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J.P.M. van Lierop
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Emerging Dialogues
The Rise of the Neo-Producer and its Impact on Ornamentation
The notion of ornament is as intractable as it is central to our discipline. The considerable body of work delving into this topic, including recently, serves to illustrate the ongoing interest of our societies for architecture that exudes character. We will explore the ornament
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Glimpses of a laundry
From a scopic to a somatic riverfront
The lack of connection between the city and the Manzanares riverbank represents the project’s exoskeleton. The use of the Manzanares as a laundry historically and the metaphorical use of today expose issues related to the relationship between the water, its use and its connection
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Crafting Along Material Wear
Interweaving crafts and materials towards wear in architecture and beyond
The institutionalization of the architectural practice has caused a linear life cycle that relies on the efficiency of mass standardized products, not only exacerbating ecological effects but also breeding mediocrity in architecture. An epistemic break from the creative and tangi
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From Symbol to Edifice
Symbolism and atmospheres in Andalusí architecture
Despite the rich Islamic history of Madrid, remnants of its Islamic past are hardly visible anymore. Contemporary architecture both in and outside of Madrid is centred around pragmatism, in contrast to the rich tradition of Andalusí architecture and the
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Architectures of the Transtemporal
Space-Time of Everyday Pracctices
The research hypothesis is that extensive layering and apparent modifications in the San Isidro area along Manzanares, dictated by the necessity of expansion, have changed the site’s everydayness. As a result, patterns of continuities and discontinuities began to take over the ar
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Boosting Urban Soil
Commons of Post-human urbanisation - Architecture, Materiality, Synergies
The ecological question is symptomatic of our time and a multi-disciplinary problem. The material manipulations produced by the architectural and urban design disciplines interfere with essential ecosystemic processes by introducing disruptive materialities and machinery. This wo
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The research aims to uncover the specific qualities of East London waterfronts and its post-industrial structures. The neglected, but still partially untreated by commercialized approach waterfronts were found to be a unique chain of polluted yet biodiverse areas.
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Elevating London
Through reviving, reconnecting and reimplementing
Nowadays with the continuous development of the metropolitan cities, the city is getting more and more packed. The land of cities like London is very precious, land is scarce, every inch counts. Therefore, the decision of what to do with space is crucial, the highest bidder often
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Making visible | Visible making
Providing agency for dissipated residents
This thesis explores the potential of difference and disruption as a productive ground for approaching gentrification in London. Multiple forces are driving the process of gentrification, the focus lies on the aspect of postmodern consumerism. A cultural change in which the indiv
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On the Edge
A study into social integration within community boundaries
This research paper focuses on the phenomenon of social and urban morphological contrasts within community boundaries caused by socioeconomic inequality and the process of urban development. This paper also discusses the reason and the spatial needs for social integration. This t
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Narration of Embodied Memories
Funerary and Memory Space
The research deals with funerary scenes of London through various aspects of significance such as memory, material and ritual. The expression and reaction to one's death in the built environment are studied through both quantitatively and qualitatively, where the first looks into
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Absorbing Splinters
Revalorising identities within the ever-growing fragmented urban landscape of London.
Rapid and uncontrolled urban growth has resulted in fragmented cityscapes, leading to the loss of a sense of place in cities like London. The relentless march of modernization and compulsive development has given rise to illegible spaces, where once-distinctive landmarks are bein
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Symbiotic Thames
Rethinking the urban riparian condition and meaning through architecture towards a more symbiotic relationship between the urban river and the city
Water is the elixir of life for London, the river Thames is the heart powering its growth. Although it has created the existence of London, it has mainly been the city that influenced the river in route, form and function aligning with their needs. There always has been a changin
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The Redefined Social
Production in and of an eco-social Condition
The thesis challenges conventional notions of the social and explores the intricate relationship between humans and the imminent commons. It confronts the consequences of neglecting the imminent commons (water, earth, air) in urban environments, urging a re-evaluation of design p
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Curating City Intensities
The unravelled sensory experience of the urban public realm
In the eighteenth century, the city centre of the metropolis of London was the most chaotic due to its immense industries and excessive noise and smell. This sensorial overstimulation brought and still brings potential unsustainable health and well-being effects on its urban part
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A Regenerative Brownfield development
Architecture towards a Third Generation London
Over the years, the Anthropocentric societies are to blame for the problematic urban environments they have created. Within the current paradigm, our destructive behavior towards the natural environment has caused a major decline in biodiversity. To restore the ecology in our con
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Who Owns the City?
A Response to Privatised Public Space
The following research discusses the changing nature of public space and how ownership has become an inevitable part of it. The aim of this research has been to discuss the complexity of the grey area between privately owned public space and public space, as well as the emerging
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Restaging the High Street
A strategy of regeneration for the high street by reactivating its interstices
The “traditional” high street that was once a distinctive element in the city’s historic urban fabric, is now slowly declining. This decline is further intensified by the insensitive development of its nearby leftover lands and the lack of investment in the public realm. This res
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Inequality of access to culture for children and young people in London
Culture as a regeneration power bringing the London community together
The wealth gap has been widening over the last decades and it is visible over the different London’s boroughs and districts and people’s living standards. While richer areas have better infrastructure, better housing conditions, lower crime rates, higher life expectancy, other le
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