B(l)ooming Tourism: Evoking New Meaningful Connections in the Touristic City of Amsterdam

In recent years, overtourism has become a big problem for many European cities. In Amsterdam, tourism is changing the experience of place of its city centre, which negatively affects resident’s quality of life by causing feelings of alienation. As a result, more and more residents seem to retreat or move away from Amsterdam’s city centre,...

A typological analysis of temporary medical structures before and during the Covid-19 pandemic: How can design help us to deal with situations of crisis and emergency?

In situations of crisis, regular hospitals often do not longer suffice the high demand for medical care. In this case, temporary medical structures become indispensable. The Covid 19 pandemic brought to the fore architectural challenges such as the spatial reorganization of healthcare facilities for high occupancy levels, the issue of infection...

Digital Playground: Pneumatic interactive architecture in abandoned post-industrial structures

The master's thesis explores the possibilities of reusing abandoned post-industrial structures and objects of architectural heritage. Objects, which are usually difficult to renovate due to high costs and their poor physical condition, could be filled with new inflatable volumes and thus be filled with new space, function, and life. The work is...

Sparking Stories: Turning an abandoned coal mine into a culture mine to help a community find its future

An investigation into how our world is shaped by narratives and storytelling, the design results in the re-imagining of a mining community. Having no story for their future, the design is an exploration of potential and how the community can be nudged into creating the stories they need to think positively about the future.

Informal Networks: Embracing Otherness through Performative Spaces

Informal actors possess a practical knowledge of the city, a sort of ‘secret know-how’, of how to move and operate in an environment that is unwelcoming to them. How could this knowledge be used as a tool or input of urban design? By considering the knowledge and ways of operating of the informal actors in a city, the project incorporates the...

The popUP SUPERstructure: popUP: responds to the needs of the present, while being able to gain new life in the future SUPERstructure: capacity of structure to be flexible and adapt to various scales and programs

Despite the fact that pop-up and temporary architecture is slowly evolving, there is much room for improvement. While the focus is in the function it serves, it very commonly lacks in the aesthetic aspect and the quality of the space, being perceived by many as cheap, fast and disposable. Similarly, in the technical aspect, it lacks the...

Marginalia. A design strategy for rural shrinking areas: An Italian case

The research tryes to investigate the unexplored yet complex and diffused problem of rural shrinkage as a political landscape. By analysing an Italian rural municipality, which has been took as representative European rural area, it proposes a general spatial design strategy that, by relying on local resources and local actors, is able to become...

Sandglo

The sandy dunes at the Dutch coastal areas are characterized as an aeolian landscape and are essential for the complex water safety systems of the Dutch lowlands.The naturally formed dunes act as a soft barrier with a cyclical process of formation and deformation. Building in the sandy dunes and beaches poses a threat as this may imbalance the...