Activating the “glass box“: The post-war International style office building’s contribution to the future densification challenges of the city centre of Rotterdam

The project “Activating the glass box” aims to find out how the existing built heritage can be not an obstacle, but the key to the comprehensive dense city of the near future. It showcases the contextual design approach and opportunities for the unlisted 50’s-60’s international style office buildings - “glass boxes”- whose potential is not yet...

Architectural Young Classics: A sustainable reuse strategy for administrative office buildings of the 1970s and 1980s

The office architecture of the 1970s and 1980s makes up a large part of Dutch office building stock, at about 30%. Most buildings are now in need of major renovation and often no longer correspond to today's aesthetic perception. In addition, the function of the buildings must be adapted to today's needs and technological standards. This is not...

Sustainable Development of High-Rise Residential Architecture from 1970-2014: Dubai Case Study on Modern Heritage

The Government of Dubai implemented Green Building Regulations & Specifications & Specifications (GBRS). In March 2014. Dubai has more than 1000 high-rise buildings in which more than 2 million residents are accommodated. However, 62% of the existing residential high-rise buildings dating from 1970-2014 do not meet the requirements of...

Staging the Abandoned: Open-air Theater Revitalization of Kale Fortress, Skopje

The project site situates at Kale Fortress, a historic archaeological site at the highest point overlooking the city of Skopje. Despite its rich cultural value and prestige location, the site has been abandoned for years since the inter-ethnic conflict between the Macedonians and Albanians in 2011 over the construction on a church-shaped museum....

动态的遗产策略：文化、经济、历史维度下的荷兰建筑遗产改造实践

The dynamic heritage strategy is an era choice to respond to the “modern monument paradox”. As a highly malleable concept, heritage, whether it is the concept itself or its related practices, has to be discussed, and criticized before recognition in a constant movement. The typical Dutch tolerant society has been facing the impact of...

Concrete Heritage!: Restauratieve benadering van ‘Monumentaal Beton’

De omschrijving ‘monumentaal beton’ duidt natuurlijk op de toepassing van beton in gebouwd erfgoed als zodanig, maar ook op de waardering van de architectonische uitdrukking van het materiaal zelf. Kortom: innerlijk of ook uiterlijk ? Dit onderscheid is van belang als het op restauratie van zulke gebouwen aankomt.

Designing from Heritage: Strategies for Conservation and Conversion

This book – the third in the Rondeltappe series – reflects the philosophy and didactic approach of Heritage and Architecture (H&A) section of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment (Delft University of Technology). H&A has three chairs: Design, Cultural Value and Technology. They work in close cooperation to lay the...

Sleeping Beauty: Heritage & Architecture

Reworked edition of the author´s Inaugural Address (June 2016).