Reviving Memory: through displacement, slowness and repetition: Contemporary Ommelanderhuis

This project focuses on the architect’s attitude performing in non-urban landscapes. As a case study the landscape of the Reitdiep river in Groningen (NL) has been intensely researched. Here, a strong interaction between myself and the physical landscape has been informing the design process. Through defining characteristics of the landscapes by...

Anecdote: sensory experience

Almost every minute of the day, the individual has to deal with impulses / influences / triggers from society. Received through its sensory organs and processed by its personal perception based on its genotype and phenotype. As time progresses, events take place. Some are personal, small scale events while others have a wider impact and become...

Understanding how multi-sensory spatial experience influences atmosphere, affective city image and behavioural intention

This article firstly emphasizes the perspective viewing public spaces as places where meaningful spatial quality, i.e., atmosphere, is generated through multi-sensory spatial experiences, secondly proves that atmosphere has a positive direct impact on affective city image, also a positive indirect impact on behavioural intention, and finally...

Enabling Positive Moments to People in the Last Stages of Dementia: A personalized approach to multi sensory experiences

The aim of this thesis was to enable people in the last stage of dementia, that are confined to their bed or room, and the people around them with shared positive moments. In order to design an experimental concept proposal that could accomplish that aim, the emotional needs of people living with dementia and the people around them were explored...

Places for Freedom: revalue of unfinished landscapes through architectural structures

The research and graduation project are about the revalue of unfinished, abandoned landscapes through architectural structures. Nowadays it is almost rare to find places and landscapes in cities that have no function, are left behind or not taken care of. Even in the city of Rotterdam, which is less dense than Amsterdam, every square meter is...

The (Re)Valuation of Landscape through Architecture: Learning from the Norwegian Way of Living, Applying it to the Dutch Polder

In an ongoing movement of urbanization, life seems to mostly happen in planned environments while the untouched part of the world sometimes seems to be disconnected from people’s lives. These landscapes can only be fully understood and valued by a physical, sensory experience of it, not by looking at 2D representations. What defines a person’s...

Revived beauty: Research into aesthetic appreciation of materials to valorise materials fromwaste

The use of materials derived from waste is one of the prominent ways to contribute to sustainable product design. However, there is a stark gap in literature concerning how people appraise such materials. In this paper, we present our initial attempts to understand the aesthetic appreciation of materials, in particular those derived from...