European social-housing refurbishment is under pressure to deliver deep energy upgrades at speed, while also responding more carefully to the residents who live with the consequences of renovation. Industrialised modular façade systems can accelerate retrofit, improve quality control, and reduce on-site disruption, but they also risk reinforcing standardised solutions.

In many renovation processes, resident values are surfaced through engagement but enter too late to influence module configuration, material expression, façade operability or the way the façade meets the street outside and shapes the dwelling inside This thesis addresses this problem as a value–design translation gap: the missing methodological step between identifying what residents value and integrating those values in architectural and technical façade decisions.

The research develops, applies, and evaluates a Value–Indicator Framework for modular façade renovation in social housing. Through literature review and cross-case analysis of eight European social-housing renovation cases, six recurring resident values are identified: comfort, affordability, fairness, empowerment, sustainability, and identity. These values are translated into architectural design indicators that could guide the modular façade design.

The framework is then operationalised through the Value-Integrated Modular Façade System (VIMFS), a two-layer system in which Layer 1 provides a standardised technical performance baseline, including insulation, airtightness weather protection. Layer 2 the adaptive socio-technical interface, carries the bounded resident-facing variation, through value-affinity clusters and a component catalogue.

The framework is tested through Research by Design on a post-war walk-up apartment block in Rotterdam-West. A four-step configuration logic translates value priorities into four traceable design variants: V01 Control and Comfort, V02 Clear and Affordable Upgrade, V03 Ecological Renewal and V04 Community Threshold. All variants share the same Layer 1 standardised performance layer so that every resident receives the same technical envelope, while differentiation is produced through the component selection of layer 2 via the catalogue. In short, layer 1 secures fairness across all dwellings; layer 2 allows residents to express what matters to them.

The variants are evaluated through seventeen key performance indicators (KPIs) to test whether resident values remain visible, measurable, and differentiated at design stage.
The resulting scores are V01 = 15/17, V02 = 12.5/17, V03 = 16/17 and V04 = 15.5/17.
This thesis shows that modular façade renovation does not have to choose between industrialised standardisation and resident responsiveness. If variation is bounded, documented, and technically coordinated, an equal technical baseline can coexist with value-led differentiation.

The contribution is not a fully engineered façade product or a validated participation process, but traceable design-stage method for translating resident values into modular façade renovation design.
In doing so, the thesis positions the façade as a socio-technical interface between building performance, modular construction logic, and everyday residential life. ... Read more

In direct response to 90’s private home design in the Baltic states, Fool’s Land aims to reframe the meaning of individuality and personalisation in large-scale residential developments. Located in Paljassaare, an industrial site on the northern peninsula of Tallinn, the project situates itself via adaptive reuse of a 1960’s harbor production complex with the aim of continuing the architectural ambition of early post-independence. ... Read more

This thesis investigates how the floodplain landscapes of the Meuse River -particularly in its French upstream section- can be revealed and transformed toward an attunement with the river’s intrinsic temporal rhythms. Against a backdrop of large-scale anthropogenic pressures and regulatory structures that have disattuned human uses from the river’s seasonal flow, the research adopts a landscape-based approach to reframe river relations in spatial and temporal terms.

Through a multi-scalar inquiry, the thesis first maps a genealogy of international uses that have led to ecological imbalance and hydrological disconnection along the Meuse. A subsequent local-scale transect along the least pressured French section documents seasonally-informed, often overlooked or fading, human–river and interspecies practices. These are interpreted through the lens of spatial calendars and relational values, uncovering embedded temporalities still tied to the river's flow.

A territorial design experiment -the Atelier Meuse in Sedan- serves as a methodological and spatial prototype for reattuning the post-industrial river landscape. Here, three interwoven design values are proposed: slowing water, cultivating belonging, and gardening the floodplain. These values are enacted through participatory, seasonal maintenance practices that interlace human and non-human actors, fostering new collective riverine relations.

Rather than offering attunement as a fixed solution, the thesis frames it as an ongoing, situated process: one that demands flexible representations, such as spatial calendars, and designs that respond to the dynamic and relational nature of riverscapes. This approach lays groundwork for future landscape and water management strategies across the international Meuse floodplain and other similar fluvial territories ... Read more

The central topic of this research paper is interior circulation design, particularly within the museum building typology. Investigated is how the interior circulation influences the narrative of the exhibition. The main question is 'How can interior circulation design support the story of the museum?' To answer this question a literature study is conducted. Varies types of museum layout organization and arrangement of exhibition spaces are illustrated as well as potentials to facilitate storytelling through circulation design. The aim is to present a framework of circulationtypes and their characteristics, which can be applied on case studies and new designs. The paper includes one specific case study analysis of the dredginmuseum in Sliedrecht. Resulting in a proposal for a renewed dredging museum, housed in the formar dwelling of the Volkers family and an extension with pavilion and martime shipshed.

'The throughline' is a concept for a renewed and extended dredging museum in Sliedrecht, combining all the aspects of dredging with the aspects of the terrain. ... Read more

In my graduation project I have researched the relation between built space and open space in the urban context. With the current densification challenge in Utrecht much more built volume is added to the city, increasing the pressure on open space. Open space is of great importance in securing urban liveability and has in particular many environmental values. By proposing redesigns in the neighborhood of Rivierenwijk, both the quantity and quality of open space is improved, enabling a sustainable densification potential. Central in these redesigns are environmental aspects regarding climate resilience and biodiversity and how they can be reinforced in the urban open space. Therefore contributing in the transition of Utrecht to become a more climate resilient and nature-inclusive city. ... Read more

The two urban challenges of the mobility shift and industrial redevelopment come together at the site of the Merwe-Vierhavens (M4H) in Rotterdam. The mobility shift consists of the transition from polluting vehicles towards sustainable alternatives, like electric vehicles, and the use of public transport and slow mobility. The industrial shift consists of sites where the industrial function is moving out, resulting in urban redevelopment. This research dives into the following research question: ‘How can sustainable mobility guide the redevelopment of post-industrial sites towards a sustainable environment’. In the research, the component of sustainable mobility is connected to development and environment. Strategies like TOD and S2N are used to find synergies in research and design. To answer the main question, research is applied to the M4H, resulting in a strategic spatial framework. In this framework, mobility is elaborated in detailed design interventions. The challenge of sustainable mobility is further elaborated and explained in infographics, and the shift to design principles is made in a development pattern box. So sustainable mobility can guide the development by defining the mobility transition, by a translation into development principles, and the implementation of sustainable mobility in the redevelopment process. ... Read more

In September 2018 I have traveled to Bogota - the capital of Colombia with a group of Methods & Analysis students and teachers. During the trip to Bogota I have repeatedly visited the campus of Universidad Nacional de Colombia – a national higher education institution. What stayed with me the most after these visits were not the sights of the most prominent university buildings and representative spaces but quite contrastingly – pictures of the forgotten lawns and the dilapidated fence which marks the boundary of the campus. Universidad Nacional has been isolated from the rest of the city by a fence raised in 1970’s and even more severely by busy traffic arteries. In spite of the separation, the campus plays an invaluable role in the lives of the inhabitants of Bogota. Not to mention the thousands of students, who daily cross the gates, innumerable families and groups of friends arrive at Universidad Nacional to rest and play there. The campus is a green resource for the city.Boundary is a social contract in which the sides agree that a contradiction cannot be resolved in any way other than separating the conflicted sides. If the separation is not questioned the status quo remains. An architect – a person whose work is to introduce change – is inclined to question the division. And what happens if we transform the environment in such way that the discourse, more intensive exchange between the sides and with each other realities become possible? The reality supplies one of the possible answers. In the present state of affairs many aspects of the functioning of the student life have been left to the informal market. In fact the informal markets flourish near the boundary. Vendors have discovered the boundary in a way that does not conform to the orthodox understanding of a boundary. The organic, unplanned, improvised erodes the stiff, regulated, formalized.What would it take to open the gates for the other realities though? ... Read more

This project describes the search for new methodologies of analysing an unknown context as well as questioning existing patterns of behaviour in the urban organization. After a fieldtrip to Bogotá, an interests in elements with connecting and separating values in the public sphere has been developed. Teusaquillo, the central area of intervention, has been shaped by educational and cultural institutions. It consists of quiet neighbourhood streets, hectic connecting roads and the green spine, the parkway. The dominance of traffic and movement within the city leaves little space to interact in the public sphere which led to the following question: How can collective space in Teusaquillo be altered from a space of movement to a space of inhabitation? Developing an architectural response to this question, inspirations from the comma in literature and the pause in music have grown from conceptual inspirations to design tools. Apart from this, investigations on intimacy in architecture and the boundaries between architecture, urban planning and landscape played a major role. The street itself became the location of this project and has been analysed in depth. The resulting intervention is envisioned through a new layout of the street based on ground interventions with landscaping elements as well as a modular façade structure that extends buildings and creates spaces of transition. This was developed through a systematic approach that has been tested and validated on other streets. Spaces of Permanence is carried out beyond the boundaries of architecture and questions modernist urban planning ideals. Through acts of slowing, blurring boundaries, introducing means of appropriation and material culture collective space is made accessible and spaces for meaningful interaction are created. ... Read more

In Bogotá, the capitol of Colombia, the museum of modern art Mambo needs an extension. This graduation project is a proposal for that extension, which has a focus on the relationship and interaction between the building and the public domain. The result is a building complex that has many different levels of publicness, an open building that is part of the urban fabric. It is a reaction on the harsh demarcation between the public and the private realm in this city. The answer is a more diffuse border at the threshold between building and street, wondering what the (semi) private realm can facilitate for the people in the public realm, in a city where almost all ground is private. ... Read more