The collective living street: Flexible and affordable family dwellings in the city center of Amsterdam

Collective dwelling design for the new urban middle income family. Attention is paid to enhance social interaction. The design forms a proposal for flexible and affordable family dwellings to keep the middle class in (the city center) of Amsterdam.

Flexibility within the Perimeter block

Het ontwerp bestaat uit een bouwblok waarin twee thema's centraal staan. Het eerste thema is de verbinding van bewoners in een bouwblok met de aangrenzende buitenruimte. In het ontwerp zijn verschillende architectonische middelen ingezet om deze verbinding te versterken. Het tweede thema richt zich op flexibiliteit. Vanwege de grote...

Making the Link: Public Space and Flexible dwelling on Ronettenterrein

Active IJburg: The closed building block revised

Within the research on designed appropriation we concluded that certain aspects or design elements could “trigger” inhabitants to appropriate or actually restrain this. Combining some elements worked better than other, but overall it could be said that renting a property does not encourage possible appropriation. If appropriation has to take...

Gate to North

My graduation project 'Gate to North' is a mixed-use (dwelling & workspaces) building with flexibility strongly integrated into the concept. The base is a highly flexible frame that can be filled in with any desired program. The next stage is to put in the floors and facade to create a Solid-type structure. The final stage is the definitive...

Dwelling a narrative experience: Embracing the diversity in the experience of dwelling

This is an infill/parasite housing project. The site is the corner in a typical urban block of the city of Berlin. The urban position of the project was based on the idea that "A city must be read as a carpet of fragments, as a continuum sequence of SPATIAL and PROGRAMMATIC PATTERNS." My design proposal is for a new fragment of the patchwork...

Overlay and filters as a dwelling concept

Architecture and dwelling, at home in the city, Berlin: Be-Leven in Berlijn

Residential project for Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Berlin. Flexible housing program. multiple users: singels, small office home office, families, arabic families, commercial users. design: neighbourhood, apartment block, apartment building, housing-unit, details, pavement, marketplace, market building