Author
Merten Nefs studied architecture at TU Delft and urban planning at USP São Paulo. After graduation in 2003 he worked as a researcher for both faculties within the Alfa-Ibis program of the European Union for ‘Globalization, Urban Form and Governance’. The research explored the relation between urban renewal, gentrification and cultural incubator projects. Besides this subject he has published on urban voids and reuse of industrial heritage. At the moment he is working on scientific papers with TU Delft and the Edinburgh College of Art. Since 2006 he keeps the weblog Projetos Urbanos.
From 2005, Merten worked three years as project architect with Andrade Morettin architects, with whom he designed the winning entry for the Living Steel Competition in 2007 and realized projects such as House RR. He continued as freelance architect in São Paulo with projects in the fields of urban planning and architecture, for example with Triptyque architecture. In 2009 he returned to the Netherlands and worked on Dutch infrastructural projects.
In 2010 Merten joined Association Delta Metropolis as researcher/designer. The association promotes an integrated sustainable development of the Delta Metropolis – the western conurbation of The Netherlands, necessary to maintain its competitive position. The activities of the association concern landscape, new metropolitan forms of land use and mobility. Merten focuses mainly on this last topic, as project leader of SprintCity, a project about the simultaneous development of rail infrastructure and urban programme on station locations.
Web page (temporary)
mertennefs.eu
