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J.P.M. van Lierop

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Bridging Waters

Exploring Madrid's Paradoxical Relationship with Water

The thesis proposes the transformation of two of Madrid's decorative fountains into functional public pools, addressing the city's residents’ needs for leisure through physical activity and cooling in a hot city like Madrid. Additionally, the project seeks to enable public access ...

Embrace the Future Without Erasing the Past

Preserving the identity of Küçükçekmece

This research explores how urban design can contribute to preserving and strengthening the historical and cultural identity of Küçükçekmece, a district in Istanbul facing rapid and large-scale urbanization. The focus is on finding a balance between heritage and modernization, emp ...

Beyond the Black Boxes

Cultivating Commons from Madrid's Digital Shadows

Beyond the Black Box proposes a radical transformation of how citizens interact with digital infrastructure and cultural archives through architectural intervention at Madrid's Plaza de Colón. This project addresses a critical democratic crisis where massive digital systems—data ...
“Functionalism rendering” explores the evolving relationship between social change and the principles of functionalist architecture within the domestic environment. It poses a question whether the spatial ideals established in the early 20th century—rooted in standardisation, ma ...

Beyond Madrid's Heat

Sheltering the Vulnerable

During the summer months, Madrid endures extreme heat. These high temperatures strain both the infrastructure supporting the city and the well-being of its inhabitants, disproportionately impacting marginalized populations. Marginalized populations such as the homeless population ...

Architectures of the Transtemporal

Space-Time of Everyday Pracctices

The research hypothesis is that extensive layering and apparent modifications in the San Isidro area along Manzanares, dictated by the necessity of expansion, have changed the site’s everydayness. As a result, patterns of continuities and discontinuities began to take over the ar ...

From Symbol to Edifice

Symbolism and atmospheres in Andalusí architecture

Despite the rich Islamic history of Madrid, remnants of its Islamic past are hardly visible anymore. Contemporary architecture both in and outside of Madrid is centred around pragmatism, in contrast to the rich tradition of Andalusí architecture and the
extensive degrees of s ...

Crafting Along Material Wear

Interweaving crafts and materials towards wear in architecture and beyond

The institutionalization of the architectural practice has caused a linear life cycle that relies on the efficiency of mass standardized products, not only exacerbating ecological effects but also breeding mediocrity in architecture. An epistemic break from the creative and tangi ...

Glimpses of a laundry

From a scopic to a somatic riverfront

The lack of connection between the city and the Manzanares riverbank represents the project’s exoskeleton. The use of the Manzanares as a laundry historically and the metaphorical use of today expose issues related to the relationship between the water, its use and its connection ...

Emerging Dialogues

The Rise of the Neo-Producer and its Impact on Ornamentation

The notion of ornament is as intractable as it is central to our discipline. The considerable body of work delving into this topic, including recently, serves to illustrate the ongoing interest of our societies for architecture that exudes character. We will explore the ornament ...

The Redefined Social

Production in and of an eco-social Condition

The thesis challenges conventional notions of the social and explores the intricate relationship between humans and the imminent commons. It confronts the consequences of neglecting the imminent commons (water, earth, air) in urban environments, urging a re-evaluation of design p ...

Absorbing Splinters

Revalorising identities within the ever-growing fragmented urban landscape of London.

Rapid and uncontrolled urban growth has resulted in fragmented cityscapes, leading to the loss of a sense of place in cities like London. The relentless march of modernization and compulsive development has given rise to illegible spaces, where once-distinctive landmarks are bein ...

Symbiotic Thames

Rethinking the urban riparian condition and meaning through architecture towards a more symbiotic relationship between the urban river and the city

Water is the elixir of life for London, the river Thames is the heart powering its growth. Although it has created the existence of London, it has mainly been the city that influenced the river in route, form and function aligning with their needs. There always has been a changin ...

Narration of Embodied Memories

Funerary and Memory Space

The research deals with funerary scenes of London through various aspects of significance such as memory, material and ritual. The expression and reaction to one's death in the built environment are studied through both quantitatively and qualitatively, where the first looks into ...

On the Edge

A study into social integration within community boundaries

This research paper focuses on the phenomenon of social and urban morphological contrasts within community boundaries caused by socioeconomic inequality and the process of urban development. This paper also discusses the reason and the spatial needs for social integration. This t ...

Making visible | Visible making

Providing agency for dissipated residents

This thesis explores the potential of difference and disruption as a productive ground for approaching gentrification in London. Multiple forces are driving the process of gentrification, the focus lies on the aspect of postmodern consumerism. A cultural change in which the indiv ...
The research aims to uncover the specific qualities of East London waterfronts and its post-industrial structures. The neglected, but still partially untreated by commercialized approach waterfronts were found to be a unique chain of polluted yet biodiverse areas.
The resear ...

Elevating London

Through reviving, reconnecting and reimplementing

Nowadays with the continuous development of the metropolitan cities, the city is getting more and more packed. The land of cities like London is very precious, land is scarce, every inch counts. Therefore, the decision of what to do with space is crucial, the highest bidder often ...

Inequality of access to culture for children and young people in London

Culture as a regeneration power bringing the London community together

The wealth gap has been widening over the last decades and it is visible over the different London’s boroughs and districts and people’s living standards. While richer areas have better infrastructure, better housing conditions, lower crime rates, higher life expectancy, other le ...

Who Owns the City?

A Response to Privatised Public Space

The following research discusses the changing nature of public space and how ownership has become an inevitable part of it. The aim of this research has been to discuss the complexity of the grey area between privately owned public space and public space, as well as the emerging ...