Regenerating Moerwijk: Constructing a framework for regeneration to improve community life and the public realm in Moerwijk

This graduation project searches for a framework for regeneration that integrates several core themes to bring about more social interaction in a post-war neighborhood like Moerwijk while at the same time densifying it. The result of the research is a constructed pattern language. The pattern language forms the basis of the framework for...

Bridging Diversities

Bridging diversities is a research and design project about the correlation of social and spatial diversities in an urban public space: The Rembrandt park in Amsterdam. This project brings together the physical diversity of the park with the diversity of its users and questions the compatibility of both.<br/><br/>The topic of diversities and in...

Living solo in Rotterdam: Improving the living quality of one person households by urban interventions

The amount of one person households is rapidly growing in the Netherlands. Unfortunately solo dwellers are still disadvantaged, stigmatised and forgotten in urban design since society expects them to be in a relationship. This is exemplified by the focus on families and couples in cities and housing developments. As a result there is a lack of...

My immigrant neighbour. Social interaction and public spaces in multicultural neighbourhoods

Research about how can public spaces facilitate interaction between people with different cultural backgrounds. The study area is Tetuán district in Madrid, Spain.

A Network to Network: Creating a system of places, integrated into the urban network, that supports inhabitants in their everyday lives and stimulates the integration of the migrant population. The case of Shenzhen, China

Lower class migrants in Shenzhen are facing socio-spatial segregation, which limits the opportunities for them to improve their living situation. Currently the Shenzhen government does not actively address to this issue. This project offers an alternative approach on migrant integration and the redevelopment of urban villages, aimed at the use...

Open Barrier

Space, in a way, is a limitless formation. The specification of a space is derived with the user’s interaction density. In order to clarify the interaction, it is possible to mention it as: Mutual activities of the users in the environment Individual reaction of the user to the environment Barrier is an obstacle that prevents a person to see,...