New European Parliament: The Physical in the Age of the Digital

As our society has entered the age of the digital, several problems have risen from the unprecedented amount of information circulation. While indeed the benefits of this instant access to information and data cannot be overstated, one cannot ignore problems such as misinformation. With that in mind, comes the problem of how could architecture...

Penn Globe & The High Line Effect: The social and economic effect of public space on its surrounding neighborhoods in Midtown Manhattan.

Between 2009 and 2019 New York’s High Line was repurposed from an old train track into an elevated park, designed by Diller Scofido + Renfro, after it was saved from demolition through a community initiative, led by Robert Hammond and Joshua David. The High Line spans a highly heterogeneous area (socially as well as architecturally). The park is...

Talent Machine: A platform for the exchange of information, skills and knowledge

A platform for the exchange of skills and knowledge in both local and global scale is located in the context of very highly educated people of various backgrounds, driven by ambition to develop their knowledge and careers. Talent machine supports the next step in the development of Northeast Midtown ensuring its future well-being and enhancing...

Vertical Campus: The future of big player architecture in Midtown Manhattan

As big player architecture has been the main shaper of the NYC skyline this thesis sought to find the answer to which industry would follow to built the next addition. The result is a vertical tech campus where the new york office is mixed with the california campus to create a flagship store/office for the fictional client Google inc.

Commute with life

In El Paso-Ciudad Juarez, one of the largest twin cities on U.S.-MEX. border, I found that there are over about 10 thousands students and workers cross the border for school and work every day, which occupied a large percentage of 43 of the daily commuters on border. By this way, they obtain more job opportunities and better education resources....

Garfield Park community church

The design of this community church in situated in one of the most segregated areas in Chicago. One of the largest problems in this neighborhood is the lack of social cohesion. In addition the predominately African American inhabitants are threatened with displacement as a result of gentrification. In order to prevent this, the community needs...

Manufacture Commune

A Fab-lab building focus on design and fabrication for the public and start-up.

The Bulls Arena - Chicago

An arena for the chicago bulls in the western edge of chicago. MSC thesis project for the studio complex projects , Architecture

Remove and Expose: Chicago's Public Soil Treatment Facility

Industrial and agricultural buildings are one of the few typologies that have not been redeveloped or rethought architecturally. They seem to always be located away from our day to day lives and we usually have no reason to visit these buildings. However, as our approach to waste in big cities is changing globally, I believe it to be essential...

Arens de la ciudad

The graduation studio Borders-the Architecture of violence researches on border conditions at rigid borders, where two worlds collide. The focus of the studio was on the border between the United States of America and Mexico. This border with a long history of conflicts, alterations and discrepancies has unfortunately caused for a mostly...

Calexico-Mexicali Central Station

The Thesis and architectural Design is part of the studio's attempt to rethink and reorganise the US-Mexico border region. We found that although the region has a lot of potential, hostile politics and problems of mobility result in a region which is unable to deal with its problems, and the potential remains untapped. In absence of the border...

Improving the execution of complex projects at conversion yards: The development of a functional framework using a systems approach

This paper aims to improve the execution of complex projects by the development of a functional framework using a systems approach guided by the six steps from the Deweyan Inquiry. Readers unfamiliar with the systems approach I recommend reading the chapters 1,2,4 and 5 of the Delft Systems Approach(Veeke,2008). The developed framework offers a...

The Chicago Project: A future vision for the Southworks area

Complex projects Southwork Civic Center

Risk-based Project Management at Heerema Marine Contractors. "How to improve HMC project risk management to cope with risks and uncertainty in complex EPRD projects"

The thesis has developed an approach for better coping with risks and uncertainty associated with comples EPRD projects in the marine contracting industry. Two of the world's first EPRD project have been analyzed to generate specific knowledge on the effetiveness of current project risk management practice. An approach has been developed to...