Spaces of Generosity: A room for Stillness and Silence

The project investigates the possibilities for a way of working that connects a focus on qualitative and atmospheric qualities of space with a focus the way we inhabit and perform within these spaces. The first is often thought of as an individual experience, the second as a socially constructed one. To bridge this divide the project...

Sparking Stories: Turning an abandoned coal mine into a culture mine to help a community find its future

An investigation into how our world is shaped by narratives and storytelling, the design results in the re-imagining of a mining community. Having no story for their future, the design is an exploration of potential and how the community can be nudged into creating the stories they need to think positively about the future.

Big city, tiny living: micro-housing in central London

Graduation thesis on the implementation of micro-housing on repurposed ground in the Ladbroke Grove area, in the borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Central London.

Experiencing the Atmosphere: How to deal with the architectural elements when redesigning churches

Shared Living - and the desired level of privacy

More and more people are moving to cities. The general idea is that there is always something to do and there is always someone to meet with in those cities. The truth is different. A lot of those city dwellers are feeling lonely from time to time. They experience a lack of social contacts and relationships. The increase in loneliness is mainly...

Serving the New Housing Producers

A research on the role of the architect within projects developed through Collective Private Commission (Collectief Particulier Opdrachtgeverschap) in the Netherlands. Input from participants, which is obtained through a workshop and interviews, is used for the design of a dwelling block. This design then forms a hypothesis of what is possible...

A school for all

Permanent Temporality

Office vacancy is a growing problem in the Netherlands. In the first half of 2012, office vacancy continued to grow to 7,62 million square meters, 15,4% of the total office stock. Demographic trends (decrease of the workforce), changing ways of working (telecommuting), decreasing immigration and technological innovations (continued automation)...

Homeless shelters in the Nieuwe Kerk, Delft & On architects: A conservative view: A proposal for a cyclical model of programming and design

Design and research from the Explorelab graduation studio

Het Stenen Hoofd

The first crematorium in the Netherlands was build in 1913, long before the official legalization of cremation (1955). Today, the Netherlands hold 72 crematoria. Almost all crematoria build in the Netherlands are situated outside the borders of the city it belongs to, losing the connection with its city. In an era of urbanisation, cities grow...

Converting office space: Using modular prefab architecture to convert vacant office buildings.

Almost 7 million square meters of office space in The Netherlands is vacant today. Conversion into housing is an often named solution, but is hardly ever put into practice because of financial and technical difficulties (location aspects not taken into account). On the other hand, standardization in office design can be seen as an opportunity in...

Insight Studio

This project is about finding the "ideal" studio conditions for design education. The research describes the basic needs for accommodating design education through studio spaces. The final design of the project is a new building for the faculty of Architecture. It can be seen as a late submission for the contest "building for Bouwkunde" which...

Building Traditions

Research on designing a building for the local community of Waai with traditional building materials

Fluctus, Duikcentrum NL: De plek om de onderwaterwereld te ontdekken

Een duikcentrum in Scharendijke te Zeeland. Een centrum waar versce onderschillende doelgroepen onder 1 dak worden samengebracht. De doelgroepen krijgen educatie in het onderwaterleven van Nederland. Tevens kunnen ze gebruik maken van de verschillende faciliteiten van het gebouw om een leuke dag uit te hebben. Het duiken staat centraal en geet...