Architecture of the skeleton: Converting the Hague’s former police station into a public mixed-use development

The graduation project proposes the transformation of the police headquarters in the Hague, into a mixed-use development, including an IT university, co-working spaces, apartments, along with a public library and other facilities that encourage the interaction between the building users and locals, forming innovative knowledge clusters across...

Transformative Reconstruction: The application of a new approach towards dilapidated or unfinished buildings in Beirut

The conflictual past of Beirut is being erased by the company of Solidere, which has a strong will to modernise, through a highly destructive reconstruction, in an effort to heal the city. With this project, a new approach is taken on, in which an old concrete structure, riddled with bullet holes, part of the great variety of dilapidated and...

Transformation by Ruination: Activation of Centro Gaitán in Bogota, Colombia

Cities are becoming places for Instagramable experiences and Disneyfication. People are moving as fast as possible to get from one place to the other. We often forget to really look and be aware of our surroundings. I believe that some parts of the city should be dedicated to a more slower, more enjoyable, experimental way of moving through and...

Redefining Centraal Beheer: A Montessori Education Center

This project seeks to give new purpose to the Centraal Beheer building in Apeldoorn, designed by Herman Hertzberger, by introducing a new Montessori Education program, containing a Primary School and Secondary School. Through interventions this design aims to redefine the spatial structure of Centraal Beheer, to create a well functioning...

Living in Retail: The search for possibilities to transform existing retail into living

The functioning of a shopping area in the city centre is often determined by the amount of vacant square meters of retail space. The Netherlands is experiencing a strong increase of vacant shops. With the project called Living in Retail is tried to give a new interpretation for the current rise of retail vacancy in historical inner cities in the...

'Food For Thought'

The DGS will be transformed into a culinary educational center. This center is place for the school childern (and neighbors) to share their passion for farming and cooking with others. The culinary center will contribute to the awareness of pure and healthy food.

The Intervention of the Faculty of Art at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi

The interesting thing about art is that it bonds people, no mather where you come from or who you are. Fore that reason and also because my own interest in art, I’ve tried to learn things about Kumasi via art. Especially crafts are an important heritage for Kumasi. Art is an instrument to express yourself, it’s good for the self-esteem of...