Sense City is based on a study of environmental factors that could benefit people in the autistic spectrum to live on their own, in their own house or neighborhood, with their family or partner, individually or in a group. The project features several case studies houses, in different configurations, …

Fossil fuels have greatly affected the world. How we move around in our cars, how we produce and consume our food, how we keep our economy running, generate electricity and spatialize our cities. But whether we like it or not, we are moving towards a future without these fossil fuels ¬– an era in which …

In a design and research studio of the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture six students investigated between September and December 2020 the transition to that post-fossil era, we visualized the expression of the post-fossil city of the future, we explored systems and solutions that we cannot yet imagine. …

I have a special and personal connection with the French Pays d’Auge. I appreciate its beauty and qualities but I am also seeing it decaying. My personal motivation, my role and mission as urban designer pushed me to think of a way to save – or better, upgrade – this beautiful valley. We know that …

WHY? (ADAPT) The city of Liège is suffocating because of extreme car hospitality. Public space has been stripped down to traffic space, serving the singular purpose of moving and parking polluting, dangerous and space inefficient cars. Global challenges concerning pandemics, climate change and sub-urbanization …

This graduation project provides a comprehensive investigation into the decline of the liveability of the UNESCO World Heritage city: Venice. It sheds light on the dichotomy between liveability and (over)tourism, and proposes a new perspective for Venice, which in the last 20 years has undergone a massive …

Nederland staat voor een grote woningbouwopgave. Volgens cijfers van het CBS moeten er tot 2030 een miljoen woningen gebouwd worden in Nederland. De vraag naar nieuwe woningen concentreert zich met name in de stedelijke gebieden. Den Haag wil binnenstedelijk het aantal woningen verdubbelen in het zogenaamde …

The Urban Gaming studio aims to challenge that by not defining the brief priory (no program, no objectives, no site boundaries). Instead it emphasizes that a client or clients should be sought for, that multiple voices or stakeholders are needed and that a strategy is required to incorporate their needs …

In deze studie komen twee belangrijke actuele opgaven van stedelijke ontwikkeling samen. Enerzijds de zoektocht naar alternatieve planningsaanpakken, die – in tegenstelling tot de planmatige aanpakken geënt op stadsuitbreiding – beter kunnen omgaan met de uitdagingen van stedelijke inbreiding, ook wel …

Met het plan ‘De voedselvrijheid van Utrecht’ studeerde Roeland Meek dit voorjaar af als landschapsarchitect aan de academie van bouwkunst in Amsterdam hij onderzocht de kansen van kringlooplandbouw als alternatieve ontwikkeling voor de geplande stedelijke uitbreiding in Polder Rijnenburg. Het resultaat …