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R.R.J. van de Pas

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Architecture as facilitating agent

Exploring architecture’s position in spatial relationships through festival spaces

The main aim of this thesis is to investigate the role and relevance that architecture has (and can have) in facilitating the spatial production of festival spaces. It aims to demonstrate that festival spaces serve as ideal locations for experimenting with spatial relationships a ...

Wool in Architecture

The Aesthetic value

Due to the practicality and inexpensive nature of synthetics, large quantities of wool are going
to waste. One practical application to avoid such waste could be in architecture, as wool has
been established as a durable material that offers protection against the element ...

The Contemporary Pilgrimage

The case of Elephanta Island

The research explores the impact of rapid infrastructural growth on Elephanta island and the informal economy that exists there. Located at the intersection of heritage, mass tourism, and sacred architecture.

Post-Military Landscapes

Future and Transformation of Masaryk Barracks in Pardubice

The thesis Post-Military Landscapes explores the adaptive reuse of a former military compound in Pardubice, Czechia. The site is examined through the lenses of its past, present, and potential future to uncover its values, assess its cultural significance, and articulate the rati ...

Grochowska Row Revival

A system for bio-based futureproofing of Polish inter-war tenement housing

Europe needs to redefine the way architecture is being built, and also, more importantly, renovated. That is the case also for Poland, with a large stock of degraded housing.
This research explores the potential of bio-based materials and strategies in retrofitting Polish int ...

The Song of the Architect

Synaesthetic Hofstediography

This project explores the intersection of vocal expression, architecture, and AI to create personalized, expressive architectural designs that translate the unique vocal patterns of individuals into geometric and spatial forms. By combining spectrography, systemic analysis, and p ...

No Man's Land: Exploring Spaces for Everyone

Spatial Experience Reimagined: An Inclusive and Adaptable Multidimensional Approach to Architecture

This research explores how architecture can cultivate open spatial conditions that promote equal opportunities and foster new connections. Through a multidimensional approach, the study investigates the complex relationship between social and physical space, highlighting the infl ...

Meahcci - A Sámi home for practice in the city

A study on using values to design for the unfamiliar

In a world full of consumerism, climate change, and capitalism, we face a crisis in how we relate to the world around us. Indigenous values offer a new way forward. This graduation project responds to the task laid out for practitioners to include Indigenous values in the practic ...

Somewhere In Between

New Prototype Concept of Future Cemetery

As urban space becomes increasingly tight and compressed, cemeteries have slowly withdrawn from our daily lives from the highly open public spaces in history. If cemeteries remain as they are, they may become completely inaccessible in the future, leaving people without a common ...

The voice of the water

Searching for the Sublime in the Biesbosch

This thesis explores the relationship between architecture and water in the Netherlands, focusing on how architecture can enhance the sublime experience of water in the Biesbosch. The concluding words of H. Marsman’s poem “Memory of Holland” – "And in all the regions, the voice o ...

ARCH POP

Fashion as a catalyst for architectural innovation

In the pragmatic arena of architecture, where the foundation is laid in the tangible and the functional, a profound shift is underway—a shift that beckons architects to transcend the boundaries of practicality and engage with the ephemeral, speculative, and culturally resonant fa ...

Tr(e)ashure Island

Reevaluating and Rethinking Relationship With Waste

1.7 Earths currently, 3 in the next decade.
That is the worth of resources that we are using yearly, and the estimated doubling of it,
by the end of the following decade. Two-thirds out of all those extracted resources end up as waste.
It’s kind of ironic and parad ...

The Quaker Project at Brigflatts

Re-activating a spiritually significant site in the Yorkshire Dales

For several decades, architectural theorists have argued that there is a loss of meaning in architecture, caused by an over-emphasis on scientific thinking and the devaluing of poetic practices. Some theorists have presented ways to return meaning to architecture: Juhani Pallasma ...

Enter the Symbiocene

Transforming a post-war apartment typology to create a symbiocene attitude of residents

This project in Rotterdam, centered on the Meent, represents a new beginning for revitalizing the city with a Symbiocene mindset through architectural design. As urban populations grow, biodiversity declines and technology advances exponentially, it's imperative to address how we ...

Losing Grip

Urban friction and defamiliarisation as productive architectural force

Contrary to human tendency to hypostasise and stabilise as a means of navigating the chaotic forces of this world, it is reconfiguration through perpetual destabilisation that allows one to grow, transform and venture into novelty. The process of defamiliarisation, by which one d ...

Where systems meet

A transformation to cohousing in Hoptille, Amsterdam

Hoptille in the South-East of Amsterdam was created to foster a sense of human-scale architecture amongst the high-rise manifestation that was the Bijlmermeer project. Fourty years later this neighborhood still exists as a modest yet dense neighborhood flanked by an increasingly ...

Moving Atmospheres

Placing the sensing body at the centre of spatial design (research)

Moving Atmospheres explores the intricate relationship between spatial design and human experience, advocating for an embodied approach to architectural practice. Through a phenomenological lens and experimental approach using personal experiences, the study investigates the nexu ...
This thesis is concerned with the search and exploration of Juxtaposed Interiors - a form of Public Interior, however localized in the exterior. It seeks and finds in it the theme of Care, which it further develops in both Theory and Design. It represents a protest against the e ...