De Nieuwe Doelen: A Public House for Diversity

The project rethinks the City Hotel and its accommodation of tourists within Amsterdam. Additionally, the building answers the question of urban densification and building within the historic centre of Amsterdam and revises the social precepts of privilege inherent to the elite architecture of the ‘Binnengasthuis’ area. <br/><br/>‘De Nieuwe...

The Intimate City: Skopje

A city is not a single entity. It is a vast collection of intimate narratives, crisscrossing and connecting in an ever-changing tapestry of movement and activity. Supporting this colourful and complex ecosystem in the most effective way is an ongoing challenge for governments, planners and architects.<br/><br/>An approach which can be seen in...

Universiteit Antwerpen Sporthal

Under the year theme of intimate city. The project is a sports hall located in Antwerp with informal space under the formal frame.

In Search of Contrast: An Art School and Art Gallery in Antwerp

Zurenborg is a residential area in Antwerp. While it is an exclusive<br/>neighbourhood, it is for public leisure activities almost completely depended on the surrounding neighbourhood. Zurenborg is in need its own public interior, a place which offers space for Zurenborg’s families and supports the already existing community work.

Stress-Relieving Center

This is the graduation project, in which illustrate the research and design results of the graduation year as a whole

De Wever - A Textile Community Lab: Material research and textile production laboratory with integrated residence

The Productive City in Antwerp, a material research and textile production with integrated residence: The notion of working and living in the same place has been a particular aspect of every city in the past. With industrialization, especially production and crafts have been driven out of the inner city. With the emergence of the idea of the ...

Het Ambachthuis: New Craft school on Eilandje in Antwerp

Intimate city investigates public interiors named as city rooms characterized by any scale and representation. My project conceives these rooms in my building as sequence and investigates theme of thresholds, and explores the intimacy on a border. All the rooms in the building build a sequence of interiors and exteriors, in which each space has...

Towers in the garden: Elderly social house in Oud-Berchem, Antwerp

Under the year theme, “Intimate City”, the task was to create “City Rooms” for the city of Antwerp. The method for developing this notion served as a common ground for the whole graduation process. Each of us in the chair chose one specific site to insert our idea of an urban constitution. My site is a private garden located on the street corner...

Atelier Femme: A womens club & shelter

Recent international events, such as the 2018 Women’s March and the MeToo movement, show an increasing awareness for gender biases present in society and governments. One of the consequences of a disempowered female position is the ‘feminization of poverty’, which is an phenomenon referring to the widening gap between women and men caught in a...

Interiors, Buildings, Cities: The intimate city: Antwerp Intergenerational center

Palazzo Rubens: The Intimate City

The project Palazzo Rubens is concerned with the transformation of the iconic Rubenshuis in Antwerp, whilst also working within the year theme for the chair if Interiors, Buildings, Cities; that of "The Intimate City".

Royal Ballet School of Antwerp

In the design the private intimacy of the school and the city of Antwerp meet in the courtyard; the city room. In this city room the urban intimacy of Antwerp comes together with the private nature of the Ballet school. Delaying the threshold between public and private, making you forget if it belongs to the school or the city. It can be a dance...