Hof van den Houte’ is the new name for a shopping and housing district in the present heart of Etten-Leur, once the site of a castle by the same name between the villages Etten and Leur. The site was still an open field when a modern freestanding shopping mall was built in the 1960s to serve the growing …

Many neighborhoods dating from the 1970s, with corporation-owned terraced housing in open urban schemes, saw a round of renovation for the houses in the last decades, but left the supply of family homes intact. This housing stock doesn’t meet the needs of the elderly still living in them anymore, nor …

The project for the former industrial HaCas-Verschuren site in Tilburg is a case study of a biobased transformation, which will turn a polluted environment into a paradise for living. The organic regeneration of the site requires a long-time span, which is also used for a long-term strategy to grow natural …

Dit afstudeerwerkstuk heeft als onderwerp de invloed van verschillende strooisels op een waterbed. Dit onderzoek is in samenwerking met Spinder Dairy Housing Concepts tot stand gekomen. Het doel van het onderzoek is om Spinder en haar klanten inzicht te geven wat de invloed van een stalstrooisel op de …

In Vlissingen, the municipality wants to make a selected neighbourhood natural gas-free. In order to support this, they have been granted a subsidy. There are many important stakeholders in this project such as the housing corporation l’Escaut which owns most of the houses in the neighbourhood. All of …

Hometown is dedicated to the economically homeless: the nest flyers, the singles on a low income, the pensioners, collectives, students, a wide variety of home seekers who hardly have a chance to succeed in the present housing situation. The whole spectrum of financial, legal, social, urban, and architectural …

Rewilding is a new agrarian movement, that welds together nature and farming. In this project, situated in the western part of the Zuiderwaterlinie, a new ecological landscape is created in a traditional agrarian area. Because of different subsoils a new zoning is introduced, including a lake with a …

Fringe territories are difficult to handle and the initiative to pick this up is very valuable. The Fringe Intensified is a project that investigates the urban fringe as a source of inspiration for finding another answer to the present housing demand than the common home and neighborhood within the city’s …

The brand image of Tilburg as Textile City has faded with the downfall of the industry and the subsequent loss of most of the factory buildings in the city fabric. To commemorate this past and to make it part again of the DNA of Tilburg, the typical textile mill is taken up again and studied, to find …

The relation between the police and the public is under threat, one of the reasons being the closing down of police stations in the neighborhoods and city centers. At the city edges police campuses arise with a defensive character and restricted space for the public. A different approach is demonstrated …