An Urban Narrative: Winkelcentrum Leyweg as community experience

The present graduation project entails the heritage re-design of a shopping center, specifically Winkelcentrum Leyweg in the Hague Southwest. The project aims to investigate a potential sustainable future for the shopping center that would be mainly based on one of its heritage aspects. This aspect was the spatial coherence with its urban...

A strategy for district shopping centers in transition

Retail is in transition. District shopping centers have a hard time. Rapid developments in technology and the increasing influence of a new generation, are fundamentally changing retail in all it’s appearances. Shopping Center Schalkwijk is one of these centers that is facing a problematic future. A lot of retail areas in the Netherlands are in...

Spatial transformation // from public to collective space //

Graduation Project at studio Border Conditions. A research on the human perception towards the awareness to its surrounding. In direct combination with the informal (post-Soviet) commercial developments and Western influences of commerce. This results to a complex shopping center in Odessa, Ukraine. Creating unique spaces for informal,...

projectARMADILLO

A design for a building spanning the A4 highway at the Prins Clausplein, The Hague.

Shopping center management market: A comparative analyses of Portugal, Netherlands and Poland

A key factor in making a shopping center a success, one that should be considered from the start of the development, is the management. The shopping center management is responsible for carrying out the concept of the shopping center and adjusting it, if necessary, to the needs of changing society. The internationalisation and strong shopping...