architecture | design | environment
Year: 2009
Title: Mneme and Lethe -The RituaL of Remembering and Forgetting
an Urban Cemetery on the HighLine Park of New York City
Mentors: M.G.H Schoonderbeek, Oscar Rommens
Type: Graduation Project TU Delft –Border Conditions Studio
“Consequently cemeteries lost their function as holy and immortal centre of the city and became the other city.” Michel Foucault. Of other spaces (1967), Heterotopias
Super Mini House
Architecture Competition – Finalist Design
Waseda University, Architectural Institute of Japan
Japan Nov. 2010
A House in the Olive Groves
Could you live with another person in a home that measured just 15 square metres?
“This is a proposal for a future dwelling, which can accommodate two residents and two guests. There is no height limitation but the maximum gross floor area is 15m2. This number is derived from J.G. Ballard’s science fiction novel,”Billenium.” In the novel, the population of the earth reaches 20 billion and 95% of the population resides in cities. Residential floor area per person is limited to 4m2 in that world.
Year: 2012-2013
Location: Konia-Paphos, Cyprus
Activity : House [addition]
Present Status : Competed
The house plan explores the boundary between exterior and interior space. The concept deals with a cube subdivided into a grid creating four interlocking squares, one open to the sky, three roofed offering a range of views towards the garden. The house is to be constructed on the site of an existing family house for their designer daughter therefore it has to be discreet providing maximum privacy for its occupant and a pleasant environment to work in, yet taking advantage of the available garden area. Windows are grouped, certain views are framed, leaving the walls as a surface for the shadow of trees to play on. Like old Cypriot traditional houses its life is focused inwards or to a particular view.
The courtyard can be closed with a wooden sliding screen or opened towards the larger garden area- it is treated like an outdoor room with a window to a calm “green” atmosphere while it doubles as a private garden closed off from the main house, or as an introduction to the living space. On the east the gateway, from the south a long window opening on to the garden where the design desk is located. Internally the palette of materials is limited – wood, slate/brick veneer on one wall, cast glass, aluminium and white walls.
