Matthijs van Loon is a MSc graduation student at the Faculty of Architecture at the TU Delft, the Netherlands. This weblog was created as a tool for feedback and comment on his graduation project. He is graduating within the Explorelab, which is a graduation studio at the architecture faculty with a slightly different approach as the normal graduation studios. Within the Explorelab students follow their fascination for a certain issue, do research and produce a graduation project with a lot of academical freedom. (To know more about explorelab, click here)
The graduation project is on the development of a smaller scale city in the inlands of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
The first part of the graduation project consists of a research thesis. During this research the city will be analyzed, and a set of rules will be developed to let the city grow naturally without it losing it´s living qualities.
The second part is the design part in which a public building will be designed with a mixed, cultural program which could function as an engine for further city development and add to the rise of a new own identity in the city by functioning as an engine and icon .
Dag Matthijs,
Ik vond bij toeval op je website!
Ikzelf ben een aantal jaar geleden afgestudeerd aan de TUE (stedenbouw) op een project in Belo Horizonte, ben toen ook in Brazilië geweest. Ik herken me wel in je analyse en je fascinatie. Succes ermee!
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Rob Schram – Eindhoven