The lost experience: a cultural centre in the industrial city of Liège

This graduation work serves as an academic documentation of my graduation project within the Urban architecture studio, black hill city.<br/>The project aims to investigate and implement architectural interventions to transform the urban structure of the Belgian city of Liége. By focusing on innovative design strategies rather than large-scale...

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...

Space for change: Inspiration lab as a catalyst in the city

The city of New York is densifying wherever it can, more pencil-like skyscrapers are being constructed every year, adding more housing and office space that is in high demand. Recently, industrial areas such as Hudson Yards have been transformed to gain more area to build on. Hell’s Kitchen forms one of the few exceptions for this trend of...

Creating a richer library experience for adolescents

This reports describes a designed user experience for young adults in the public library of Delft (DOK). The experience is based on moveable furniture that is digitally connected with each other via a music application. Youngsters can share music with their friends, realtime, within the library. A 'lyrics tool' in the application makes it...