Interiority and the Conditions of Interior

Interiority pertains to the individual’s inner life, rich and set in opposition to the pressures of the world. This interiority has been allied with notions of the exclusive space or refuge of the interior. As a realm of privacy and subjectivity, of projections and receptions, the interior has come to be considered as a realm that, although...

The Place of Work: A public office in The Hague

In our graduation studio The Place of Work, we’re examining an office building designed by Jan Hoogstad in the center of The Hague. This office building was built in 1991 for the Ministry of VROM (Housing, Spatial planning and Environment) and has to be transformed to house the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Infrastructure and...

New direction of public interior: The reconstruction of the VROM project

This is a project of interior studio. My attitude is change the object in a slight way while change the subject essentially. Specifically, the object means the existing building and the subject means the way how people use the building, and the inside and outside atmosphere. This project has its value in terms of public realm, social context and...

The Place of Work

The project explores the future of the place of work in the city, dealing with the possibility of reimagining representative and governmental functions through architecture, while improving the experience of office workers with the space. The design assignment deals with the redesign of an existing building in The Hague. The renovated building...

Renewal of Rijnstraat 8

Reconsideration of NS Station Amsterdam Zuid: Proposal for 'a mused´ Parnassusweg

Graduation studio New directions for the Public Interior (2013/2014) is concerned with NS Station Amsterdam Zuid as a major and infrastructural node. While the main entrance of the station is mainly focused on businesspeople and corporate Zuidas, the Parnassusweg entrance gives stage to the other users of Zuidas: to VU students, residents and...

Amsterdam Zuidas_Gate Wall

Amsterdam Zuidas is a business district located in the south part of Amstedam. The graduation studio Public Interior focuses on improving the interior atmosphere of a public space, as a place where people gather together and consume. The project is a urban infrastructure, a landscape mark and an interior design for Zuidas, making it a more...

Public Interior

Amsterdam Zuid Station: Place of transitional moments of life

Transition Transition is to me the essence of Amsterdam Zuid Station. Transition between the station and its surroundings, between the Mahlerplein and Zuidplein. People living, people arriving, people just passing by people staying Train stations lead us from a place to another, becoming an important medium not only on an infrastructural level...

The Culture of Care: A medical rehabilitation centre in Amsterdam

The master thesis ‘The Culture of Care: A medical rehabilitation centre in Amsterdam’ explores the possibilities of the public interior of this particular institution. Searching for a renewed interpretation of medical buildings and their relationship with the city within the current debate on healthcare.