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Projects
Inclusive and Incremental Renovation: the case of Old Public Housing in Shanghai, China. Yijie Zhang: This dissertation is concerned with the redevelopment of ‘old public housing’, in the urban area of Shanghai. The research reveals the causes and...Care Devolution and Inter-household Cooperation: Towards a Cluster Model of Common Institution of Land, Dwelling, and Care in London, UK. Clinton Thedyardi Prawirodiharjo: The dissertation investigates alternative forms of community care in London which reflects on the social care devolution through the creation of cooperative...Site as a Battleground: reinventing collective equipment for construction workers in China. Qiyu Qin: The construction industry and construction itself as a process are essential for the city, yet one of its most crucial factors, the construction...From Commodification to Cooperation: Architecture of trading and Form of Social Solidarity Network in Bangkok, Thailand. Tanapol Kositsurungkakul: The thesis investigates mechanisms of how the food trading system of Bangkok has evolved since the period of Colonialism, and how it influences...Kristall: The Domestication of Water. Daryan Knoblauch: Kristall is concerned with the spatial implications of water. It investigates the emergence of the bathroom in Germany as a built consequence of...Educational Intervention & Rural Revitalization in China Yunshi Zhou: This dissertation concerned with the re-thinking of the role of higher education in rural Chine. The project challenges the separation, classification and segregation...From Room to Community:Collective Living Forms and Inclusions of ‘Young-Olds’ Huace Yang: The thesis introduced an analysed few key terms, namely, xiaoqu, shequ, danwei and the “young-old”. A xiaoqu, which can be translated literally as...Collective Land: Community-driven Housing in Bangkok Witthawat Prabhasawat: The thesis examines community housing-driven programmes in the context of Bangkok, which offers cooperative housing development within the extreme conditions of privatisation. With...Proximal Relations, Forms of Settlement, Dwelling, and Territory in Opole-Silesia, Poland Wojciech Mazan: The thesis is recognizing the contemporary Polish countryside as a product of the state’s explicit social and spatial experiments. The central aim is...Density, Proximity and Temporality. Forms of Collective Living of New Workers in Beijing in the Context of Production Transformation Pengyu Chen: This research explores new forms of dwellings for a rising social group: the new workers that have emerged from the shifting of the...Renovation as a Project: Athenian Post-war Office Buildings as Social Infrastructure Dimitris-Ronald Chatziioakeimidis: The project is concerned with the re-use of post-war office buildings in downtown Athens, through the proposition of a series of alternative renovation...Interfamily Living: Building A Community of Public Housing in China Huajing Wen The Economic Reform of China in the past three decades put an end to work unit and state-owned housing. As housing is...Housing & Care Cooperatives in the Netherlands: Spatial Diagrams of Cluster Living Key terms: housing cooperatives, protocols, care in place, cluster living, threshold, district. Gianna Bottema The dissertation Housing & Care Cooperatives in the Netherlands: Spatial...Courtyard Type, The Architecture of Collective Living Dimitris Chatziioakeimidis, Wojciech Mazan...From Arrival City to Permanence: Public Services and Educational Facilities in Tijuana Lucia Alonso Aranda: Migration is re-shaping the social, cultural, urban and economic landscapes of cities worldwide. Tijuana embodies several dimensions of the migration phenomenon: it...The Role of Public Housing in Barcelona Raül P. Avilla Royo: In every major city, housing is being disputed as a right and as a commodity within a transformation process that affects...Housing Social Demands: The Church of England Susana Rojas Saviñón: The purpose of this dissertation is to question the role of the English religious institution in the twenty-first century. It demonstrates how...Community-Led Housing in London: The Case of StART Ricardo Palma Prieto: Community-led housing projects across the UK are seen as alternative solutions to the housing crisis. As many of these types of projects...
Exit Parliament: The Hotel as a Political Institution
Leonhard Clemens: Hotels are essential to today’s politics as spaces of negotiation, socialisation and trade. They complement official political institutions by providing necessary forms of...
Private Brussels
Guillem Pons: Offices are a common subject of economic speculation. Planned by managers and developers, they have become total commodities of the real-estate market. As...