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Thinking Through/Confronting Our Relation with Food

Master thesis (2020) - Anne de Zeeuw, Roel van de Pas, Pierre Jennen, Martijn Stellingwerff, Daan Vitner
The relations between us and food have become distorted, deviated from their origin and meaning in our daily lives. Where solutions are sought in consciousness, this research focuses on the subconscious level of our relation with food. By changing our perception of food, using architecture as a medium between us, the subject, and food, the object. By researching within a phenomenological framework, nine speculative scenarios have been made with the goal to understand how to influence the public by storytelling in writing, drawing and architecture. The question asked: How can speculative design help architecture enable a meaningful relation between us and food? Starting with understanding the distinction between object, subject, and how they are related, the search continues for architectural means to make a place that enables a change of perception. What changes this perception, is often a small trigger, a salient detail that can be highlighted in design, inviting a change in meaning of the object for the subject. An interplay of inside and outside, authenticity and inauthenticity, will allow for a change in perceiving and understanding both food and ourselves. That is how a fixed and frustrating relation with food can be abandoned, and how a meaningful relation is enabled. ...

Space Manipulation for illusion with Projection Mapping

Master thesis (2020) - Zhiyuan Li, Roel van de Pas, H.L. van der Meel, Martijn Stellingwerff, Daan Vitner
A exploration of integrating spatial augmented reality (mainly projection mapping) into space design to create spatial illusion. A method to compress the space and change audience's perception of space by mainpulation of these illusion, mainly including influence on some psychological cues of space cognition. The project is an immersive theater in Suzhou, China. ...

Renovate in-between space to convert AMC into a natural healing community

Master thesis (2019) - Cheng Zhu, Anne Snijders, Marcel Bilow, Daan Vitner
In order to meet the needs for future hospital, the AMC requires a better healing environment with nature elements. In addition, the AMC building will transform from closed medical machine to a public welcome community. My project is to renovate the in-between space of AMC by ‘Archi-Nature’, and convert it into a natural healing community. Archi-Nature means creating the sense of nature experience by using architectural language. And in my research paper, I mainly focus on structure design. For my project, I will create the sense of nature experience by architecture language. The whole intervention include three levels. First step is to create nature atmosphere by new archi-nature structure. Next is to plug in new program. Last one is to redesign the entrance thereby to increase the accessibility. With the new intervention, AMC will create a better healing environment, and it will become a more public building and make profit by the new function. ...
Master thesis (2017) - Kasia Piekarczyk, Tom Avermaete, Armina Pilav, Jan van de Voort, Daan Vitner
The concept of war abolition introduced by Krzysztof Wodiczko has attracted the attention of different scholars, and generated various reactions. Despite the affirmation of anthropologists, such as Margaret Mead and Douglas P. Fry, the project has not met with widespread acclaim from other areas, and not for lack of discussion. There are many voices that recognise the essence of the subject, however a substantial response beyond experimenting on paper has yet to emerge.
This thesis re-examines the original assumptions of the concept and raises the subject of architecture in relation to the concept of war abolition.
Assuming that the fate of people is intertwined with wars it seems crucial to understand the mechanisms and the medium of warfare, as well as our inestimable role in it.
Are there any lessons to be learned from the experience of war?
If indeed there are some, how can this knowledge be used in order to better the cities and their reconstruction in times of
peace?
To address this hypothesis it is necessary to study the transformation of the city during the war and adaptation of its inhabitants. Due to the proximity in time and space to Bosnian War, Sarajevo is a perfect case study for this examination.
This thesis investigates the untapped potential of architecture to become a platform for dissemination of the concept of war abolition and its application in Sarajevo.
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