Infrastructure and transformation - Stitching Fragments

The hybrid knowledge center, Rotterdam

A design solution for an urban block in the center of Rotterdam

CoCuReSp Center

The focus of the research differs from the smaller scale that shows the urban artifacts and how they would produce or reduce a quality of space to the larger scale that is the Rotterdam center and how it works in different times of the days, seasons and years.

The public mezzanine: Performing arts theatre Rotterdam

The design refers both to a masterplan that used a bottom-up strategy by analyzing the street level and the 1762 publication Campo Marzio of Giovanni Battista Piranesi. The long narrow plot results in a redefinition of the typical theatre plan and incorporates a transition from a highly public square via an lesser public foyer/theatre to a...

Stacking Diversities in Rotterdam

This is my graduation design for the Public Realm studio Rotterdam. Rotterdam city centre lacks a clear identity of its own, compared to other dutch cities. To give Rotterdam a strong identity, and connect the existing fragmented identities, this design is proposed. On this location in the city centre the diversities of Rotterdam, and their...

In search for balance in contrasts: graduation project for a designcentre in Rotterdam

There is no Rotterdam identity. Rotterdam has characterizations that everybody can sense namely the big contrasts in Rotterdam. Contrasts originated from top-down-planning of urban renewal projects due to the bombardment in WOI. In my opinion people need these contrasts, to adapt themselves to the changes that are occurring at the moment, to...