The Self-Organization of Stuff

The common description of the configuration of stuff in a room, one of order (tidy) and chaos (messy), fails to explain the phenomenon that artifacts create structures around people and activities in a space, with both functional and cognitive properties. This form of organization, that is recognizable on various scale levels, emerges...

Zero Energy Building Refurbishment & Energy Neutral Urban Clusters in Haarlem

In recent years the world is becoming more aware on the burden of the fossil fuels on the planets ecosystem as well as climate. One of the major reasons is, due to greenhouse gasses in which most of them are caused by carbon release by consumption of fossil fuels. The building sector in almost every country is a major contributor to the...

FabField - structural design and development for CNC-milled based wood construction

Folding dune House: AE studio

A new typology for recreational dune houses.

The Adaptive Dream Home Tower

This project explores the design of dream homes through the use of social media by collecting images of dream homes and creating profiles for users. Furthermore, the dream homes are placed on a plot to test the limits of density and the comprises with desires. Finally, adaptable houses provide a design method to resolving the conflict between...

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...