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This website contains some of the work I did as a master student in architecture at the Technical University of Delft


One can find both executed and fictive work in the field of Urban Research, Architectural Design and Building Engineering
madrid research 4 Apr 2008
Tha Corner NY 4 Apr 2008
Club Swing 2003 1 Apr 2008
The end thesis investigates the possibility to exploit the club owner’s penthouse apart from the club and the design possibilities of the plot in case the deteriorated premises would be demolished.
The design is supposed to use the full potential of its surrounding.

The design uses the energy of young artist in order to stimulate a large public. The circulation of the building is set up in a way that it can be used as a catwalk for fashion shows, exhibitions and music contests. The entrance of the dance floor is positioned on this circulation as the core experience. It is the big motivator, confronting the visitors with a blast of energy and atmosphere from art and audience. This is radiated towards front and backside of the building. The front side of the building is a white screen and emits movies, club images or just light. The other side emits a subtle atmosphere from the lounge into the historical alley along the backside.

Market Hall Delft 2003 15 Sep 2005
This pre-master project was an exercise in both architecture and urban design. It consists out of a master plan for the area and a architectural articulation of a market hall next to the channel-quay. The market hall is equipped with a theatre, studios and sports fields.
The whole composition is directing the crowd from the train station towards the lager entrance of  the Delft city centre.
Rijks Museum Schiphol Airport 2004 1 Apr 2008
This museum is the result of a routing that connects two landscapes which are folded as a beastly parasite in the ‘arm pit’ of a departure wing.
The route picks up people who are ‘in-between’ the boarder control and the gate. It takes them to a series of program transitions that combine a total experience according the theory of Pine and Gilmore.
It evokes passive and active behaviour both mentally and physically.
The two landscapes and program refer to the dynamics of these two stages. It is assembles as a platform for curators on which they can stimulate education, entertainment, aesthetic or escapation experiences. If all experiences have been perceived, one gets an ultimate experience that assembles a very strong memory of the clue behind the statement of the curator. This strong memory is rudely confronted with the flashy exterior of the tax free commerce area next to the exit of the museum. This emphasizes the exclusiveness of the interior and art in the museum or in other words; the biotope you’ve just left!
'Explore lab' 2005 3 Apr 2008
Explore-lab is a master 3&4 program in which students define and manage their own end-thesis. They are obliged to find professors and mentors that are relate to their topic and research questions. The students have to constantly defend and explain their choice of topic and strategies in public debates that are open for other students, both from explore-lab and the faculty in general. The students do not share the same thesises. The only thing they share is the space in which they work. Therefore the students often collaborate in groups to organise international workshops, lectures or presentations. These are all open for the public. Sometimes, even Bsc1 student join these events.
Because this laboratory does not have a fixed program it is open to all
departments. This means that students  are able to graduate in Architecture, Urbanism and Building technology.
'Sustainable interventions Jakarta' 2005 3 Apr 2008
In the summer of 2005 I organised a workshop in Jakarta, bringing together Indonesian students from the Universitas Perlita Harapan and Universitas Indonesia, with Dutch students from the TU Delft Faculty of Architecture. Groups where formed and each group worked on one subject in order to realise partial solutions for the area. Consultation between the various groups has been very important in the design process and for the final results: the findings and ideas could be bundled to form the basis for a single strategy that was presented to local government officials and other interested parties. The influence of the architecture, urban development and town planning on Kota was researched and this research was then used to do an integrated proposal for the improvement. This proposal consisted of analysis and design on the basis of six key subjects: economy, liveability, traffic, sustainability, water & green and cultural heritage. In order to enhance the coherence between the group proposals, the groups where stimulated to form an integrated sustainable proposal. The end results where taken up by the Amsterdam Centre of Architecture (ARCAM) and exhibited in the exposition;    ’Op andere Gronden’ (on Differnts Gounds)
Metro Station Madrid 2006 2 Apr 2008
This project was an experiment in spatialising policies that would benefit  local entrepreneurs and slowdown the gentrification near a new metro station in Madrid. We came up with several scenario’s in relation to the conjuncture of the area and used a ‘profit’ synergy between local shops to cluster them together and position them as scar tissue in the meanders of the underground station.

If the profit of the shops is enough to make a good living and pay the rent of the spaces and the housing in the surrounding. The station can be well exploited by local entrepreneurs and the station can be build!
All of this is depending on the prognosis of the amount of people moving through the metro station, because they indicate the popularity, value and possible clientele of the area.  This way we wanted to slow down the gentrification of the area by creating the possibility for locals to make a living off the by passers.

So; if a lot of people enter the area and the rent of the housing goes up, than the metro station provides ‘synergetic shop surfaces’ that distort the pathways (and creating new ones) in order to slow down the
time that one needs to enter or exit the station. Doing so one evokes a traveller’s interest, creating a alternative everyday liveliness and security in a metro station, which benefits the inhabitants of the area as well.


The building makes use of the flow of people as if it would be a river; expanding its hallways and disposing program at its curve, all within the boundary of the meander belt.
The technical procedure of this mutation is taken from scar tissue and put into a computer script.
'Architecture In Limbo' 2007 2 Apr 2008
After I initiated and set up explore lab in 2005 I could not yet subscribe myself, but after I finished two Msc2 courses I signed up together with Jouke Sieswerda in 2006. We choose the Bijlmermeer (a late modern dwelling area in Amsterdam from 1968) as a site to investigate how people are relating to their built environment.The Bijlmermeer is recently being subordinated to a refurbishment with low-rise catalogue housing with front and backyard.
Eventually we want to design a housing project that would give In habitants a better possibilities to start relating to this build environment. This is why we want to make their dwelling environment a facilitating environment.After a long and extensive research on both the history (Architecture in limbo) and socio-economical background of the Bijlmermeer (a Rough Guide to the Bijlmermeer) we concluded that the Bijlmermeer is a mental and physical void! Generating it’s own identity, potentials and vacancies! The vacancies where often facilitating the emergence of severe social problematics and economical initiatives or potentials. In the end the social problems got the overhand and gave the area an image of a ‘ghetto’. (a mental void, nobody wants to go their).
To make use of its potentials one should make these potentials recognisable and accessible for others or enable inhabitants to make their skills available to a larger audience! Passers-by should be able to become visitors. To enable inhabitants to invite or retreat from the public We have concentrated ourselves on the circulation systems in both building and build environment, from the big global scale to the small toilet. This enables us to understand which spatial, program and access conditions are essential for the Bijlmermeer and its inhabitant. After extensive session of interviews, street surveys and overnight stays! We concluded that we need to deal with three aspects in our strategy;
-    Catching and attaching a bigger audience (by adding different scales of program concerning education, business, ICT, night life, living, landscape and green.
-    Providing clarity by implementing more layers of efficient circulations on ground level.
-    Designing spaces for the new emerged collective activities and initiatives in the Bijlmermeer (think of starters in the business of consultancy, ICT or life itself.)
In the process of the reassembly of the Bijlmermeer circulation we have define several scales which form a topological system. The nodes on this topological system are often described by inhabitants; as meeting places or places for retreat and invitation. In between these nodes people difine their territory! The challenge is to design a dwelling environment with territories for starters in business, work or life. This means that we add several types of housing for both newcomers in our society and the well established. This, in combination with a working en retail environment, should emphasize everyday activity both day and night!