Urban Paraphrasis: Imagining urban transformation in Maastricht through localized material reuse and citizen empowerment

Urban Paraphrasis imagines urban transformation through the potential of localized material re-use and the capacities of citizen empowerment in the context of Maastricht’s Sphinxkwartier. The project presents an alternative civic center that is built with reclaimed materials from an abandoned clay factory, engages a local community of squatters,...

Art Institute Frans: A research on the atmosphere of Maastricht, applied to the design of

A research on the atmosphere of Maastricht, applied to the design of Art Institute Frans

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...

Maastricht Heritage Center

As part of the Heritage and Architecture studio, the Vacant Heritage project was offered. An adaptive re-use assignment in which a former Vroom & Dreesmann department store is researched and then designed with. In a broader context, this graduation studio is aimed at finding ways to redevelop the existing stock of architecture, while keeping...

Redevelopment of Industrial Heritage: Transformation of the Landbouwbelang Building in Maastricht

The Landbouwbelang Building in Maastricht is located on the western banks of the river Maas. As an important part of the cultural heritage of Maastricht, this building shows the historical relation between the city and the river it is named after. The old warehouse has large industrial cranes dominating the riverfront. Graffiti covers the...

Monumental Education: creative learning environment in the centre of Maastricht

The transformation of the former convent "Maison de la Miséricorde" shows how this building complex with a variety of qualities, historic values and different building parts can be redeveloped into a coherent whole.

Gasfabriek, Maastricht: New use versus cultural historic value

Reuse of industrial Heritage the Sphinx factory in Maastricht