The meanings of materials: A Phenomenological Study on the Influence of Materials on the Experience of Architecture Aimed to Address the Feeling of Alienation towards the Modern Built Environment

By establishing a phenomenological frame, this research paper demonstrates that the feeling of alienation towards the modern built environment originates from the failure of this built environment to allow man to identify himself with his own human condition, abstract ideas and natural environment. The study focuses on materials as primary...

Architectuur in overgang

<br/>In dit afstudeerproject wordt de architectuur benaderd als een proces. <br/><br/>Als onderdeel van de wereld. <br/>Als iets dat in overgang is. <br/>Aan constante verandering onderhevig. <br/><br/>Aan invloeden van buitenaf, <br/>aan weer en wind, <br/>aan de mens.<br/><br/>De mens die middels zijn handelen de wereld om hem heen vorm geeft....

KeramiekFabriek: Design for a ceramics centre in Maastricht

The thesis, consisting of a design for a ceramics centre in Maastricht, deals with two main themes: the urban institution and the local use of natural stone. Architectural research focuses on (in)formality and visual perception of historical domestic façades in Maastricht featuring natural stone. The results of this study are used as a design...

A Ferryman who Stutters: From the Architectural Subject to an Architecture of Subjectivation

Designerly Visualisation: Conceptions, Methods, Models, Perceptions

If we wish to reach a deeper, more objective understanding of the phenomena of Architectural and Environmental Design, we need to develop and apply working methods that allow us to imaginatively analyse and consequently envision the formal issues which are at (inter)play: demonstrating their workings and effects in the ‘Real World’. First of all...

The experience of cancer: Research and design for the oncological center

In collaboration with the Netherlands Cancer Institute/ Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital (NKI-AVL), research was done on the experience of cancer patients within their hospital environment. Questioning what were the feelings, emotions, thoughts patients have in relation to the (built) environment. Out of this research which consisted of a...

Terug naar de basis: Belevingsgericht bouwen voor mensen met dementie. Back to basics: emotion-oriented building for people with dementia.

These documents contain a research and a design for a health care institute for people with dementia and the graduation presentation. The research has been done with literature, interviews and case studies in three existing health care institutes in the Netherlands. The research can be used as a guideline for designers who want to build a...

Technology as in-between

This commentary on Søren Riis’s paper “Dwelling in-betweenwalls” starts from a position of solidarity with its attempt to build a postphenomenological perspective on architecture and the built environment. It proposes however that a clearer view of a technological structure of experience may be obtained by finding technological-perceptual wholes...