Project Architectural Design

The aim of this project is to provide insight in basic aspects of urban and architectural design.

Parametric Design

This course introduces parametric and computational design methods in a project-based and hands-on manner.

Project S

The design challenge is to integrate architectural and building physics aspects and to achieve a balanced building design.

Project M

Students design an observation tower, looking both into the structure – ensuring stability, how forces are distributed, which materials used, what columns and beams size – and into the architectural design – what does this tower look like, which spaces are needed, how do you design the framing of the views.

Project L

In this project you learn to conduct academic research into a city neighborhood or district. Based on the outcomes of this research you create a basic urban plan and design for a real estate (re)development.

Sufficiency Consultancy

This studio considers how increasing climate instability and economic inequity encourage us to reconsider both the means and ends of design practice.

Hilversum, Garden City of Tomorrow

The Garden City aimed to create an alternative for both urban and rural living. An exemplary case in The Netherlands is the town of Hilversum, in which the ideas of the garden city were employed on the scale of an entire town, under the supervision of city architect W.M. Dudok.

Project Making sustainable real estate feasible

In this project, various strategies are developed and evaluated to transform an existing building complex into a complex that meets market-driven needs and current and future demands, including sustainability, financial feasibility and risk analysis as well as other trends and developments.

Building inspection for future-proofing

In this hands-on course, students investigate the indoor environmental quality of existing educational spaces, collect on-site data, analyze results with scripting tools, and explore best-practice research.