Extending the Material Biography of Byblos through Understanding Ancient Common Commodity Spaces and Human Artifacts

One and Many Details: Considering the Contingencies of Building as Empirical Evidence for Architectural Pedagogy

The study of built objects has always played a key role in the education of the architect. At the earliest stages of training most of us sat in front of buildings and drew them, trying to capture their overall features and minute details. What appears simple is, in fact, an extremely meaningful exercise. It presumes that drawing an existing...

The Tangible Presence of Human Labor in Architecture

This essay aims to show that in many of the theories that fundament material culture and architectural experience, labor is implied in the constitution of material and, although seldom directly addressed, it is a determining dimension of materiality. From the Vitruvian and Renaissance treatises and Gottfried Semper to John Ruskin and the Art and...

IN-FLOW: An inside look into Kumbh-mela’s extreme form of temporary urbanism

IN-FLOW deals with a context driven research into the unique ephemeral nature of a temporary pop up city in India. The site is situated in the northern city of Allahabad[now Prayagraj] at the confluence of two river, Ganga and Yamuna respectively. The site facilitates the gathering for religious festival called “The Kumbh Mela”. It is the...

Community Crafts Centre: An Institution for the Everyday

The project is a design for a community crafts centre in Antwerp. Researching the meaning of Institution in the Intimate City, the resulting project is one that conveys an atmosphere of intimacy through the notions of Geometry, Materiality and Identity, while being well insterted in the cultural, physical, historical, and temporal context and...

Make Your Own Neighbourhood: A Communal DIY Marketplace for the Zomerhofkwartier in Rotterdam

The project initially started out to be engaged with the sociocultural phenomenon around amateur production and its physical manifestation of the DIY store as an integral of everyday life in today's society. In order to gradually develop an architectural brief for the eventual design, a number of case studies has been examined in various forms:...

A place for ceramics in a city of stone

A design for a Centre for Ceramics with workshops and exhibition space in the historical centre of Maastricht.

Through Stone Frames

This project has studied the different gates of Maastricht, looking for their grammar. The gates have turned into a public colonnade in his building that changes proportion and rhythm as you move through. To give the gates a contemporary form the natural stone has been replaced by precast concrete. The details work as modern ornaments that...