MUSIC MARVEL: The playground of unconsciousness

The final conception of my music marvel is to create a binary musical community center with auditorium and rooms for music therapy/school purposes but also creating a space for urban “flaneur” the wanderer of the city that can visit accidently and still have memorable experiences through seasonal exhibitions and pop up shows. The space will be...

Hembrug, Transforming Campus North

This graduation project is about transforming Campus North on the Hembrug terrain in Zaandam as part of the studio Heritage and Architecture. Hembrug is a former military production terrain and was the logistic heart of the “Stelling of Amsterdam”. This area was left vacant since 2003, but in recent years new occupants inhabit Hembrug. The...

Zuiderpershuis, a Cultural Powerplant

This project is about the revitalization of the cultural center: “the Zuiderpershuis”. The complex of buildings is marked as a heritage site and represents an important part of the city of Antwerp and its history as an industrial harbor city. The current lack of used space on the site and its seclusion from the city fabric prevent the place from...

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...

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.

Casa de Cultura | Patos de Minas: spatial interventions to stimulate the development of a medium sized city in Brazil

This final project studies an intervention in the area of public spaces and cultural identity of Patos de Minas, a medium sized city in Brazil in a phase of transition.This final project studies an intervention in the area of public spaces and cultural identity of Patos de Minas, a medium sized city in Brazil in a phase of transition.