Urban Fabrications: Tensile Tectonics of Labor

Filtering and differentiation at borders shape the composition and multiplicity of living labor, as well as the formation of often exploitative labor regimes. The relation between migration and the garments and textile Industry in the area of Istanbul, the center of textile and garments production and simultaneously a destination and hub for...

Mediating Religious Elements: Collective memory of religious spaces to incentivise the transformation of decommissioned churches

This project explores the utilisation of the collective memory of vacant churches and the architectural elements within them as incentives for their transformation and reuse. The number of decommissioned churches in the Netherlands is increasing with rapid secularisation, and many churches remain empty. The purpose of this paper is to find a...

creating social value through adaptive reuse: a study into social sustainability in adaptive reuse

While urban development is essential to keep our cities alive, existing buildings and structures are essential for communities to thrive. Moreover, this development needs to minimise construction waste and pollution, which means that it is illogical to demolish existing buildings that contain valuable resources. However, transformation is often...

The Self-Organization of Stuff

The common description of the configuration of stuff in a room, one of order (tidy) and chaos (messy), fails to explain the phenomenon that artifacts create structures around people and activities in a space, with both functional and cognitive properties. This form of organization, that is recognizable on various scale levels, emerges...

Digital Wayfinding / Blades: A research & design project for a modular architectural lighting system applied for adaptive wayfinding in a park environment and on to buildings of architectural heritage.

The project researches the implementation and integration of media technologies for communication purposes in architectural and natural environments. These technologies give designers new tools to create spaces which can be more responsive, functional and communicative and adapt in realtime. By creating a network of light landscapes, shapes and...

The Urban Interior Setting: Towards a Habitable Urban Landscape

The theme of my thesis is the development of a better micro-climate for the public space around The Hague Central Station. " In my research, I formed a generic framework on how the area around a station can be better utilized. I posed conditions and made recommendations for creat ing pleasant places for pedestrians and waiting users. I have...