DESIGN PROCESS WORKSHOP
Dear Explore Lab students, We proudly present: THE DESIGN PROCESS WORKSHOP If you are interested in exploring… Your own design process Diversity in ways of designing The generic elements of […]
Explore Lab 20
The impact of 3D printing on architecture
Changes are taking place globally and locally; the critical situation of global economics and the increased fragility of society have shifted focus towards more concrete and problematic issues of today. […]
‘Terminal Architecture’
My fascination lays in the social and emotional functioning of our surroundings. The ‘favourite place’ is central in this fascination; in a world becoming more homogeneous everyday, distinction from one place […]
Poetics in the ordinary
“A building should be a shell around the life to be lived within it, a shell that will satisfy material as well as intellectual demands. The architect creates not life, […]
Participatory methods in Architectural Design: Building up belonging and identity in deprived urban areas.
I am fascinated by the power of citizen participation in architectural design. In general terms, citizens only have a limited influence in the standard design process which is usually lead […]
How to involve different stakeholders in the design process?
Our built environment doesn’t always respond to the use requirements of different users. That could be caused by different things. First of all the users of a building change or […]
Critical Regionalism: Balancing tradition and Modernity in Moroccan housing
My fascination for social housing in Morocco started by seeing the differences each year while travelling to this country. The large scale contemporary housing projects are becoming more common each […]
(re-)considering the Bank of England
For my graduation in explore lab, I want to combine two fascinations of mine, the one very old and the other fairly recent: classicism and capitalism. Therefor, my project concerns […]
A social incubator
I am fascinated by the potential of architecture to (re)connect people. How to create an inviting place for exchange of experience, knowledge, matter and space that could be beneficial for […]
Castle of Good Hope
In 2009 I visited the “Castle of Good Hope”, a Dutch fortress in Capetown’s city centre, built around 1670. The coming year I want to research what value South Africa […]