Healing by transforming: Creating the empowered healing environment

According to the Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM), there will be more focus on tackling the unhealthy effects of urbanization in the near future. This together with the presence of a large stock of vacant buildings and other developments within these urban areas and the challenges which are formed by the developments in...

Urban Lounge: The Recovery of Social-Spatial Cohesion

Focusing on the renewal, regeneration, and reinvention of spaces in the historic centre of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, this study investigates the impact that public space has on the formation of social unity, based on established practices of behaviour and appropriation. Furthermore, this research was developed within a specific framework for...

Reviving the hospital building: A sustainable renovation of the Academisch Medisch Centrum (AMC) in Amsterdam

In the Netherlands, there is a large amount of buildings that are outdated according to today’s standards. Those existing buildings represent about 70% of the building stock in 2050. Updating these buildings in terms of functionality but mostly in terms of sustainability is therefore a highly relevant task at hand. To quote Prof. Mauro Overend...

Renovation of the Airey Blocks

Fix-up the Walk-up: The renovation of 1960’s walk-up flats into social and energy-efficient fix-up dwellings

Walk-up flats (portiekflats) of the 1960's have to cope with multiple problems such as functional, energetic and social problems. This project consists of an generic approach and a case specific design that incorporates an energetic renovation, fix-up dwellngs (kluswoningen) and social spaces wrapped in a facade of reclaimed brick into a...

Ingestorte Idealen: Snoozen in een utopische probleemwijk

Over weinig wijken is zo uitvoerig gedacht en geschreven als over Pendrecht in Rotterdam Zuid. Met de oorlog nog vers in het geheugen werd getracht een open en democratische samenleving te bouwen en de massamaatschappij tegen te gaan. Het is echter diezelfde wijk die 50 jaar later tot 1-na-slechtste wijk van Nederland wordt bestempeld. Wie de...