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S. Zijlstra

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Public cultural real estate is a type of real estate that is publicly accessible that beholds a (mix of) cultural function(s) such as libraries and cultural centres. Besides their primary function, e.g. lending books in the case of a library, they can also have the objective to b ...

From Parking to the City

An integrated approach to the transformation of Zakopane city into a liveable and sustainable urban environment for its residents

Zakopane experiences mass tourism, which supports economic growth but also reduces the quality of life in the city. This is mainly due to the developed car dependency, the lack of coordination between spatial development and infrastructure, and the systemic promotion of private p ...
COVID-19 revealed enormous shortcomings in the healthcare system. Its current state, in a great deal brought about by the neoliberal views of the XX and XXI centuries, poses a challenge to care provision. Research explores the limitations of Evidence-Based Design (EBD) and emphas ...

The contemporary Stoa

Redefining the schoolyard as public space

If the hustle and bustle in the cityscape of London were a movie, than the public space is the stage and the urban texture its décor. The movie would be about culture - city life - and the people who are in it will be its social actors. the different identities of the social acto ...

London Deviations

Identities & Experiences in a Globalised City

The graduation project ‘London Deviations’ aims to understand the ever-changing historic city with its multiple identities and experiences offered. With this it tries to find a way how one can design an idiosyncratic architecture that still fits in appropriately in the complexit ...

Harvest: A Burn-Out Retreat

Revitalising 'Plots in the Woods' at Hembrug

Harvest. A Burn-out retreat.
 Revitalising 'Plots in the Woods' at Hembrug. 
A former munition terrain. A hidden green enclave in Zaandam where de Zaan, het IJ and het Noordzeekanaal cross. Surrounded by water and boats, industry and a big forest. The vision of the project is ...

The natural side of Hembrug

Redeveloping Hembrug with minimal (environmental) impact.

The heritage site of Hembrug used to be the center of the production of weapons and ammunition within the Netherlands during the twentieth century. Now the site is mostly vacant and awaiting a new purpose. Most of the site used to be densely build with industrial halls, but there ...

The Circular Supermarket Chain

Introducing the Circular Economy in the Building Specification

The main question of this master thesis is: Which changes have to be made to make the Lidl’s Specification circular, with an emphasis on materials and assembly? To come to an answer, a multitude of steps were taken.

The first step was an assessment of the principles of ...
Architecture within the last twenty years has developed in many ways. One such direction was reintroducing the physical world and physical phenomenon back to architectural language and design space. This is especially true as buildings have had to become more and more environment ...