HOUSE OF ALL

HOUSE OF ALL

MASTER THESIS

ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM

GRADUATION STUDIO

THE INTERMEDIATE AND THE POROUS CITY

TUe 22/23

The project is based on the condition of a new political system combining existing representative

democracy with principles of direct democracy, resulting in a democracy based on participation.

It exercises the new spatial expression of the system and its influence on the public domain.

The research part of the work is covering the current political structure of the Netherlands, the origins of the city of The Hague, The Binnenhof (its current parliament building) and the functioning of one of its bodies – The House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer).

The design part is divided into two assignments.

Assignment I

focuses on an urban scale of the whole city and the implementation of the principles included in the scenario and its impact on a district and neighbourhood scale.

Assignment II

exercises the new system directly on The Binnenhof building and elaborates the architectural scale.

Moreover, the work includes three theoretical cores: Democracy, Porosity and Parliament, including a literature review and bringing a further understanding of the connection between architecture and politics.

The theory creates a base for both, research, and design work.