Young professionals in the city: Designing affordable and suitable dwellings for young professionals

The housing market in The Netherlands is under pressure, especially in big cities such as Rotterdam. The housing shortage situation is not going to be solved overnight. This creates cramps in the housing market, increases the housing prices to beyond what people can afford, which causes in particular young professionals to fall between two...

UNDOCUMENTED: From Liminal Politics to Intimate Spaces

The protagonist of this work is the rightless, displaced person - a population of individuals in transition, hidden like a shadow in the contemporary city. Departing from the active oppression of this considerable group from the fabric of the city and the ways in which architecture contributes to enclosing or dividing populations, this work...

City Hotel Amsterdam, The Host: Creating communities on different scales

The outcome of constantly striving for economic growth and making a profit has led to a city in which every building is seen as a product. Power, ownership, and mass tourism are taking over the city, exacerbating the housing shortage and making the housing prices rise to an unprecedented height. As a result, inhabitants are being pushed out of...

Together through Flex-Housing

The inclusive living environment in Delft Tanthof brings together Elderly with other generations, offers places to interact with each other on different scales, provides flexible structures to create a future-proof neighbourhood and offers a large amount of variety and options to accomodate different residents.

The spring: a place of fertile ground and growth

Transform is the keyword for the situation we are in. The climate is changing and we do to. Our needs change every day, and we like the change. We like the transformation, because that is life. We search for goals. Goals that help us to become something we always wanted to be. This year was all about learning and evolving and I enjoyed every...

Dwelling design for solo living: Combating loneliness in modern single-person households using concepts of cohousing and coliving

The project is focused on combating loneliness in single-person households. Concepts of cohousing and coliving are chosen to research the topic to meet the requirements of modern solo dwellers.

Design for Change: An adaptable housing complex which deals with the impermanence of architecture

The Individual household will represent almost 75% of the household increase in the Netherlands in the coming years. This lead to an increase in the sense of isolation among citizens of all ages. Therefore, there is the urge of housing, specifically designed for this target group, which avoid isolation and foster social interaction. Additionally...

Nomadic Hub

The Amsterdam is currently facing a housing crisis, which, especially in the center, is party caused with people moving to Amsterdam of short period of time. The temporariness of housing will be even more present in the future. The researched characteristics of year 2100 will be globalization, fast transportation, flexibility in terms of work...

XS>XL: The emerging concept of commercial co-living and its influence on users-affordability and developers-profitability

The worldwide urbanization is resulting in increasingly densified urban areas, aiming for the development of more space efficient cities. The increase of urban inhabitants, also in the Netherlands, has put vast pressure on the demand of housing in the city. Mainly affected by the Dutch housing crisis are young and elderly people looking for mid...

Alleviating urban loneliness: Devising a template for the not-lonely neighbourhood

Proposal for a new neighbourhood in the city of Eindhoven, with a particular focus on one of its residential blocks.<br/><br/>This thesis challenges the overly-simplistic (and economically-driven) responses to urban loneliness offered by convenience-oriented modes of co-living, and responds with a workable alternative that seeks to embed a more...