The Remembered City: towards reclaiming a collective ground within Vienna’s inner city

Based in Vienna, Austria, the project deals with the possibilities a new type of public interior has for a gradually flattened historic city centre, concentrating on the role of derelict spaces such as abandoned shop spaces, aggressively demolished building plots or undervalued topographies in this instance an underground car parking have once...

A walled garden in Brussels: Ambiguity as the foundation for coexistence in the European quarter in Brussels

"Brussels was never destroyed by the wars, but rather by its own people" these words of Victor Bourgouis show the destructive vision of social and cultural spaces in Brussels. The city's vision of urban development is based on top-down politics, fed by the desire to be modern. This affection leads to the non-identification and displacement of...

Rethinking a Parking Garage: The City Hotel

The City Hotel is a building/landscape that is fruit of a re-adaptation of the Q-Park Bijenkorf in Amsterdam. It aims to be a place for Amsterdammers, small local businesses and tourists that acts as a community center for all. The building can be appropriated by its users and hosts many different functions under one roof. It does not only give,...

Google Europe Campus: A working - living innovation district

This is a complex project focused on combing a working and living environment for the employees of a tech company located in Amsterdam at the former Apple Market. The design redevelops an existing, underutilized parking garage and the adjacent waterfront to create an innovation district integrated within the urban fabric, with special attention...

Omval Area, linking city fragments trough subtle architectural interventions

The defined project location is strongly delimited by different infrastructures. The first limiting factor is the two railway and metro lines, which are on approximately five meters high overpasses cutting the site from north to south. Secondly there is a main road that wraps around the eastern and northern border of the site. And finally the...

Back to the Zaan, regeneration of industrial area of kogerveld

Urban densification assignement within the direct context of the railway station Zaandam Kogerveld

Constructing a parking garage underneath historical city canals - a case study

Typical Dutch historical city centres are characterised by the presence of canals. Due to increasing demands on public space, these canals make promising locations for the construction of large underground spaces, such as parking garages. There are no significant buildings overhead and they are often situated close to their target users. My...