Category: Bachelor

Woensel is already waiting more than 50 years for the promised cultural and social center and needs a strong center in its Soul, right in the middle of the area.

Urban designers today face a complex set of global challenges that demand innovative thinking, long-term planning and immediate action. The students’ task is to develop a vision of what our urban future should look like and test it on a case study.

The third project addresses the overlap between architectural and urban design and concerns the design of a housing ensemble in an urban context.

The students designed a pocket-size neighborhood theatre on a given location and with a given list of requirements.

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

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.

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.

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.