Architectural Narration of Memorial Architecture Throughout 20th and 21st Centuries: Form, Spatial and Exhibition Design as Means to Deliver Stories and Experience

The symbolic and meaningful richness of the architecture of commemoration reminds us of important events in the history of mankind, mixing past realities with present-day meta worlds largely created by architecture and place, as well as exhibitions, objects, or even our own experiences. Semiotic opulence, and therefore also the narrative...

An 'Offline' Virtual Community: To Design a Public Condenser as a 'System'

The virtual world, existing in parallel with the physical one, has reshaped our life. Nowadays as people rely increasingly on social media for mutal interactions, ‘the virtual community actually becomes the real form of community today’ (Clark, A.). Such reliance owes to the ‘customizing system with hirarchy’ of virtual community to a large...

The Mansion of Adam: an investigation of the architecture of displacement

My graduation project deals with the topic of “architectural displacement” that proposes to read the built environment as the existence of multiple entities in each one of the entities. In the process of researching and designing, it has been investigated to see how such an understanding could reveal new potentials in architecture and how such...

Making art accessible to visually impaired museum visitors

This is the reporting of the master graduation assignment of Hester de Bliek, Design for Interaction, Industrial Design Engineering, TU Delft. The main goal of the assignment was to make visual art accessible to people with a visual impairment. This assignment arose from the PhD research of W.S. Elkhuizen about 3D printing and Fine Art...