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W.C. Yung

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Mobilising Molenwijk

From Automobile Infrastructure to Social Infrastructure: Transforming a Parking Garage into a Centre for Civic Activity

Molenwijk is part of the Dutch heritage of post-WWII urban planning. Built in 1968, the plan consists of 1,256 dwellings in 15 slabs, each cluster of four centered around a parking garage that once promised social interaction. Nearly 60 years later, the garages are inaccessible a ...

Layers of Belonging

Bridging Past, Present and Future in the Civic Heart of a Changing Industrial Neighborhood.

This graduation project, "Layers of Belonging," addresses the challenge of designing a civic center in Buiksloterham, Amsterdam-Noord, an area experiencing rapid gentrification and socio-economic shifts. It critically examines contemporary practices of historical representation a ...

On The Threshold of Identity

Transitional identities

This report discusses the principles of threshold spaces, which could potentially lead to more porous places in the city. The developments of neoliberalism and gentrification threaten to make the city increasingly polished. The scripts that determine how spaces should be used are ...
A written thesis on how to use the principle of pointillism as a method of using colour in the exterior of architecture & An architectural design that uses pointillism as one among other aspects to create a sequential process of arrival in order to provide a versatile experie ...