Living in V&D Department Stores: A Dive into the History to Research th Transformation and re-use of V&D Department Stores to residential buildings

Hoptille - from Stigma to Charisma: Image enhancing transformation of post-modern architecture while retaining its identity

This graduation thesis was executed within the studio New Heritage in which the question was raised whether postmodern architecture can be valued as heritage. Multiple postmodern neighbourhoods suffer from a stigma. Outsiders have a negative image where insiders are much more positive about their neighbourhood. This master thesis focusses on the...

Biesbosch Bezinningslandschap - a future scenario for the Amaliapolder

An impressive farm complex, located on a polder island at the heart of natural park the Biesbosch near Dodrecht and Breda, provides the ultimate setting for a nature retreat. The design proposal is fed by the site's rich history, highly varied landscape, the cultural-historical values of the site and research into the characteristics of a place...

Thuis in Hillesluis: leven in de Ambachtsschool

A vacant former school building in Hillesluis, Rotterdam-South, is transformed into dwellings specifically designed for residents of this area who are moving upward the ladder of social mobility (“sociale stijgers”). In order to enable them to climb up (or start on) the property ladder, research is conducted on their housing preferences. Three...

'KNIL' MAGAZIJNEN Community Center: Community based transformation towards a resilient future.

In the context of the H&A Shared Heritage Lab, which I am part of, crucial built heritage issues are investigated in the city of Bandung, Indonesia. Bandung has many Indonesian-Dutch heritage sites and buildings as a result of the long period of colonization by the Dutch. They are part of both Dutch and Indonesian history and have become...

Lelycentre Cultural Centre: Transforming a 70's building into a cultural centre whilst preserving young heritage

Lelystad's first commercial area, Lelycentre, was originally intended to be the starting point of the planned city centre in the first phase in 1964, emphasising the connection to the fourth planned polder of the Zuiderzeewerken. Markermeerpolder's rejection in the 80's meant that the decision was made to develop the city centre elsewhere...

Disclosing the military city: Bridging the border of MMC

Having lost its productivity, MMC became isolated from its context. Most of its links to neighbour and region broke as a result of its changing role. A series of dilemmas<br/>mainly exists as social conflicts and spatial conflicts appeared around the<br/>border as result. However, as the carrier of social conflict in MMC and witness of colonial...

Good Hope (Memorial) Park: A future for dissonant heritage, a design for hope and democracy

This thesis and design explores the dissonance of the 17th century heritage object of the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town. The research explains the theme of dissonant heritage together with an excerpt of the South African national history in part one. Part two explains the changes of the Castle over time, as military landscape, as object in a...

The Lasting Notion of Street: Variate, Adapt, Engage. Transforming Eilandenbuurt Apartments

The Eilandenbuurt Post-war flats designed by J.H.Van den Broek are unique in its street form and is and early experiment for Dutch modernism dwellings. Yet today it suffers from low occupancy. In this project I finds the solution through three actions: vary, adapt, engage to change the heritage from repetitive functional dwellings into variant...

Transforming the former Artillery Storage House at the Paardenmarkt into the Delft Climate Centre

The complex of the Artillery Storage House at the Paardenmarkt in Delft has its origin in the second half of the seventeenth century. The ' Staten van Holland and West Friesland' built one storage house for gun carriages in 1671 at the place where a gunpowder tower exploded in 1654. Since then, new buildings were added, removed and altered at...

Post-war duplex housing in courtyard configuration: Transformation towards adaptive neighborhoods: Cas Roland Holstbuurt

The graduation studio ‘Housing as heritage’, within the chair of Restoration, Modification, Intervention and Transformation (®MIT), deals with complex social issues and degeneration processes of post-war housing neighborhoods. This graduation project in particular aims at a strategy for phased revitalization of post-war ground bound duplex...

Identity regeneration by transformation

Identity regeneration by transformation is focused on an abandoned cigarette factory in Zevenaar (The Netherlands). The city is in need of a new impulse and by transforming the factory a possible solution is provided in the form if a biological food center with a wholesale, a markethall, an agricultural school, offices, dwellings and retail.