Messe Performance Cube: Performing Arts Center Berlin

The Messe Performance Cube, complements the cultural heart of the Messe Berlin exhibition grounds, situated next to one of the busiest transportation nodes of Berlin. It is a centre for a wide range of performing arts and stands among the global frontrunners in the field of innovative theatre experience. The Cube transcends the traditional...

Arctic Symphony

"Arctic Symphony" is an exploration into the intersection of architecture, music, dance, and the temporal dimensions of the Arctic landscape. This project, originally started as a graduation project, transcends traditional architecture by embracing the ever-changing dynamics of the Arctic environment and human interaction.<br/><br/>At the core...

Concerto Dinamico: A research towards concert hall design for the 21st-century music experience

The Binckhorst in The Hague is one of the most promising development areas of The Netherlands. Over the next years, it will continue to develop into a high density mixed-use area. Among the tabula-rasa state of Binckhorst, a Public Building will be placed in the form of a music venue. Between the orthogonal high-rise blocks, a key-project will...

The performing arts academy: a generator of human well-being

Over the last century, Rotterdam has become one of the world’s key port cities and will continue to broaden its horizons. Feijenpoort area, located in the city district Feijenoord, became one of the migrant labourers‘residential areas during this period. Since, it has been regarded as a socio-economically challenged, deteriorated and...

Hembrug, Transforming Campus North

This graduation project is about transforming Campus North on the Hembrug terrain in Zaandam as part of the studio Heritage and Architecture. Hembrug is a former military production terrain and was the logistic heart of the “Stelling of Amsterdam”. This area was left vacant since 2003, but in recent years new occupants inhabit Hembrug. The...

Designing disruption for social touch, in public spaces of merging realities: A multi-sensory model

Can a multi-sensory model of disruption be designed for shared social touch in public space of merging realities? This paper presents a multi-sensory model for disruption design for shared social touch experience in public space of merging realities. This model is based on analysis of three different artistic orchestrations performed in the...

Hosting social touch in public space of merging realities

Is human hosting essential to social touch in the public space of merging realities? This paper explores the role of hosting in art and design for mediating social touch in public space, social robotics, virtual reality and tele-matic environments. The question of whether human hosting is essential to social touch was the focus of three...

Parsifal a Game Opera: Experiential Learning in Gameful Performance Art

Richard Wagner’s Parsifal was recently rewritten and performed as a‘game opera’.We used observations, questionnaires, and interviews to study howthe 700+ audience were facilitated to experientially learn about the show’s mainthemes: compassion and collaboration. This case study contributed to ourunderstanding how performance art may improve...

NDSM Theatre: Performance driven design for a building for the performing arts

The NDSM Wharf is located on the northern shore of the IJ in Amsterdam. Reclaimed from the IJ around 1876 it came first in use in the early 1900’s. During the last century the NDSM Wharf has seen different kind of functionality but the industrial character still remains. The graduation project focuses on the future functionality of the NDSM...

Restructuring the State Farm: Ankara Performing Arts

The Gates of Europe

The Gates of Europe is a proposal for the city of Brussels to balance out the differences in the city and to improve the representation of the presence of Europe in the city. One of the buildings, the Gate of Culture, is worked out into detail. It is a Centre for Performing Arts and functions on a regional and on a local scale. It contains a...

A Cultural Project for Brussels Capital of Europe

The E.U. mission is to provide pace and stability, safety and security, but also identity and diversity in a globalized world. My research has focused in the last point. In order to understand Europe we have to understand the complexity of the different scales in which Europe is involved. From the really Global scale to the European ones, that...

'Center for Performing Arts' Interiors in Context

Interiors Graduationproject 'Center for Performing Arts' in Amsterdam NDSM wharf.

Performing Arts Factorydesign for a Centre for Performing Arts in Amsterdam-Noord

Exterior: building assimilates into location The project is located on an old shipyard, the NDSM-wharf, in the North of Amsterdam. The area is home to different artists and craftsmen who work in collaboration and inspire each other. By doing so new initiatives emerge. Subculture dominates the space and its character is a mixture of industrial...