A vision for the river delta as one contiguous nature conservation area.

Flowing Force is a ‘cultural design’ for the Dutch river delta. Its aim is to make stakeholders rethink their approach to this area. The project steps off from the DNA of the Delta when making the landscape design. It shows that landscape-shaping processes can partly do the work for us in creating a richer, more robust and more dynamic landscape....

This project is a quest for a new meaning for the former panopticon in Haarlem (NL). With a new purpose and minimal interventions, the former prison grounds can be transformed into an inviting place for musicians, music lovers and all Haarlem’s residents, with a programme that taps into the city’s ambitions and strengthens its identity as a pop/rock venue....

Successfully densifying towards an energetic city.

The spatial design of this graduation project constructs a new dynamic master plan for Slotermeer, two blocks of which are worked up in detail. Retaining the existing buildings, the project seeks to adapt this post-war garden suburb of Amsterdam step by step to meet today’s needs and create a more valuable city area. By adding a variety of types and forms of development, the context of existing monotonous building stock changes, giving rise to an urban area with a layered quality and history that a demolish & rebuild programme would take many decades to achieve....

This design for a waste recycling facility on the outskirts of Bandung in Indonesia seeks to reduce the stigma attached to waste and instead promote the idea that waste can be a valuable resource for the production of new materials....

The project is a socially inclusive proposal to breathe new life into abandoned factory sites in disadvantaged areas with new configurations of public space....

A growing horizontal structure of affordable housing in Menem, Addis Ababa

Ethiopia is in the throes of a relentless development and the population of Addis Ababa in particular is growing faster than the city can absorb. The result is a huge shortage of housing. During the last ten years, the Ethiopian government has tried to tackle the housing shortage by building blocks of apartments. However, this government initiative is unable to truly resolve the problem of accommodation. While it does achieve a high density and a fast construction process, it is a system imported from abroad and as such utterly fails to meet local requirements. Three main problems can be highlighted: production costs are too high for the target groups, the set-up fails to match the social and cultural context of Ethiopia’s urban poor and the apartment units are not flexible enough to meet changing resident needs....

The City of Perpetual Modernity

Void Capital presents a template, an open-source architectural blueprint for urban densification. The model is implemented in La Samaritaine, a former department store in Paris. Fundamental typologies from the city’s periphery are deployed in the city centre where they create ever new architectural constellations. The project additionally explores ways of applying the typologies of the Grand Ensemble (the housing district) and the Quartier d’Affaires (the business district). Both were once positive icons of modernism but have since fallen into disrepute. Together they constitute the Department City....

MuSeu is a transformation project for Fábrica do Tecidos Labor, a former industrial site in Mooca, São Paulo, Brazil. The project is also a highly personal quest for a design approach deeply connected with the country’s cultural identity and the troubled social context....

A Cautious Manifesto for Empirical Architecture

The design for a new spatial configuration for the Senate (Eerste Kamer) of the States General of the Netherlands steps off from an empirical approach based on the way we perceive small discrete components....

Manifesto of the tectonic on Via Jecore ...

With Twente as a case study, this project presents a spatial-programmatic strategy for the transition to a self-sufficient region...

Ecofield introduces a new strategy to strengthen ecosystems in the Netherlands using architecture embedded in the landscape and designed for species of flora and fauna. ...

A new future for post-mining landscapes in the Quadrilatero Ferrifero (MG), Brazil...

eSports hub for Fnatic

Home of Legends is an eSports hub in the heart of London, designed for Fnatic. Fnatic is one of the most storied eSports organisations in Europe, succeeding in being about far more than just gaming. Home of Legends houses Fnatic’s League of Legends team and headquarters. Home of Legends offers spaces for the professional players to train, eat, come together and sleep, and the building can also be visited by fans....

Difficult heritage as new public park spaces.

This transformation of the dilapidated Volkspark Dutzendteich in Neurenberg gives the park landscape a modified identity and a new practical value, as well as giving the difficult on-site history a meaningful place in the park....

This design for a centre for circular economy is located in Alamar, a district in the east of Havana. In Alamar’s Material Warehouse, flows of disregarded materials are processed into valuable new resources....

The project presents a strategic proposal for an urban transformation of the economy and the landscape after closure of the mines. The case study focuses on Bytom, one of the most problematic cities of Upper Silesia socially and economically and now in a physical state of chaos....

The project presents an integral rehabilitation strategy with a realistic, interdisciplinary approach presided over by scenario thinking and a cross-scale perspective. This strategy seeks to effectively combat the decline of high-rise housing in Beijing....

An approach to landscapes abandoned by their users

This graduation project seeks to apply architectural landscape interventions as a tool to exercise control, particularly in troubled times and at troubled places. The site chosen for this purpose is Fort de Vaujours, an abandoned uranium-contaminated area near Paris where gypsum is to be mined in the future....

a Dialectical Project

This project for a transformation of the British central bank aims to interpret or reinterpret architecture as the embodiment of historical meaning and institutionalism. It seeks to give architectural expression to a potential and, by its very nature, historic monetary reform whereby money would finally become an autonomous public institution. The project is driven by fundamental questions about the meaning of both money and architecture: what exactly is money and how does architecture mediate between institutional power and individual freedom? Critically inspired by John Soane’s legendary long-lost Bank of England, the project explicitly engages the architectural dialectics of ruin and construction with those of genuine publicity and institutional power....

Learning from Villa Moller and Adolf Loos

How often do we pay attention to the narratives that unfold in our day-to-day built environment? How often do we pause and consider that we ourselves are in some way part of these narratives? How often are we aware that we are players in architectural space? Armed with these questions, this design for an experimental theatre complex explores the phenomenon of seeing and being seen in an architectural setting....

Dwelling and the Urban Condition in Milan

This graduation thesis deals with the continuity of the European city through the example of Milan. Combining research and design, the project seeks to rationally define the relationship between the typology of the Milanese apartment and the morphology of the city. It steps off from the hypothesis that the relationship between type and morphology (in a general sense) is at the root of this continuity....

A forbidding gold-coloured data centre and a small run-down building housing the caretaker share a site in the heart of Rotterdam. Together they confront us with the human condition of our time: an existence between the virtual and the sensorial, the all-inclusive and the personal, the managed and the accidental....

A shadow network of contemplative spaces in Rotterdam to escape the hectic pace of the city....

‘Grounded’ uses the new industry of viniculture to frame an answer to the problem of the many unoccupied dwellings and the population decline of recent decades as a result of the industrial downturn in the South Limburg area round Heerlen....

This thesis explores ways of making the transition from natural gas extraction to renewable energy sources without disrupting the landscape....