Department of Built Environment
ARCHIPRIX The Hypermodern Parliament of Things The greatest challenge of contemporary architecture appears to be the reconciliation between the endless innovations of modern technology with both the human condition and the world of ecology. At once, the infinite possibilities of
ARCHIPRIX Mudchute Fashion House Mudchute is a hypothetical UK-based fashion house that specializes in luxury wool-based garments and accessories. In-depth research encompassing the conceptual and theoretical etymology of ‘resilience,’ the dynamics of the fast fashion and wool industries alongside the
ARCHIPRIX HOUSE OF TIDES The Earth is under great pressure. Climate change poses a real threat to the stability of the Holocene. The Holocene was and is a prerequisite for the development of our current societies. At the moment, we
GOING GREEN: IN THE NATURE OF ARCHITECTURE Graduation Project | 2022 – 2023 The Landscape: the farm of the future in symbiosis with nature The Netherlands is facing a major crisis regarding intensive agriculture that is based on maximizing control
ARCHIPRIX 2019 – 2021 BEYOND THE RIVER: Designing for Antwerp The urban design seeks to give shape to Linkeroever as an integral component of the city of Antwerp, a worthy counterpart to the right bank (Rechteroever) in the city’s radial-concentric configuration. Linkeroever
ARCHIPRIX 2019 – 2021 Restoring the Flow This project proposes a new urban landscape, a flowscape, in the space between the dykes of Dordrecht. The flowscape is an urban infrastructure to encourage active recreation among the city’s inhabitants, while at the
ARCHIPRIX 2019 – 2021 A Core for Diversity This design for common ground is to further the local integration of migrants in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, a multicultural municipality in the Brussels-Capital Region. The project explores how the built environment can advance integration
ARCHIPRIX 2019 – 2021 House of Rituals This design consists of a sequence of spaces together providing a scenario for human activity: the Womb as the most public of these spaces, the Fireplace as a social venue, the Well as
ARCHIPRIX 2019 – 2021 Concealed Arcadia The Dutch countryside is in dire need of change. As the age of hypermodernity is upon us, one is ought to question the influence and effect of the virtual on Men. By means of
ARCHIPRIX 2019 – 2021 Urban Comfort Guidebook People-centered and climate-oriented urbanism – a seemingly unusual combination. This project systematically weighs and integrates the design guidelines from the fields of (1) urban physics, (2) climate adaptation and (3) people-centered urbanism to