Urban Land Under Forces: The Progress and Setbacks of San Francisco’s Urban Transformation Since 1950

This thesis researches the urban transformations of two areas in San Francisco, the Northern Waterfront and the Western Addition area. By examining the contrast results of their redevelopments, lessons are derived in regard to planning strategies.

San Francisco Space Fiction: Notions of nature in a Dataism age

This project envisioned three futures of San Francisco dominated by three notions of nature in the upcoming Data-ism age. Nature has always been the authority to justify landscape architecture design, and its definition changes all the time. When we are dealing with long-term issues, like climate change, our actions should be justified by the...

Hunters Point Crane: A floating space above the San Francisco Bay

During the studio Delta Interventions, I designed an intervention based on research within the San Francisco Bay Area. Basically, my intervention is about transforming historic real estate along the waterline and creating a new relation with the water. The intervention is mainly focusing on transforming a landmark in to a building that...

Modelling the Giant Sandwaves of San Francisco Bay: A study on process based sandwave modelling, with an exploration on the mechanisms that results in the formation of these bedforms

Connected to the Pacific Ocean by the Golden Gate channel, the San Francisco Bay accommodates a widely spread field of sandwaves that show large spatial variations which are not yet fully understood. Insight into the formation of sandwaves is necessary to understand and predict the processes that control sand transport and sedimentation patterns...