Lelycentre Cultural Centre: Transforming a 70's building into a cultural centre whilst preserving young heritage

Lelystad's first commercial area, Lelycentre, was originally intended to be the starting point of the planned city centre in the first phase in 1964, emphasising the connection to the fourth planned polder of the Zuiderzeewerken. Markermeerpolder's rejection in the 80's meant that the decision was made to develop the city centre elsewhere...

Good Hope (Memorial) Park: A future for dissonant heritage, a design for hope and democracy

This thesis and design explores the dissonance of the 17th century heritage object of the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town. The research explains the theme of dissonant heritage together with an excerpt of the South African national history in part one. Part two explains the changes of the Castle over time, as military landscape, as object in a...

E-Motion Pictures

Graduation at ExploreLab 16 Topic: "E-motion Pictures - culture for attachment" Research: An exploration into the addoption of culture in depopulation policies by local governments of shrinking areas, in order to promote attachment of local inhabitants. Design: The design of an art cinema in Heerlen, Parkstad Limburg (NL), as an examplary case...

Sacred building back to the residents

The transformation of the St Jozef Church in Amsterdam West into a cultural center for the Robbert Scott neighborhood.

Regeneration SaiGon's Port

The research tends to build up the concepts and designs for “Regeneration Sai Gon’s Port” project in Vietnam. The project focuses on transformation Sai Gon waterfront when port relocated to near the sea. The case in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, since the city was established in 1698, the port located along the Saigon River and the main canals have...