Cultural Center in a Paper Mill

The 2022 Urban Architecture graduation studio explores the site and surroundings of a partially operating paper mill in the city of Maastricht. Working with a thematic approach the project is engaged through the lens and attitude of a so called Glaneur/Glaneuse. The ones who reap leftovers from harvested fields, or find beauty, value and...

Bricolage of Society: A new public ground for Nijmegen

The notion of bricolage has become an important point of view and enabling approach to the project in which the focus is placed on building a deep understanding and knowledge to develop greater sensitivity towards the existing – existing in terms of both the physical realm around us but also the people themselves that bring the animate into the...

Animal Life Cycle Center: Proejct derived from the research topic 'Collage, Contrast, Abstraction'

The content of the graduation project was carried out in three stages: the research phase, the interphase and the building design. They are interrelated and are presented in a (con)sequential manner. The project started with the case study of the city of Yerevan in Armenia which became the main source for research documentation. The research...

Collage and Continuity

Karl popper's architectural legacy: An intertextual reading of collage city (1)

Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter's book Collage City has been one of the most inspiring works in the field of architecture with its elaborate and stimulating critique of Modernist and Post-war architecture and city planning. Published first as an article in 1975 and later as a book in 1978, Collage City has been one of the cornerstones of...

Point Éphémère

This graduation project focusses on north-east Paris. In the past there were a lot of industrial functions settled in this area. Nowadays the industry moved outside the city and they left their buildings behind. These buildings need to be transformed so they can fit again in their surroundings. Point Éphémère, a building along Canal Saint-Martin...

Spatial Collage

Spatial Collage is an investigation of the Collage as a 2 dimensional form of art and an exploration of the potential of Collage in an architectural framework. Several keywords describe the characteristics of a collage: recomposition; deconstruction; scalejump; mismatch; multiple readings. Words that can have an architectural meaning as well....