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S. Lee
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Architecture Forensic Research Institute
Tilde(~) - Forensic Research Institute aims to question the role of architecture in the field of dialectical perception.
In this project theoretical framework is formulated as a doubling of two different philosophical schools of thought: epistemology and phenomenology. They con
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Bau(m) Berlin
Making the Future Commons, Making Connections, Making Things
This project takes place in Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany and presents the design of a Public Condenser along the Straße der Pariser Kommune named ’Bau(m) Berlin’. The project is part of the Public Building Graduation Studio and looks into the topic of designing a ’new urban lo
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Urban Interface
A museum of new media art for social stimulation and interaction
The term interface is commonly known as a device or program enabling man to use machine, and mainly associated with relationship between users and computer. Generally it means a point where two systems, subjects, organization, etc. meet and interact. A good interface would effect
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Rave Spaces
Designing for interpretation
Following the ideologies of club cultural communities, which finds abandoned space throughout the city and gives it new meaning by transforming it into spaces which hosts different activities for creative communities, this projects attempts to design a building with no meaning in
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Extend the tune
Designing a durable music venue
The municipality of The Hague is currently redeveloping Binckhorst from industrial area to a high-rise mixed function area. The drastic redevelopment of this area is causing the loss of numerous reuseable materials and buildings. This is worrisome, given the need to improve the s
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HangARTs museum: a Museosystem
Where artist, curator, and audience come together
HangARTs museum, situated in Rotterdam Zuid at the quay of Maashaven, is the new art museum of Rotterdam. Here, the visitors are audience without needing to enter the building. The public space that the museum provides has public art for passers-by to admire. Even if your origina
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Gastronomic Architecture
Towards a diverse food space in Friedrichshain
My project starts from the city Berlin. After visiting the site in Friedrichshain, I found that people who lived there were not satisfied with the food-eating space nearby throughout my interviews. They said that even though there were some restaurants, the community was lack of
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Space of Seam: Straddling architecture
The Architecture of Suspension
Seam like spaces is expanding extensively and overlapping with other entities repetitiously.
The seam is a spatial concept that it does exist; however it never reveals its physical properties: rather the seam straddles complexities, and involves itself in other objects convergin
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Cuts as Pieces of Architecture
Training School for Parkour
Neglected and abandoned places in the contemporary city are typically understood as negative, problematic issues followed by a tendency of straight-forward architectural solutions. Considering such places as a result of accumulating city processes and conceptualizing them as ”cut
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Museum Zuid - connecting culture through multifunctional design
A research to the design of a multifunctional urban waterfront with a cultural function
The ultimate aim of this research is to create a theoretical framework for the design of a multifunctional cultural waterfront on the edge of the Tarwewijk in Rotterdam South. From this follows the main research question: How can the regeneration of a waterfront into a cultural a
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Karree
Public condenser for social inclusivity in Friedrichshain, Berlin
Gentrification is a controversial process where lower-income neighborhoods are transformed into affluent areas through the arrival of higher-income residents and development efforts. Friedrichshain in Berlin serves as a prominent example of this phenomenon. Since the 1990s, the n
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(Re)Mind the Wall
Designing a circular Creative Commune for the people of Berlin
(Re)Mind the Wall is an architectural critique on the current function/position of the East-side Gallery in Berlin, Germany. What once paid tribute to the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 has now eroded itself into a manicured and appropriated tourist hotspot in the city. While th
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Cracks in the language of architecture
An anti-architectural manifesto
ASSUMPTIONS
Still quite far away from visiting the city of interest, Bucharest, a model was the means to subsume personal stories I heard from friends, media reports and interviews as well as resulting subjective expectations on the trip. At the same time it led to the assumptio
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Entangled
The Synsesthetic Art Museum
Exhibitions and collections of art museums mostly consists of visual art. When we talk about “contemporary art” museums, people immediately think about paintings, photographs and sculptures: visual arts. Monet’s, Van Gogh’s and Picasso’s paintings, photographs of William Klein, s
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Straatkunst
Institutionalizing Street Art
In the South of Rotterdam there is a disconnection between the artworld and the way of life in the neighbourhood. The design of a new museum will try to attempt to reduce the gap between different segments of society in the area. Therefor a museum for Street art will be introduce
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Bincks' Music Factory
A music incubator for subcultures
The project ‘Bincks’ Music Factory’ is part of the graduation studio Public Building, a studio in which Multiplicity is researched as a characteristic of a Music Marvel.
The ‘new’ Music Marvel as I designed it has the Binckhorst location in The Hague as its given parameter. This
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MediaHeim Berlin
Mediatheque & Community Library
All places change over time; however, the extent and availability of alternatives are essential. Friedrichshain is an example of a neighbourhood where the transition to a high-income society can have significant consequences for low-income and elderly, who have fewer choices and
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Considering adaptive reuse within the municipal portfolio
How municipalities may change their decision-making process in the initiation phase of adaptive reuse when managing the real estate in their portfolio
The economic crisis, demographic changes and increasing vacancy of real estate in the city urges us to question how we cope with the new needs of the city, and how these can be combined with the existing built environment. Adaptive reuse, as a concept of reusing pre-existing stru
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An Architecture of Suspension
Suspending time and Place in Bucharest, Romania
The predominant approach in dealing with spaces suspended often involves negative connotations that view these spaces as spaces that ought to be destroyed or avoided without considering the potential positive aspects that lend to the site uniqueness and novelty.
This involves th
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Environmental Activism in the Museum
Art and architecture displaying change
Environmental activism requires effective communication to a wide audience in order to highlight ongoing issues around the world. Art and environmental art in particular, can be a powerful tool to showcase this type of complex issues and can be used to raise awareness of the seri
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