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WORKS INDEX Regenerating Corviale • 2015
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Commoning the courtyard • 2015
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Religious heritage • 2014
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Conceiled shared spaces • 2013
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Working and living • 2012
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Photography
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Regenerating Corviale
professional project, ma0 studio d’architettura honorable mention
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2015
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Regenerating Corviale
The Corviale system The competition asked for ways to renew the social housing complex, ‘monster/ monument’, Corviale. With a multidisciplinary group we addressed the building’s many problems through particepatory interventions, creating a self-sustaining system..
Regenerating Corviale
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Regenerating Corviale
Regenerating Corviale
The catalogue principle As a solution to many of the building’s issues, we designed catalogues containing different solutions for intervention. This way, inhabitants are encouraged to customise their space by combining elements, disrupting the repetitiveness of the 1 km long building.
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Perspective section; ground floor interventions
Commoning the courtyard
graduation project 3D model
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REVIT
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Commoning the courtyard
Commoning the courtyard
The focus of this project was to set an example for regeneration of collective courtyards in Berlin through residential intervention in the urban block. The approach has been to restore the original structure of the urban block by redistributing private and common land. The typical vernacular Berliner Block is redefined in such a way that it can be ‘implemented’ in different ways, adapted and manipulated according to the situation. Courtyard boundaries have then been redefined by a structure that shows suggestions of how the space could be activated in fostering social inclusion. The project’s relevance is strengthened by imagining ways of cultivating change through an approach that can be widely applicable.
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Commoning the courtyard
The overall plan exists of two parts; the reimagined Berliner block and a framework that defines the courtyard. The housing block follows the front house-side wing morphology but accommodates a wide range of housing types, closely related to the courtyard. The framework then connects new and existing at the inner side of the urban block. It provides space for additional activities and communal use through suggestion.
Commoning the courtyard
type 3 • penthouses
type 2 • double room apartments
type 1 • garden maisonettes
basements • commercial
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Commoning the courtyard
Territorial hierarchies A fragment of the overall plan; illustrating the connection between the block and the big courtyard and the transitions between different territories. They flow into each other and are subject to resident control, linked together visually and physically by one linear path.
Commoning the courtyard
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Commoning the courtyard
Adaptation to street image
Commoning the courtyard
Redefenition of courtyard boundaries
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Commoning the courtyard
Impression and section maisonette
Commoning the courtyard
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Commoning the courtyard
Commoning the courtyard
Research booklets • The Collective Courtyard Prior to the design, a research was carried out on the social performance of shared residential courtyards. Three different cases were analysed in respectively Milan, Berlin and The Hague. Patterns witnessed during site research have been documented in these leporello booklets.
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Religious heritage
academic project 3D model
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2014
REVIT
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Religious heritage
The forecourt
Church interior
The monastery garden
Religious heritage
The project was part of the ‘Heritage & Architecture’ studio and focused on the question of vacant churches; how to deal with its heritage and what new functions can be suitable. This particular church is a hidden treasure in the city centre of Rotterdam. As a response to Rotterdam’s desire to provide more opportunity for small cultural initiatives, the church is transformed into the ideal platform. The three main spaces are adjusted to host different facets according to their particular qualities. A secundary structure conforms with the church’s architectural language.
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Religious heritage
Respect for the momument The building is a national monument for its architectural quality. The objective is to intervene in such a way that its intentions are enhanced and its its character preserved. Special attention is therefore paid to giving new meaning and life to attributes in the church. In order to keep a space for religious activities, the Mariakapel - that is the most actively used at the moment - will maintain its religious function.
Religious heritage
Adding a mezzanine
Opening up walls & roof
Adding secundary structure
This will give access to the roof of the walkaround, creating extra (sunny) space - a highly valued aspect for a restaurant. Furthermore it strengthens the relationship between the different spaces by creating a diagonal. But most importantly, it reinforces the path by emphasizing the roof opening and gives an extra dimension to the big open space.
The North courtyard wall and the facades of the reading cafe are replaced with glass. This has advantage for both in- and outside: it provides a view on the street and water while inside and it creates a new identity when entering or passing by the building. The openings on the first floor provide extra light in the big volume, and create passing-through and interesting vistas. The hole in the roof reinforces the path and illuminates the space.
In order for the necessary furniture not to feel ‘lost’ in the big space, a secundary structure is implemented. This structure is made up completely of wood, both distinguishing itself from and complementing the existing. It is flowing from space to space - enhancing the already present natural movement between different areas in the building.
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Religious heritage
Religious heritage
Cross section; showing mezzanine & tribune
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Religious heritage
The art lounge around the garden
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Conceiled shared spaces
academic project 3D model
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2013
REVIT
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Conceiled shared spaces
Conceiled shared spaces
The project is the missing puzzle piece to the realization of the current site as an animated liveable heart of the neighbourhood. The project proposes to address the increasing diversity and density of the Rotterdam neighbourhoods Bospolder and Tussendijken by re-thinking the interplay and the transition between public and private spaces. This is achieved, first, through a public route which is manifested as a red thread running through and along the proposed building, connecting commercial activity on the Schiedamseweg and the Grote Visserijstraat. This route cuts the building crosswise, falling apart into two blocks. The public and commercial spaces – a library, gymnasium, community centre and supermarket – spread itself as a carpet on the ground floor, with the housing units on top. The livability of the site is assured through a network of communities of interest: the larger community, the neighborhood, is progressively broken down into smaller bundles of individuals and households polarized towards shared spaces, firmly located within the site at large.
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Conceiled shared spaces
The initial building volume forms the boundary between the two important public spaces – Park 1943 and the square – adding definition to both. Public space is ‘cut out’ of this initial volume on ground level. On different levels of the housing units, the volume is again hollowed out, creating a total of four shared gardens directly accessible for all dwellings. In order to create a more personal and sheltered dwelling entry, the eroding is repeated on an even smaller scale for the housing units, at the same time providing a more informal feel to the collective gardens. Materialisation is emphasising this approach. The typology of the city dwelling combined with the courtyard dwelling results in a building block with an urban appeal to the outside and a contrasting peaceful, closed off living environment on the inside. This proposed layout manages the density and the diversity of the urban context of the site, characteristic of Rotterdam today.
Conceiled shared spaces
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Conceiled shared spaces
Conceiled shared spaces
Physical model
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Conceiled shared spaces
Households polarised towards shares spaces
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Working and living
academic project
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2012
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Working and living
Central to this project was the exploration of combining two functions - working and living. The assignment was to design several units on top of a former warehouse in an industrial harbour area. Currently, small design-related startups are accommodated in the existing buillding. Due to the rough surroundings, the answer is an introverted building arranged around two intimate inner courts. Ateliers directly border the courts, stimulating work-related interaction, whereas the more private areas are located along the outer boundary. The exterior facade exists of relatively closed steel plates, yet expressively perforated - suited to the building’s function.
Working and living
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Photography
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Photography
Via Krupp The island of Capri, Italy 2014
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Photography
Photography
left • Daintree Reinforest, Australia 2013 middle • Sydney Opera House, Australia 2013 right • Apartment in Het Funen, Amsterdam 2014
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Photography
Certosa di San Giacomo The island of Capri, Italy 2014
Photography
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