Hidden Borders
The question is if the Fontys School of Fine and Performing Arts (FHK) in Tilburg will be able to facilitate interdisciplinary educational programs in its current building ensemble. This project is about expanding the current restricted campus life by means of programmatic additions and break throughs. …
2020Taal, Cultuur & KunstenMasterOpen Access
The camellias of a chaira
The Exodus of rural settlers to urban centers with greater attractiveness of quality of life, has brought serious consequences to the rural environments all over the world. An example of this phenomenon is Spain, that has around 3,000 abandoned villages, half of them in Galicia. These settlements have …
2019-12-01Taal, Cultuur & KunstenMasterOpen Access
From the rural ashes
Abandoned villages and ruins are the consequence of depopulation. The region of A Ribeira Sacra (Galicia, Spain) is an example, where since 1981 the region has lost 40% of the population. A sustainable masterplan based on a strategy will bring a future to those areas by using the ruins and reactivate …
2019-06-28Taal, Cultuur & KunstenMasterOpen Access
Echo Space
Echo Space is a project that provides its PTSD patients with tools to comprehend their environment and help them manage their anxiety disorder related environmental triggers. Where the therapy sessions get to the core of their PTSD, the architecture of the treatment center provides them with the tools …
2019-06-26Taal, Cultuur & KunstenMasterOpen Access
Forum of technology
As education in Vietnam is still too intensively focused on theory, a learning forum at the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh city is a necessary development. It is situated inside an infrastructural cloverleaf of freeways and surrounded by a university campus, a High-Tech Park and a Theme park. Theory and practice …
2019-06-15Taal, Cultuur & KunstenMasterOpen Access
Into the Dutch wild
This design offers an alternative of camping into nature reserves. 'Into the Dutch wild' promotes immersive access to the Dutch landscape by facilitating architectural campsite interventions within the natural, yet human made, landscape of Flevoland. Around the world, nature reserves are either being …
2019-06Taal, Cultuur & KunstenMasterOpen Access
Plastic fantastic plausible
Can recycled plastics be more than a trendy marketing tool? Can it be re-designed & re-used as an integral part of a new architecture? This project proposes a challenging high-tech campus in The Hague near the Shell headquarter. The project forms part of the public space and is designed to evolve with …
2019-05-10Taal, Cultuur & KunstenMasterOpen Access
Garden of learning lanterns
The municipality of Rotterdam has the ambition to realize a healthy city by 2020. A healthy diet is high on the list of priorities and the municipality is supporting initiatives to ensure that healthy food is available for resident of Rotterdam. The Oude Westen district in the city center of Rotterdam …
2019-01-01Taal, Cultuur & KunstenMasterOpen Access
Enlightend
Enlightend is a research-by-design project that explores the use of natural light in residential projects. The case is the Philips soccer stadium in Eindhoven, that has become a source of light pollution for the neighborhood. By way of a row of housing units on the edge of the stadium roof, artificial …
2019-01-01Taal, Cultuur & KunstenMasterOpen Access
Mental well-being
Emotions of people should be challenged instead of being pushed away. Can architecture as part of the urban tissue reach out to a broader audience and be supportive in terms of mental functioning? A two-level visitor center, open and public on the ground floor, secluded on the first floor, offers chances …
2019-01-01Taal, Cultuur & KunstenMasterOpen Access