Urban Lounge: The Recovery of Social-Spatial Cohesion

Focusing on the renewal, regeneration, and reinvention of spaces in the historic centre of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, this study investigates the impact that public space has on the formation of social unity, based on established practices of behaviour and appropriation. Furthermore, this research was developed within a specific framework for...

The Health Factory

The Health Factory is a health complex with sports facilities, healthy food options and a medical center that focusses on serving workers in the neighborhood. More than a third of all U.S. residents are obese, and this number has been increasing over the past three decades. Americans eat unhealthy and do not get enough exercise. Although there...

CCAM (Chicago Cluster of Advanced Manufacturing)

Urban strategy, masterplan and building design for a revitalisation of the manufacturing industry in Chicago in times of transition towards advanced manufacturing.

Urban strategies and post-event legacy: The case of summer Olympic cities

Mega-event strategies and their impact on host cities have drawn increasing interest, as organising large-scale urban events has become part of a deliberate urban policy strategy to promote local economic growth, improve the city image and put the host city on the world agenda. Most cities stressed exploring city marketing and reimaging effect...

Public space not for sale! A public space regeneration strategy, aiming to balance the socio-cultural development and strengthen the identity of the city of Sofia.

The thesis is exploring the relation between 3 main elements, identified within the urban environment of the city of Sofia: the processes resulting from the political change in 1989, the unexploited cultural heritage and the ability of public space to regenerate urbanity. The project exploits the relation between those elements while finding a...

I solemnly pledge to public space - dualities in contemporary public space developments, applied in Brussels' European Quarter.

The european quarter in Brussels has become a monofunctional office district since the rapid development of the European Union in the second half of the twentieth century. Uncontrolled office expansion has led to a district characterised by the monotony of glass closed office blocks, empty streets and large infrastructure. This project is a...

Environmental perspectives on aeromobility and the development of experience spaces

In recent years a number of small and medium-sized European cities, which have a provincial airport located relatively close to the city invested in making cities to “experience destinations”. Several provincial airports and airlines – especially low-cost airlines – have seen an advantage in this strategy and used it as an essential part of...