Modern migration policies construct and control movement across borders. The paper governance of the passport, inherently tied to citizenship, dictates the mobility order. The passport emerged as a standardised and compulsory document during the 1920s, universalising a colonial-era logic that restricts human mobility based on national origins. Traditional governmental institutions reinforce these hierarchical systems.

The Ministry of Global Movement is a graduation project that seeks to shift the focus of a ministry of migration into a ministry of “global movement,” reframing a closed-off institutional typology into a hybrid model that celebrates global movement and cultural diversity. The project, supported by a postcolonial framework and adaptive reuse strategies, proposes the combination of a theatre, archive, and ministry within the existing structuralist building BZ67, which currently houses the temporary National Parliament until the Binnenhof renovation is complete.

The project proposes a reconfiguration strategy as a spatial mirror for this conceptual reframing of a ministry of migration into a ministry of global movement. It achieves this by elevating inactivated existing qualities within the repetitive, structuralist building and establishing a architectural material passport that reframes architectural elements for new use.

The final design centers around three major design interventions: the stripping of the Ministry’s façade and its enclosure within the Ministry Atrium; the multifunctional Theatre of Transformations, which reuses mined materials from the ministry; and the crowning Conservatory of Belonging, which empowers naturalisation ceremonies. This graduation project demonstrates how complex historical buildings hold immense potential for spatial reactivation, serving as an example of how a sovereign building can architecturally adapt to support plural cultural identities. ... Read more