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C.N. van Leest

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Biowound

Design of a Biofiber Research Laboratory

Rhythms of Renewal

Exploring Material Cycles in Regenerative Architecture

This graduation report explains and illustrates the graduation project of Simone Hermans, entitled De Wadloper. The graduation project is part of the Technologies & Aesthetics graduation studio, a studio of the Form Studies chair. The graduation report consists of three parts ...

WaterWise

Building a community with knowledge on water

The Workspace 2050

Between virtual and real

The aim of the thesis is to research how the workspace typology could change in distant future of 2050 in Amsterdam under the influence of immersive technologies, such as Virtual and Augmented reality. Such aspects as influence of technologies on company structures, space organiz ...

Back to Reality

The Facebook Hall

Problem statement - We are currently living in an individualized western society, connected virtually but disconnected physically with one another. Communication technology is one of the main causes of loneliness which has serious health consequences. There is a decline in public ...

Cloud

Private depository for particular information

The Urban Manufactory

From the Post-Industrial City to the Productive City

Amsterdam has become a city predominantly focused on consumers. Makers and user are drifting away from each other, which results in environmental pressure, mental disconnection from the production process and loss of the potentialities provided by the urban environment. Recen ...

The Immobile City

Revival of Havana's public transportation system

The almost sixty year Castro regime has driven the island of Cuba into isolation. Infrastructure on the island fully relies on the nation own capacity and since the special period like everything else this is in an overall state of decline. The ongoing neglected state of Cuba's i ...

The Exile Returns

Bacardi's Cuban Headquarters

Cuba has been reluctant to engage and follow global developments in the past decades. Even in comparison to other socialist economic nations, Cuba has retained a strong focus on domestic political doctrine, leaving economics to bureaucratic decision making. But as its monotonous ...

Architecture of Power

A political landmark for a post-totalitarian Cuba