COLLECTIVE INTIMACY: Revive the collective housing as a utopian oasis

In case you feel confused, this is an architecture project based on research which in total took one year. The process was never linear, but the narrative has to be. <br/><br/>For the first six months I studied the essential values of collective housing in post war period, how they prompted to solve housing crisis and how they embraced the...

Home of Art: Artists cohabitation bringing creativity back to Keilehaven.

The Home of Art aims to bring creativity back to Keilehaven, creating a direct link to the rich history of the area’s innovative, cultural, and creative aspects. The project adjoins a mixed program of living, working, creating, and producing within its building layers. The architectural qualities applied in the Home of Art address the socio,...

Architectural Components to Contribute to Social Interaction

The amount of people with feelings of loneliness has increased dramatically in recent years. Loneliness is an undesirable and horrible situation where one can feel completely abandoned. Solo dwellers and elderly are found to be the most vulnerable.<br/><br/>Besides the devastating personal situation of people with feelings of loneliness,...

City hotel for young artists in Amsterdam

I researched the city planning history of Amsterdam and the specific model of the residential hotel. The research on the characteristics of the Amsterdam canal house and the hofje inspired my proposal of the city hotel. Both the spatial sequence and the operating mode will refer to the traditional hofje. The hotel can be considered as a part of...

De Nieuwe Doelen: A Public House for Diversity

The project rethinks the City Hotel and its accommodation of tourists within Amsterdam. Additionally, the building answers the question of urban densification and building within the historic centre of Amsterdam and revises the social precepts of privilege inherent to the elite architecture of the ‘Binnengasthuis’ area. <br/><br/>‘De Nieuwe...

United in Diversity: Shared social housing in today's Anderlecht

Our society is expanding and in response to this, cities are undergoing transformations. The pluralism of an individualized society, relating to one’s own needs and desires, is perceptible in the way we dwell in the city. However, this doesn’t mean that a larger cohesive (social) structure isn’t essential. Indeed, Brussels, the capital of the...

Crooswijk Cares: The integration of housing, care and well-being in a Rotterdam neighborhood

Shared spaces in a domestic environment

The fascinations about our changing (becoming more isolated) life style, the declining need for people to posses things and a few existing systems that show us that people seem to want to share (temporary) more possessions with each other are the guiding elements for this project. The research explores the possibilities within the domestic...

Pioneer living amidst industry

The project presents the design of a dwelling ensemble situated in an industrial area in Amsterdam. Dwellings are introduced to restructure an obsolete industrial area to start a transformation towards a mixed urban area. Strategies of former pioneer cities are used to create a safe and pleasant living environment. Collectivity at different...