Forest landscape restoration for climate-adaptive estates in the Baakse Beek region, Gelderland

The research focuses on the estate zone of the Baakse Beek region which is facing environmental problems mainly caused by historical human intervention and climate change. Besides, in the Vorden cluster, as the land use changing caused by intense land reclamation and consolidation, the current agriculture productive landscape makes it not easy...

Delta Center Design: San Francisco Bay: Resilience by Design. Designing for uncertain delta-landscape futures

The interventions around old industrial areas are based on a landscape design, which can also be regarded as an introduce of the nature. The green land protects the heritages and absorb rain water. On the green land are renovated factories, which in a different environment, are given new identities. Connecting those old buildings are wooden...

Design mobile support for cross-cultural travelers

This project looked into the ways applying mobile supports in cross-cultural travel, as well as how travelers use mobile supports to improve their travel experience. It was realized in the research that travelers could form various travel cultures based on their travel behaviors and values. Thus in the project, a research structure, integrating...

Post-colonial Hong Kong’s urban space and cultural protection under globalization: Multi-functional Civic/Culture Centre Design

Globalization is an inevitable trend that the whole world needs to face. Hong Kong is of course one of those global cities belonging to such a growing network. The politics of space comes in when the city needs new built environments. When people work in these spaces, they also require homes, services. In my design project, I will not do a Hong...

Renaissance of Cultural Identity-historic districts regeneration in Beijing inner city

The graduation project titled ‘renaissance of cultural identity-historical districts regeneration of Beijing inner city’ aims at researching the question about the role of cultural identity in the historical cities, specifically it is about testing and investigating proper ways to regenerate the historic districts in inner city of Beijing, in...