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.
The second project focusses on the spatial organization of a building with a complex program in a specific urban context.
The second year Design project-line is aimed at expanding students’ basic knowledge and skills of architectural and urban design.
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.
A practical assignment designed to train students in solving problems with a high level of complexity.
Within this project students designed, optimized and verifyed a regenerative and climate-neutral building applying an iterative design approach.
How to create a folly? How to create the sacral? And what do these excursions to outward positions tell us about central-stage functional design?
Today’s building demands have become increasingly complex which necessitates our department to prepare students for a practice .
The combined project Structural and Architectural Design 2 in the second quartile of the second year focuses on structural design and its relationship with architecture.
The combined project Structural and Architectural Design 1 in the first quartile of the second year focuses on structural design and its relationship with architecture.