project has been executed in the studio of Heritage & Architecture at the TU Delft. The context of the project is that of the Hembrug terrain, a former military production site in between the cities of Amsterdam and Zaandam. The overhauling title of the graduation project is ‘Revitalizing Heritage’, aiming at giving the...

The continuation of historical value is enduring: Spirit of culture value is the regenerative power of heritage architecture

In this thesis, it describes that spirit is the regenerative power in heritage design, and explained how it was inherited from past and still remain alive nowadays. A certain kind of method will be approached to help with the research on this topic. Since heritage design is the re-design based on the existing building, historical research places...

Campus North, A site for the mind: Revitalising the Hembrug terrain

The Hembrug terrain is the former location of the Artillerie inrichtingen of the Netherlands which was the heart of the Stelling van Amsterdam. It is located at the intersection of the North sea canal and Zijkanaal G between the cities of Zaandam and Amsterdam. The former military terrain consists of many buildings of varying typologies and...

Eterna: Wellspring for the future in the past

What will the future of the shared heritage city center of Bandung, Indonesia be? When researching the current city center, it became clear that the historical structures of the city cannot cope with the growth of the city. In the past there was space for water, green and heritage, however traffic and people are taking over now. This results in...

Forgotten Heritage: Transforming the Klein Vaticaan into Dementia Care

This thesis focuses on the Klein Vaticaan area of Zutphen. The Klein Vaticaan was part of the Roman Catholic community within Zutphen, and consisted of an ensemble of buildings located in the neighborhood of the Nieuwstad. The Klein Vaticaan grew significantly throughout the years; at its peak it was roughly the whole eastern part of the...

Music & Cultural center Katoenveem: The redevelopment of the former cotton warehouse Katoenveem into a cultural center

You can work with your building’s surroundings, characteristics and features by repressing them, hiding from them, celebrating them, juxtaposing them, making fun of them, uplifting them, supporting them, replacing them, improving them, or even changing them. But to make a decision you have to look beyond your building’s subjective beauty or...

The coexistence of multiplicities

The Manutenção Militar Complex (MMC) is situated along the river just outside of the city center of Lisbon. Within the industrial complex they produced food, uniforms and other goods for the Portuguese Army. Whilst the Portuguese Army reached 200,000 men in the 1960s, it is now reduced to 20,000 active soldiers. This meant that the factories of...

Mo [nu] ment

In less densely populated areas and cities (like Maastricht) of the Netherlands vacancy is a social issue. Vacancy is caused by a decrease of demand for <br/> shrinkage), creating an excessive offer of, real estate. This ´spatial shrinkage´ is related to the demographic and economic shrinkage that is characteristic of our times; a ´new reality´....