Antwerp Unearthed: The capacity of the historic canal network beneath Antwerp in mediating future urgencies for environmental and social infrastructures.

The performance of a city is dependent on the performance of its infrastructure. As a result, the surface-level world is inseparable from the subsurface world. However, cities around the world are facing a shortage of available space both aboveground and belowground. The existing urban fabric has over time become unfit for the addition of new...

A clearing amidst movement

Traffic square and station Marconiplein, the project site, has become a cacophony of highly controlled and isolated traffic domains which one wants to passage and exit as quickly as possible. Like many other metrostation in Rotterdam the passage of time dominates the passage of place and the notion of the station as real-estate prevails over it...

Los Angeles: The metropolis and five stages of modernity

‘the metropolis and five stages of modernity’ is an explorative research on contemporary ecologies and the historic (re)-emergence of public domain, infrastructure and urban form in Los Angeles

Restructuring South Arch, Rotterdam" - Waterfront regeneration: Combating segregation in cities by urban renewal

The Core concern of this Research and Design Project is, to understand the current scenario of Socio-Spatial Segregation in cities, the problems rising due to it , general deterioration of living conditions in poor urban neighbourhoods, and how a good Waterfront can act as a CATALYST for the future growth and improvement of quality of life in...