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 …

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 …

This booklet shows the urban metabolism of five different cities around the globe. From small, Venice, to extra large, New York. We took the city as the human body; integral, dependent on multiple organs and based on comprehensive flows. Mobility, typology, nature and history go hand in hand in the total …

De stad breidt uit en wordt steeds drukker en daarmee de druk op de openbare ruimte steeds groter. Hierdoor zijn een aantal essentiële opgaven zoals, hittestress, wateropvang, biodiversiteit - maar ook veilig lopen, fietsen en recreëren slecht op te vangen in het ruimtelijk domein. Vooral in de drukke …

Wie in de technische sector werkt ziet het gebeuren, Amsterdam is booming! Waar voorheen Amsterdam als -alfa-stad bekend stond, is er de laatste 5 jaar een explosieve groei in -beta-gerelateerde bedrijven. Dit bracht de stad in no-time naar de wereldwijde Top 5 van potentiele vestigingsklimaten voor …

Amsterdam groeit met ca. 12000 inwoners per jaar. Deze groei wordt steeds meer afhankelijk van buitenlandse migratie. Hoe kan deze stad (blijven) inspelen op de veranderende samenstelling van inwoners? Welke stedelijke omgeving zorgt ervoor dat verschillende groepen nieuwkomers in evenwicht met elkaar …