Urban Plateau

A maritime metropolis that acts as a gateway from which elements from all over the world can enter and mix, resulting in a repository of a large set of heterogeneous entities; Marseille is a knot of flows and fluxes intensifying and manifesting in an assemblage of entities that are products of continuous historical processes. It is a platform of...

THE JUNKSPACE MONUMENT, An ode to monsters and parking lots: An empowering network of urban interventions in Rotterdam

Facing the neo-liberalisation of the city, "the furtive monument" is a path across the city, combining programs of the body, the mind and the politics, in order to reach a state of empowerment. Based on a situationist drift, architectural interventions transform the way the city of Rotterdam is experienced, not based on profit but based on...

Life between stores: A redesign based on the current use of public spaces to reactivate the everyday life of Winkelcentrum Leyweg in The Hague

Post-war shopping malls in the Netherlands are becoming increasingly vacant, which is reflected in the level of activity of the public spaces. These retail-oriented places are becoming less visited as the main reason to come here disappears. This presents a challenge in a compact and densely populated country with a high space demand. With the...

The impact of interventions in the built environment on physical activity levels: a systematic umbrella review

Physical activity is good for people’s health. The relationship between the built environment and physical activity has been well documented. However, evidence is both scarce and scattered on specific urban interventions, i.e., intentional redesigns of the built environment that promote physical activity accompanied by pre- and post-effect...

Bricolage of Time and Space: A journey trough the transformation of The Molenpoort

Nijmegen, known as the oldest city in the Netherlands, shows many periods and events in history in its architecture. Ruins, walls and contrasts of styles are proof of events that had shaped the city as we can see it today. In the borders of the centre, The Molenpoort, a hybrid between a shopping mall and a passage that was before a place of...

A Playground for Skopje: A Tension Between Freedom and Constraints

The graduation project is a playground in and around the former Post Office of Skopje which is composed of three main elements. Firstly, the terrain of the complex is divided into four main fields, which vary from their immediate surroundings towards the city. Furthermore, the element of the bridge, which grows with its tentacles into these...

Introducing Affordances through the carpeting of public spaces: Affordances as a tool for stimulating curiosity and exploration within our built environment

Public spaces are the places where people come together in the physical environment. They are precious as they have in them the possibility of bringing together people with different cultures and backgrounds. In some cases, however these important spots within our cities are not designed to maximize their capacity for human exploration. As seen...

From Object to Field: an extension of Skopje's bazaar

Cities can be investigated as machines of optimal form, function and production. With this kind of abstraction the architect can forget the social content of the city. Skopje, the capital city of North-Macedonia, has both busy social spaces as empty areas. This project is a proposal to reintegrate the social component into a complex and formal...

[Untitled]: re-establishing urban dialogues in complex cityscapes

My graduation project [Untitled] re-establishing urban dialogues in complex cityscapes, investigates the impact of qualitative public spaces in disorienting urban contexts. Taking as a case study Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, the research understands the noise that characterises fragmented cities not strictly in terms of acoustic...

Fab-lab Sloterdijk: Customized architecture through digital making

The concept of Fab-lab Sloterdijk is based on increasing the porosity of the border condition of the highway A10, which aims at vitalizing the Ringzone for future economic development of Amsterdam, and empowering the people with tools to make their life. To stitch the disconnection between Amsterdam’s go-to and no-go areas, the design envisions...

Reactivation of the Berkel River Side: Hospitality institute along the Berkel

A transformation of the building complex Dullaert & C&A  along the Overwelving in Zutphen. Through architectural interventions the aim was to create a design that improves the meeting of different connections and traffic flows, and brings back the identity and purpose of the Overwelving within the city. The new intervention and...

Design of the New Guest House

The design of the new guest house aims to create a healthy environment for elderly people inside the city environment. It has not only intimate living environment, but also has a strong connection with the city.

The City Crater

This thesis constructs a theory of urban intervention based on banality, functionality and perception. It provides an example of The Hague Central Station, by placing a fresh, sharp, and plain volume in the existing, complicated, heterogeneous field, therefore forming an illogical, anti-functional demarcation and differentiation of the territory...

The Barack Obama Presidential Center

The project starts with an urban intervention and will be later on reduced to a single architectural intervention. Therefore the new intervention needs to fit into the master plan well and should support it on every face of the whole development. An understanding of phasing, time planning and developing tools needs to be provided. The center...

Generic Environments as the Response to the Need of Changeability in Architecture: Urban Intervention in Hong Kong

Are built environments generic because of the need for changeability (flexibility)? That was the key question of the hypothetical assignment presented. Project uses the design tools of generic buildings – embedded into a grid, typical plans or systemized massing of volumes – to support specific identity of Hong Kong as leading city. The chosen...

Urban Entrails: Intervention in Liverpool

In the research of the territory of Liverpool, the in-between and Manchester an artefact of the Industrial Revolution appeared. The tunnels of Liverpool (the artefact) have been re-activated by the implementation of a series of interventions. These underground structures, each formed by a specific structural and spatial pattern, have the ability...

From urban barrier to urban connector: How to intervene to dissolve the existing barrier of the former military base

After the Truce agreement following the Korean War (6.25.1950), Seoul, the capital of Korea has brought boasting of the rapid development with abundant human resources. It expanded to the point where Seoul houses 40% of the nation?s entire population. This gives the competi¬tiveness of Korea but at the same time, it has taken place at a rate...