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...

The Cooperative Enclave

This graduation project deals with the notion that living and working is changing. The goal of the project is to implement a living and working enclave in a historic industrial heritage building. The project location is in Arnhem on the former KEMA testing terrain. While the project deals with new forms of living and communal aspects, it also...

Working & Living on the edge

HAND_MADE: Architecture for craftsmanship

In the future, cities will face many challenges. We need to densify our cities while at the same time preserve qualities and identities on different scales. One of these identities is that of craftsmanship and the rich industrial history of Amsterdam. <br/>The separation between living and working is outdated, especially for the growing part of...

Communis: a hybrid of self-build housing and flexible workspaces for young professionals and entrepreneurs

In a contemporary society, where new living and working habits emerge, this project will attempt to find ways to serve these new living conditions in a way that will also have a positive societal impact as well as high levels of human satisfaction. A shift towards the formation of co-working, co-living environment is proposed as the answer to...

Future inner city live-work typologies for Bandung: Development of climate resilient inner city live-work typologies

This graduation project is part of the Shared Heritage Lab; a collaboration studio between the master tracks of Heritage&amp;Architecture, Architectural Engineering, Landscape Architecture and Urbanism of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment from the TU Delft. All students joining this graduation lab focus on the question ‘How...

The Live-Work Factory: Exploration of a live-work typology for the 21st century city of New York

This project is a part of the Complex Projects Graduation Studio, "New York Midtown", it explores the possibility of introducing a new workplace typology within an industrial waterfront of Clinton piers as a way to respond to the changing landscape of work of the 21st century New York and the revitalization of the waterfront in the previously...

Make Compact Work: Patterns of densification and intensification of functions in live work environments: Zaanstad, Metropolitan region Amsterdam

What is the future of urban industrial land? This is a challenge urban design and planning field has only just started to undertake. Currently, the differentiation between the urban core as the front stage zone for human residence and entertainment versus the rural periphery as the backstage zone for production, logistics and energy harvesting...

Onbeperkt Wonen: Living independently in a stimulating residential environment for young people with a mild intellectual disability

“In which way can the design of the residential environment contribute to the social self-reliance of young people with a mild intellectual disability?” We are facing a huge challenge in the Netherlands: we have to build up to ‘1 Million Homes’ by 2030. But such a huge assignment raises the question if those new dwellings will be inclusive...

The Working Homes: Social housing dwellings affording opportunities for financial betterment through the use of integral work spaces

The Working Home Project seeks to create a social housing residential neighborhood that affords opportunities for financial betterment through the use of integrated workspaces. This project stems from an interest in people. How they live and interact with each other through exploring their likes and dislikes, their needs and wishes. To explore...

Small living, big cohesion: Stacked compact units for single-person households

This paper is part of a master’s degree in Architecture at Delft University of Technology. It is addressing single-person households as they are found to be the most affected group from the current state of the Dutch housing market. This forms the relevance of this study and formulates the research objective.<br/>The theoretical part describes...

Homes that Work: The Architecture for home working parents and childeren in dense cities

The research looks into the historical development of the old building type that combines live and work; what Frances Holliss (2015) states to be a ‘workhome’. The relevance and resurgence of this typology in the context of a globalized economy and informational era, causes the homebased workforce to grow rapidly. This growth has increased after...

Hybrid Working, Quality Living: Transformation of densification for live-work mixed-use neighborhood in post-pandemic office districts: Beukenhorst, Hoofddorp

“Hybrid Working, Quality Living” seizes the opportunity of the surging hybrid remote working trend to promote work style and lifestyle changes in office districts and beyond. Remote working has been developing but has never been applied on such a global scale before. Since the end of 2019, it has brought our attention back to several long...

Unlocking Urban Efficiency: The Power of Double-Use Space

Urbanisation is increasing rapidly around the world, bringing with it challenges such as energy consumption, resource depletion and social inequality. The concept of the compact city, which promotes denser settlement patterns for sustainability, has emerged as a response. However, challenges remain in the Dutch context, including land scarcity...