Concerto Dinamico: A research towards concert hall design for the 21st-century music experience

The Binckhorst in The Hague is one of the most promising development areas of The Netherlands. Over the next years, it will continue to develop into a high density mixed-use area. Among the tabula-rasa state of Binckhorst, a Public Building will be placed in the form of a music venue. Between the orthogonal high-rise blocks, a key-project will...

Cultural Center in a Paper Mill

The 2022 Urban Architecture graduation studio explores the site and surroundings of a partially operating paper mill in the city of Maastricht. Working with a thematic approach the project is engaged through the lens and attitude of a so called Glaneur/Glaneuse. The ones who reap leftovers from harvested fields, or find beauty, value and...

Social space: Seeking for communal places in Maastricht

This master thesis explores the notion of social space by searching for ways of how architectural elements can encourage social behavior in the public domain. Both spatial planning and architecture offer us places for encounters, freedom and creation. Architecture has therefore an important social task, it gives meaning to a place and can...

City Campus: A Cultural Center for the University of Antwerp

This project for the University of Antwerp began with an in-depth research into the relationship between the city and the student and the question of what the essence of such a cultural centre should be. The given brief of almost 10.000m2 / 107,639ft2 included the obvious studios for art, drama and dance, new media and making music. Furthermore,...