Industrial production techniques can be used to reduce the current housing shortage in the Netherlands, industrialising the construction process ensures a quicker and more sustainable way of increasing the housing stock. However, the risk that comes with the standardisation of architecture is a generalisation of the built environment. We have seen this narrative before in Dutch housing history, when after the Second World War cities and villages were quickly expanded using a system-building approach to housing and neighbourhood development. This soon sparked up critiques, one of them coming from Kenneth Frampton. Frampton argued that modern architecture is shaped by its ways of production and that architecture can only resist universalisation by designing with the elements arising indirectly from the site, which he explained through the theory of critical regionalism. This theory, combined with case studies on context-specific housing and prefabrication systems is used to write the research paper. This paper investigates the dichotomy between specificity and repetition in the architecture of housing projects to find a strategy for designing context-specific industrial housing. This design approach is then used to create a design for a desification of the post-war neighbourhood stamp found in Boerhaavewijk. The design is formed by its surrounding (urban) landscape, to create a neighbourhood with a strong local identity that reactivates the urban environment. The local peat landscape is sourced to form a system of prefabricated 2D and 3D elements that construct the buildings. Reintroducing the historic peat landscape on site will reactivate the public space, by removing the dominance of the car from the street and returning it, through nature, to the inhabitants while also functioning as a climatic buffer and a resource for the newly added homes. This way, the new architecture can direct the post-war neighbourhood away from its monotony and anonymity towards a rooted and distinctive neighbourhood.

The landhuis is nowadays the most recognizable aspect of the Curaçaoan plantation landscape. The reality of the history of the plantation now hides behind these colourful villas. This thesis focuses on placing the architecture of the plantation in the spatial and historical framework from which they originated.
The main question answered in this thesis is: What was the typology of the Curaçaoan plantation, and how is it now represented in the island's cultural heritage? This question is answered by literary and archival research, picturing the history and trajectory of the plantations on Curaçao. The research is textually and visually, through maps and diagrams, translated into the thesis.
The architecture of the landhuizen is the most maintained and preserved aspect of the plantation landscape, while most other structures such as the settlements of the enslaved, the corrals and mangasinas have mostly vanished or fallen to ruins. These are precisely the functions referring to the original history and function of the plantation. When looking at the plantation's redevelopment, this does not seem accidental. Most of the landhuizen have left their history in the past and chosen an entirely new function.