Balancing Trust is a graduation project developed within the Complex Projects graduation studio at TU Delft, under the theme Bodies & Buildings. The design proposes a new courthouse in the center of Milan. The project explores how institutional architecture can balance authority with openness, rethinking the courthouse as a civic space embedded in the urban fabric. Through spatial, typological, and material investigations, the design aims to create a justice center that feels accessible and dignified, rooted in Milan’s architectural identity while responding to contemporary demands of public trust and institutional clarity.

Good Trip proposes a cancer care center for Quadronno district in Milan.

Good Trip seeks to investigate hospital architecture through the lens of pleasure. Using the real-world Clinica La Madonnina as the starting point, the research questions normative models of healthcare and the perpetuating bigness in medical institutions prevalent across European cities. In these derived hospitals, patients become bodies moved along Kafkaesque corridors, stigmatized and stripped off joy of living. Rejuvenated interest in hospitals post-Covid 19 and rising cancer incidences linked with the dawn of super-aged societies in Europe urge a radical redefining of cancer care buildings, from curing to caring.

Good Trip dwells on the generic-specific conflict between the medical briefs and healthcare spaces. The research-by-design seeks to formalize pleasure in hospital’s Third Place - the corridor - through intimacy, domesticity, and non-normative social engagement while reflecting on the hospital as both a healthcare and socio-cultural infrastructure within the city.

This thesis focuses on how train station design should adapt to the rapid advancements in smart technologies and the growing prevalence of shared mobility. Traditional train station designs, often rooted in the past social context, may be no longer suitable for the demands of the modern era.Therefore, the goal of this train station design is to transform it into an smart shared mobility hub, which will effectively integrate various modes of transport, optimize travel efficiency and provide seamless connectivity. Beyond serving as a transit point, the station will also function as a vibrant public space, offering services and activities that cater to both travelers and local residents, making it both a transportation node and a dynamic urban destination.

From Site to Flight: Idroscalo City Airport, Milan, is a research and design project of a medium-scale airport in Milan, Italy. Using the real-world airport of Milan-Linate as a starting point, it studies the qualities of existing airport architecture and proposes how newly built airports could be designed to be more site-specific, user-oriented, and connected to their respective contexts.

Hospitals, as public buildings, establish connections with people in ways unparalleled by other structures. The architecture of a hospital directly influences its functionality, profoundly impacting the delicate balance between life and death. In today's information society, where the body is increasingly viewed as a collection of data for tracking health, the focus shifts decisively towards preserving life.

The focus of this graduation project is the development of a hospital tailored to a concept known as the ‘Human Data Twin.’ This project seeks to explore the effects of digitalization in healthcare, specifically examining how datasets and artificial intelligence (AI) influence the architectural design and functions of hospitals. The term ‘Human Data Twin’ refers to the unique concept of digitizing the human body with large datasets to create a human data twin (HDT) in cyberspace. This allows hospitals to conduct real-time simulations, optimizations, and evaluations, providing personalized diagnosis to empower individuals in making informed decisions, enhancing health performance, and extending life expectancy.

The transformative approach to healthcare through digitization has extensive implications, potentially necessitating the creation of new spaces within hospitals. Research indicates that the AI revolution in medicine introduces new dynamics to spatial relations in the diagnostic process, with AI likely to play a key role. The architectural design of hospitals needs reevaluation, presenting an opportunity to promote the health, physical activity, and mental well-being of society.

The project holds significant relevance in the current context, drawing inspiration from near-future predictions of technological advancements in healthcare. It envisions a transformation from generalized to personalized and precision medicine, facilitated by data science and technology. By doing so, the project aims to spark discussions around the imperative nature of collaborating with technologies like AI, which will drive changes in hospital functions, processes, and design. This discourse will also highlight the ethical challenges and considerations inherent in such advancements. Broadly, the project aspires to establish guidelines for designing hospitals of the digital future.

This project focuses on the discrimination against child justice and proposes the solution of creating a seperate specialized juvenile courthouse for youth offendors. Children are after all our future and should be properly taken care of.

Global migration flows are increasing for various reasons, and societies around the world are becoming increasingly culturally diverse.

Germany is currently the second top destination for international migrants. The country has already received multiple waves of immigrants in the past century – from guest workers to refugees – but its attitude toward foreign newcomers has historically been conservative. However, with the Skilled Immigration Act (Fachkräfteeinwanderungsgesetz) passed in 2023, the Federal Government now aims to push Germany into a “Modern Immigration Country” (Ein Modernes Einwanderungsland).

Within this new national ambition, the integration of foreign newcomers is highly prioritised; and public institutions are expected to facilitate this two-way process between local Berliners and foreign newcomers.

To support this, the public library emerges as a highly relevant institution. As an architectural typology, it began as a house for collections and on-site reading. Yet over time, digitalisation has largely reduced the need for this building to fulfil this specific function; thus liberating and shifting its focus to become an active site of social connections, where people from all walks of life can encounter each other regularly.

Furthermore, in Berlin’s future city development, the Senate envisions the public library as a mixed-use centre for strengthening social cohesion and bringing life to new residential districts (Neue Stadtquartiere). While there are already well-located public libraries – already enjoyed by existing Berliners of the vicinity – that can serve these districts, they are not spatially nor technically equipped to meet the multimedia & multi-programmatic needs for this social ambition.

This leads to the research question: How can we design a public library that facilitates the integration of migrants into the local community?

It calls for the project to critically examine and design a district-level public library, which primarily aims to be a social connector for facilitating integration. The secondary goals are to host and disseminate diverse media types; and to serve as an upgraded futureproof district centre.