Local Hero: Rethinking Urban Transformation towards a Local Micro-Economy

The optimization of ASML's Training Center regarding efficiency and effectiveness

The objective of this project is to develop a suitable design proposal for the future context of ASML’s Training Center, substantiated by research and stakeholder input. Since training demand will increase also with the introduction of new systems, the company entails the creation of a product that will support this dynamic environment by...

De Erkenningsmethode: Creating realistic assumptions about the mental capacity of residents

Project Motivation<br/>In 2013, Dutch politicians longed for more rigorous actions against fraudulent applications for financial support. They were all done with residents taking advantage of the system and decided to adopt an all-or-nothing approach. Child support applications would be assessed thoroughly and mercilessly. Consequently, that...

Inhabiting the Uninhabitable: Post-nuclear Cofrentes, 2056: The reality we might live to see

In a future scenario where nuclear energy has been the globally accepted solution to solve the energy crisis, an accident happening in the year 2056 obliterates any hopes for humanity's future on the surface of the Earth. <br/>This graduation project narrates an evolutionary exploration of unconventional ways of living in a post-apocalyptic...

Bio Cyber Physical Architecture: Use of Computational methods in Ecological buildings and Landscapes

The world around us is rapidly changing and evolving. In a new report by the World green structure committee, the building and development industry are liable for 38.8% of all CO2 emissions internationally, with operational outflows (from energy used to warmth, cool and light structures) representing 28%. Our designed structures depend upon many...

Synergising Architecture: Integrating Food System Processes with Urban Functions Towards Liveable and Sustainable Agri-Food Business Parks in Westland

Food has played an important role in shaping our metropolitan regions, such as Westland in South Holland, The Netherlands. The industrialisation and globalisation of agriculture in Westland has prioritised economy and efficiency, creating issues of liveability and sustainability. The market-driven expansion of the agri-food industry has...

Healthscapes: Meating in the middle

The future poses a major problem of feeding 9 billion people by 2050, while the current system of agriculture in itself is unsustainable and demands resources which exceed the planetary boundaries. Further continuing this trend of exploitation and destruction of ecology will only worsen the planetary stresses the Anthropocene has established....

Rethinking Future Living: A Blueprint for Action

Today, our world is in crisis. No single part of the world can withstand the destructive effects of climate change. So it’s time for action! Rethinking the future presents a blueprint for a new way of life that maximizes the density of a city while creating the highest quality of life for it’s citizens. A new way of life with the smallest carbon...

Architecture of Anticipation

This design project explores the local values and mentality of the inhabitants of the French village Embres-et-Castelmaure, and the contrasting perspectives of the village by tourists, immigrants and temporary workers. There is an intriguing theoretical duality between fundamental and superficial cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitanism being described...

Autonomous Oosterwold: Exploring the land-use, environmental impact and environmental risks of local essential service provision on different levels of autonomy

Essential service systems, such as energy provision and wastewater treatment, are important elements within spatial planning as they cater the most fundamental needs of the built environment. The recent rise in decentralized or local systems compared to the common centralized approach have left spatial planners with a dilemma: on which scale...

WeGrowCo: an open-building strategy

WeGrowCo, reintroduced the open-building ideology of John Habraken and Frans van der Werf within the organic design proces of a new neighborhood at Strandeiland, Ijburg. WeGrowCo proves that open-building has a large potential to grow, make and build adaptable and self-sufficient neighborhoods together with inhabitants. Before buildings are...

Redesign Disaster: Water and Energy Hub

This graduation project has the goal to improve the living conditions of rural African communities by showing them how to construct off-grid, self-sufficient, and what is most important affordable clean water, energy, and sanitation system. I believe it can be easily adapted by communities of poor regions. Those communities struggle with poor...

Spatial Development in a Post-Capitalistic Economy: A Contingency Plan for Leipzig and its Region

This research and design thesis addresses the transition towards a post-capitalistic economy and explores a corresponding spatial development perspective for Leipzig (Germany) and its hinterland. The starting point of this project is the theoretical assumption that there is a mutual relation between spatial and economic development. <br/>From...

A self-sufficient group of dune houses

United Nations Headquarters of Sustainability

The design of a new self sufficient headquarters for the sustainability department of the united Nations on the United Nations' Plot in New York.