Architecture as facilitating agent

exploring architecture’s position in spatial relationships through festival spaces

Master Thesis (2025)
Author(s)

S. den Elt (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)

Contributor(s)

R.R.J. van de Pas – Mentor (TU Delft - History, Form & Aesthetics)

Maurice Harteveld – Mentor (TU Delft - Urban Design)

R.R. van den Ban – Mentor (TU Delft - Teachers of Practice / AE+T)

Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment
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Publication Year
2025
Language
English
Graduation Date
03-07-2025
Awarding Institution
Delft University of Technology
Programme
['Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Explorelab']
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment
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Abstract

The main aim of this thesis is to investigate the role and relevance that architecture has (and can have) in facilitating the spatial production of festival spaces. It aims to demonstrate that festival spaces serve as ideal locations for experimenting with spatial relationships and architecture itself – through its expression and collective appropriation -which can have transformative effects on spaces of the everyday, guided by the disruptive nature of the festival.

The intention is to construct a designbrief for a permanent festival terrain in which the dialogue between people, place, society, and time can be constantly re-imagined through its fluid architecture—offering fertile ground for discussion on architecture’s role in the facilitation of festival spaces, how they inform the design, use, andorganisation of everyday spaces, and how they stimulate collective design processes.Ultimately, this project seeks
to enact architecture as a facilitator of dialogue, a medium for questioning and reshaping spatial relationships through the lens of festival spaces.

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