The project focuses on the integrated design of architecture and urban environments. Students explore spatial, functional, technical, and contextual aspects of design and develop these into a coherent architectural proposal.
The project focuses on the integrated design of architecture and urban environments. Students explore spatial, functional, technical, and contextual aspects of design and develop these into a coherent architectural proposal.
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 assignment is to design an accommodation for a school for dance, a dance academy.
Students are challenged to organize the project themselves and discuss with the clients what should be created.
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.