NY Wonderland: A Reconstruction Project in Midtown, New York

New York has developed rapidly in only several centuries, becoming a super metropolis today. The city is growing more densified. Less land can be used for public used. However, more and more people flooding into this city call for space to contain more activities. How and where can public spaces be integrated in the future city, considering the...

Symbiotic Urban Voids: A Resilient Ecological Framework for Rotterdam through its Urban Voids

The Rotterdam urban fabric is built in an area of amalgamation of very interesting landscape conditions surrounding it. Defined by the rich natural and cultural history, this structure has been home to different habitats for a variety of flora and fauna. However, the urban core disconnects these areas due to the lack of diverse ecological green...

Future Primitive: A Common Landscape

In today’s cities, global urbanisation has created a fragmented, unresponsive and socially divisive landscape. Intensifying agglomerations to urban centres across the globe due to the displacement and mass migrations of large populations has increased the pressure of organising a dense urban habitat. In its dominion over nature modern life was...

Voluntarily imprisoned: Prototype the future city

The city is in a throes of a gigantic transformation process, due to modernisation, globalisation, technological innovation, urbanisation, explosive population growth and climate change (Brotchie, Newton, Hall, & Nijkamp, n.d.; Cohen, 2006). Within a time of change, whereas technology integrates progressively in our lifestyle, and where man...

Digitarian Food Park: A New Foodscape in Urban Context in 2100

The these is to explore new possibility to consolidate daily living and food experience in 2100 Amsterdam. Food is one of the essential elements in daily life. We eat and consume foods everyday. However, since the industrialization and automation of the industry, food industry has become one of the most destructive system in the planet in terms...

Urban Delta: Local Place in Zuid-Oost, Amsterdam

The project is concerned with the district of Zuidoost, currently inhabited by mostly non-western immigrants and functioning as a sleeping district. As the area is missing defined local public space, the project aims to provide with space in which people of different backgrounds can meet and interact with each other, and therefore enable to form...

Value driven mobility design for future cities: a vision for 2040

After it’s invention in 1886, the car has left us with amazing opportunities and progress. But it has become very clear that today’s degree of car use is not sustainable in terms of land and energy use and emissions. Big developments are about to shake up the automotive world, but they do not bring the change that is needed. A traffic jam of...