OPEN HOUSE: Arts Centre and New Public Realm along the River Maas

The project Open House, ‘gleans’ a derelict and underutilised part of the riverfront in Maastricht and gives it over to the everyday people of the city in the form of a public building - an Arts Centre for Maastricht. The ambition for the project is to create an architecture that will mesh seamlessly with the public realm, breaking down the...

The New City Hotel_De Houten Kast

The city of Amsterdam, recently, and in the afterlight of the pandemic’s consequences, decided to take a shift on its approach on tourism management. Following the trajectory of Circular Economy values that the city promotes, architecture aspires to contribute as well, as an agent of change on its own. This project as such, exploits...

Addis Ababa as a Palimpsest

The goal of the Global Housing graduation studio is to research and design housing solutions to improve the livelihood of Addis Ababa’s urban dwellers. Combining analysis, planning and design, the participants in this graduation studio are challenged to use multidisciplinary research methods and tools to elaborate design proposals for mass...

Artist Housing: The value of implementing a 'live-work' environment for artists in Minervahaven, Amsterdam

This project is motivated by the voices of the Amsterdam artists, for whom it becomes increasingly difficult to live and work in the city. The independent artists, activists, working-class people, among many other low- and mid-income groups who gave Amsterdam its unique, diverse and open character, have been driven out of the city centre for...

Addis Ababa Living Lab: Soft Data

This research booklet brings together a selection of a qualitative analysis to aspects that characterize the History, Religion, Politics, Arts and Craftsmanship of Ethiopia, in general, and Addis Ababa in particular. This booklet compiles information collected from different sources (mainly bibliographic references and digital archives). The...

University for the Creative Arts (UCA)

Rediscovery of the former Markethall area as a university campus.

Media, Arts and the Cité