This graduation project aims towards a new understanding of intimate and domestic space through an experimental hands-on research method and a thorough analysis of the black box theatre stage to reveal layers, scales, dimensions, transitions and connections that define dynamic atmospheric space with the use of light, movement, perspective and reflections.
Part of the research outcome is then translated into the Tiny HomeStage. A small scale theatrical house that creates Wonderment on the threshold of domesticity, and in which almost everything is adjustable to the moment’s need. The project is designed mainly with the method of thinking through making, which resulted in a 1:5 model of the entire design.

Our hospitals will start to get larger and larger as the number of people on this earth will rise. Due to medical solutions our stays in these hospitals will get shorter as we can cure ourselves from diseases. But as we are getting older, we will spend more time in the hospital. The paradox of healing from diseases and becoming more and more dependent on the medical environment in order to heal causes the need of the hospital as a welcoming and comforting place to becomes more and more meaningful. Experiences of patients and their relatives showed that dealing with disease can be all consuming, while at the same time ‘normal’ life goes on. “I am in the hospital even when I’m not in the hospital” said Clara (Mukherjee. The Emperor of All Maladies, 398). Living in these two worlds at the same time can be hard to bear and I think we can have an influence on that as an architect. It is up to the architect to bring these worlds together. Daily life should not stop the moment you end up in the medical environment. As I just stated, the medical environment will increasingly become part of our lives. It is therefore essential that we design the medical environment to our wishes of “normal” life and not to create a second world in which medical knowledge is placed first and us as humans second.

The Chair of Interiors Buildings Cities located this year’s graduation project in the capital city of Belgium and the European Union, Brussels. Under the theme of ‘Palace’, the project is a City Hall on the previous site of the Les Halles Centrales in the 1870s, and is also known as the site for the earlier demolished Parking 58. The site will be soon occupied by ‘BruCity’, a new city administrative centre that will house 1500 employees of la Ville de Bruxelles, and this presented us the opportunity to critique whether the new fully glazed monument could really represent its governance transparency and offer the space where the citizens could have their political agency presented. Corridor was the major design motif and project’s thematic narrative. The outside room, corridor, as an informal space has its capability and power of accommodating the occurrence of the real negotiations happening before people entering the formal proceedings. The definition of corridor was broken down into a series of connective spaces. By the introduction of the corridor-ness in the project, it also aims to change and promote the working practice for a city hall which is the forefront of addressing the urgency of change in today’s society.